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Abhijeet, Thej share lead

PATNA DEC. 27. Abhijeet Gupta held Thej Kumar in the fifth round match in the National under-25 chess championship here on Saturday. They jointly lead with 4.5 points each.

Top seed Himanshu Sharma defeated C. J. Arvind for his fourth straight victory. He is now in the joint second spot with Rishi Pal Singh, K. Ratnakaran and K. Ramu.

The results (fifth round): Thej Kumar (4.5) drew with Abhijeet Gupta (4.5); Himanshu Sharma (4) bt C. J. Arvind (3); Syed Anwar (3.5) drew with R. R. Laxman (3.5); Rishi Pal Singh (4) bt Vinoth Kumar (3); Vikas Sharma (3) lost to K. Ratnakaran (4); K. Ramu (4) bt Dhiraj Saxena (2.5); Rakesh Agarwal (3) bt Rupankar Nath (3); Jai Vardhan Sharma (3) drew with Ashutosh Sharma (3); Akash Thakur (3.5) bt Shyamu Sharma (2); Amit Sharma (2.5) drew with Santhosh Kumar (2.5); Saket Kumar (2) lost to S. Nikul (3); Rajesh Kumar (3) bt M. S. Gopa Kumar (2); Yashpal Arora (2) lost to Prem Vardhan (3); Sumit Grover (3) bt Keshav Sharma (2); Ved Prakash Srivastava (2) lost to Bipin Kumar (3).

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