July 10: Top-Seeded Satchidanand Soman of Nagpur beat Amardeep Tiwari of Aurangabad in the Maharashtra State Selection chess tournament organised by the Bombay Chess Association at the Bhosale Sports Complex, Andheri, on the opening day today.But Fide-rated 7th seed Prathmesh Mokal of Pune and 15th seed Prasad Ghate suffered shock defeats to Ravishekar Kashelkar of Mumbai and Ashish Gupta of Amravati respectively.The other Fide-rated players among 21 taking part in the 104-strong field won their opening-round matches.KUC CARROM: U Pednekar beat A Kedar 21-15, 23-12 in a fourth-round match of the Kshatriya Union Club Open carrom tournament, yesterday.Other results: U Hadiskar bt V Chandorkar(14-11, 25-7); R Khedekar bt S Pomendkar (23-14,13-8); S Padaya bt P Bhide(15-20, 25-10, 25-0); V Zite bt P Janak (8-20,25-11,20-16); P Thosar bt S Jitiya(3-25, 25-17, 25-12); C Baria bt S Mudam(15-13, 0-25, 20-12); M Shaikh bt B Bhosale(4-25, 19-13, 25-18); V Dalvi bt N Bhatkar(25-0, 25-0).
