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Khumukcham stuns Srinath

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KOZHIKODE DEC. 27 . Khumukcham Singh of Manipur, seeded a lowly 85th, stunned top seed N. Srinath of Tamil Nadu to take the sole lead with six full points at the end of the sixth round in the 17th National under-9 chess championship at the Chess India Complex here on Saturday.

In the girls' event, J. Mohana Priya of Tamil Nadu, Mohana Sengupta of Bengal and Priyanka Kumari of Jharkand shared the lead with 5.5 points each.

Important results (sixth round): Khumukcham Singh (Man) 6 bt N. Srinath (TN) 5; V. Ramkumar (AP) 4.5 lost to Prasanna Rao (Mah) 5.5; Sumit Kumar Banerjee (Ori) 5.5 bt Chaitanya Prasad (AP) 4.5; Ankit Rajpara (Guj) 5 bt Saikat Mullick (Ben) 4.

Mehar Chinna Reddy (AP) 4 lost to Fenil Shah (Guj) 5; Sahaj Grover (Del) 4.5 drew with V.A.V. Rajesh (AP) 4.5; Gundala Madhukiran (AP) 5 bt Anthagiri Vishwanath (AP) 4; Viani Antonio D'Cunha (Kar) 4.5 drew with K. Murali Krishna (AP) 4.5.

R. Nagesh (TN) 4 lost to Samrath Ghorai (Ben) 5; V.V.K. Chakravarthy (AP) 4 lost to L. Sreeharsha (AP) 5; Lalith Abhilash Reddy (AP) 4.5 bt L. Mahindra Venkat (AP) 4; Kaushlendra Kumar (Bih) 4 drew with M. Ravi Teja (AP) 4; Ajay Srikanth (TN) 3.5 lost to K. Phanibhushan (AP) 4.5, Megh P. Patil (Guj) 4 drew with S.S. Anand (TN) 4; Ankit Dixit (UP) 3.5 lost to P. Ratheesh (TN) 4.5.

Fifth round: Sreenath bt Viani; Prasanna drew with Chaitanya; Khumukcham bt Sahaj; Ravi lost to Ramkumar; Sravan Kumar Dasika (AP) lost to Sumit; Sreeharsha drew with Rajesh; Anurag (Goa) lost to Madhukiran; C.H. Madhav (AP) lost to Ankit; Fenil bt Shahab Ahmad Farooqui (UP); Samrat bt C. Balamurughan (TN).

Girls (sixth round): Tejaswini Reddy (AP) 4.5 lost to J. Mohana Priya (TN) 5.5; Mohana Sengupta (Ben) 5.5 bt Padmini Rout (Ori) 4.5; J. Saranya (TN) 4 lost to Priyanka Kumari (Jha) 5.5; Veena Mounica (AP) 5 bt R. Varshini (TN) 4; A. Asha Meera (TN) 4.5 drew with S. Chandana Priya Reddy (AP) 4.5; K. Srividya (AP) 4 lost to S. Gayathri (TN) 5; K. Sai Nirupama (AP) 3.5 lost to J. Ramyasri (AP) 4.5; Rucha Pujari (Mah) 4.5 bt J. Vaishnavi (TN) 3.5; Priyanka Somani (Mah) 3.5 lost to Pranali Patil (Mah) 4.5.

Y.G. Sreeharika (AP) 3.5 lost to V. Aishwarya (TN) 4.5; A.R. Priya (AP) 4 bt B. Taraaswani (Pon) 4; K. Vyshali (AP) 4 bt B. Prathyusha (AP) 3; Shaati Majumdar (Ben) 4 bt Lenita Mathias 3; Sindhuja (TN) 3 lost to Celianne Carvalho (Goa) 4; Panchali Basu (Ben) 3 lost to G. Sirisha (TN) 4.

Fifth round: Mohana Priya drew with Padmini; Priyanka Kumari drew with Mohana Sengupta; Aishwarya lost to Tejaswini; Priyanka Somani lost to Veena; Sirisha lost to Saranya; Chandana bt Teenu Thomas (Ker); Gayathri bt Akankhsha Gupta (UP); Shaati lost to Srividya; Celianne lost to Asha; Prathyusha lost to Varshini.

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