4 emerge Joint leaders in All India Chess Tournament

Kozhikode, Sep 6 (UNI) E P Nirmal of Kerala Debhasish Mukherjee of West Bengal and M R Venkatesh and P Phoowalan of Tamil Nadu emerged joint leaders with four points each in the fourth round of S K Pottekkat FIDE-rated All India Open Chess Tournament-2008 here today.

Results: Venkatesh M R (TN) four bt Laxmi Narayanan M V (Kerala) three, Debhasish Mukherjee (WB) four bt Nitin S (TN) three, Ganesh Babu S (TN) drew with Ram S Krishnan (TN) 3.5, Phoowalan P (TN) four bt Subramanian (TN) three, Majumdar Sankar (WB) three lost to E P Nirmal (Kerala) four Praveen Kumar C (TN) 3.5 bt Sarbajit Adhikari (WB) 2.5, Madhusoodanan K R (Kerala) drew with Joy Lazar M A (Kerala) three, Manoj M C (Kerala) drew with Abdul Majeed N (Kerala) three, Mohammed Dilshad (Kerala) two lost to Santu Mondal (WB) three, Anil Kumar O T (Kerala) three bt Joushith K (Ker) two.

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