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Saturday, Oct 30, 2004

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Pradeep holds Himanshu

VIJAYAWADA, OCT. 29. Reigning runner-up Himanshu Sharma was held to a draw by Pradeep Arora, while eighth-seeded M. Vinoth Kumar lost to Amit Sharma in the opening round of the National youth (under 25) chess championships at the Chenupati Ramakotaiah Kreeda Pranganam here on Friday.

The results (first round): Lakshmi Narayanan G. lost to R. R. Laxman 1, Himanshu Sharma 0.5 drew with Pradeep Arora 0.5, Muthu Alagappan M. lost to Preetham Sharma 1, G. Balaji 1 bt Mahendra Venkat, Ravindra Raju Ch. gave w/o to Vinod Kumar Sharma 1, Ram S. Krishnan 1 bt N. Pragna, Aditya Vikas lost to Vikas Sharma 1, M. Vinoth Kumar lost to Amit Sharma 1, Ram Mohan Reddy lost to Jaiswal Puneet 1, Sudhir Kumar Sinha 1 w/o from Umakanth Sarma, Ram Kumar V. lost to T. Purushothaman T. 1, Vipal Subhashi drew 0.5 with S. Satyanarayanan 0.5, Amit Kumar Gupta lost to P.V.V. Seshu 1, V. Somesh 1 bt Bhushan Shriwas, Vijay Birajdar lost to T.R. Shanmudganathan 1, Biswajit chatterjee 1 bt Nitin, Amogh S.N. Namshiker lost J.K. Raju 1, M. Vinay Kumar 1 bt Bipin Kumar Singh, Vijeet D. Deliwala lost to R. Ashwath 1, Lalit Babu M.R. bt Durai Balaji, Kamilesh S. Mutha lost to Koneru Chandrahawsa 1, Rupankar Nath 1 bt Kapil Dev, M. Kathiravan lost to K. Prasanna 1, Govind Kumar 1 bt Kaushik Das, Sanjeev Kumar lost to Soham Das 1, Aniket Pawashe 0.5 drew with Satchidanand Tripathi 0.5, Saurav Sood lost to Viswanath Prasad 1, K. Priya Darshan 1 bt Sayed Rehman Ali, Somasundaram lost to A. Nayak 1, Sujatha S. 1 bt Sri Saktivel Murugan C, Prabhav S. Trivedi lost to Debashis Das 1, Shyam Sundar M. 1 bt Uday Kumar K. — Our Special Correspondent