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Deepan in joint lead

NEW DELHI: Top seeded Grandmaster Deepan Chakkravarthy was one among a pack of 50 leaders with perfect scores after two rounds of the Subroto Mukherjee memorial international rating chess tournament at Subroto Park here on Saturday.

The field of 240 players includes a Grandmaster, eight International Masters and over 100 rated players. The 11-round event, which offers Rs. three lakh as prize-fund, ends on December 8.

The results: Second round: Manoj Sharma (1) lost to Deepan Chakkravarthy (2); Umakant Sharma (2) bt Prakash Rao (1); Deepak Katiyar (1) lost to P. Konguvel (2); Sriram Jha (2) bt Manjunath Jain (1); Rishi Kaushik (1) lost to Himanshu Sharma (2); Arghyadip Das (2) bt Debashish Dutta (1); Dinesh Sharma (2) bt Pradeep Solanki (1); R. Balasubramanium (2) bt Sumit Grover (1); V. Koshy (2) bt Darshan Gupta (1); Rahul Shetty (2) bt Atishay Ajmera (1); Pranit Roy (1.5) drew with Rahul Sangma (1.5);

First round: Deepan bt Anurag Agarwal; Anurag Prasad lost to Umakanth; Konguvel bt Anurag Sethi; Himanshu Sharma bt Arjun; Arjun Hans bt Arghyadip Das; Arsh Verma lost to Dinesh Sharma; Arun Biswas lost to Balasubramanium; Arush Kakkar lost to Rahul Shetty; Rahul Sangma bt Ashi Gupta. — Special Correspondent.

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