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Results along predicted lines

By Manuel Aaron

DHARMAPURI APRIL 21. There were no surprises in the first round of the Jayam Engineering College and Ramco Cements sponsored Tamil Nadu State sub-junior boys and girls championships for the V.L. Ethiraj Trophy and the Arasan Kalyanasundari Ammal Guruswamy Trophy held at the Hotel Sri Rama's auditorium on Sunday.

The toughest match of the day was between two Chennai-based players, R. Siddarth and R. Ashwath, and it was the luck of the draw that forced such top players to meet in the first round itself.

The top seed, Siddarth won this game by clinging on to the gambit pawn in the black side of a Queens Gambit Declined.

Mr. K. Periaiah, Superintendent of Police, Dharmapuri inaugurated the championships. The Ramco and Pentasoft representatives Mr. S.V. Muthukumar and Mr. S.G. Suresh spoke in praise of the organizers.

The president of the Dharmapuri District Chess Association Mr. A. Vadivel welcomed the gathering and its secretary Mr. H. Sridhar gave a vote of thanks.

The results (first round): Boys: R. Aswath (Che) lost to R. Siddarth (Che); A. Arun (Tveli) bt N. Sachin (Dpi); Vijayendran (Mdu) lost to Navin Kanna (Tvlr); Nirmal Chandran (Cbe) bt Sathish Prem (Mdu); S. Arun Prasad (Slm) bt Bangaru G. Vignesh (Slm); Krishna Prasad (Slm) lost to V. Haribalu (Che); T. Karthik Anand (Cbe) bt Santosh Kumar (Diamond CA); K. Chidambaram (Svg) lost to M.K. Narasimhan (Che); D. Krishna (Cbe) bt S. Nandakumar (Svg); M. Ganesh (Svg) lost to T.R. Ranjith (Kan); Aswin Jayaram (Che) bt Mathur Sathya (Golden Squares); V. Karthik (Cbe) bt Arun Shankar (Ddl); V. Raghunath (Tvlr) lost to S. Sriprasanth (Vir); K. Narayanan (Svg) bt M. Narendran (TNTA).

Girls: H. Jayalakshmi (Kan) lost to L. Iswarya Shobana (Slm); Mahima Rajmohan (Mdu) bt D.R. Varunya (Mdu); R. Varsha (Mdu) bt R. Abirami (Tvlr); M. Nivedita (TNTA) drew with Jenita Anto (Try); Anjana N. Sowjanyaa (Kan) bt Aswati Jayaram (Che); Ramjani lost to P. Sivasankari (Tvlr);

R.K. Shruke (Cbe) bt S. Srinidhi (Cbe); M. Akila (Cbe) drew D.S. Manasapriya (Dpi); K. Radhika (Tvlr) bt S. Ashwini (Tveli); S. Gayatri (Tveli) lost to P. Uthra (Tvlr); R. Sharanya (Kan) lost to G. Vigneswari (Try); J. Vaishnavi (Try) lost to P.K. Jayashree (Slm); L. Sudarshana (Slm) bt Harshini Ramkrishna (Try); Uthra Ramesh (Try) lost to V. Mageswari (Tvlr).

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