Seeded players advance easily

It was an easy day for the seeded players at the AIIF rated open Chess Tournament, which began on Wednesday.

Updated on: Oct 31, 2007, 19:33:29 IST

PTI | By HT Correspondent, Kochi

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Seeded players moved to the second round of the Regional Sports Centre (RSC) All India International Fide rated open Chess Tournament, which began on Wednesday.

In the first board, top seed IM K Ratnakaran of Southern Railway defeated M Manu (Kerala), while in the second board R R Laxman (TN) beat Teenu Thomas (Kerala). In the sixth board, IM Balasubramanian Ramnathan (TN) defeated C H Meghana (Kerala).

First round important results: K Ratnakaran (S Rly) bt M Manu (Ker); Teenu Thomas (KER) lost to R R Laxman (TN); P Karthikeyan (TN) bt K Mammen (KER); R Aparna (KER) lost to K Gunasekaran (ICF); P Shyam Nikhil (TN) bt A S Vishnu Prasad (KER); C H Meghana (KER) lost to Balasubramanian Ramanathan (TN); Syed Anwar Shazuli (ICF) bt K V Vignesh (KER); S Gopinath Nayak (KAR) lost to M B Muraleedharan (KER); Prasanna Rao (MAH) bt A S Abdul Rahim (TN); S Adityan (KER) lost to C Natarajan (ICF); E P Nirmal (KER) bt B Ahmed Anees (AP) and C Alkondan(TN) lost to O T Anil Kumar (KER).

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