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Holder Harini in sole lead

CHENNAI: Defending champion S. Harini of SRM Arts & Sciences College took sole lead at the end of the seventh and penultimate round of the 27th Rachel Paranjothy memorial women’s chess tournament at Ethiraj College on Thursday.

Harini had taken the lead at the end of the forenoon session when she beat her co-leader of the previous round, G. Apurva. In the seventh round on Thursday evening she beat the National under-11 girls’ champion from Neyveli, Srija Seshadri.

The leading scores: 1. S. Harini 6.5; 2. J. Saranya 6; 3-4. B. Jeyassri, G. Aarthi 5.5; 5-11. Srija Seshadri, V. Janu, G. Apurva, G.K. Monnisha, T. Rajeswari, U. Ashwini, B. Aarthi 5 each.

Important results (seventh round): Srija Seshadri (Neyveli) 5 lost to S. Harini (SRM Arts & Sc) 6.5; J. Saranya (Velammal) 6 bt V. Janu (Velammal) 5; G. Apurva (Vaishnav) 5 drew with G.K. Monissha (Velammal) 5; B. Jeyassri 5.5 bt K. Mrunalini (St. Joseph’s) 4.5; G. Aarthi (G.K. Shetty) 5.5 bt V. Varshini 4.5; M. Abinaya 4.5 drew with M. Mahalakshmi (Velammal) 4.5; G. Sushmitha 4.5 drew with Michelle Catherina (Good Shepherd) 4.5; T. Rajeswari 5 bt G. Umabharathi (Jayagopal Garodiya) 4; U. Ashwini (Church Park) 5 bt M.C. Deepika (Ethiraj) 4; J.G. Tegesvi 4 lost to B. Aarthi 5.

Solar Chess Club of the DSKSSI Trust will organise its 15th open chess tournament from January 24 to 26 at the Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan Senior Secondary School for under-8, 10, 12, 14, and 18 boys and girls.

Entry forms are available at Solar House, 34, South Mada Street, Myalpore, Chennai. Details can be had from Dr. (Mrs.) Chandra Ramani and G. Sivakumar, ph: 24643024, 42347777.

Musthafa Sarosh Ahamed made 104 as St. Bede’s ‘A’ defeated PSBB (T.P. Road) by 114 runs in the TNCA city schools under-14 cricket tournament, here on Thursday.

The scores: St. Michael’s Academy 60 in 23.5 overs (Sai Prakash four for 11) lost to PSBB ‘A’ (K.K. Nagar) 64 for no loss in 7.5 overs (Karthik Ganesh 29 n.o.); St. Bede’s ‘A’ 199 for three in 30 overs (R. Aravind Raj 51, Musthafa Sarosh Ahamed 104) bt PSBB (T.P. Road) 85 in 29.1 overs; St. Patrick’s (Ch-20) 131 for seven in 30 overs (Imran 30 n.o., Arnold 25) lost to PSSS (Ch-4) 74 for two in 15 overs (M. Adithyan 26) — PSSS won on better run-rate; Sri Sankara Vidyalaya (Ch-75) 82 in 29.4 overs (Akash 25, Geet Puri three for 20, P.S. Rahul three for 12) lost to St. John’s (Ch-90) 73 for three in 17.2 overs (Geet Puri 46 n.o.) — St. John’s won on better run-rate .

R. Sanjay won the gold division at the Carrick memorial golf tournament, conducted at the Gymkhana Club golf links here recently. He totalled 37 points, one more than Darshan Veeraraghavan.

The scores:

Carrick memorial tournament: Gold division: 1. R. Sanjay (37 points), 2. Darshan Veeraraghavan (36); Silver division: 1. Rajan Gero (37), 2. Ramachandra Raja (35).

Junior monthly medal: Open (gross score): 1. Siddhanth Pai (86), 2. Pranav Sachdev (102); Handicap (nett score): Abhinav Sitaraman (81).

The Emmanuel Chess Centre will conduct a year-long professional chess training course for children in the 5-14 age-group at the Russian Cultural Centre in Chennai from January 14, 2009. For details contact: 93810 62323 & 6547 0470.

The Protchem Trophy golf tournament, a four-ball best-ball against stableford was played at the Cosmo-TNGF course in Chennai recently. The team of H.K. Woo (11) and I.A. Park (21) won the competition with 49 points. S. Ramamirtham (12) and Pavitra Devi (20) finished second with 48 points.

The Chennai District Women’s Hockey Association will conduct selection trials at 7 a.m. on January 11 at the Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium for the senior inter-district women’s championships to be held in Salem from January 17 to 20.

D.G. Vaishnav College won the recently-held New College Trophy inter-collegiate table tennis tournament defeating Vivekananda College 3-1 in the final. The New College and Alpha Arts and Science College came third and fourth respectively.

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