Etambe wins a thriller

AUG 8: National champion Nagsen Etambe had a tough time defeating Pramod Shewale in a thrilling match 25-18, 16-25, 25-2 to enter the fifth round of Shri Pratap Chandra Gupta Memorial district ranking carrom tournament.

Results (4th round) Manu Baria bt Arun Kedar 25-6, 25-21; Sajid Sayyed bt Tushar Desai 25-9, 16-25, 25-0; Shamji Pandya bt Shaikh Pappu 15-25, 25-9, 25-19; Santosh Satpute bt Vishwanath Shivalkar 0-25, 25-6, 25-9; Vinit Dadarkar bt Deepak Sawant 25-10, 15-25, 25-6; Raju Dedhia bt B Shenoy 25-3, 15-25, 25-6; Balu Kanukal bt Sanjay Barve 25-13, 12-25, 25-4; Santosh Pawaskar bt Rajkumar Kanojia 25-4, 23-25, 25-7; Vinod Baria bt Pradeep Naik 25-6, 19-25, 25-9; Nasir Khan bt Keshav Kotian 6-25, 25-6, 25-12; Jeetandra bt Vikas More 4-25, 25-6, 25-7; Uday Maral bt Ganesh Patankar 25-2, 16-25, 25-6; Vilas Dalvi bt Narendra Panchal 25-2, 25-0; Rajiv Patil bt Jayant More 25-0, 25-16; Narsing Rao bt Ramdas Katta 25-15, 25-7; Dilip Sosa bt Praddep Jadhav 25-11, 25-7; Babulal Suramani bt Sharad Padwal 25-23, 25-7; Amit Mohite bt Sudhir Pawar 25-0, 25-6; Devji Sumra bt Suresh Salvi 25-2, 25-7; Pravin Madhyalkar bt Shirish Bade 25-0, 25-14; Sanjay Ghadi bt Ashok Gurav 25-0 18-25, 25-17; Ramesh Deokule bt Dilip Rohekar 25-3, 18-25, 25-9.

Thatte wins

Ashish Thatte of Mulund Commerce College defeated Rajesh Kamath convincingly in the third round of the Entrants Division Chess Association at the Zandu Pharmaceutical Works canteen hall.

Results

Anil Arora bt Pravin Dabhie, Sunil Khadilkar drew with Praddep Sawant, J Rodrigues drew with Vivek Thoopal, Dayqand Naik lost to Sanjay Modi, Omprakash V bt Atul Singh, Mukund Khopkar bt Sharf Ghori, Nitin Nawar bt Piyush Mukherjee, Munish Kappor bt Machindra Wakhare, Alam Parvez bt PS Adhikari, Mehul Sampat bt Vikrant Sheth, Pravakar Bhatkar bt Kamlesh Dave, HD Patel bt Mahendra Gadoya, Saurabh drew with Vinod More.