Rahul Shetty assumes lead after round 7 in Subroto Memorial chess

New Delhi, Dec 5 (UNI) Rahul Shetty maintained assumed sole lead after the seventh round in the Air Marshall Subroto Mukherjee Memorial All India Open FIDE Rated Chess Tournament here today.

Rahul has seven points in his kittty and breathing down his neck is IM Sriram Jha, who is in second spot with 6.5 points.

Seventh round results: Gupreet Pal Singh(5.5) lost to IM Sriram Sarja(5.5), IM Himanshu Sharma(5) lost to Ram Prakash(5), Vipal Subhashi(5) drew Arghyadip Das(5), SK Sinha(5) lost to IM R Balasubramaniun, IM N Sudhakar Babu(5) drew Santu Mondal(5),Nassir Wajih(5) drew Gajendra Singh(5), Rahul Sangma(4.5) lost to Harish Sharma(5), IM P Konguvel(4.5)drew Soni Krishan(4.5), Sriram Sarja(4.5) beat Avinash Sethi(4.5), Vinoth Kumar(4.5) lost to Majumdar Shankar(4.5), SK Sharma(4.5) beat GB Joshi(4.5), Ankit Khattar(4.5) lost to Md Irshad(4.5), Sudhir Kumar Sinha(4.5) beat Pranjal Phukan(4.5), GM Deepan Chakravarthy(4) beat Manjunath Jain(4), Abhimanyu Poddar(4) lost to IM Dinesh Sharma(4), Dave Kantilal(4) drew Manoj Sharma(4), Sandeep Chitkara(4) drew Debashish Dutta(4).

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