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Ramesh claims title

By Arvind Aaron

Chennai MAY 23. International Master R. B. Ramesh won the 3rd Adyar Times FIDE-rated Open chess tournament as the five international masters took the top five prizes in the event that concluded at the Kumararani Meena Muthiah College of Arts and Science in Gandhi Nagar on Friday.

Ramesh's final round draw took his score to 7.5 points from nine games as he won the trophy and Rs.15,000 cash prize with ease. The second to sixth places saw a five-way tie on seven points.

Four international masters, Kidambi and Saravanan of Bharat Petroleum, Prakash of Indian Bank and Deepan Chakravarthi of Wipro and FIDE Master K.V. Shantharam of Indian Bank finished in that order scoring seven points.

Important results (Round nine): S. Kidambi 7 drew with R.B. Ramesh 7.5, G.B. Prakash 7 bt. S. Poobesh Anand 6.5, J. Ramakrishna 6.5 lost to V. Saravanan 7, Deepan Chakravarthi 7 bt. R.P. Senthil Kumaran 6, P. Phoobalan 6.5 drew with Syed Anwar Shazuli 6.5, E.P. Nirmal 6 lost to K.V. Shantharam 7, R. Balasubramaniam 6.5 bt H. Nilavoli 5.5, R.R.Laxman 5.5 lost to M. Vijay Anand 6.5, K. Gopalakrishnan 6.5 bt. B. Sivasankar 5.5, J. Sridhar 6.5 bt P. Rajesh 5.5, C.J. Arvind 6 bt. S. Anand Kumar 5.5, Devendra Kumar 6 bt A.L. Kasi 5, S. Sridhar 5.5 drew with G. Dinesh Kumar 5.5, B. Sashikanth 5 lost to Dwarak Krishnan 6, M. Vinoth Kumar 6 bt R. Ananth 5, J.K. Gowtham 6 bt. P.S. Vaidyanathan 5, K. Visweswaran 5.5 bt. V. Tejasvi 5, J. Venkataramana 5.5 bt S.M. Diksit 4.5, P. Priya 5.5 bt Joel Modestus 4.5, Priyadarshini 5.5 bt. K. Ganesan 4.5.

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