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Deric Pinto moves into lead

By Our Sports Reporter

KOCHI JUNE 22. For the second successive day, a coach hogged the limelight at the 14th Cusat Open all-India Fide-rated chess tournament for the Bull Chess Trophy here on Saturday.

Deric Pinto, who runs a chess school in Mangalore, pipped some big stars and moved into sole lead after the fifth round at the Cochin University campus here. He jolted the ninth-seeded U.S. Satheesan and earned his fifth point from as many rounds.

Four players — Tamil Nadu's R.R. Laxman, S. Arun Prasad, Andhra's P.D.S. Girinath and Kerala's M.B. Muraleedharan — were in the second spot with 4.5 points. Sunday is a rest day.

The results (fifth round): R.R. Laxman (TN, 4.5) drew with S. Arun Prasad (TN, 4.5); Deric Pinto (Kar, 5) bt U.S. Satheesan (Ker, 4); Varghese Koshy (ONGC, 4) drew with K. Ratnakaran (Ker, 4); P.D.S. Girinath (AP, 4.5) bt K. Lakshmi Narayanan; P. Sreekumar (Ker, 3.5) lost to M.B. Muraleedharan (Ker, 4.5); K. Haridas (Ker, 4) bt R. Ganesh Bhat (Ker, 3.5); K. Sujeesh (Ker, 3) lost to S. Poobesh Anand (TN, 4); N. Abdul Majeed (Ker, 3.5) drew with Benoglad (3.5); K. Prasanna (TN, 4) bt C.S. Sreedhar (TN, 3); Binju Oommen (Ker, 4) bt Sreeram Sarja (3); K.V. Devadasan (Ker, 3) lost to S. Anand Kumar (TN, 4); Samson J. Austin (3.5) drew with N. Santhosh Kumar (3.5); A. Arun (TN, 3) lost to N.T. Suresh Kumar (4); T.R. Shanmuganathan (3) lost to E.P. Nirmal (Ker, 4); K.A. Unas (Ker, 3) lost to Mahima Rajmohan (TN, 4); M. Abhirama (3) drew with Yeshpal Arora (3.5); K. Vijay Keerthi (Kar, 3.5) bt Nimmy A. George (Ker, 2.5); Aswin Jayaram (2.5) lost to S. Ravichander (3.5); O.T. Anilkumar (Ker, 3.5) bt M. Vinodkumar (TN, 2.5); T. Chinnadurai (TN, 3.5) bt Saket Sarma (2.5); Atish Das Sarma (2.5) lost to K.R. Madhusoodanan (3.5); S. Nagarajan (TN, 3) drew with M. Manoj (3); J.M. Utarid (3.5) bt Narendranath Chaturvedi (2.5); V.M. Rajeev (2.5) lost to Merryston David Scanny (TN, 3.5); K.V. Anilkumar (Ker, 3) drew with P.J. Jayasree (TN, 3); Swapnil B. Suresh (3) drew with Gopal Shah (3); P.V. Gireesh (3) bt Meenu Rajendran (2.5).

Fourth round: Ganesh Bhat drew with Varghese Koshy; N.T. Suresh Kumar lost to R.R. Laxman; U.S. Satheesan bt K.V. Devadasan; S. Arun Prasad bt K.A. Unas; Deric Pinto bt Binju Oommen; K. Ratnakaran bt R.P. Senthil Kumar; Saket Sharma lost to P.D.S. Girinath; M.B. Muraleedharan bt J.M. Utarid; Merryston David Scanny lost to P. Sreekumar; K. Lakshmi Narayanan bt O.T. Anilkumar.

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