Girinath shares lead with four others

Hyderabad, Dec 13: Vernight joint leaders and International Masters P Mitrakant and DV Prasad suffered a reversal in their fortunes in the ...

Hyderabad, Dec 13: Vernight joint leaders and International Masters P Mitrakant and DV Prasad suffered a reversal in their fortunes in the eighth round of the second Global Trust Bank All-India Fide-rated chess tournament here today.

Mitrakant fell prey to the guiles of local contender PDS Girinath and Prasad was fortunate to escape with a draw against an aggressive Neelotpal Das. These two results helped four others –irinath, Sudhakar Babu, Jayant Gokhale and Sekhar Sahu –o catapult themselves into the lead. All the four, who were half a point behind in second place yesterday, scored wins to join DV Prasad at seven points.

Important results (Round 8)

DV Prasad 7 drew with Neelotpal Das 6.5; Girinath 7 bt P Mitrakant 6.5; R Bandopadhyay 6 lost to Sudhakar Babu 7; Vishal sareen 6.5 drew with Rahul Shetty 6.5; Jayant Gokhale 7 bt Anup Deshmukh 6; S Vijayalakshmi 6 lost to Sekhar Sahu 7; VK Shukla 5.5 lost to Sasikiran 6.5; SA Kamat 5.5 lost to RG Hegde 6.5; Goswami Vedanth 5.5 lost to K Murugan 6.5; CS Gokhale 6 drew with Atanu Lahari 6; V Saravanan 5.5 lost to Sandeepan Chanda 6.5; V Koshy 6.5 bt Manoj Misra 5.5; Sriram Jha 6 drew with Arvind Sastri 6; KN Gopal 6.5 bt Sanjay N 5.5; Dilip Pagay 6 drew with Gurupreet Pal Singh 6; Arun Vaidya 6 drew with Ramakrishna Kashel 6; P Konguvel 6 bt Meenakshi 5.5; Pallavi shah 6 bt Murali Krishnan 5; Kiran Agarwal 5 lost to Suresh Kumar 6; Hemanth Kumar 5 lost to Hariharan 6; P Jaikumar 5 lost to Lakshman Rao 6; Sujit Kumar Sinha 5 lost to N Ravikanth 6; S Khardekar 5 lost to C Natarajan 6.