Top seeds continue winning spree

Kozhikode, Sept 19 (UNI) Top seed D P Singh of Jharkhand, second seed K Rantnakaran of Southern Railway and third seed R R Laxman of Tamil Nadu continued their winning spree with two points each in the second round of the first International Fide-rated Open Chess championship here today.

While Singh, who represented India at the last Olympic in Italy, defeat Vijay Kumar (TN), Ratnakaran outwitted P S Ameer (Kerala) Laxman beat Bindu C Sartha (LIC) in a spirited game held at V K Krishna Menon Indoor Stadium.

Important results (second round): D P Singh (Jha) bt Vijay Kumar (TN), Ameer P S (Ker) lost to K Ratnakaran (SR), RR Laxman (TN) bt Bindu K Saritha (LIC), Gireesh K Koushle (Kar) lost to G N Gopal (Ker), O T Anil Kumar bt (Ker) bt Nithin Prem (Ker), Mohd Fawaz (ker) lost to M B Muraleedharan (Ker), Ram S. Krishana (Tn) bt Rajiv V M (Ker), J Shaji Issac (Ker) lost to Kumar (Ker), E P Nirmal (Ker) bt Arjun P K (Ker), J B Vigneshwara (AP) lost to V K Mohanan (Ker).

With this winners and losers scored two and one points, respectively.

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