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Venkata Ramana shocks Jha

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NEW DELHI: Lowly-rated J. Venkata Ramana created a flutter by upsetting top seed Sriram Jha and holding former National ‘A’ player G.B. Joshi in successive rounds of the second all-India Air Marshal Subroto Mukherjee international rating chess tournament here on Sunday.

After four rounds, second seed Himanshu Sharma, fellow International Masters S. Satyapragyan and Saptarshi Roy, along with seasoned campaigner from Karnataka, B.S. Shivanandan, J. Ramakrishna and P. Praveen Prasad, shared the lead with four points.

The results: Fourth round: Himanshu Sharma (4) bt Puneet Jaiswal (3); V.A.V. Rajesh (3) lost to S. Satyapragyan (4); Gurpreet Pal Singh (3) lost to Saptarshi Roy (4); B.S. Shivanandan (4) bt Chinmay Kulkarni (3); Atanu Lahiri (3.5) drew with Vivek Shukla (3.5); Santosh Sinha (3.5) drew with D.P. Singh (3.5).

J. Ramakrishna (4) bt K.V. Shantharam (3); J. Venkata Ramana (3.5) drew with G.B. Joshi (3.5); Nassir Wajih (3.5) drew with Manav Saxena (3.5); P. Praveen Prasad (4) bt Rishi Thariani (3).

Sameer Kathmale (3) lost to Rahul Sangma (3.5); Roktim Bandyopadhyay (3.5) bt O.T. Anil Kumar (2.5); P. Konguvel (3.5) bt Manish Joshi (2.5); R. Upadhayay (2.5) lost to Somak Palit (3.5); Rupankar Nath (3) drew with Prasenjit Datta (3); Rahul Shetty (3.5) bt Harish Sharma.

Third round: Sriram Jha lost to J. Venkata Ramana; S.C. Bharathi lost to Himanshu; Satyapragyan bt Amrutha Mokal; Manish drew with Bandyopadhay; Saptarshi bt G.V. Sai Krishna; Anil Kumar drew with Konguvel; Ankit Rajpara lost to Shivanandan; Upadhayay drew with Shetty; Ram Prakash drew with Rupankar Nath; Sankalp Modwal lost to Lahiri; D.P. Singh bt V. Raghavendra.

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