Sasikaran, Tejas share lead

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JALANDHAR, DEC 27: Former sub-junior champion Beenish Bhatia of Hyderabad suffered a defeat while second seed Neelotpal Das was held to a draw even as top seed Sasikiran shared the lead with six others at the end of the third round of the National Junior chess championship here today.

Reigning champion R Karthik was let off the hook by Rishipal Singh of Hyderabad from a winning position. Karthik managed to scrape through with a draw.

RESULTS

K Sasikiran (3) bt Dipanjan Dass (2); Neelopal Dass (2.5) drew Sasikant Kutwal (2.5); Rishipal Singh (2.5) drew R Karthik (2.5); Tejas Bakre (3) bt Biswajit R Chaudhary (2); S Kidambi (3) bt C J Arvind (2); T V Karthikeyan (3) bt Abhey Karnatiki (2); Satyapragyan (2.5) drew V R Kamble (2.5); N Pramod (3) bt P Harikrishna (2); Vinod Gopal (3) bt Wilson Cruz (2); Vikramjit Singh (2.5) bt P Veeraswamy (1.5); Vikas Sharma (2.5) bt Ravi Khanna (1.5)

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