Magesh Chandran and Venkatesh share lead

HYDERABAD, FEB. 3. P. Magesh Chandran and M.R. Venkatesh, both from Tamil Nadu, emerged joint leaders with four points each at the end of the fourth round of the 30th National junior (under- 19) chess championship, being organised by the Ummer Koya Chess Academy at Prabhat Towers, here today.

lThe results: Round four: Prathamesh S. Mokal (3) lost to P. Magesh Chandran (4); M.R. Venkatesh (4) bt Ram S. Krishnan (3); C.J. Aravind (3.5) bt Vikas Sharma (2.5); K. Ratnakaran (2.5) lost to Deepan Chakravarthy (3.5); Saptarishi R. Chowdhary (3.5) bt Sunil Rangarajan (2.5); K. Vijay Keerthi (3) drew with R. Preetham Sharma (3); F.A. Ashfaq (2.5) lost to Beenish Bhatia (3.5); T. Puroshothaman (2) lost to R.R. Laxman (3); Vikramadithya Kamble (3) bt J.M. Utarid (2); Wilson Cruz (2) lost to Rishipal Singh (3); Arjun Tiwari (2) lost to Ismit Singh (3); B. Shiva Shankar (2.5) drew with Akash Thakur (2.5); S.S. Barve (2) lost to Nikhilesh Kumar (3); Tariq Umer Khan (2) lost to Saket Sharma (3); Kukku Ramesh (2) lost to Poobesh Anand (3); Shiva Chaitanya (2) lost to R.C. Pratap Mohan (3); Pranjal Das (2.5) bt Gurpreet Singh (2); Puneet Jaiswal (2) drew with Aditya Soni (2); Bharat Gupta (2.5) bt Pratik Tripathi (1.5); Ashutosh Singh (1.5) lost to C. Praveen Kumar (2.5); R.S. Prasanna (2.5) bt Abhiraj M.C. (1.5); Nirmal E.P. (2.5) bt D. Sai Srinivas (1.5); Ravi R. (1.5) lost to Shatrughan Jha (2.5); M. Satyajit (2) bt Karan Bhatty (1.5); M. Abhinav (1) lost to G. Rohit (2); K. Rajnikanth Reddy (1.5) drew with Anil Agarwal (1.5); Girwarlal (2) bt Gaurav Nangia (1); Sandeep Patnailk (1) lost to N. Vinuthna (2); Amit Sharma (1) lost to Abhijit C. (2); Sumit Grover (1) lost to Pratik Shriwas (2); Abhishek Sharma (2) bt Shivlal Jhethi (1); Nikhil Sahay (2) bt Veera Vikram (1); Pradeep T.S. (2) bt D. Minu (1); Bijay Kumar (2) bt Pranjal Phukan (1); Hari Balu (2) bt Pradeep Arora (1); M.V.D. Prashanth (0.5) lost to Divjot Singh (1.5).

Round three: Beenish Bhatia (2) drew with C.J. Aravind (2); P. Magesh Chandran (2) bt Vikramaditya Kamble (2); S. Rishipal Singh (2) lost to M.R. Venkatesh (2); R.R. Laxman (2) lost to Ram S. Krishnan (2); Akash Thakur (2) lost to Prathmesh Mokal (2); J.M. Utarid (2) lost to Saptarishi R. Choudhary (1.5); Deepan Chakravarthy (1.5) bt Puneet Jaiswal (1.5); Preetham Sharma (1.5) bt R.S. Prasanna (1.5); C. Praveen Kumar (1.5) lost to K. Ratnakaran (1.5); Vikas Sharma (1.5) bt Bharat Gupta (1.5); Sunil Rangarajan (1.5) bt Pranjal Das (1.5); Aditya Soni (1.5) lost to K. Vijay Keerthi (1.5); F.A. Ashfaq (1.5) bt Ravi Rangan (1.5); N. Vinuthna (1) lost to Arjun Tiwari (1); K. Nikhilesh Kumar (1) bt Abhijit C. (1); Siva Chaitanya (1) bt M. Satyajit (1); Saket Sharma (1) bt Abhishek Sharma (1); Gurpret Singh (1) bt G. Rohit (1); D. Sai Srinivas (1) drew with Ashutosh Singh (1); Poobesh Anand (1) bt Pradeep T.S. (1); Shatrughan Jha (1) drew with Nirmal E.P. (1) Pratap Mohan (1) bt Bijay Kumar (1); Shivlal Jethi (1) lost to T. Puroshothaman (1); D. Minu (1) lost to B. Shiva Shankar (1); Ismit Singh (1) bt Hari Balu (1); Wilson Cruz (1) bt Sandeep Patnaik (1); Kukku Ramesh (1) bt M. Abhinav (1); Anil Agarwal (1) lost to S.S. Barve (1); Tariq Umer Khan (1) bt Nikhil Sahay (1).

- Our Special Correspondent

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