Sports & Allied News
JAMMU, Dec 12:
Young Aravindh Chidambram maintained the lead with 5.5 points even as he had a drawn game in the sixth round of the ongoing Senior National Chess Championship under the aegis of All India Chess Federation, here today.
Grand Master Aravindh’s winning run was halted by another GM Anurag Mhamal of Goa to share the points. Now, sole leader at the top of the points’ table, Aravindh is followed by four equally good GMs, Vaibhav Suri, Sengupta Deep, Deepan Chakkravarthy and Vishnu Prasanna with five points each.
The Results: Top Boards: GM Anurag Mhamal of Goa drew with GM Aravindh Chithambaram of Tamil Nadu; GM Vaibhav Suri of PSPB beat IM Stany of AAI; GM Sengupta Deep of PSPB beat GM Laxman R R of RSPB; GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J of RSPB beat GM Neelotpal Das of PSPB; Neelash Saha of West Bengal lost to GM Vishnu Prasanna of Tamil Nadu; IM Rahul Srivathshav of Telangana drew with GM Swapnil S Dhopade of RSPB; IM Karthikeyan of RSPB drew with Sammed Jaykumar Shete of Maharashtra;IM Girinath PDS of RSPB drew with IM Vignesh N R of Tamil Nadu; Ritviz Parab of Goa drew with IM Akash of Tamil Nadu; IM Konguvel Ponnuswamy of PSPB drew with IM Rajesh V A V of Tamil Nadu; GM Gupta Abhijeet of PSPB drew with Saravana Krishnan of Tamil Nadu; IM Swayams Mishra of Air India beat FM Srihari L R of Tamil Nadu; IM Shyaamnikhil of RSPB drew with Srijit Paul of West Bengal; GM Thipsay Praveen of Maharashtra drew with FM Navalgund Niranjan of Karnataka; FM Wagh Suyog of Maharashtra drew with IM Gusain Himal of RSPB; Sankalp Gupta of Maharashtra lost to Harshavardhan of Tamil Nadu; Imocha Laishram of PSPB lost to IM Rathnakaran of RSPB; GM Karthikeyan Murali of PSPB drew with Baivab Mishra of Orissa; Prasanna of Tamil Nadu drew with GM Chanda Sandipan of West Bengal; Tiwari Arjun of RSPB lost to GM Venkatesh M R of PSPB.
