D P Singh leads in Open Chess tourney

Chennai, Aug 3 (UNI) Divakar Pratap Singh of Jharkand was leading the table with 7.5 points after eighth round of Adyar Times Fide-rated Open Chess Tournament today.

Unbeaten so far, D P Singh had no difficulty in defeating O T Anil Kumar of Kerala in a Queens Indian Defence games.

In another game, Sagar Sha of Maharashtra and Ram S Krishnan of Tamil Nadu drew their game after a long battle.

Sudhakar Babu of Indian Bank had a tough time with Haribalu pf Tamilnadu, a student of St Joseph Engineering College. They both settled for draw after exchanging some of the pieces.

Results: Round 8: Singh D.P of Jharkand (7.5) beat Anilkumar O T of Kerala (6) Sagar Sha of Maharashtra (7) drew with Ram S Krishna of TN (7) Babu N Sudhakar of Indian Bank (6) drew with Haribalu V of TN (6) Das Debashis of Orissa(5.5) lost to Arun Karthik R of TN (6.5) Narayanan K of TN (6) drew with Hariharan, Venkatachalam of Indian Bank (6) Laxman R R of TN (6) beat Jayakumar P of TN (5) Gopalakrishnan of Indian Bank (5.5) drew with Murugan Krishnamoorthy of NLC (5.5) Surendran N of TN (5) lost to Shanmugam of Indian Oil (6) Shyam Nikhil of TN (6) beat Ranga KN of TN (5) Nanda Kumar T.S of TN (5) lost to Shantharam K V of Indian Bank (6) UNI XR KVV DH HT1637