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It is a day of draws
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No change at the top of the table
Only one result on the top board
DINDIGUL: There is no change at the top. The five overnight leaders — M.R. Venkatesh, K. Ratnakaran, Sundararajan Kidambi, B. Adhiban and Prathamesh Mokal — have maintained their lead with 8.5 points each at the end of the 11th round of the 45th National ‘B’ chess championship at the PSNA College of Engineering and Technology here on Monday.
Only one of the top 10 boards produced a decisive result — so much like a National ‘B’. With two rounds remaining, Sriram Jha, R. Arun Karthik, S. Satyapragyan, Aditya Udeshi, Akshat Khamparia, Vidit Santosh Gujarathi, T.S. Ravi, R. Ashwath, B.S. Sivanandan, Shankar Roy, N. Sudhakar Babu, and Shashikant Kutwal are on eight points. On the second board, Kidambi and Adhiban played on for 40 moves in their Queen’s Indian game and reached an ending featuring opposite-coloured bishops before they agreed to split the point.
Important results (11th round):
K. Ratnakaran 8.5 drew with M.R. Venkatesh 8.5; Sundararajan Kidambi 8.5 drew with B. Adhiban 8.5; Sriram Jha 8 drew with Prathamesh Mokal 8.5; R. Arun Karthik 8 drew with S. Satyapragyan 8; Aditya Udeshi 8 drew with Akshat Khamparia 8; T.S . Ravi 8 drew with R. Ashwath 8; Roktim Bandyopadhyay 7.5 drew with Vidit Santosh Gujarathi 8; Rahul Shetty 7.5 drew with Saptarshi Roy 7.5; B.S. Sivanandan 8 bt P. Konguvel 7; V. Saravanan 7.5 drew with Aarthie Ramaswamy 7.5. Shankar Roy 8 bt Nisha Mohota 7; N. Sudhakar Babu 8 bt G.B. Joshi 7; Shashikant Kutwal 8 bt N. Sanjay 7; Abhishekh Das 7.5 drew with Mehar Chinna Reddy 7.5; J. Ramakrishna 7 drew with Abhijeet Gupta 7; S. Poobesh Anand 6.5 lost to Ravi Hegde 7.5; R.R. Laxman 6.5 lost to Ashwin Jayaram 7.5; Preetham R. Sharma 7.5 bt P.D.S. Girinath 6.5; G.B. Prakash 7.5 bt Atanu Lahiri 6.5; N. Srinath 7.5 bt Ram S. Krishnan 6.5; Imocha Laisram 7.5 bt Neeraj Kumar Mishra 6.5.
Vinay Kumar Matta 7.5 bt Vikramaditya Kamble 6.5; Anup Deshmukh 6.5 lost to S.P. Sethuraman 7.5; K. Priyadarshan 6.5 lost to M.S. Thejkumar 7.5; D. Lakshman Rao 7.5 bt D. Sai Srinivas 6.5; Padmini Rout 6.5 lost to M.R. Lalith Babu 7.5; Kant ilal Dave 7 drew with C. Praveen Kumar 7; Ebenezer Joseph 6.5 lost to Swati Ghate 7.5; Ram Prakash 7 drew with Ankit R. Rajpara 7; Nassir Wajih 7.5 bt Meghan Gupte 6.5.
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