Three share lead

KOZHIKODE, JAN 27: AVK Venkat of Tamil Nadu halted the dream run of Lakshminarayanan of Kerala in the fifth round of the Premier Grip National Junior Chess Championship at the indoor stadium here today. Venkat shared lead with teammates MR Venkatesh and R Karthik with 4.5 points each.On Monday, Venkatesh stunned International Master Sasikiran in 40 moves of the Caro Cann defence.

RESULTS 5th round: Boys: S Kidambi 4 drew with MR Venkatesh 4.5; Manthan Chokshi 3.5 lost to R Karthik 4.5; AVK Venkat 4.5 bt Lakshminarayanan 3.5; K Sasikiran 4 bt Syed Anwar Shazuli 3; Rishipal Singh 3 lost to Tejas Bakre 4; Harikrishna 4 bt R Kashelkar 3; G Vinod 2.5 lost to K Ramu 4; P Mokal 3.5 bt A Bhivgade 2.5; S Banerjee 2.5 lost to Satyakam 3.5; CJ Arvind 3.5 bt Saratchandra 2.5; R Pulekar 3.5 bt Harishyam Kolom 2.5.Girls: Pallavi Shah 4.5 drew with Swati Mohota 4; Charanya 3.5 lost to S Meenakshi 4.5; S Sujatha 3 lost to Nisha Mohota 4; Prathibha 3.5 drew with Ananya Sarkar 3.5; M Priyadarshini 3 lost to ManasiDadarkar 4; Chitra Sridhar 3.5 bt RA Mahima 2.5; K Girija 2.5 lost to Ashwini Kulkarni 3.5; Ashwini Pachapurkar 3.5 bt PR Rashmi 2.5; Abha Thakur 2.5 lost to Baisakhi Das 3.5; Preeti Bisoi 2 lost to PL Sivakami 3.