NAGPUR, AUG 20: Rahul Shetty (9) of Indian Airlines shot into the lead at the end of the penultimate round at the 4th BPCL FIDE Rating Chess Championship when he accounted for N Sudhakar Babu (8) of Indian Bank.Shetty, however, faces a keen tussle for the title, as he is closely followed by Shanker Roy (8.5), who shared the lead with him till the eighth round. He, thus, has to win the last round encounter to upstage Roy's challenge.Other results (9th round): R Balasubramanium (8) bt PDS Girinath (7), IM Jayant Gokhale (7.5) drew Survajit Saha (7.5), IM RB Ramesh (8) bt Brijesh Agarawal (7), S Kidambi (8) bt G B Joshi (7), Sandipan Chanda (7) lost to J Venkatramana (7.5), IM V Sarvanan (7.5) bt N Jyothilal (6.5), Anup Deshmukh (7.5) bt N Neelakantan (6.5), Laltu Chatterjee (6.5) lost to Vivek Shukla (7.5), IM T S Ravi (7) bt S Satyakam (6), IM Mrunalini Kunte (6.5) lost to IM SS Soman (6.5), Shantanu Lahiri (6) lost to IM Arun Vaidya (7), S Nasir Ali (6) lost to Rajesh Bahadur (7), Moti Ram (6) lost to S K Sinha (7), Gajendra Singh (7) bt M Dhar (6), Swati Mohota (6) lost to K Vishweshwaran (7) Pallavi Shah (6) lost to Prasanjit Dutta (7), Tamal Chakravarty (6) lost to Dilip Pagey (7).
