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Four share lead

PUDUKOTTAI: Four players — M.K. Alaguraja, Muthalagappan, Vijayasarathy, Senthil Kannan — with three points each shared the lead in the open category at the end of the third round of the State-level chess tournament, conducted by the Meenakshi Chess Centre, here on Saturday.

Important results: Third round: M.K. Alaguraja (Mdu) 3 bt Muralidharan (Mdu) 2; Muthalagappan (Che) 3 bt Sheikh Dawood (P'kottai) 2; Mohammed Ali Jinnah (P'kottai) 2 lost to Vijayasarathy (Mdu) 3; Senthil Kannan (Mdu) 3 bt Sakthivelpandian (V'nagar) 2; Karthikbabu (Mdu) 2 lost to Sundarrajan (Tiruchi) 2.5.

U-18: Datchayani (Mdu) 2 lost to Praveen Kumar (Than) 3; Yazhini (Tiruchi) 1.5 lost to Bharath Ganesh Kumar (Tiruchi) 2.5; Lakshmikanth (P'kottai) 2.5 bt Kamal Prasad (Than) 1.5; Somasundaram (Slm) 2 bt Nandini (Tiruchi) 1; Mohammed Aribullah (P'kottai) 1 lost to Chandrasekar (P'kottai) 2.

U-14: Aniruddhan (Tiruchi) 3 bt Srikanth (Tiruchi) 2; Karthik Panchanathan (S'ganga) 2.5 drew with Gowri (Tiruchi) 2.5; Manojram (P'kottai) 2 bt Arunram (Kar) 1; Manoj Kumar (P'kottai) 1 lost to Dinesh (P'kottai) 2; Jayaharish (P'kottai) 1 lost to Rampandian (Mdu) 2.

U-12: Gokulakrishnan (Ero) 3 bt Vignesh Nachiappan (S'ganga) 2; Sudhakar (Che) 2 lost to Goutham (Mdu) 3; Sangeetha (Tiruchi) 3 bt Vignesh (P'kottai) 2; Adithyan (P'kottai) 2.5 bt Praveen Kumar (Ero) 1.5; Abishek (Che) 2 bt Hariharan (P'kottai) 1.

U-10: Aravindsamy (Ero) 2 lost to Karthikeyan (K'kumari) 3; Balachander (Than) 2.5 drew with Yogesh (Mdu) 2.5; Akash Srivaths (Che) 2.5 bt Balambika (S'ganga) 1.5; Sivagunal (Than) 2.5 bt Raghunathan (Tiruchi) 1.5; Akilan (Slm) 1 lost to Ramasamy (S'ganga) 2.

U-8: Aravind Chidambaram (Mdu) 2.5 drew with Hashini (Tiruchi) 2.5; Aspaqussain (P'kottai) 2 lost to Sai Viswesh (Che) 3; Dravid (Tiruchi) 2 lost to Sukirthi (Tiruchi) 3; Gurudakshinamoorthy (P'kottai) 3 bt Vignesh Bharathi (Kar) 2; Rakshitaa (Cbe) 1 lost to Brinda (Tiruchi) 2. — Sports Reporter

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