Three players share lead in Ganauri Das chess

Patna, August 7, 2010: Top seed Rupesh Ranjan shared the lead with Vikek Nandan and Rahul Kumar with three points each at the end of third round in the Ganauri Das memorial Open chess tournament at the RBI hall here on Saturday.

Results: (after third round): Rupesh Ranjan (3) bt Mukesh Kumar (2); Vikesh Nandan (3) bt Aditi Aditya (2); Rahul Kumar (3) bt Anubhav Sahay (2); Rajesh Ranjan (2.5) bt Ayush Kashyap (1.5); Anirvan Choudhary (2.5) bt Prince Kumar (1.5); Ashish Raj (2) bt Sudhanshu Kumar (1); Akhauri Harshit (2) bt Subhash Kumar (1); Akhauri Sakshi (2) bt Manya Diptam (1); Alok Priyadarshi (2) bt Shivang Aryan (1); Arvind Kumar (2) bt Vijay Narayan (1); Subhash Saurav (1.5) bt Abhishek Chandra Singh (.5); Kumar Satyam (1.5) bt Tushar Sinha (.5); Mona Priya (1.5) bt Piyush Pankaj (.5); Mohit Raj (1.5) bt Satyaki (.5); Abhishek Kumar (1) bt Sumesh (0); Himanshu Harsh (1) bt Tanul Tanay (0) and PN Prasad (2) drew with Akhauri Vinit (2).

Photo caption: Tushar Sinha (left) and Rajesh concentrating on their next moves in the Ganauri Das Memorial Open Chess Tournament in Patna on August 7, 2010.

Photo: Aftab Alam Siddiqui