CHENNAI:Fide Master M Vinoth Kumar defeated SA Kannan in the fifth round of the 8th St Joseph’s international Fide-rated chess tournament, held at St Joseph’s College of Engineering. Vinoth is the joint leader on five points with Rajarishi Karthi, who beat Potluri Supreetha.
Round 5: M Vinoth Kumar (5) bt SA Kannan (4); Manu David Suthandram (4.5) drew with ASJ Akil (4.5); Rajarishi Karthi (5) bt Potluri Supreetha (4); M Siddarth (3.5) lost to RR Laxman (4.5); R Rathneesh (3.5) lost to P Saravana Krishnan (4.5); A Umashankar (3.5) lost to M Kunal (4.5); Gajanan Jayde (3.5) lost to N Surendran (4.5); K Senthil Maran (4.5) bt Mushini Ajay (3.5); Karthik Rajaa (3.5) lost to N Lokesh (4.5); K Gokulraj (3.5) lost to Hemanth Raam (4.5); S Badrinath (4) drew with KS Yuvan Bharathi (4); S Jayakumaar (3.5) drew with Basak Bishal (3.5); Naveen Giri (3) lost to Ram S Krishnan (4); SS Manigandan (4) bt KV Bhaskar Teja (3); M Vishwa Bala Kumaran (4) bt S Prasannaa (3); CR Aasha (3.5) drew with R Balasubramaniam (3.5); B Swarnamala (3) lost to R Ganesh (4); T Samson Anna Rao (3) lost to MA Joy Lazar (4); S Kumar (4) bt TS Gowtham (3); Sawyan Baran De (3) lost to D Ashraf Subhani (4); Anurag Jaiswal (4) bt Sankalp Arora (3); Bheri Yaswanth (3) lost to I Harivardhini (4); Vinay R Jumani (4) bt Rahul Yadav (3); KB Dharani Srinivas (3) lost to J Eshwanth Dev Kumar (4); M Vinoth (3) lost to TG Rohit Ramanan (4); VU Diwakar (3) lost to N Vignesh (4); P Thamaraiselvi (4) bt G Ashvin Venkat (3); C Tina (3) lost to MS Dharani Kumar (4); CMN Sunyuktha (4) bt Balu Karthick (3); A Chujeeth Vignesh (4) bt G Harish (3).