The Hindu : Sudhakar Babu off to a flyer

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Tuesday, Jun 11, 2002

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Sudhakar Babu off to a flyer

VIJAYAWADA JUNE 10. Top-seeded N. Sudhakar Babu (Elo 2398) was off to a flying start with a 19-move win over un-rated Karma H. Pandy in the first round of the `Immortal Five' memorial FIDE-rated all India open chess tournament at the Gymkhana Club here on Monday.

In his pet King's Indian Defence, Sudhakar dominated the game. Once he forced his knight into the rival citadel he wrapped up the issue in just 20 minutes.

Important results (1st round): N. Sudhakar Babu (1) bt Karma H. Pandy (0); Karnali Hansa (0) lost to K. Ratnakaran (1); M.B. Muralidharan (1) bt K.V.K. Karthik (0); Kaustav Bharath (0) lost to S. Maria Arul (1); R.K. Mishra (1) bt B.S. Keerthi (0); A.V. Khade (0) lost to Rishipal Singh (1); Himanshu Sharma (1) bt B. Kranthi Kumar (0); P. Kranthi Kumar (0) lost to G. Rohit (1); G. Balaji (1) bt C.R.G. Krishna (0); T. Krishna (0) lost to B.S. Sivanand (1); Ram S. Krishnan (1) bt K.V. Krishna Rao (0); J. Kumar Raju (1) w\o Poobesh Anand (0); D. Lakshman Rao (1) bt G.V. Kumar (0); P. Lakshmi Sahiti (0) lost to Akash Thakur (1); A. Shankar (1) bt Lakshmi Sindhi (0); M.R. Lalith (0) lost to Srinivasa Rao (1); V. Hariharan (1) bt Lalitha Prayag (0); Lokanath (0) lost to

Manjunath Jain (1); Manoj Misra (1) bt G. Madana Sri (0); G. Madhukiran (0) lost to S.R. Misra (1); J.V. Ramana (1) bt Mahesh (0); L. Mahindra Venkat (0) lost to J. Ramakrishna (1); P.L. Priyadarshini (1) bt S.P. Mochala (0); G. Manoj (0) lost to Vinod Bhagwan (1); B. Ramana Babu (1) bt Merwyn Zudan (0); Md. Rayaroth Ali (0) lost to K. Ramu (1); K.N. Gopal (0.5) drew with Mohan Krishna (0.5); K. Mohan Kumar (1) bt Praveen Kumar (0); G.V. Srinivas (1) bt T. Rohit (0); Malleshwar Rao (0) lost to Mousan Garg (1); S.K. Mukherjee (1) bt Ch. Rajkumar (0); Y. Kalyankumar (1) bt Muralikrishna (0); P. Nageswara Rao (0) lost to C.S.Sridhar.

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