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Ashwath bags title

KARUR: R. Ashwath of Chennai won the title with nine points in the second R. Ramasamy Gounder memorial FIDE-rating open chess tournament, conducted by the Karur District Chess Association, here on Wednesday.

It's two in a row for Ashwath as he had won the LA Group FIDE-rating tournament in Coimbatore last week. S. Nitin of Salem and K. Rathnakaran of Southern Railway finished second and third respectively.

Important results: 11th round: R. Ashwath (Chennai) 9 drew with K. Rathnakaran (Southern Railway) 8.5; S. Nitin (Salem) 8.5 drew with M. Vinoth Kumar (Chennai) 8.5; R. Balasubramanian (ICF) 8 drew with Dustagir Ibrahim (Madurai) 8; Vishnu Prasanna (Chennai) 8 drew with Karthikeyan (Chennai) 8; M.B. Muralidharan (Kerala) 8 bt Pounraj (Coimbatore) 7; Phoobalan (Coimbatore) 8 bt Saravanakrishnan (Kancheepuram) 7; Sachin (Kerala) 7 lost to Premnath (Kancheepuram) 8; Arun (Chennai) 7 drew with Shyam Nikhil (Madurai) 7; Ram S. Krishnan (BSNL) 7.5 bt Lakshminarayanan (Kodaikanal) 6.5; O.T. Anil Kumar (Kerala) 7.5 bt Ganesh Babu (Madurai) 6.5; Shankar (Southern Railway) 7.5 bt Senthil Kumar (Madurai) 6.5; Ajay Srikanth (Chennai) 7.5 bt Babu (Chennai) 6.5; Lokesh (Hosur) 7.5 bt S.A. Kannan (Sivaganga) 6.5; Alaguraja (Madurai) 7.5 bt Linda Rengarajan (Puducherry) 6.5; Athavan (Sri Lanka) 7.5 bt M.J. Noohu (Chennai) 6.

Final standings: 1. R. Ashwath (9), 2. S. Nitin (8.5), 3. K. Ratnakaran (8.5), 4. M. Vinoth Kumar (8.5), 5. R. Premnath (8), 6. Dustagir Ibrahim (8), 7. M.B. Muralidharan (8), 8. R. Balasubramanian (8), 9. Karthikeyan (8), 10. S. Mariarul (8).

Selection trials

The Coimbatore District Chess Association will conduct a selection trial tournament at the SRS Kalyana Mandapam on Kalangal Road in Sulur on May 14 and 15. The top four finishers will represent the District in State senior championship in Kodaikanal from May 23 to 30. Contact 9842119960 or 9363247386 for details.

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