Salim stops Jayavel, snatches lead in chess tourney
October 8th, 2011 - 7:36 pm ICT by IANSChennai, Oct 8 (IANS) Local schoolboy Osama Salim (Velammal School) scored over leader Mugil Jayavel and led the table with 8.5 points after the ninth round in the United India Insurance-CDCA FIDE rated chess tournament here Saturday.
In a Catalan game, Osama gained the early upper-hand and had Mugil in middle game difficulties. By 30th move, Mugil found himself in an unenviable position and resigned.
Half-a-point behind the leader were Mugil Jayavel and Ramakrishna Perumalla at 8.0 points each. Sharing the fourth spot were Woman FIDE Master Srija Seshadri, M.L. Abhilash Reddy, Hegde Naveen, K. Sai Prahalad and L. Barath respectively.
Meanwhile, top seed FIDE Master Elijah Emojong of Uganda suffered his second defeat when he lost to Andhra’s Ramakrishna Perumalla in the second board.
Important results:
(Round 9: Osama Salim (8.5) bt Mugil Jayavel (8), Elijah Emojong (Uganda) 6.5 lost to Ramakrishna Perumalla (8), Abhilash Reddy M.L. (7.5) bt Singh Soram Rahul (6.5), Srija Seshadri (7.5) bt S. Prasannaa (6.5), Hegde Naveen (7.5) bt Chakravarthi Reddy M.(6.5), Abdul Azeem R.(6.5) lost to Sai Prahalad K. (7.5), A. Anand Sivasankar (7) drew Iyer Vishal (7), L.Barath (7.5) bt C.R. Varsha (6.5), M.Sabhareesh (6) lost to Kantilal Dave (7), Vishnu Surendran (6.5) drew N.Raghavi (6.5), P.M. Karthik (5.5) lost to Arjun Vairavan (Singapore) 6.5, I. Sathananthan (5.5) bt Ramesh Kaavya (US) 4.5.
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