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Tuesday, Oct 19, 2004

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Rajesh, Srinath share lead

NEW DELHI, OCT. 18. The second seed Rajesh Vav (AP) and the eighth seed N. Srinath (TN) recorded sixth-round victories to share the lead with 5.5 points in the boys' section of the Parsvnath National (under-11) chess tournament at the Bapu Samaj Kendra here on Monday.

In the girls' section, Andhra's duo of Lakshmi Sahiti and G. Madanasree, seeded two and four, maintained their winning spree to set up a top-table clash in the seventh round.

The results:

Boys: Sixth round: Bitan Banerjee (4.5) lost to Rajesh Vav (5.5); Fenil Shah (5) drew with S. Ravi Teja (5); Anurag Mhamal (5) drew with K. Priyadarshan (5); N. Srinath (5.5) bt Umang Kaisary (4.5); Debashish Das (5) bt Abhishek Reddy (4); Abhratanu Dutta (5) bt Sahaj Grover (4); Anand Raj (4) lost to Vishal Thakre (5); Vidit Santhosh (5) bt Dhruv Hingorani (4); Gaurav Yadav (4.5) drew with P. Lokesh (4.5); N.R. Saimanivannan (4.5) drew with Samrat Ghorai (4.5); Sanjoy Singh (5) bt Shevin Khosla (4).

Fifth round: Bitan drew with Anurag; Umang drew with Fenil; Rajesh bt B. Ramanth; S. Ravi bt Antonio D'Cunha; K. Priyadarshan bt K. Muralikrishna; Sahaj drew with Debashish; Vijayakanth lost to N. Srinath; P. Lokesh drew with Aditya; Dhruv bt Prasanna Rao; Gaurav bt Tejesh.

Girls: Sixth round: V. Bhavana (5) lost to Lakshmi Sahiti (6); Divyasri (4.5) lost to G. Madanasri (6); Pranali Patil (4) lost to Pallabi Roy (5); Pragati N. Sravani lost to Padmini Raut (5); J. Mohana Priya (5) bt Priyanka Kumar (4); Surabhi Munot (5) bt Bharati Layal (4); Mahasweta Kumar (4) lost to C.H. Savetha (5); B. Taraswinee (3.5) lost to Anjana Krishna (4.5); D. Madhu (3.5) lost to B. Prathyusha (4.5); Shristi Shetty drew with Pavithra Jagtap (3.5); Neha Patkar (3) lost to Kiruba Arasu (4); Priya Sandhya (4) bt Akshatha Bhat (3).

Fifth round: Lakshmi Sahiti bt Pranali Patil; Madanasree bt J. Mohana Priya; Anjana lost to V. Bhavana; Divyasri bt Shristi; Padmini bt J. Saranya; Priyanka bt Apoorva Dhakaras; Bharathi bt Shikha Shah; C.H. Savetha bt Chaitanya; S. Gayatri lost to Pragati; Sukanya lost to Mahasweta.

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