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Guntur inches closer to the leader

VIJAYAWADA Sept. 30. Guntur came within half a point of holder Kanchipuram in the National cities chess championships at the Indira Gandhi Municipal Corporation stadium here on Tuesday. While Kanchipuram and Guntur had seven and six and a half points each respectively, Tenali lay in third position with six.

The results: Guntur 6.5 bt Vijayawada 5.5 (2.5-1.5) (G.V. Srinivas bt J. Malleswara Rao, B.R.Ch. Murthy lost to Ch.K. Krishna, K.S. Srikar drew with M.S. Rao, S. Tejas Chandra bt Sk. Khasim).

Kanchipuram 7 bt Vijayawada A 4.5 (3.5-0.5) (T. Krishnan bt M.R. Lalith Babu, S. Arul drew with B. Kranthi Kumar, S. Krishnan bt P.S. Sai Sasank, A. Sankar bt L. Mahendra Venkat).

Tenali 6 bt Eluru 4.5 (3-1) (K.N. Gopal drew with D. Laxman Rao, T. Gowtham bt J. Srinivas Babu, Ch. Rajkumar bt S. Durgaprasad, C.R.G. Krishnan drew with S. Raviteja).

Hyderabad 5.5 bt Vizianagaram 4 (2.5-1.5) (J. Ramakrishna bt M. Vinay Kumar, P. Praveen bt G.M. Kiran, M.V. Ramdas lost to Mehar Chenna Reddy, V. Kameswara Rao drew with G.V. Sai Krishna).

Machilipatnam 4 bt Anantapur 2.5 (3-1) (D.A.S. Sarma bt P. Prasad, M.V. Subramaniam bt Tejeswini Reddy, P. Sambamurthy bt Chandana Priya Reddy, A. Ramakrishna lost to G. Krishna Reddy).

Tirupathi 3.5 bt Khammam 2 (3-1) (T.V.R. Vijayaraghavan bt Shaikh Saidulu, Aditya Vikas drew with V.K. Agarwal, Nayudamma Chowdary bt K. Phanibhushan, P. Bharath drew with Ch. Sai Aditya).

Visakhapatnam 1.5 lost to Rajahmundry 3 (1-3) (G. Rajeswara Rao lost to Y. Kalyan Kumar, K.V.K. Karthik lost to P. Prabhu Kiran, P. Hemanth Kumar lost to Rajesh, P. Kanakaraju bt L. Sai Anurag).

Gudur 1 lost to Podalakur 3 (1-3) (Shaikh Abdul Azeez lost to G. Harikrishnaiah, K. Rajesh lost to B. Manoj Reddy, Ch. Naresh bt B.V. Subbaiah, M. Koteswara Rao lost to M. Nitin).

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