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PUNE, May 26: International Master N Sudhakar Babu 7 of Indian Bank, Chennai regained his half-point lead inspite of being held to a draw in the eighth round of S K Vaidya Memorial International Rating chess tournament being played at Arwade High School here today.
Five Players 8211; Atanu Lahiri LIC, Sriram Jha LIC, IM Ravi hegde Union Bank, Roktim Bandopadhyay WB and S K Rathod MP are trailing Babu with six and half points each.
Commonwealth runners-up Chandrashekhar Gokhale 6 employed razor sharp Archangel variation of Spanish opening against Sriram Jha 6.5 of LIC but could not break through on the queen8217;s wing and peace was signed after 18 moves.
Ravi Hegde 6.5 of Union Bank, Bangalore took advantage of Vivek Sthalekar8217;s 5.5 blunder in the Slav defence and inflicted a check- mate in 25 moves. Roktim Bandopadhyay 6.5 of WB came back into reckoning by defeating S R Kidambi 5.5 of Tamil Nadu in Nimzo Indian defence.
Bangladesh8217;s Enamul Hussain 6.5 had to toil hard for six hours to down unseeded V K Venkat 5.5 of TN in Sicilian defence.
RESULTS VIII Round
N S Babu 7; IB drew Atanu Lahiri 6.5; LIC; Sriram Jha 6.5; LIC drew C S Gokhale 6; IA; Ravi Hegde 6.5; UBI b V Sthalekar 5.5; RBI; S C Sahu 6; UBI drew P Mitrakanth 6; NLC; V Koshy 6; ONGC drew Nassin Wajih 6; Raj; S R Kidambi 5.5; TN lost to R Bandopadhyay 6.5; WB; S K Rathod 6.5; MP b R K Mishra 5.5; MP; L Imocha 5; Man lost to G B Prakash 6; IB; J K Choudhary 6; Bih b T S Ravi 5; IOC; N Sanjay 5.5; Kar drew P Mokal 5.5; Mah; J Gokhale 5.5; BPCL drew Amjad Ali 5.5; B8217;desh; V S Negi 5.5; IA draw S Chanda 5.5; WB; S Lahiri 5.5; WB drew S Nasir Ali 5.5; UP; N Neelakantan 5; CBI lost to T V Kartikeyan 6; TN; S K Sinha 6; Bih b D Ravishankar 5; Mah; PDS Girinath 5.5; Rlys b P Tulpule 5; Mah; V Shukla 5.5; UP b D Singh 4.5; UP; A Vaidya 5.5; Mah b V Hiremath 4.5; Mah; R Muralidharan 4.5; TN lost to A Karnataki 5.5; Mah B Ramana Babu 5.5; AP lost to R V Gokhale 4.5; UBI.
