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Jha joins Shetty in lead

NEW DELHI: Sriram Jha defeated fellow International Master R. Balasubramanium to join Rahul Shetty in the lead at eight points after nine rounds of the Subroto Mukherjee memorial international rating chess tournament at Subroto Park here on Wednesday.

With two rounds to go, the victorious duo of Prakash Ram and Sriram Sarja followed the leaders at 7.5 points.

In the biggest surprise of the day, Railwayman Nassir Wajih delivered a crushing blow to top seed Deepan Chakkravarthy's recovery act by inflicting a defeat. A third loss this week is sure to dent Deepan's confidence ahead of the National `A' championship beginning at Valsad on December 18.

Similarly, Chennai-based IM Varugeese Koshy's struggle continued after being held by Santosh Sinha.

The results (ninth round): Rahul Shetty (8) drew with Arghyadip Das (7); R. Balasubramanium (6.5) lost to Sriram Jha (8); Sriram Sarja (7.5) bt Harish Sharma (6.5); Vipul Subhashi (6.5) lost to Prakash Ram (7.5); P. Konguvel (7) bt Gurpreet Pal Singh (6.5); Nassir Wajih (7) bt Deepan Chakkravarthy (6); Himanshu Sharma (6.5) drew with Santu Mondal (6.5); N. Sudhakar Babu (7) bt Vivek Bharti (6); Santosh Sinha (7) bt Varugeese Koshy (5.5); Rahul Sangma (6.5) bt Niladri Bhattacharya (5.5); Vinoth Kumar (6.5) bt Rupankar Nath (5.5); Hemant Sharma (5.5) lost to G. B. Joshi (6.5); Kanti Lal Dave (6.5) bt Shankar Majumdar (5.5); Zameer Ahmed Khan (5.5) lost to Mohd. Irshad (6.5); Sudhir Sinha (5.5) lost to Vishnu Prasanna (6.5); Mukesh Mandloi (5.5) lost to Krishan Soni (6.5); H. Venkatesh (5.5) lost to Gajendra Singh (6.5); Sandeep Chitkara (5.5) lost to Prantik roy (6.5); S. L. Sharma (6) drew with K. B. L. Srivastava (6); Ankit Khattar (5.5) lost to Abid Ali (6); Sumit Grover (5.5) drew with Sukhpal Singh (5.5). — Special Correspondent

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