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Five share lead

Principal Correspondent

DINDIGUL: After the twin rounds on Sunday, the 45th National `B' chess championship still looks pretty open.

Five players — second seed M.R. Venkatesh, fourth seed Sundararajan Kidambi, seventh seed K. Ratnakaran, Prathamesh Mokal and B. Adhiban — are on eight points at the end of the tenth round at the PSNA College of Engineering and Technology.

With three rounds left, they have half-a-point lead over Akshat Khamparia, Sriram Jha, S. Satyapragyan, T.S. Ravi, R. Ashwath, R. Arun Karthik, Aditya Udeshi and Vidit Santosh Gujrathi.

While Prathamesh and Ratnakaran played out a quick draw on the top board, Venkatesh, Kidambi and Adhiban posted victories over V. Saravanan, N. Sanjay and Rahul Shetty respectively, to move into the lead.

On the second board, Venkatesh, playing white, punished Saravanan for a couple of unwise moves early on in the King's Indian Attack game. The younger man won in just 24 moves; he had taken control eight moves earlier when he was given an opportunity to sacrifice his knight for a pawn.

Important results (Tenth round): Prathamesh Mokal 8 drew with K. Rathnakaran 8; M.R. Venkatesh 8 bt V. Saravanan 7; N. Sanjay 7 lost to Sunadararajan Kidambi 8; Akshat Khamparia 7.5 drew with Sriram Jha 7.5; S. Satyapragyan 7.5 drew with T.S. Ravi 7.5; B. Adhiban 8 bt Rahul Shetty 7; R. Ashwath 7.5 drew with N. Sudhakar Babu 7; Neeraj Kumar Mishra 6.5 lost to R. Arun Karthik 7.5; Aarthie Ramaswamy 7 drew with B.Sivanandan 7; G.B. Joshi 7 drew with Abhishek Das 7; Swati Ghate 6.5 lost to Aditya Udeshi 7.5; Vidit Santosh Gujrathi 7.5 bt Ram Prakash 6.5; Saptarshi Roy 7 bt D. Lakshman Rao 6.5; Himanshu Sharma 6 lost to Shashikant Kutwal 7; P. Konguvel 7 bt S. Nitin 6; P.D.S. Girinath 6.5 drew with Imocha Laisram 6.5; Prasenjit Datta 6 lost to Roktim Bandyopadhyay 7; P. Praveen Prasad 6 lost to Shankar Roy 7; C. Praveen Kumar 6.5 drew with Padmini Rout 6.5; Nisha Mohota 7 bt K.V. Shantharam 6.

Ninth round: Ratnakaran bt Adhiban; Prathamesh drew with Venkatesh; Satyapragyan drew with Akshat; Saravanan drew with Sanjay; Kidambi bt Tiwari; Sriram bt Nitin; Ravi bt Saptarshi; Himanshu lost to Ashwath; Shetty bt Konguvel; Arun bt Ashwin Jayaram; R.R. Laxman lost to Mishra; Aarthie bt Somak Palit; Babu bt Deshmukh; Udeshi bt Kamble; Joshi bt Sethuraman.

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