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Muraleedharan and Anilkumar suffer defeats

KOCHI: Kerala's fourth-seeded M.B. Muraleedharan and seventh-seeded O.T. Anilkumar, both former champions here, suffered surprise defeats on Monday in the 18th Cusat Open all-India FIDE-rating chess tournament at the Cochin University's SMS Hall.

But K. Ratnakaran, the runner-up the last two years here, stayed steady and emerged as the lone leader after the fifth round on Monday.

The results (fifth round):

K. Ratnakaran (Ker, 5) bt Syed Anwar Shazuli (ICF, 4), B.T. Muralikrishna (TN, 4.5) drew with T.J. Suresh Kumar (TN, 4.5), N. Sudhakar Babu (TN, 4.5) drew with Swapnil S. Dhopade (Mah, 4.5), Joydeep Dutta (WB, 3.5) lost to Preetham R. Sharma (TN, 4.5), Venkat Sundaram (TN, 4.5) bt M.B. Muraleedharan (Ker, 3.5), N.T. Suresh Kumar (Ker, 3.5) lost to C. Natarajan (ICF, 4.5), Suman Basu (WB, 4) drew with Aswin Jayaram (TN, 4), C. Praveen Kumar (TN, 4.5) bt Santu Mondal (3.5), Atul Kumar (J&K, 3.5) lost to P.Maheswaran (TN, 4.5), K.V. Shantharam (TN, 4) drew with K. Ganesan (TN, 4), O.T. Anilkumar (Ker, 4) bt P. Dharmaraj (TN, 3), P. Phoobalan (TN, 3.5) drew with C.R. Raveendran (Ker, 3.5), M. Natarajan (3) lost to Vinoth Kumar (Ker, 4), U.C. Mohanan (Ker, 3.5) drew with Sumith Balan (Ker, 3.5), K. Dhanasekhar (TN, 3.5) drew with Shyam P. Nikhil (TN, 3.5).

Fourth round: Shyam Nikhil lost to K. Ratnakaran, Joy Lazar lost to B.T. Muralikrishna, M.B. Muraleedharan drew with K.V. Shantharam, Gopal Ashok Rathod lost to Sudhakar Babu, Syed Anwar Shazuli bt Dusthageer Ibrahim, Swapnil Dhorpade bt O.T. Anilkumar, C. Natarajan drew with Suman Basu, T.J. Suresh Kumar bt K. Dhanasekhar, Preetham Sharma bt C. Sachin, Aswin Jayaram bt S. Avinash. — Principal Correspondent

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