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Malleswara Rao holds slender lead

By Our Sports Reporter

KOCHI APRIL 30 . After a sticky and stubborn draw against Kerala's seasoned O.T. Anilkumar, Andhra's J. Malleswara Rao (6.5 points) maintained his slender half-point lead in the B.C. Cochin all-India FIDE-rated chess tournament at the Ernakulam YMCA International House here on Wednesday evening.

Malleswara Rao moved into sole lead this afternoon after beating the overnight joint leader, Kerala's P.V. Girish, Anilkumar and Tamil Nadu's B.T. Muralikrishnan were in the second spot with six points after the seventh round.

Meanwhile, the top boards witnessed a spate of draws. The players signed the peace treaty on seven of the top ten boards this evening.

But there was disappointment for T.R. Shanmuganathan. The Madurai 13-year-old who was on a giant-killing run the last two days, lost both his rounds today. The five-day, nine-round tournament ends on Thursday.

The results (seventh round): O.T. Anilkumar (Ker, 6 points) drew with J. Malleswara Rao (AP, 6.5), T.J. Suresh Kumar (Rly, 5.5) drew with S. Maria Arul (Rly, 5.5), M.B. Muraleedharan (B.C. Cochin, 5.5) drew with D. Prabaharan (5.5), P.V. Girish (Ker, 5) lost to B.T. Muralikrishnan (TN, 6), K. Gunasekharan (TN, 5.5) drew with K.R. Madhusudanan (Ker, 5.5).

J. Sridhar (TN, 5.5) drew with Arghyadip Das (GNCA, 5.5), Himanshu Sharma (Hary, 5.5) bt Soumyaranjan Mishra (Ori, 4.5), P.D.S. Girinath (AP, 5) drew with U.C. Mohanan (Ker, 5), Alex Thomas (Ker, 5.5) bt T.R. Shanmuganathan (TN, 4.5), N. Santhosh Kumar (Ker, 5) drew with Syed Anwar Shazully (Rly, 5), P. Sreekumar (Ker, 5) drew with Nithin Prem (5).

C. Sachin (5) drew with V. Ravichandran (Rly, 5), P.S. Ameer (Ker, 4.5) lost to S.C. Subramanian (Rly, 5.5), Sandrik Colaso (Goa, 4) lost to Ram S. Krishnan (TN, 5), Ravi Kumar (Chat, 5) bt T.K. Joseph (Ker, 4), A.Sankar (Rly, 5) bt K.V. Govindan Nambiar (Ker, 4), Srinivas S. Menon (Mah, 5) bt K.K. Shahul Hameed (UAE, 4), P. Balaji (TN, 4.5) drew with Ashok Gopal Rathod (Mah, 4.5).

K. Haridas (TN, 4) lost to A.K. Jagadeesh (Ker, 5), M.A. Joy Lazar (Ker) drew with K. Mammen (4.5), R. Premnath (4) lost to E.P. Nirmal (B.C. Cochin, 5), Vikram Saralaya (4.5) drew with Binju Oommen (Ker, 4.5), Deric Pinto (Goa, 5) bt S.S. Ragesh (4), R.P. Senthil Kumar (TN, 5) bt N.T. Suresh Kumar (4), P. Maheshwaran (TN, 5) bt Sarvesh Karambelkar (4).

M. Srikanth Sarma (Jhar, 5) bt V.B. Manikandan (4), V.M.Rajeev (Ker, 5) bt D.V.Devadhasan (Ker, 4), Yashpal Arora (MP, 5) bt Sagar Shah (4), M. Vijay Anand (TN, 4) lost to Yuzvendra S. Chahal (5), C.R. Raveendran (Ker, 5) bt V. Senthil Kumar (4), K. Prankumar (3.5) lost to M. Vinoth Kumar (4.5), Meenu Rajendran (3.5) lost to S. Ravichandran (4.5). K.M. Nisam (4) drew with K.A. Unas (Ker, 4), J.E. Kavitha (TN, 4.5) bt P.M. Dhanesh (3.5).

P. Vineeth Kaimal (Ker, 3.5) lost to Gopal Shah (4.5), T.V.R. Vijaya Raghavan (4.5) bt R. Muthuprakash (3.5), P. Sudha (3.5) lost to B.S. Krishna (4.5), B. Sasikanth (4.5) bt Prakash V. Rao (3.5), R.K. Shruki (4) drew with Nitesh Bhat (4). Sanjay Date (3.5) lost to Aditya Saxena (4.5), Jaice Joseph (4) drew with T.S. Panindra (4), S. Sujas (3.5) lost to K.C. Shrivas (4.5), V.N. Noordeen (4) drew with K.V. Sudhakar (3.5).

Sixth round: J. Malleswara Rao bt P.V. Girish, O.T. Anilkumar bt P.D.S. Girinath, T.R. Shanmuganathan lost to M.B. Muraleedharan, U.C. Mohanan drew with Himanshu Sharma, S. Maria Arul bt R.P. Senthilkumar, B.T. Muralikrishnan bt M. Srikanth Sarma, Binju Oommen lost to K. Gunasekharan, Arghyadip Das bt P. Maheshwaran.

T.J. Suresh Kumar bt T.K. Joseph, Soumyaranjan Mishra drew with P. Sreekumar, D. Prabaharan bt P. Balaji, S.C. Subramanian drew with C. Sachin, K.R. Madhusudanan bt K. Haridas, J. Sridhar bt M.A. Joy Lazar, Ram S. Krishnan drew with Srinivas S. Menon, Gopal Shah lost to Alex Thomas, Syed Anwar Shazully bt T.V.R. Vijaya Raghavan.

A.K. Jagadeesh drew with A. Sankar, V. Ravichandran bt K. Prankumar, Nithin Prem bt U.S. Satheesan, Aditya Saxena lost to N. Santhosh Kumar, P.S. Ameer bt V.R. Noordeen, V. Senthil Kumar drew with M. Vijay Anand, Yuzvendra S. Chahal drew with C.R. Raveendran, Bhakti P. Kulkarni lost to Ravi Kumar, K.K. Shahul Hameed bt M. Joel Modestus.

E.P. Nirmal bt M.P. Vijay, Narayanan Puthusseri lost to Deric Pinto, N.T. Suresh Kumar bt S. Sriprasanth, M. Vinoth Kumar drew with P. Vineeth Kaimal, K.A. Unas drew with P. Sudha, K.V. Devadhasan bt D. Shubham Pinge, Pon N. Krithika lost to Yashpal Arora, R. Sriram lost to Standrik Colaso, Joy Antony lost to R. Premnath, R. Muthuprakash drew with J.E. Kavitha.

K.V. Govindan Nambiar bt S. Roshni, Gopal Ashok Rathod bt S.R. Santosh, S.S. Ragesh bt M. Sukumar Menon, B.S. Krishna drew with S. Sujas, T.S. Panindra drew with B. Sasikanth, Sagar Shah bt Balan Sumit, V. Snehal Bhosale lost to Sarvesh Karambelkar, V.B. Manikandan bt D.S. Maanasapriya, Viani Antonio D'cunha lost to Vikram Saralaya, K.G. Suresh lost to V.M. Rajeev, K. Mammen bt K.A.D. Victor.

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