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Khumukcham keeps lead

By Our Sports Reporter

KOZHIKODE DEC. 28. Khumukcham Singh of Manipur drew with Prasanna Rao of Maharashtra to maintain his sole lead after the seventh round of the 17th National under-9 chess championship at the Chess India Complex here on Sunday. With two rounds left, he has 6.5 points, half-a-point ahead of Prasanna, L. Sreeharsha of Andhra, Sumit Kumar Banerjee of Orissa and Samrat Ghora of Bengal.

J. Mohana Priya of Tamil Nadu and Priyanka Kumari of Jharkand are leading in the girls' section with 6.5 points each, following their victories over Mohana Sengupta of Bengal and Veena Mounica of Andhra, respectively. In the second place are six players with 5.5 points each — Mohana Sengupta, S. Gayathri and A. Asha Meera of Tamil Nadu, Tejaswini Reddy of Andhra, Rucha Pujari of Maharashtra and Padmini Rout of Orissa.

Important results (seventh round):

Boys: Prasanna Rao (Mah) 6 drew with Khumukcham Singh (Man) 6.5; N. Srinath (TN) 5.5 drew with Sumit Kumar Banerjee (Ori) 6; Samrat Ghorai (Ben) 6 bt Ankit Rajpara (Guj) 5; Fenil Shah (Guj) 5.5 drew with Gundala Madhukiran (AP) 5.5; L. Sreeharsha (AP) 6 bt Sahaj Grover (Del) 4.5; V.A.V. Rajesh (AP) 4.5 lost to Viani Antonio D'Cunha (Kar) 5.5; K. Phanibhushan (AP) 5.5 bt Swarup Dey Sarkar (Ben) 4.5; K. Murali Krishna (AP) 5.5 bt Lalith Abhilash Reddy (AP) 4.5; Chaitanya Prasad (AP) 4.5 lost to Sravn Kumar Dasika (AP) 5.5; Anurag Mhamal (Goa) 5 drew with V. Ramkumar (AP) 5; P. Rathees (TN) 4.5 lost to Kedar Umesh Vaze 5.5; M. Ravi Teja (AP) 5 bt S. Sridev (TN) 4; K. Harsh (AP) 4 lost to Pratik Patil (Mah) 5; C.H. Madhav (AP) 5 bt Megh Patel (Guj) 4; Niraj Saripalli (Goa) 4 lost to Shahab Ahmad Farooqui (UP) 5; P. Lokesh (TN) 4.5 drew with Reshmanth Kolli (AP) 4.5; Y.V.K. Chakravarthy (AP) 5 bt Upase Jaydatta Shivaji (Mah) 4; Saikat Mullick (Ben) 4 lost to Kaushlendra Kumar (Bih) 5; S.S. Anand (TN) 4 lost to S. Darwin (TN) 5; D. Yashas (Kar) 5 bt Natun Dasgupta (Ben) 4; L. Mahindra Venkat (AP) 5 bt Mehar Chinna Reddy (AP) 4; Pratik Roy (Ben) 5 bt K.S. Nirmal Kumar (TN) 4; Anthagiri Vishwanath (AP) 5 bt R. Nagesh (TN) 4; R.S. Chiman Prakash (AP) 4.5 drew with A. Thridev (AP) 4.5; S. Mohammad Nishadh (Ker) 3.5 lost to M. Vijairam (TN) 5.

Girls: J. Mohana Priya 6.5 bt Mohana Sengupta (Ben) 5.5; Priyanka Kumari (Jha) 6.5 bt Veena Mounica (AP) 5; S. Gayathri (TN) 5.5 drew with Pranali Patil (Mah) 5; J. Ramyasri (AP) 4.5 lost to Rucha Pujari (Mah) 5.5; V. Aishwarya (TN) 4.5 lost to A. Asha Meera (TN) 5.5; Chandana Priya Reddy (AP) 4.5 lost to Tejaswini Reddy (AP) 5.5; Padmini Rout (Ori) 5.5 bt A.R. Priya (AP) 4; J. Janani (TN) 4 lost to J. Saranya (TN) 5; Lipsa Mishra (Ori) 4 lost to K. Vyshali (AP) 5; G. Sirisha (TN) 4 lost to Shaati Majumdar (Ben) 5; Celianne Carvalho (Goa) 4 lost to Teenu Thomas (Ker) 5; R. Varshini (TN) 4.5 drew with Agnihotri Ghosh (Ben) 4.5; K. Srividya (AP) 4 lost to K. Sai Nirupama (AP) 4.5; Srishti J. Shetty 3.5 lost to Sapnita Shinde (Cht) 4.5; P.A. Fahda (Ker) 3.5 lost to Priyanka Somani (Mah) 4.5; J. Vaishnavi (TN) 4.5 bt Sayli Daga (Mah) 3.5; S. Sravya Kirti (Jha) 4.5 bt Vishraja Shrivastava (Mah) 3.5; B. Taraaswani (Pon) 4 bt G. Abinaya (TN) 3; Priyanka Kumari (Bih) 4 bt Pranathi P. Pai (Kar) 3.

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