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Arul gained vital control of the d5 square on the 17th move, placing his knight in the centre of the board. Three moves later, he offered a pawn and held out threat of a knight fork on the e7 square, which Prasad fell prey to, costing the latter a rook for knight and pawn. Following an exchange of queens on the 27th, black's position had weakened considerably. In a rook versus knight and pawn ending white played Rf7 on the 46th by oversight. Black did not capitalise on this, thus letting Arul off the hook. That was all Arul, the highest rated player in the event, needed to clinch the issue. On the third board, J. Ramakrishna of South Central Railway opened with king's gambit, to which Sankar Roy responded with a Falkbeer counter gambit. The former sacrificed two pawns for attack and gained the upper hand after the 10th move. On the 23rd, Ramakrishna opted for Qc7 instead of h4, a tantalising move that gave black scope to counter attack and wrap up the contest. On table 10, the game between D. Lakshman Rao (white) and T. Purushothaman went into Sicilian defence C3 variation. Black opened the d file on the 11th and controlled it two moves later by playing Rad8. Black offered the g6 pawn to open the g file on the 21st, which white wrongly accepted. Resorting to Rg6 five moves later, black took charge by arraigning his pieces against white's castled king. On the 30th, black conceded his rook for pawn, leaving the white king exposed. Three moves hence, black seized white's queen for two rooks. Four pawns too good, Purushothaman decided the issue in his favour on the 57th. The results (fifth round): Mari Arul S. 4.5 bt Praveen Prasad 4, K.N. Gopal 4.5 bt V. Raghavendra 3.5, J. Ramakrishna 3 lost to Sankar Roy 4.5, Y. Kalyan Kumar 3 lost to B.T. Murali Krishnan 4, Revanth Gopala Krishna 3.5 drew with Debashish Mukherjee 3.5, M.M. Eugene 3.5 drew with G.V. Srinivasa Rao 3.5, S. Raghavendra 3.5 drew with J. Malleswara Rao 3.5, Rm. S. Krishnan 3.5 bt Matta Vinay Kumar 2.5, K.S. Srikar 2.5 lost to A. Shankar 2.5, D. Lakshman Rao 2.5 lost to T. Purushothaman 3.5, Raj Kumar 2.5 lost to M.R. Lalith Babu 3.5, G. Murali Krishna 2.5 lost to S. Tejaschandra 2.5, L. Mahendra Venkat 2.5 drew with M.V. Ramdas 2, T. Gowtham 3 bt A. Ram Krishna 2, Mehar Chenna Reddy 2 lost to Sk. Khasim 3, K.V.K. Karthik 2 lost to Ravindra Raju 3, Aditya Vikas 3 bt K. Pavan Teja 2, Y. Nayudamma Chowdary 2.5 drew with D.V. Ganesh, T.V.R. Vijaya Raghavan 2.5 drew with Vijay Kumar Agarwal 2.5, K. Vedadri 2.5 bt Chandana Priya Reddy 1.5, P. Sai Sasank 1.5 lost to S. Ravi Teja 1.5, Sk. Saidulu 1.5 lost to V. Ram Kumar 2.5, P. Sambamurthy 1 lost to K. Phani Bhushan 2.5, T. Chetan Mitra 1.5 drew with J. Subrahmanyam 1.5, Ch. Aditya 1 lost to P. Bharat 2, J.M. Siva Prasad 2 bt V. Vijay Bhaskar 1, Ch. Madhav 0.5 drew with Vuyyuru Srinivas 1.
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