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Ramana wins title

NEW DELHI: J. Venkata Ramana made history of sorts by becoming one of the lowest-rated players to win an international-rated chess tournament in the country.

Rated 2,148 and seeded a distant 48th in the second all-India Air Marshal Subroto Mukherjee international-rated chess tournament, Ramana topped a field with several International Masters in a close finish on Friday.

In the 11th and final round, Venkata Ramana defeated Sudhir Kumar Sinha to tally nine points.

Akash Thakur, too, had the same number of points, but Ramana was declared the champion on the basis of better tie-break score.

Ramana’s sterling performance, rated at 2,501, has earned him a whopping 64 rating points.

The results: 11th round:

D.P. Singh (8.5) drew with P. Konguvel (8.5), Rahul Sangma (8) lost to Akash Thakur (9); Sudhir Kumar Sinha (8) lost to J. Venkata Ramana (9); Sriram Jha (8) drew with Himanshu Sharma (8.5); S. Satyapragyan (8) drew with Pankaj Joshi (8); V.A.V. Rajesh (8.5) bt Atanu Lahiri (7.5); Nassir Wajih (7.5) lost to T. Purushothman (8.5); Vinay Kumar Matta (7) lost to Roktim Bandyopadhyay (8.5); Saptarshi Roy (7) lost to Anup Deshmukh (8); Somak Palit (8) bt G.V. Sai Krishna (7).

Final standings: 1-2. J. Venkata Ramana, Akash Thakur (9 each), 3-7. Himanshu Sharma, D.P. Singh, P. Konguvel, V.A.V. Rajesh, T. Purushothaman (8.5 each). — Special Correspondent

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