Seeds sail through untroubled

International Master RB Ramesh 3 of Indian Oil Corporation scored an attacking victory over Vijayakumar 2 in the French defence. Ramesh sacrificed a piece on 19th move and soon wraped up the game with a nice onslaught on black king. International Masters V Koshy 3 of ONGC and MB Muralidhran 3 of Kerala easily outplayed Amer 2 and Alaguraj 2 respectively.

Former Asian women champion Anupama Gokhale 3 of Bharat Petroleum won a pawn in the opening against M Raju 2. Raju fought well out butfinally gave up after a marathon endgame as Anupama8217;s pawns were queening forcely.

Important 3rd round results: C Praveen Kumar 2 lost to GB Prakash 3 RB Ramesh 3 bt Vijayakumar 2, Amer 2 lost to V Koshy 3 MB Muralidharan 3 bt Alaguraj 2, Arvind Shastry 3 bt P Sharma 2 AVK Venkat 2 lost to K Haridas 2, Srinivasa Raghavan 3 bt G Sekaran 2, Chandrasekhar 3 bt Murugacheran 2, M Raju 2 lost to Anupama Gokhale 3, D Prabhakaran 2 lost to Arokiaraj 3.