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Shazuli wins title

Chennai: Syed Anwar Shazuli, 28, of Integral Coach Factory, Chennai won the 19th all-India railway chess championship that concluded at the ICF Stadium on Monday.

The final round saw a double blow for Western Railway as both its overnight leaders, Vikramaditya Kamble and G. Balaji suffered defeats on the top two boards. This allowed four other players to tie for the first place on seven points.

The tie-break scores favoured the two ICF players. Shazuli, who beat Vikramjit Singh (SCR) won the title on better tie-break while his ICF teammate K. Gunasekaran finished second having beaten Kamble.

S. Railway wins

Earlier in the team championship, top seed Southern Railway won the title with 14.5 points from five rounds. The star of the winning team was Umakant Sharma who scored 4.5/5 on the second board. Other members of the winning team were K. Ratnakaran, B.T. Muralikrishnan, Preetham Sharma and S. Mari Arul.

One hundred players took part in the individual event and 18 teams played in the team competition.

The prizes were given away by Dr. P. Raja Gounden, General Manager, ICF.

Final placings:

Individual (tie-break order): 1-4. Syed Anwar Shazuli, K. Gunasekaran (both ICF), Gurpreet Pal Singh (NR), Ram Prakash (NR) 7/9 each; 5-7 V.R. Kamble, G. Balaji (both WR), Umakant Sharma (SR) 6.5 each; 8-15 Vikramjit Singh (SCR), K. Ratnakaran (SR), Shashikant Kutwal (WR), Pankaj Joshi (WR), J. Ramakrishna (SCR), Preetham Sharma (SR), Amardeep Bartakke (WR), Biswajit Chatterjee (SER) 6 each.

Team: 1. Southern Railway 14.5/20, 2. North 14, 3. East 13.5, 4. South Central 13.5, 5. ICF 13, 6. West 12.5.

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