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Paramasivam stuns Abhijeet

Principal Correspondent

DINDIGUL: By his own admission, M. Paramasivam is more of a coach than a player and is only making his debut at the National `B' chess, at the age of 34. The man from Aruppukottai (which is not too far away from here), couldn't have hoped for a better beginning. After holding the third seed D.P. Singh to a draw in the opening round, he shocked the top seed Abhijeet Gupta in the second round at the PSNA College of Engineering and Technology here on Tuesday.

Paramasivam then held S. Rengarajan, also rated higher than him, in the third round in the afternoon.

The third round saw the seventh seed K. Ratnakaran, the Kozhikode-based Railways player, playing on the top board, with the higher seeds failing to live up to their billings so far. He didn't do badly, beating Atanu Lahiri to move into the joint lead, with three full points, along with 14 others.

Playing from the white side of an Italian Game, he won in 29 moves, not without some help from Black, who sacrificed a bishop for a couple of pawns but overlooked a knight move from his opponent for which he had no good enough answer.

Important results: Third round: K. Ratnakaran 3 bt Atanu Lahiri 2; Shashikant Kutwal 2 lost to P. Konguvel 3; N. Srinath 2 lost to B. Adhiban 3; Prathamesh Mokal 3 bt Vinay Kukmar Matta 2; R. Ashwath 2 lost to Neeraj Kumar Mishra 3; V. Saravanan 2.5 drew with Prasenjit Datta 2.5; O.T. Anil Kumar 2.5 drew with Akshat Khamparia 2.5; G.B. Joshi 2 lost to Vikramaditya Kamble 3; N. Sanjay 2 lost to Anup Deshmukh 3; M. Shyam Sundar 2.5 drew with Swapnil S. Dhopade 2.5; Aditya Udeshi 2 lost to S.P. Sethuraman 3; B.S. Sivanandan 2.5 drew with Vinod R. Sharma 2.5; Vidit Santosh Gujrathi 2.5drew with M.S. Thejkumar 2.5; Rahul Shetty 2.5 drew with Vipul Subhashi 2.5; Abhishek Das 3 bt P. Phoobalan 2; K. Priyadarshan 2 lost to Nisha Mohota 3; Padmini Rout 2.5 Ram Prakash 2.5; Sohan Phadke 3 bt Saurabh Kheredkar 2; J. Ramakrishna 3 bt Shreyansh Jain Daklia 2; Aarthie Ramaswamy 3 bt Swayams Mishra 2; Prasanna Rao 2.5 drew with Soman Sachithanand 2.5; R. Balasubramanium 3 bt Mehar Chinna Reddy 2; Rajib Dhar 2 lost to R.R. Laxman 3.

Second round: Sudhir Kumar Sinha drew with Sriram Jha; Saptarshi Roy drew with Kiran Monisha Mohanty; V. Hariharan lost to Ratnakaran; Manishi Krishna drew with S. Satyapragyan; Debashis Das drew with Himanshu Sharma; Konguvel bt K.V. Shantharam; Nath Rupankar drew with P.D.S. Girinath; Daklia bt Roktim Bandyopadhyay; Adhiban bt Teli Rajendra; Venkat Sundaram drew with G.B. Prakash; Ram S. Krishna lost to Prasanna; Arvinder Preet Singh lost to Mokal; Neeraj bt Fenil Shah; Santu Mondal lost to Saravanan; Khamparia bt Puneet Jaiswal.

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