The Hindu : Venkatesh shocks Marat

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Sunday, Jan 25, 2004

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Venkatesh shocks Marat

By Our Chess Correspondent

CHENNAI, JAN. 24. National junior chess champion M.R. Venkatesh of Bharat Petroleum shocked grandmaster Marat Dzhumaev of Uzbekistan in the fourth round to share the lead with two others in the 1st Orient Flight School international open chess tournament being played at Hotel President here on Saturday.

Important results (Round four): Sergei Iskusnyh (Rus) 3.5 drew with with Pavel Smirnov (Rus) 3.5, G.B. Prakash 3 lost to Alexandre Fominyh (Rus) 4, Jayant Gokhale 3 lost to R.B. Ramesh 4, Marat Dzhumaev (Uzb) 3 lost to M.R. Venkatesh 4, Georgy Timoshenko (Ukr) 3.5 bt D. Harika 3, Saidali Iuldachev (Uzb) 3.5 bt Ravi Hegde 2.5, Tahir Vakhidov (Uzb) 3 drew with Deep Sengupta 3, N.Das 3.5 bt B.S. Sivanandan 2.5, M. Srinivasa Rao 3 drew with S. Kidambi 3, Saptarshi Roy 3 drew with S. Mari Arul 3, D.V. Prasad 3 drew with B.T. Muralikrishnan 3, Arghyadip Das 2.5 lost to Deepan Chakravarthi 3.5, K. Rathnakaran 3.5 bt Rahul Shetty 2.5, S. Kutwal 3 drew with V. Koshy 3, Valay Parikh 3.5 bt Arindam Mukherjee 2.5, Preetham Sharma 3 drew with D.K. Sharma 3, Vishal Sareen 3.5 bt Arun Prasad 2.5, Manthan Chokshi 2.5 lost to P.D.S. Girinath 3.5, G. Dinesh Kumar 3 drew with Poobesh Anand 3, K. Ramu 2.5 lost to T.S. Ravi 3.5.

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