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Sweet revenge for Suresh

KOCHI: ICF’s T.J. Suresh Kumar made good use of lessons learnt last year in the 19th Cusat Open all-India FIDE-rated chess tournament here on Wednesday.

The 12th seed upset Tamil Nadu’s second-seeded International Master R.R. Laxman in 44 moves of an English game and moved into the lead after the sixth round at the Cochin University’s SMS Hall.

“He beat me in the same line last year, so I was prepared this time,” said Suresh Kumar.

Prasanna beats Kunal

Chennai’s Vishnu Prasanna ended the giant-killing run of Madurai teenager M. Kunal and joined Suresh in the lead.

Only one round was played on Wednesday.

The results (sixth round): Vishnu Prasanna (TN, 6) bt M. Kunal (TN, 5), T.J. Suresh Kumar (ICF, 6) bt R.R. Laxman (TN, 4.5), V. Haribalu (TN, 4.5) drew with Saptarshi Roy (WB, 4.5), H. Venkatesh (TN, 4.5) drew with Vinoth Kumar (TN, 4. 5), R. Sidharth (TN, 5) bt T.R. Shanmuganathan (TN, 4), K. Alex Thomas (Ker, 4) lost to Anurag Jaiswal (WB, 5), Merryston David Scanny (TN, 4) lost to Rupankar Nath (WB, 5). Naveen S. Hegde (Kar, 5) bt K.V. Anilkumar (TN, 4), Santu Mondal (WB, 5) bt Roop Saurav (Bih, 4), Mohammed Fawaz (Ker, 4) lost to Nimmy A. George (Ker, 5), O.T. Anilkumar (Ker, 4.5) bt S.V.C. Chakravarthi (AP, 4), Pranab Kumar Nath (Asm, 4.5) lost to M.B. Muralidharan (Ker, 4.5), P.V. Gireesh (Ker, 4) drew with M. Deepthamsh Reddy (AP, 4), P.K. Arjun (Ker, 4.5) bt Linda Rangarajan (Pon, 3.5), Avinash Sethi (Del, 4) drew with G. Anish Kushal (TN, 4). K.L. Pramod Das (Ker, 3.5) lost to K.A. Unas (Ker, 4.5), Vineeth P. Kaimal (Ker, 4.5) bt Nikhilesh Das (WB, 3.5), Syed Rehman Nazer (Ker, 4) drew with S. Subba Raju (AP, 4), V.M. Rajeev (Ker, 3) lost to K. Haridas (Ker, 4), U.C. Mohanan (HIL, 4) bt R. Ashok Kumar (TN, 3).

courtasy : THE HINDU