Date:13/02/2003 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2003/02/13/stories/2003021306842000.htm

Sport - Chess

Saptarshi joins leaders

JAIPUR FEB. 12. Former National sub-junior runner-up Saptarshi Roy got the better of Nassir Wajih to join K. Visweswaran, Sriram Jha, B.S. Shivanandan and C.S. Gokhale in the lead with six points after seven rounds of the fourth Pink City international-rating chess tourament at the Jaipur Club here.

Important results (Seventh round): K. Visweswaran (6) drew with Sriram Jha (6); B.S. Shivanandan (6) bt G. Rohit (5); Varugeese Koshy (5) lost to C.S. Gokhale (6); K. Ratnakaran (5.5) drew with Abhijeet Gupta (5.5); Himanshu Sharma (5.5) drew with Preetham Sharma (5.5); Nassir Wajih (5) lost to Saptarshi Roy (6); Dinesh Kumar Sharma (5) drew with Sharad Tilak (5); M.R. Venkatesh (5.5) bt Vedant Goswami (4.5); Prathamesh Mokal (5.5) bt Shashikant Kutwal (4.5); C.J. Arvind (4.5) lost to P. Konguvel (5.5); Atanu Lahiri (5.5) bt R.S. Gupta (4.5); S. Mari Arul (5.5) bt Artem A. Samsonkin (4.5); Shankar Roy (5) drew with D. Sai Srinivas (5); R.R. Laxman (5.5) bt Anup Deshmukh (4.5).

Sixth round: Jha bt Lahiri; Gokhale drew with Shivanandan; Goswami lost to Visweswaran; Rohit bt Arghyadip Das; G.B. Joshi lost to Ratnakaran; N. Sudhakar Babu lost to Himanshu Sharma; Preetham bt Gurpreet Pal Singh; Ravi Kumar lost to Wajih; Kutwal drew with S. Mari Arul; Vikramaditya Kamble lost to Koshy; R.S. Gupta drew with Shankar Roy; Samsonkin drew with Tilak; Abhijit Gupta bt M. Saimeera-Ravi; Sai Srinivas drew with Arvind; Saptarshi Roy bt Rahul Sangma.

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