Date:15/06/2003 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2003/06/15/stories/2003061503381600.htm

Sport - Chess

Sandhya humbles Tejdeep

By Our Sports Reporter

KOCHI JUNE 14. Kozhikode's N. Sandhya, who had a stunning run in the women's National `B' championship on home boards early this month, surprised sixth-seeded Tejdeep in the third round of the 15th Cusat Open all-India FIDE-rated chess tournament here on Saturday evening.

The second-year B. Com student of Government Arts and Science College defeated the Andhra Pradesh lad in 44 moves of King's Indian and was among the leaders after the second day's games at the Cochin University's SMS Auditorium.

Nine-year-old K. Priyadarshan of Madurai, winner of the under-10 boys' silver in the Asian Youth meet at Kozhikode, also caught the eye with a 25-move draw against seventh-seeded P. Sreekumar, the Kerala champion.

The fourth and fifth rounds will be held at 9 a.m. and 2.30 p.m. respectively at Cochin University's SMS Auditorium, Kalamassery.

The results:

Third round: N. Santosh Kumar (2.5) drew with M.B. Muraleedharan (2.5), P.D.S. Girinath (3) bt S. Jayaprakash (2), Kumardip Chakraborty (2.5) drew with Ram S. Krishnan (2.5), O.T. Anilkumar (3) bt B. Sivasankar (2), Saket Kumar (2) lost to Alex Thomas (3), Tejdeep (2) lost to N. Sandhya (3), Prajjwal Pramanik (2) lost to K. Haridas (3), U.C. Mohanan (3) bt K.V. Devadasan (2), P. Stanley Samson (3) bt P.V. Girish (2), T.R. Shanmuganathan (2.5) drew with P.S. Ameer (2.5), J. Sridhar (2.5) drew with Soumya Ranjan Mishra (2.5), Konakanchi Ninad (3) bt J. Raj Pathak Tanmay (2), Pranjal Phukan (3) bt D. Prabhakaran (2), P. Ramakrishna (2.5) drew with K.M. Nisam (2.5), P.M. Dhanesh (2) lost to K.R. Madhusoodanan (3), P. Shyam Nikhil (2) lost to R. Ganesh Bhat (3), M. Vinoth Kumar (3) bt M. Suba Chandran (2), S.K. Sudulu (2) lost to P. Srikanth (3), K. Priyadarshan (2) drew with P. Sreekumar (2), Sreenivas S. Menon (2) drew with U.S. Satheesan (2), Sukhpal Singh Kalsi (2.5) bt Prasanth Joseph (1.5), P.V.V. Sheshu (2.5) bt S.S. Ragesh (1.5), K. Prasanna (2.5) bt Tonis Thomas (1.5), R. Sreeram (1.5) lost to Merryston David (2.5), K. Bindu Saritha (2.5) bt S. Sujith (1.5), Vineeth P. Kaimal (2.5) bt K.K. Pavithran (1.5), Amithpal Singh (2) bt S.K. Arul Shanker (1), Joy Lazar (2) bt Arun K. Antony (0), Nikhilesh Kumar (2) bt H. Azeezuddin (1), K. Biju (1.5) drew with K.V. Alfred (1.5).

Second round: M.B. Muraleedharan bt A.B. Satheesh Kumar, K.X. Augustus lost to P.D.S. Girinath, Ram S. Krishnan bt V.G. Srinivasan, Aswathy Balagopalan lost to O.T. Anilkumar, Alex Thomas bt Ashwin Jashwantlal, Sukumar Menon lost to Tejdeep, K.M. Nisam bt Amithpal Singh, K. Haridas bt Vinayak Ramesh, P.M. Dhanesh bt Joy Lazar, Kaustubh Khare lost to U.C. Mohanan, P.G. Girish bt K. Prankumar, Raj Pathak Tanmay bt Nikhilesh Kumar, S. Nikul lost to T.R. Shanmugananthan, Soumya Ranjan Mishra bt M. Rahul Manohar, Binju Oommen drew with Vineeth P. Kaimal, S. Santosh lost to Konakanchi Ninad, D. Prabhaharan bt K.G. Nirmal, Salim Yusuf lost to P. Ramakrishna, K.R. Madhusoodanan bt M.M. Justine and R. Ganesh Bhat bt K.G. Suresh.