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Prathamesh in sole lead

Principal Correspondent

DINDIGUL: Prathamesh Mokal would have settled for a draw with former National `A' champion P. Konguvel in the sixth round of the 45th National `B' chess championship at the PSNA College of Engineering and Technology here on Thursday. The Pune lad even proposed a draw after 10 moves, but he was refused and was forced to play. A few hours later, he won the game, his sixth in a row.

Prathamesh thus moved into the sole lead with six points, half-a-point ahead of S.P. Sethuraman, who is in the sole second position. Sethuraman also had a good day, as he drew with fourth seed Sundararajan Kidambi in the morning before turning the table K. Ratnakaran in the sixth round.

Both Prathamesh, who employed Sicilian Defence, and Konguvel were under time pressure on the top board. Black won in 55 moves, riding an excellent bishop pair.

Important results (Sixth round): P. Konguvel 4.5 lost to Prathamesh Mokal 6; S.P. Sethuraman 5.5 bt K. Ratnakaran 4.5; Somak Palit 5 drew with Arjun Tiwari 5; M.R. Venkatesh 4.5 drew with J. Ramakrishna 5; M.S. Thejkumar 4.5 drew with Sundararajan Kidambi 4.5; S. Poobesh Anand 4.5 drew with Rahul Shetty 4.5; Nisha Mohota 5 bt Himanshu Sharma 4; Soman Satchidanand 4.5 drew with Roktim Bandyopadhyay 4.5; B. Adhiban 5 bt Swati Ghate 4; Neeraj Kumar Mishra 4 lost to Vidit Santosh Gujrathi 5; Anup Deshmukh 4 lost to V. Saravanan 5; Akshat Khamparia 5 bt Padmini Rout 4; Vikramaditya Kamble 5 bt Prasanna Rao 4; Prasenjit Datta 4.5 drew with N. Sanjay 4.5; Debashis Das 4.5 drew with T.S. Ravi 4.5; Saptarshi Roy 4 drew with Meghan Gupte 4.5; O.T. Anil Kumar 4 drew with Sriram Jha 4; S. Satyapragyan 4.5 bt Aditya Udeshi 3.5; Ashwin Jayaram 4.5 bt S. Rengarajan 3.5; P. Saravana Krishnan 4.5 bt P.D.S. Girinath 3.5.

Fifth round: Ramakrishna drew with Konguvel; Mokal bt Mishra; Kidambi drew with Sethuraman; Ratnakaran bt Ram Prakash; Tiwari bt Ashwin; R. Balasubramanium lost to Palit; Gujrathi drew with Kamble; Padmini drew with Thejkumar; Shetty drew with Deshmukh; Prasanna drew with Nisha; Satyapragyan drew with Datta; G.B. Joshi lost to Venkatesh; D.P. Singh lost to Satchidanand; Jha drew with R.R. Laxman; Preetham R. Sharma lost to S. Poobesh Anand.

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