By IANS,
Chennai : Mugil Jayavel, a student of local Don Bosco School, defeated Ramakrishna Perumalla (AP) and moved into sole lead with 7.0 points in the United India Insurance-CDCA FIDE Rated chess tournament here Friday.
Following the leader half a point behind were the talented duo from Velammal School, Prasannaa S and Osama Salim at 6.5 points.
Sharing the fourth spot at six points were Woman FIDE Master Srija Seshadri, ML Abhilash Reddy, Ramakrishna Perumalla, L Barath, Chakravarthi Reddy M Vishal Iyer, Venkata Krishna Karthik K and Singh Soram Rahul.
Important results:
Round 7: Mugil Jayavel (7) bt Ramakrishna Perumalla (6), S Prasannaa (6.5) bt Dave Kantilal (5.5), Osama Salim (6.5) bt N Raghavi (5), Abhilash Reddy M L (6) bt N Hema Priya (5), H Azeezuddin (5) lost to Venkata Krishna Karthik K (6), G Jaswant (5) lost to Srija Seshadri (6), Rajarishi Karthi (5) lost to L Barath (6), S Sathyanarayanan (5) lost to Singh Soram Rahul (6), Dangmei Bosco (6) bt L N Ram Aravind (5), A Ra Harikrishnan (5) lost to Chakravarthi Reddy M (6), V M Rajeev (5) lost to Vishal Iyer (6), Sumit Grover (5) drew S Sai Kiran (5).