Date:21/12/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/12/21/stories/2008122154771600.htm

Sport - Chess

Laxman held to a draw

Chennai: Ram S. Krishnan of BSNL, Chennai stopped the winning run of leader R.R. Laxman, also of Chennai, by getting a draw in the seventh round of the St. Joseph’s National under-25 chess championship here on Saturday.

Teenaged schoolboy V.A.V. Rajesh of Chennai scored over Navin Kanna with the black pieces to cut the lead of Laxman from one point to just half a point. Laxman leads with 6.5 points and Rajesh is on six points.

Important results (round seven): Ram S. Krishnan 5.5 drew with R.R. Laxman 6.5, Navin Kanna 5 lost to V.A.V. Rajesh 6, P. Karthikeyan 5.5 bt R. Siddharth 4.5, Ajay Srikanth 4.5 lost to P. Sivasankari 5.5, Prathamesh Mokal 4.5 drew with Arjun Tiwari 5, Deep Sengupta 5 bt S. Ganesh Babu 4, Nimmy George 4.5 drew with G. Akash 4.5, Dushyant Das 4 lost to Pradeep Kumar 5, Anand Naik 4 lost to V. Haribalu 5, S. Prasannaa 4 lost to Anand Sivasankar 4.5. — Arvind Aaron