Chennai: Top seed Ram S. Krishnan of BSNL, Chennai moved into sole lead after his seventh win in the eighth round of the S.K. Narasihman FIDE rated open chess tournament here on Saturday.
Ram broke from the bunch of joint leaders to move ahead with seven points after defeating R. Sanggeetha.
In the joint second place with 6.5 points are four players Praveen Kumar, G.B. Prakash, Lakshmi Narayanan and P. Phoobalan. Three rounds remains to be played in this contest. Ram pinned a bishop and won two pawns and won in 44 moves with the black pieces.
On board number two, Praveen Kumar and G.B. Prakash played out a draw.
Important results (round 8): R. Sanggeetha 6 lost to Ram S Krishnan 7, Praveen Kumar 6.5 drew with G.B. Prakash 6.5, Lakshmi Narayanan 6.5 drew with Abhilash Reddy 6, P. Phoobalan 6.5 bt M. Vijay 5.5, V.A.V. Rajesh 6 w/o N. Vigneswaran 5.5, N. Surendran 5 lost to P. Maheswaran 6, George Daniel 5 lost to M.K.A. Russell 6, Laxman Wijesuriya 5 lost to J. Arun 6, Malleswara Rao 6 bt K. Gopalakrishnan 5, J.K. Raju 5 lost to Vijay Anand 6, Rishi Thariani 5 lost to P. Jayakumar 6, Pradeep Kumar 6 bt R. Bharathi 5.
Top results (round 7): M.K.A. Russell lost to Ram S Krishnan, G.B. Prakash bt J.K. Raju, P. Jayakumar lost to Praveen Kumar, N. Vigneswaran drew with P. Phoobalan, P.Maheswaran lost to Lakshmi Narayanan, Ramnath Bhuvanesh lost to R. Sanggeetha. — Arvind Aaron
