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Srinath, Aswin stay ahead

NEW DELHI: International Masters N. Srinath and Aswin Jayaram shared the lead with three points after as many rounds in the Asian junior chess championship at Colombo on Friday.

In the girls’ section, where the top five seeds are Indians, second seed Padmini Rout maintained her winning sequence to jointly lead with the sixth-seeded Iranian Mitra Hejazipour.

The results (third round, involving Indians):

Open: Asghar Golizadeh (Iri, 2) lost to Aswin Jayaram (3); Zhanibek Amanov (Kaz, 2) lost to N. Srinath (3); P. Saravana Krishna (2) lost to Homayoon Toufighi (Iri, 2.5); B. Adhiban (2.5) bt V. Vishnu Prasanna (1.5); M.R. Lalith Babu (2) drew with Ali Faghirmayaz (Iri, 2); M. Shyam Sundar (2) drew with Anwesh Upadhyaya (2); D.G.S.D. Munasingha (Sri, 1) lost to P. Karthikeyan (2); Semuthu Pinto (Sri, 1) lost to Shreyansh Daklia (2).

Girls: R. Preethi (2) lost to Padmini Rout (3); Kiran Manisha Mohanty (2) lost to Mitra Hejazipour (Iri, 3); Soumya Swaminathan (2) bt Bhakti Kulkarni (1.5); Minoo Asgarizadeh (Iri, 2.5) bt P. Uthra (1); N. Raghvi (2) bt Naduni Abeywardana (Sri, 1).

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