Date:21/06/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/06/21/stories/2006062107012200.htm

Sport - Chess

Gopal wins title

TIRUCHI: G.N. Gopal of Kerala with a total of 9.5 points won the first Tiruchi international FIDE-rated open chess tournament here on Tuesday. He defeated K. Haridas in the eleventh round.

The results: (eleventh round): G.N. Gopal 9.5 bt K. Haridas 8; S. Mari Arul 8.5 drew with B.T. Murali Krishnan 8.5; O.T. Anil Kumar 8.5 drew with P. Shyam Nikhil 8.5; M.B. Muralidharan 8.5 bt Ram S. Krishnan 7.5; T.U. Khanna 8.5 bt T. Purushotaman 7.5; M. Shyam Sundar 7.5 lost to R. Premnath 8; K. Ratnakaran 8 bt Amit Kumar 7; R.R. Laxman 7 lost to Naveen Hegde 8; P. Phoobalan 8 bt D. Prabhakaran 7; R. Siddarth 8 bt K. Chakravarthi 7; M. Vinoth Kumar 8 bt P. Priya 7; A. Shankar 7 bt P. Maheswaran 8; Rohan Vijay Shandilya 8 bt M.V. Lakshmi Narayanan 7; V. Haribalu 7.5 bt Sridharan Ramanathan 7; M. Raju 6.5 lost to R. Balasubramainan 7.5.

Final Standings: 1. G.N. Gopal (9.5); 2. B.T. Murali Krishnan (8.5); 3. T.U. Naveen Khanna (8.5); 4. P. Shyam Nikhil (8.5); 5. O.T. Anil Kumar (8.5); 6. M.B. Muralidharan (8.5); 7. S. Mari Arul (8.5); 8. K. Ratnakaran (8); 9. M. Vinoth Kumar (8); 10. P. Phoobalan (8).