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Seven leaders promise exciting finish

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NEW DELHI: With a round to go, the presence of seven leaders promised an exciting finish to the second all-India Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee international-rating chess tournament here.

In the 10th and penultimate round on Thursday, J. Venkata Ramana, D.P. Singh and Akash Chopra won their matches to join overnight leaders Himanshu Sharma, Sudhir Kumar Sinha, P. Konguvel and Rahul Sangma in the lead at eight points. Venkata Ramana, rated lowest among the contenders at 2168, surprised 10th seed B.S. Shivanandan, D.P. Singh defeated fellow International Master Anup Deshmukh and Akash overpowered local veteran G.B. Joshi. Himanshu drew with Sinha in a top-board marathon lasting 125 moves.

Konguvel and Sangma signed peace in just 29 moves.

The results (10th round): Himanshu Sharma (8) drew with Sudhir Kumar Sinha (8); P. Konguvel (8) drew with Rahul Sangma (8); T. Purushothaman (7.5) drew with S. Satyapragyan (7.5); J. Venkata Ramana (8) bt B. S. Shivanandan (7); Anup Deshmukh (7) lost to D.P. Singh (8); Akash Thakur (8) bt G.B. Joshi (7); Sankalp Modwal (6.5) lost to Sriram Jha (7.5); Roktim Bandyopadhyay (7) drew with Saurabh Kherdekar (7); Gurpreet Pal Singh (7) drew with Somak Palit (7); Prasenjit Datta (7) drew with Vinay Kumar Matta (7); Atanu Lahiri (7.5) bt Sagar Shah (6.5); Pankaj Joshi (7.5) bt Chinmay Kulkarni (6.5); Abhishek Das (7) drew with Amit Kumar Medda (7); Nassir Wajih (7.5) bt Ankit Rajpara (6.5); V.A.V. Rajesh (7.5) bt Vaibhav Suri (6.5); N. Sudhakar Babu (6.5) drew with Snehal Bhosale (7).

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