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Sethuraman in sole lead

Arvind Aaron

Chennai: International Master and top seed S.P. Sethuraman of Chennai wrested sole lead after eight rounds in the Canara Bank National sub-junior chess championships being played here on Sunday.

Sethuraman showed his class with aggressive rook moves on the king side mixed with some classy manoeuvres with his knight to tie up M.R. Lalith Babu of Andhra before defeating him with the black pieces in an English opening.

Sethuraman leads the 150-player boys group with seven points. K. Priyadarshan of Madurai is in joint second place with 6.5 points. Priyadarshan sacrificed pawns and trapped the queen of higher rated IM norm holder Aditya Udeshi of Mumbai to win.

Niji in joint lead

A. Niji of Kerala joined leaders Shalmali Gagare (Mah) and Pon N. Krithikha (TN) with an impressive win over higher-rated Anusha (AP) in the girl’s section.

Niji comes from Kozhikode and is trained by Kerala champion O.T. Anilkumar. All three leaders have 6.5 points from eight rounds. Three rounds are still to be played.

The results: Boys (round eight): Lalith Babu (AP) 6 lost to S.P. Sethuraman (TN) 7; B. Adhiban (TN) 6 drew with Viani D’Cunha (Kar) 6; K. Priyadarshan (TN) 6.5 bt Aditya Udeshi (Mah) 5.5; Prasanna Rao (Mah) 6 drew with Shyam Sundar (TN) 6; Harihara Sudan (TN) 5.5 lost to S. Nitin (TN) 6.5; Gusain Himal (Cha) 5 lost to Swayams Mishra (Ori) 6; Shantani Simlai (Ben) 5 lost to N. Surendran (TN) 6; Fenil Shah (Guj) 5.5 drew with Satyajit Kundu (Ben) 5.5.

Round seven: Sethuraman bt Fenil; Aditya drew with Adhiban; Nitin lost to Lalith Babu; Shyam Sundar bt Abhratanu Dutta; N. Niranjan lost to Priyadarshan; Girish Koushik lost to Prasanna Rao.

Girls (round eight): Pallabi Roy (Ben) 6 drew with Pon N. Krithikha (TN) 6.5; Shalmali Gagare (Mah) 6.5 drew with Devangi Patankar (Mah) 6; A. Niji (Ker) 6.5 bt N. Anusha (AP) 5.5; R. Bharathi (TN) 6 bt J. Vaishnavi (TN) 5; A. Akshaya (TN) 5.5 drew with Mohana Priya (TN) 5.5; Sai Nirupama (AP) 5 lost to M. Jagadambal (TN) 6; M. Khushboo (TN) 5.5 drew with Shristi Shetty (Kar) 5.5.

Round seven: Anusha drew with Shalmali; Krithikha bt Khushboo; Niji drew with Devangi; Pallabi bt Sai Nirupama; Mohana Priya bt Shaati Majumder.

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