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Sandeep, Saheli surge ahead

By Our Sports Reporter

KOZHIKODE, MAY 23. Y. Sandeep maintained his sole lead after the sixth round of the National sub-junior boys' chess championship at the Chess India Complex here on Sunday. After shocking the top seed G.N. Gopal on Saturday, he upset second-seeded T. Abhay in the fifth round earlier in the day.

With three rounds remaining, Sandeep has a remarkable score of six points and leads his nearest rival K. Vijay Keerthi by half-a-point. The day also saw Gopal suffering another unexpected loss, this time to B. Adhiban.

There's a sole leader in the girls' event too, in the form of second seed Saheli Nath, who has 5.5 points, following her victory over top-seeded Soumya Swaminathan. M. Rajadarshini, Kiran Monisha Mohanty and I. Ramya Krishna are in the joint second place with five points each.

Sandeep employed Sicilian Defence against Abhay and was a pawn up in a minor piece ending. White lost on time on the 42nd move. "I think he could've drawn in the ending,"" said Sandeep.

In the afternoon he defeated K.S. Srikar in 56 moves from a London System.

On the girls' top board, Saheli beat Soumya in 49 moves of Sicilian Defence.

Important results (sixth round):

Boys: Y. Sandeep (AP) 6 bt K.S. Srikar (AP) 4.5; Rahul Sangma (Ben) 5 drew with Mary Ann Gomes (Ben) 5; K. Vijay Keerthi (Kar) 5.5 bt S.P. Sethuraman (TN) 4.5; Parimarjan Negi (Del) 5 bt Aswin Jayaram (TN) 4.5; G.N. Gopal (Ker) 4 lost to B. Adhiban (TN) 5; S.A. Kannan (TN) 4 lost to Ved Prakash Sinha (Bih) 5; Saravana Krishnan (TN) 4 lost to V. Somesh (AP) 5; T.V.R. Vijayaraghavan (AP) 4.5 drew with R. Premnath (TN) 4.5; Debaditta Sinha Biswas (Ben) 4 drew with T. Abhay (TN) 4; G.S. Sreejith (Ker) 3.5 lost to D. Sai Srinivas (AP) 4.5; P. Karthikeyan (TB) 3.5 lost to Soumitra B. Mujumdar (Mah) 4.5; R. Ashwath (TN) 4 drew with Naveen Kanna (TN) 4; C.R.G. Krishna (AP) 4 drew with Aditya Udeshi (Mah) 4; A. Tejdeep (AP) 4 drew with Soumya Thakurta (Ben) 4; Suman Basu (Ben) 4.5 bt Bagdi Avi (MP) 3.5.

Girls: Saheli Nath (Ben) 5.5 bt Soumya Swaminathan (Mah) 4.5; M. Rajadarshini (TN) 5 drew with I. Ramya Krishna (AP) 5; Mitali Patil (Mah) 4 lost to Kiran Monisha Mohanty (Ori) 5; H.P. Pallavi Maiya (Kar) 4.5 drew with P.K. Jayashree (TN) 4.5; R.K. Shruke (TN) 4.5 drew with V.K. Sindhu (TN) 4.5; Ketaki Kulkarni (Mah) 4 lost to K. Lakshmi Praneetha (TN) 5; Dhyani Dave (Guj) 4 lost to J. Rajasurya (TN) 5; N. Raghavi (TN) 3.5 lost to P. Lakshmi Sahithi (AP) 4.5; D.S. Manasa Priya (TN) 3.5 lost to P. Sivasankari (TN) 4.5; Bhakti Kulkarni (Goa) 4.5 bt K. Sruthi (Kar) 3.5; Saba Mhate (Mah) 4 drew with H. Sowmya (TN) 4; Pon. N. Krithika (TN) 4.5 bt Jyothirmayee (AP) 3.5; M.S. Nandini (AP) 4.5 bt Meenu Rajendran (Ker) 3.5; C.P. Athira (Ker) 3.5 drew with R. Preethi (TN) 3.5; L. Sudarshana (TN) 4 bt W. Ajilta (Ker) 3.

Important results (fifth round):

Boys: Sethuraman drew with Sangma; Abhay lost to Sandeep; Souvik Chakraborthy lost to Vijay; Srikar bt Krishna; Negi drew with Saravana; Mary bt Debaditta; Aswin bt Sreejith; Gopal bt Suman.

Girls: Soumya drew with Rajadarshini; Sindhu lost to Saheli; Ramya bt Bhakti; Praneetha drew with Shruke; Kiran bt Nandini; Jayashree bt G. Madanashri; S. Harini lost to Ketaki.

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