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Wednesday, Oct 06, 2004

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Three players share lead

VISAKHAPATNAM, OCT. 5. Three players — B. Ramana Babu, B. Samuel Kumar and A.V.S. Vijaykumar shared the lead with 5.5 points after the sixth round of the DRM Gold Medal State open chess tournament here on Tuesday.

Abhishek Reddy was the sole leader in the under-12 event.

Important results (sixth round): B. Samuel Kumar (5.5) drew with A.V.S. Vijaykumar (5.5), P.V. Rama Raju (5) drew with Viswanadh Sandilya (5), P. Srikanth (4) lost to B. Ramana Babu (5.5), Ch. Shankara Narayana (4) lost to P. Ramakrishna (5), B.V. Chakrapani (5) bt G. Chiranjeevi (4), Prabodh Mishra (5) bt K. Prasad Das (4), M.J.N. Shankar (4) lost to K. Suribabu (5), A.V.N. Patnaik (4) lost to M. Nookaraju (5), P. Suresh (4.5) bt B. Ravikumar (4), J.N. Raju (4.5) bt K. Maheswara Rao (3.5), T.K. Chaitanya (4.5) bt P. Vamsikrishna (3.5), G. Rajeswara Rao (4) bt K. Subba Rao (3), J. Padmaraju (3) lost V. Trinadh (4), G.V.S. Ranganadham (4) bt K. Umashankara Rao (3), M. Damodar Dev (2) lost to N. Srinivasa Rao (4).

Under-12 (sixth round):

K.V. Pankaj Lahari (4.5) lost to Ch. Abhishek Reddy (6), Y.G. Sri Harika (4) lost to Y.A. Paul (5.5), N.L.V. Anusha (4) lost to P.V.S.M. Pravinkumar (5), G. Aiswarya (5) bt N.V.R. Ganesh (4), B. Pratyusha (4) lost to P. Hemanth Kumar (5), M. Ramakrishna (5) bt K.R.S. Kishore (3.5), K. Aravind Praveen (3.5) lost to K. Ramteja (4), Harshavardhan (3) lost to M.V. Tejaswi Nagesh (4), Sriram (4) bt G.V. Haripriya (3), Uday Sai (3) lost to Nani Suresh (4).