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Wednesday, Aug 25, 2004

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Two share lead

MYSORE, AUG. 24. Sixth seed Y.P. Srivatsava (Bihar) and second seed R.K. Mishra (MP) with 5.5 points each shared the lead at the end of the sixth round in the 19th All India Postal chess tournament (Individual championship) for men here on Tuesday.

The results:

Chess (sixth round): Y.P. Srivatsava (Bih-5.5) drew with Kunal (Bih-5); R.K. Mishra (MP-5.5) bt Yogesh Gore (CG-4); Rajeev Vasudev (Del-4) lost to A.L. Kasi (TN-5); M.S. Siddiqui (U.P.-4) lost to M.K. Panigrahi (Orissa-5); D.D. Jani (Guj-4) lost to B.K. Sahoo (Orissa-5); Senthil Kumar (TN-4) lost to T.V.V. Upadhyaya (Kar-5); Karthik Dhansena (Orissa-4) lost to M.Muthukumar (TN-4); G.V. Ramana (AP-3.5) lost to Ravishankar Shukla (U.P.-4.5); Dibakar Pradhan (Orissa-3.5) lost to Ajay Bafna (MP-4.5); Narasima Garadi (Kar-4) bt Rajender Khachi (HP-3).Carrom: Singles: Semi-finals: J.P. Dass (MP) bt V.S. Vijayakumar (Kar) 25-21, 25-19; V.S. Reddy (MP) bt J.N. Shyamsundar (Kar) 25-9, 5-25, 25-19.

Carrom (quarterfinals): J.P. Dass (MP) bt Gautham Mitra (WB) 25-0, 25-21; V.S. Vujayakumar (Kar) bt K. Purushothaman (TN) 25-21, 25-17; V.S. Reddy (MP) bt Devakumar (TN) 25-0, 25-21; J.N. Shyamsundar (Kar) bt G. Prabhakar Rao (AP) 25-3, 25-0.

Doubles (semifinals): J.P. Dass & V.S. Reddy (MP) bt J.K. Mohapatra & J.K. Routray (Orissa) 25-24, 25-8; J.N. Shyamsundar & V. Subramani (Kar) bt G. Devakumar & Purushothaman (TN) 25-21, 25-4.

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