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Alexander and Ashoka in joint lead

Mysore: Second seeded Spencer Alexander of Tamil Nadu and fourth-seeded N. Ashoka of Karnataka emerged as joint leader's in the men's section with 4.5 points each after five rounds on the second day of the 3rd National Chess Championship for the Hearing Impaired held here on Saturday.

Four other players, M. Shivraj (TN), Shashidhar (Kar), A.T. George (TN) and S. Singadurai (TN) follow the leaders with four points each.

In the women's section Renu Bala of Delhi emerged as the sole leader with four points out of five rounds.

Important results (fifth round):

Men: Fifth round: M. Shivaraj (TN- 4pts.) drew withwith Shashidhar (Kar) 4; B.S. Jayanth Sarathy (Kar) 3.5 lost to Spencer Alexander (TN) 4.5; M. Ashoka (Kar) 4.5 bt Roushan Kumar (Bih) 3; D. Tanveer Ahmed (Kar) 3 lost to A.T. George (TN) 4; Pawan Kumar (Del) 3 lost to S. Singadurai (TN) 4; Prakash Narayan Singh (Bih) 3.5 drew withChandrashekar Prasad (AP) 3.5; I.U. Mahesh Verma (Kar) bt Pankaj Mishra (MP) 2.5; Yogesh Pratap Singh (MP) 2 bt Deepak Swain (Mah) 3; Aravind Bara (Pun) 2 bt Surender Singh (Del) 3; P. Shanmu (TN) bt Rajesh Chauhan (Pun) 2.

Women: Fifth round: Renu Bala (Del) 4 bt Gajalakshmi (TN) 3; Punitha (TN) 2 lost to Sadhana Talwar (Mah) 2.

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