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MANGALORE: Thej Kumar of Karnataka has shot into the sole lead with 8 points from nine rounds in the Mangalore FIDE-rated All-India Open chess tournament 2007 on the penultimate day here on Friday. Thej Kumar, who scored a facile win over Sanjay N (6.5) in the ninth round, is now half-a-point ahead of GM Praveen Thipsay (7.5), who is placed second. With the top two players squaring off in the tenth and final round on Saturday, a draw will suffice for Thej Kumar to clinch the title, while Thipsay has to go all out for a win. Important results: Ninth round: GM Praveen Thipsay M (7.5) bt Sivanandan B. S. (7.5), Thej Kumar M. S. (8) bt Sanjay N. (6.5), IM Saptarshi Roy (7) drew with IM Atanu Lahiri (7), Anurag Jaiswal (7) drew with IM Konguvel Ponnuswamy (7), Murali Krishna B.T . (7) bt Karthikeyan P. (6.5), Pradip Ghosh (6.5) drew with IM Sudhakar N. Babu (6.5), IM Ravi Gopal Hegde (6) lost to Laltu Chatterjee (7), IM R.R. Laxman (7) bt Vinoth Kumar M. (6), Phoobalan P. (6.5) drew with Abdul Majeed N. (6.5) and IM M. Shyam Sundar (6.5) drew with Haribalu V. (6.5). Eighth round: Sivanandan B.S. (7.5) bt IM Saptarshi Roy (6.5), Thej Kumar M. S. (7) drew with Karthikeyan P. (6.5), Sanjay N. (6.5) drew with GM Praveen Thipsay (6.5), IM Konguvel Ponnuswamy (6.5) bt IM Laxman R.R. (6), IM Sudhakar N. Babu (6) drew with Vishnu Prasanna (6), IM Lahiri Atanu (6) bt Rupankar Nath (5.5), Haribalu V. (6) drew with Phoobalan P. (6), Sriram Sarja (5) lost to Anurag Jaiswal (6.5) and Gopalkrishna P. (5) lost to Muralikrishna B.T. (6).
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