Date:20/08/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/08/20/stories/2008082053432100.htm

Sport - Chess

Lucky win for Shyam

Arvind Aaron

Chennai: Nineteen players, including the top seed P. Shyam Nikhil of Nagercoil, are in the lead with three points from as many rounds in the first Modern School FIDE rating chess tournament for school students here on Tuesday.

Important results (round three): Shyam Nikhil 3 bt Ritwan Sauntra 2, S.S. Manigandan 2 lost to S. Nitin 3, Pradeep Kumar 3 bt Osama Salim 2, E. Sharath 2 lost to Ramnath Bhuvanesh 3, Dinesh Kumar 2 lost to Anwesh Upadhyaya 3, K. Sai Prahlad 2 lost to Pon N. Krithikha 3, N. Surendran 3 bt Vishnu Gopakumar 2, K. Athish 2 lost to Tejas Ravichandran 3, N. Rajkumar 2 lost to P. Lokesh 3, Niranjan Navalgund 3 bt Gaurav Sharan 2, Muzammil Ahmed 2 lost to J. Arun 3, Bavankumar 3 bt V. Janu 2, Athul Kumar 2 lost to G. Akash 3.

Santhosh Kumar 3 bt Vigneshraj Muthuram 2, Hema Priya 2 lost to B. Sekar 3, D.S. Shashank 3 bt R. Gowri, J. Saranya 3 bt S. Sriram 2, Ramalingam Karthik 3 bt Vishal 2, M. Vivekanathan 2 lost to S. Kumar 3.

Round two: B. Arthi lost to Shyam Nikhil, S. Nitin bt G. Uma Bharathi, Natessa Maran drew with Dusthageer Ibrahim, S. Sivanesan drew with J.S. Daklia, K.G. Chaithanyaa drew with S. Sridev, N. Aadityan drew with R.S. Soundarya, P.L. Singaram drew with M. Swaroop.