Date:08/09/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/09/08/stories/2008090857682000.htm

Sport - Chess

Three share lead

KOZHIKODE: Top seed M.R. Venkatesh, Phoobalan and E.P. Nirmal shared the lead with six points each at the end of the seventh round of the S.K. Pottekkat Gold Medal FIDE-rated all-India chess tournament here on Sunday.

Important results (seventh round): Ram S. Krishna 5.5 drew with Phoobalan 6; Joy Lazer 5 lost to M.R. Venkatesh 6; E.P. Nirmal 6 bt O.T. Anil Kumar 5; Debasis Mukherjee 5.5 drew with Linda Rangarajan 5.5; Abdul Majeed 5 drew with Santu Mandal 5.5; Praveen Kumar 5.5 bt S. Nithin 4.5; Sarbajit Adhikarri 5 drew with Sankar Majumdar 4.5; M.V. Lakshminarayanan 4.5 drew with Shaniram Pegu 4.5; Ganesh Babu 4 lost to M.C. Manoj 5; U.C. Mohanan 5 bt Saket Kumar 4.