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Girish and Debashish share lead

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Six share second spot
Rucha, Shalmali and Bharathi top girls’ section

MANGALORE: Girish Koushik of Karnataka won a game and drew another to emerge joint leader with Debashish Das of Orissa on Tuesday in the ongoing BSNL Sub Junior chess championship at the Subrahmanya Hall here on Tuesday. Debasish Das defeated Ramnath Bhuvanesh in 64 moves.

Six players — G. Akash and K. Priyadarshan both of Tamil Nadu, Pranav Shetty, Aditya Udeshi, Shiven Kosla and Rakesh Kulkarni all of Maharastra — are in joint second spot with 7 points each.

In the girls section, Shalmali Gagare of Maharashtra and Shristi Shetty of Karnataka signed a peace treaty in 34 moves, while Shikha Shah of Gujarat drew with R. Bharathi of Tamil Nadu on the second board in 30 moves.

Rucha Pujari of Maharastra scored over Aparachita Gochhikar of Orissa. With this win Rucha joins Shalmali and Bharathi in the top with 7 points each. Shikha, C.H. Savetha of Tamil Nadu and Shristi are in the joint second spot.

Important results (after nine rounds): Boys: Shiven Khosla (7) drew with Girish A Koushik (7.5), Debashish Das (7.5) bt Ramnath Bhuvanesh R (6), Prasanna Rao (6.5) drew with Udeshi Aditya (7), Antonio Viani D’cunha (6) lost to Priyadharshan K (7), Mehar Chinna Reddy C H (6.5) drew with Deepthamsh Reddy M (6.5), Mohammed Fawaz (6) lost to Kulkarni Rakesh (7), Gusain Himal (6.5) drew with Gagare Shardul (6.5), Sahoo Utkal Ranjan (6) lost to G Akash (7), Pranav Shetty (7) bt Abhilash Reddy M L (5.5), Tejas Ravichandran (6.5) bt Harihara Sudan M (5.5), Darpan Inani (5.5) lost to Gahan M G (6.5), Yohan J (5.5) lost to Das Sayantan (6.5), Srikanth Ajay (6.5) bt Kaushik S (5.5), Lokesh P (5.5) lost to Anand Raj S (6.5), Ghosh Diptayan (6.5) bt Mohammad Ashraf (5.5), Stany G A (6) bt Akash Pc Iyer (5), Fenil Shah (6) bt Jaswant G (5), Shreeshan S (5.5) drew with Kathmale Sameer (5.5), Radha Krishnan V (5) lost to Yashas D (5.5), Patil Pratik (5.5) drew with Karthik H S (5.5), Bavankumar (6) bt Sai Prahlad K (5), Balkishan A (6) bt Dinesh Kumaar R (5), Krishna Prasad K C (4.5) lost to Sanjid Latheef (6), Sridhar R (4.5) lost to Sai Krishna G V (5.5), Ameek Malhotra (4.5) lost to Navalgund Niranjan (5.5).

Girls: Gagare Shalmali (7) drew with Shristi J Shetty (6.5), Shikha Shah (6.5) drew with Bharathi R (7), Aparajita Gochhikar (5.5) lost to Pujari Rucha (7), Teenu Thomas (6) drew with Saranya J (6), Roy Pallabi (6) drew with Sahari J (6), Janani J (5.5) lost to Savetha C H (6.5), Rathore Sonakshi (5.5) lost to Preetika Tayal (6), Vanessa D`souza (5.5) drew with Sukanya Dutta (5.5), A Akshaya (6) bt S Aarthysri (5), Deshmukh Sonia (6) bt Nandhidhaa P V (5), Jeyassri B (5.5) drew with Mohana Priya J (5), Abinaya Sen S (5) drew with Priya Sandhya P (5), Arunima Kalra (4.5) lost to Supriya Joshi (5.5), Soumya Shrivastava (5.5) bt Limaye Gayatri (4.5), Nivedhitha J G (4.5) lost to Priyamvada Karmcheti (5.5), Arthi B (5) drew with Diotima Dutta Gupta (5), Nithya K (5.5) bt Krushna Mishra (4.5), Nisha N Patkar (5) bt Savant Apoorva (4.5), Andria L D`souza (5) bt Tanuja bharati (4), Bhuvaneshwari R (5) bt Sampada H R (4), Anku Kumari (4.5) drew with Shalon Joanne Pais (4.5), Surabhi Kumari (4) lost to Priya V S S (5), Pansare Saee (4) drew with Raksha K (4), Chrisel Ann Pais (4.5) bt Birla ananyashree (3.5).

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