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Ratnakaran, Poobesh among leaders

By Our Sports Reporter

KOCHI, MAY 4. With a boating trip planned for the afternoon, former Asian junior bronze medallist K. Ratnakaran settled for a quick 14-move draw against International Master Poobesh Anand in the sixth round of the second B.C.Cochin all-India FIDE-rated chess tournament at the Indira Nagar YMCA here on Tuesday.

Despite the top-board draw, Kerala's sixth-seeded Ratnakaran and Tamil Nadu's fifth-seeded Poobesh Anand were among the four leaders today. Kerala's experienced M.B.Muraleedharan and O.T.Anilkumar were the others in the top pack in the nine-round event.

The results (Sixth round): K.Ratnakaran (Ker, 5.5 pts) drew with Poobesh Anand (TN, 5.5); M.B.Muraleedharan (BC Cochin, Ker, 5.5) drew with Y.Syed Anwar Shazuli (TN, 5); O.T.Anilkumar (Ker, 5.5) bt Arindam Mukherjee (WB, 4); Akshat Khamparia (MP, 4) lost to Himanshu Sharma (Hary, 5); D.V.Prasad (Karn, 5) bt S.C.Subramanian (Rly-TN, 4); Y.G.Vijendra (Karn, 4) lost to Varghese Koshy (ONGC-TN, 5); V.Saravanan (BPCL-TN, 5) bt Vivek Nambiar (Karn, 4); G.N.Gopal (Ker, 5) bt M.A.Joy Lazar (Ker, 4); S.P.Sethuraman (TN, 4) lost to K.Gunasekharan (ICF-TN, 5); Sriram Sarja (Karn, 5) bt Alex Thomas (Ker, 4); Thakur Akash (Mah, 4.5) drew with Aswin Jayaram (TN, 4.5); P. Maheshwaran (TN, 5) bt C.Natarajan (TN, 4); D. Sai Srinivas (AP, 4.5) drew with N.Santhosh Kumar (Ker, 4.5); R.Muralidharan (TN, 4) lost to U.C.Mohananan (Ker, 5); M.Vinoth Kumar (TN, 4.5) drew with Deric Pinto (Karn, 4.5); M.Rahul Manohar (3.5) lost to S.Mari Arul (4.5); K.R.Madhusoodanan (3.5) lost to B.S.Shivananda (4.5); Nimmy A.George (4) drew with T.J.Suresh Kumar (4); C.Delphin (3.5) lost to K.Vijay Keerthi (4.5), S. Sudhir (4.5) bt Naveen Hegde (3.5); T.R.Shanmuganathan (3.5) bt S.Ravichandran (3.5); P.Balaji (4) drew with Nitesh Bhat (4); Binju Oommen (3.5) lost to K.V. Anilkumar (4.5); R.P. Senthilkumar (4.5) bt K.Lakshmi Narayanan (3.5).

Fifth round: Poobesh Anand bt G.N.Gopal; Alex Thomas lost to K.Ratnakaran; C.Natarajan lost to M.B.Muraleedharan; V.Koshy drew with O.T.Anilkumar; Vijendra drew with D.V.Prasad; K.Gunasekharan drew with A.Khamparia; Syed Anwar Shazuli bt Binju Oommen; M.A.Joy Lazar drew with Sai Srinivas; Vinoth Kumar drew with P.Maheshwaran; Himanshu Sharma bt Cholae Vikrant.

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