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Three in joint lead

Staff Correspondent

MANGALORE: IM Saptarshi Roy (West Bengal) and two Karnataka players B.S. Sivanandan and M.S. Thejkumar are in the joint lead in the Corporation Bank/MRPL-ONGC/Karnataka Bank sponsored Mangalore FIDE-rated All-India Open chess tournament at the end of seventh round here on Thursday. These three are now leading with a score of 6.5/7.

Important results: Seventh round: IM Saptarshi Roy (6.5) bt Saravana Krishnan P. (5.5), Thejkumar M.S. (6.5) bt IM Konguvel Ponnuswamy (5.5), Sivanandan B. S. (6.5) bt Vishnu Prasanna (5.5), GM Praveen Thipsay (6) bt Sriram Sarja (5), Sanjay N. (6) bt Vinoth Kumar M (5), Karthikeyan P. (6) bt Prakash V. Rao (5), IM Atanu Lahiri (5.5) drew with Haribalu V (5.5), IM Laxman R.R. (6) bt Shanmuganathan T.R. (5), IM Sudhakar N. Babu (5.5) bt Ganesh Babu S. (5), Anurag Jaiswal (5.5) bt IM D.P. Singh (4.5). Sixth round: Vishnu Prasanna (5.5) drew with IM Saptarshi Roy (5.5), Sivanandan B.S. (5.5) drew with Thejkumar M.S. (5.5), IM Konguvel Ponnuswamy (5.5) bt Phoobalan P. (4.5), Sanjay N. (5) bt Sai Krishna G. V. (4.5), GM Praveen Thipsay M. (5) bt Nimmy A.G. (4), Shanmuganathan T.R. (5) bt Murali Krishna B.T. (4), IM Lahiri Atanu (5) bt Girish A. Koushik (4), Saravana Krishnan P. (4.5) bt IM Ravi Gopal Hegde (4.5) and IM Sudhakar M. Babu (4.5) drew with Abdul Majeed N. (4.5).