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Sunday, Jul 18, 2004

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Arun Karthik, Maheshwaran in limelight

By Arvind Aaron

CHENNAI, JULY 17. Arun Karthik, a 9th standard student, had IM Poobesh Anand on the grill before letting him off with a draw, after 51 moves, in the third round of the 4th Adyar Times FIDE rating chess tournament here on Saturday.

Arun was not disappointed as he had drawn with his second IM in his career, after Sudhakar Babu in another tournament.

P. Maheswaran fought hard and long, despite time trouble, to split the point with top seed and National junior champion M.R. Venkatesh on the top board. The first year student from Sivakasi came up with the draw that was first rejected by Venkatesh and then later by the arbiter.

Nine players are in the lead with maximum three points and it includes National lightning champion, R.R. Laxman, who trounced P. Priya in 40 moves after making a positional rook for knight sacrifice.

The results:

Third round: P. Maheswaran 2.5 drew M.R. Venkatesh 2.5, R.R. Laxman 3 bt P. Priya 2, R. Arun Karthik 2.5 drew Poobesh Anand 2.5, N. Sudhakar Babu 3 bt T.U. Navin Kanna 2, R. Rajesh 2 lost to Joerg Schwalfenberg 3, M.B. Muralidharan 3 bt R. Ashwath 2, R. Uttam Sharma 2 lost to C. Praveen Kumar 3, R. Siddarth 2.5 drew C. Siva Kumar 2.5, B. Adhiban 2 lost to Ram S Krishnan 3, V. Hariharan 2.5 drew M. Shyam Sundar 2.5, H. Nilavoli 2.5 drew G. Dinesh Kumar 2.5, O.T. Anil Kumar 3 bt B. Anu Deep 2, Muthu Alagappan 2 lost to K.V. Shantharam 3, S. Sandeep 2 lost to S.P. Sethuraman 3, R. Vijayraj 2 lost to M. Kunal 3, M. Vinoth Kumar 2.5 bt Arshad Subhani 1.5, V. Hari Balu 2.5 bt R. Ashok Kumar 1.5, R.K. Athavan 1.5 lost to V. Raghavendra 2.5, J. Deepak Kumar 1.5 lost to P. Siva Sankari 2.5, K. Narayanan 2.5 bt Arvind Kumar 1.5.

Second round: M.R. Venkatesh bt Pon N. Kirthika, H. Soumya lost to R.R. Laxman, Poobesh Anand bt S.K. Talwar, Santhos Baala lost to Sudhakar Babu, Joerg Schwalfenberg bt S. Sathyanarayanan, S. Anup Kumar lost to M.B. Muralidharan.

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