Seven players are leading jointly after round four

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Kolkata, Oct 7 (UNI) The two-day nine round Rapid Chess Tournament being organsied by Alekhine Chess Club began at Gorky Sadan this afternoon.

Altogether 210 players including WGM Nisha Mohita, IM Saptarshi Roy, IM Suvrajit Saham IM Sankar Roy, Somak Palit, Arindam Mukherjee, Arghyadip Das, Ananda Ghosh, Kunal Chatterjee, Saheli Nath and others are taking part in the event with 61 rated players and 30 female players.

At the end of today's 4rounds games, the following players are leading with 4 points : Saptarshi roy, Arghyadip Das, Sankar Roy, Ananda Ghosh, Swapan Mitra and Anirban Guha Roy and Soumik Palit.

The following players are in the second rank with 31/2 points each: Suvrajit Saha, Debaditya Sinha Biswas, Kenneth Sinha, Nisha Mohota, Joydeep Dutta, Sanjeeb Dutta, Mohona Sengupta, Saheli Nath, Raj Sen, Dilip Das and a few others.

The tourney is being organised in memory of Parimal Mukherjee, former Treasurer of the club. The total prize fund is Rs 50,000 with rolling trophy in the name of Mukherjee for the winner and several other age group prizes.

The club also announced a tournament calender which includes The Telegraph Schools Chess Championship, Rating Chess Championship, All Bengal Open Chess, International Grandmster Open Chess Tournament, Intra Alekhine Chess, etc from November 06 to March 07.

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