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Anil Kumar shocks Deepan

Rakesh Rao

NEW DELHI: Deepan Chakkravarthy was left wondering where he went wrong after the seasoned Kerala campaigner O. T. Anil Kumar employed unorthodox opening and shut out the second seed in the third round of the Parvsnath National `B' chess championship on Thursday.

On a day when heavy rains and newly-installed coolers brought little relief to a field of 294 players reeling in humid conditions at the Bapu Samaj Sewa Kendra, 21 players maintained perfect scores to form the leaders' pack.

Twelve-year-old Parimarjan Negi overpowered the experienced Indian Bank campaigner K. Hariharan, a qualifier in 2003. World under-12 champion N. Srinath defeated Negi's former coach G. B. Joshi in the second round before going down to GM-norm holder Somak Palit.

The results: Third round: N. Sudhakar Babu (2) lost to R.B. Ramesh (3); Deepan Chakkravarthy (2) lost to O.T. Anil Kumar (3); S. Mari Arul (2) lost to B.S. Shivanandan (3); S. C. Sahu (2) lost to P. Konguvel (3); Akash Thakur (2) lost to D. Harika (3); Roktim Bandyopadhyay (3) bt L. Imocha (2); Rishi Pal Singh (2.5) drew with C. S. Gokhale (2.5); Diwakar Prasad Singh (2.5) drew with M.S. Thej Kumar (2.5); Vishal Sareen (3) bt Aswin Jayaram (2); Santosh Kumar Singh (2) lost to K. Rathnakaran (3); P. D.S. Girinath (2.5) drew with Manthan Chokshi (2.5); Vikramaditya Kamble (3) bt Ajay Pandey (2); Chaitanya Vaidya (3) bt Abhijeet Gupta (2); Vinod Kumar Sharma (2) lost to R.R. Laxman (3); Parimarjan Negi (3) bt V. Hariharan (2); N. Sanjay (3) bt M.R. Lalith Babu (2); K. Nikhilesh Kumar (2.5) drew with D. Sai Srinivas (2.5); M.K. Panigrahi (2) lost to Valay Parikh (3); G.N. Gopal (3) bt Ram Prakash (2); N. Srinath (2) lost to Somak Palit (3); Rakesh Ranjan (2.5) drew with N.K. Mishra (2.5); G. Balaji (3) bt Indranil Das (2); Vikramaditya Sahu (2) lost to R. Preetham Sharma (3); B.T. Muralidharan (3) bt Abdul Sahmin (2).

Second round: Ramesh bt Vikas Sharma; Y.P. Srivastava lost to Deepan; Shivanandan bt B. Adhiban; Arghyadip received a walkover from Y. Sandeep; Soumitra Majumdar drew with Deep Sengupta; Konguvel bt Krishan Soni; R. Premnath lost to Mokal; Harika bt V.S. Negi; Praful Mehta lost to Banyopadhyay; Gokhale bt K.V. Shantaram; A.K. Jagadeesh lost to G. Rohit; Thej Kumar bt Ebenezer Joseph; Debashish Chakraborty lost to Sareen; K. Ratnakaran bt S. Nitin; Y. Dhanabir lost to Kamble; Abhijeet Gupta bt Rajesh Upadhayay; Laxman bt Mobin Faruqui; Vipal Subhashi lost to Parimarjan; D. K. Sharma drew with R. Ashwath.

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