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Eight in joint lead

DINDIGUL, JAN. 16. Eight players including top seed, International Master R.R. Laxman of Chennai, and third seed, IM P. Mithrakanth of NLC, were in joint lead with four points each at the end of the fourth round of the Sri Gopalakrishna Naidu Kaveriammal Memorial Trophy FIDE-rated chess tournament here on Sunday.

Important results (fourth round): Aswin Jayaram (3) lost to R.R. Laxman (4); P. Mithrakanth (4) bt Luxman Wijesuriya (3); P. Maheswaran (3) lost to M. Vinoth Kumar (4); B.T. Murali Krishnan (4) bt K.V.S. Sudhakar (3); S. Venkat Sundaram (3) lost to O.T. Anil Kumar (4); P. Phoobalan (3.5) drew with T.U. Navin Kanna (3.5); C. Delphin (3) lost to Ram S. Krishnan (4); T.J. Suresh Kumar (4) bt V. Raghavendra (3); R. Venkat Raman (3) lost to T.R. Shanmuganathan (4); Y. Prathiba (3.5) bt A.B. Sathish Kumar (3); A. Ravishankar (3) drew with K. Haridas (3); N. Surendran (3) drew with V. Ravichandran (3); S.C. Subramaniam (3) drew with Merryston David Scanny (3); K. Chakravarthi (3) drew with H. Sowmya (3); A.K. Jegadeesh (3.5) bt C.S. Rajesh (2.5); S. Nitin (3.5) bt S.K. Jaishree (2.5); Ramnath Bhuvanesh (3.5) bt D. Krishna (2.5); P. Karthikeyan (3) drew with Pon N. Krithika (3); R. Premnath (3.5) bt Shaik Abdul Azeez (2.5); Aravinda Shastri (3) bt M. Akila (2); G. Apurva (2) lost to M.B. Muralidharan (3); S. Athirai (2.5) drew with N. Ramesh Kumar (2.5); N. Senthil (2.5) drew with P. Akshatha (2.5); Balasubramanian Rajaram (2.5) drew with D. Prabhakaran (2.5); R. Uttam Sharma (3) bt K. Anbazhagan (2).

Third round: R.R. Laxman (3) bt R. Uttam Sharma (2); V. Raghavendra (3) bt Aravinda Shastri (2); M.B. Muralidharan (2) lost to S. Venkat Sundram (3); N. Abdul Majeed (2) lost to P. Mithrakanth (3); M. Vinoth Kumar (3) bt K. Madhusoothanan (2); Manjunath Jain (2) lost to B.T. Murali Krishnan (3); O.T. Anil Kumar (3) bt R. Preethi (2); M. Shyam Sundar (2) lost to P. Phoobalan (3); Ram S. Krishnan (3) bt M. Kunal (2); J. Saravana Kumar (2) lost to T.J. Suresh Kumar (3); T.R. Shanmuganathan (3) bt P. Stanley Samson (2); K. Priyadharsan (2) lost to Aswin Jayaram (3); V. Ravi Chandran (2.5) drew with A. Ravi Shankar (2.5); C.R. Arun Hariharan (2) lost to P. Maheswaran (3); N. Ramesh Kumar (2) lost to C. Delphin (3); H. Sowmya (2.5); drew with S.C. Subramaniam (2.5); Luxman Wijesuriya (3) bt Suneetha Wijesuriya (2); K.V.S. Sudhakar (3) bt Dineth Sunera Silva (2); P.K. Jaishree (2.5) drew with A.K. Jegadesh (2.5); T.U. Navin Kanna (3) bt A. Sithalatchumi (2); C.S. Rajesh (2.5) drew with S. Nitin (2.5); A.B. Sathish Kumar (3) bt N. Senthil (2); D. Prabhakaran (2) lost to R. Venkat Raman (3); Shaik Abdul Azeez (2.5) drew with P. Karthikeyan (2.5); K. Haridas (2.5) bt M. Pankaj Prem (1.5).

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