Date:26/05/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/05/26/stories/2008052654381800.htm

Sport - Chess

Easy for fancied players

Chennai: It was smooth sailing for fancied players on the opening day of the Jawahar Vidyalaya-sponsored 10th Tamil Nadu State under-25 FIDE-rated chess championship here on Sunday.

Some important results:

Open section: Kamal Shankar lost to Shyam Nikhil; Ram S. Krishnan bt Sai Kiran; M. Vivek lost to R. Arun Karthik; Navin Khanna bt N. Aadityan; N. R. Abhinav lost toR. Siddharth; V.A.V. Rajesh bt Allan Smith.

Anirudh Kannan lost to P. Maheswaran; R. Pradeep Kumar bt M. Aravind; N. Surendran bt Ashwin V. Raman; J. Aswin lost to S. Ganesh Babu.

Women’s section: R. Preethi bt R. Abirami; R. Aishwarya lost to P. Sivasankari; S. Nabeela Farheen bt G. Alagusala.

S. Arthi lost to P. Uthra; S. Harini bt P. Bala Kannamma; R. Bhuvaneswari lost to R. Bharathi; Aparna Raja bt R. Gowri.