Venkatramana leads

HYDERABAD: J Venkataramana (7.5) of Andhra Pradesh regained his lead in the GTB all-India FIDE rated chess tournament on Wednesday. Closely following him were IM V Koshy (7) and BT Muralikrishna (7).
Results (8th round): A Sankar 6.5 lost to J Venkataramana 7.5, Tejas Bakre 6.5 drew TB Muralikrishna 7, V Koshy 7 bt R Balamuralikrishna 7, Laltu Chaterjee 6.5 drew Vishal Sareen 6.5, K Gunassekharan 6 drew P Konguvel 6, NK Mishra 6.5 bt Dilip Pagay 5.5, SC Subramanian 6 drew Suvarjit Saha 6, TS Ravi 6 drew Dilip Das 6, Amardeep S Bartakke 6 drew SS Soman 6, Santosh Kumar Sinha 6.5 bt Roktim Bandyopadhyay 5.5, K Ramu 5.5 lost to Jayant Gokhale 6, RM Dongre 5 lost to Atanu Lahiri 6, Rahul G Shetty 6 bt K Gopalkrishnana 5.

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