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PSCB emerge sole leaderMOGA: PSCB ended the dream run of leaders LIC with an easy 3.5-0.5 win to snatch the lead on in the National Team ...

PSCB emerge sole leader

MOGA: PSCB ended the dream run of leaders LIC with an easy 3.5-0.5 win to snatch the lead on in the National Team Chess Championships here on Saturday. After six rounds, PSCB lead (17 points), with Tamil Nadu (16.5), who beat Integral Coach Factory (ICF) 3-1, following close behind.LIC (15.5) points was placed third and Indian Airlines, who held defending champion Bank Sports Board (14.5), were next with 15 points.

Important results

PSCB (17) bt LIC (15.5); ICF (14.5) lost to Tamil Nadu (16.5); Indian Airlines (15) drew with BSB (14.5); Madhya Pradesh (12.5) lost to Railways (14.5); Uttar Pradesh (14) bt Delhi (11.5).

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Final round pairing: PSCB vs BSB, TN vs Indian Airlines; LIC vs Indian Railways; Uttar Pradesh vs ICF; Delhi vs RBI and Nagpur Academy vs Andhra Pradesh.

Chess squad

CHENNAI: A 10-member team, with two Grandmasters, two International masters and two IWM will represent India in the Chess Olympiad in Elista (Kalmykia) from Sept 26 toOct 13.

Team (men): GM D Barua, GM P Thipsay, V Saravanan, IM A Kunte, A Deshmukh, IM K Sasikiran.Women: IWM S Vijayalakshmi, P Shah, IWM B Thipsay, S Ghate. Coaches: K Murugan, MD Bhagwat.

TT team

NEW DELHI: A 10-member team (five men and five women) will represent the country in the 14th Asian Table Tennis Championships to be held at Osaka (Japan) from Sept 27 to Oct 4.

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Men: Chetan Baboor, S Raman, Arup Basak, Soumyadeep Roy, Deepak Thukral.
Women: N R Indu, M S Mythili, Mantu Ghosh, Poulomi Ghatak, Kasturi Chakravarty. Coaches: Kamlesh Mehta and S Srinivasan.

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