Prakash in sole lead

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, JAN. 8. G.B. Prakash emerged as the sole leader after the seventh round of the 5th Global Trust Bank's FIDE-rated All India Open chess championship being conducted by the Chess Association of Hyderabad at the Arya Vysya Abudaya sangam hall here today.

Prakash scored a fluent victory over Kalyan Kumar to end the latter's winning spree.

The results: G.B. Prakash (6.5) bt Kalyan Kumar (5.5); Atanu Lahiri (6) bt R.S. Gupta (6); Roy Choudhary (5.5) drew with T.S. Ravi (5.5); D.P. Singh (5) lost to Ravi Hegde (6); Preetam Sharma (5) lost to Sanjay (6); Shankar Roy (5) lost to M.Y. Raju (6); Rishipal Singh (5) lost to J. Gokhale (6); S.C. Sahu (5.5) drew with Poobesh Anand (5.5); Malleswara Rao (5) lost to Anup Deshmukh (6); Ram Krishnan (5) lost to Venkatesh (6); R.K. Mishra (5.5) drew with Laxman Rao (5.5); P. Konguvel (5.5) bt Somak Palit (5); Vedant Goswami (5) drew with Neelotpal Das (5); Satyapragnan (5) drew with Bhomick Bibhas (5) T.J. Suresh Kumar (4.5) lost to Suvrajit Saha (5.5); Vishal Sareen (5) drew with C. Natarajan (5); S.K. Rathore (5) drew with Dilip Pagay (5); J. Venkata Ramana (4.5) lost to Anupama Gokhale (5.5); R. Balasubramaniam (4.5) lost to K. Ramu (5.5); S. Ravichandran (4.5) lost to Nasir Wajih (5.5); K. Vikramaditya (4.5) lost to Jitendra (5.5); A.N.V. Suresh (4.5) lost to Hari Om Sharma (5.5); Mahesh Chandran (5.5) bt Bose D.C. (4.5); Rasmin Pulekar (5.5) bt Gunashekaran (4.5); Lanka Ravi (5) bt Kandi Ravi (4); P.D.S. Girinath (5) bt Roopankar Nath (4).

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