Date:09/12/2004 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2004/12/09/stories/2004120903281900.htm

Sport - Chess

Three players share lead

HYDERABAD, DEC. 8. Three players — K. Sujesh, G.N. Gopal and Akshat Khamparia — shared the lead with four points each at the end of fourth round in the 34th National junior (under-19) chess championship being held in Tirupati.

The results (fourth round): Akshat Khamparia (4) bt V. Haribalu (3); G.N. Gopal (4) bt Vipal Supashi (3); T. Purushothaman (3.5) drew with Hemal Thanki (3.5); S. Poobesh Anand (2.5) lost to K. Sujesh (4); S. Venkat Sundaram (2.5) lost to Arghyadip Das (3.5); Ved Prakash Sinha (2.5) lost to Arjun Tiwari (3.5); R. Uttam Sharma (2.5) lost to Abhishek Das (3.5); Ranbeer Singh Bhatia (3.5) bt R.K. Ranjith (2.5); Gurpreet Singh Maras (3.5) bt Varun Vij (2.5); M. Vinay Kumar (2.5) lost to P. Maheshwaran (3.5); V. Vomesh (3) drew with Byo Makesh Nayak (3); Saptarshi Roy (3) bt M. Shyam Sunder (2); Satish Kumar (2) lost to G. Rohit (3); K. Nikhilesh Kumar (3) bt N. Surendran (2); R. Arun Karthik (3) bt Soumya Banerjee (2); T.R. Shanmuganathan (3) bt R. Mahudeeswaran (2); Neeraj Kera (2) lost to R. Sohan Padke (3); M.R. Lalit Babu (3) bt Aditya Saxena (2); Nipun Chowrasia (2) lost to K.V. Ven Prakash (3); Venkatakrishna Karthik (2) lost to N. Sashank Singh (3); S.V. Sathya Priya (2) lost to R. Premnath (3); Avi Bagdi (3) bt Ashish Kumar (2); Shyaam Nikhil (2) lost to K. Prasanna (3); Vikram Seraliya (3) bt Karnati Harsh (2); S.K. Abdul Azeez (2.5) drew with Soham Das (2.5); Joydeep Dutta (3) bt Bangkim Singh (2): Naveen Khanna (2.5) drew with K. Harish (2.5); Sharwesh Karamveikar (3) bt Ramakrishna Perumalla (2); S. Arun Prasd (2.5) bt N. Lokesh (1.5); C. Praveen Kumar (2.5) bt Jalpan Bhatt (1.5); Adhibhan (1.5) lost to Janani Priya (2.5); Shandilya Viswanath (2) drew with Swaraj Buragohain (2); Padmini Rout (1.5) lost to Nishanth (2.5); Anbazhagan (1.5) lost to Swayams Misra (2.5); B. Anudeep (2) drew with Bipin Kumar (2).