Bhubaneswar: Sanjeeban Nayak of Orissa is sharing the top spot along with six others with four points after the completion of the fourth round in the B category of the Xth KIIT International Chess Festival here Saturday. Punit Indora of Haryana, Chetan Sharma of Andhra Pradesh, Sandip Dey of West Bengal, Ashutosh Bannerjee of Chhattisgarh, Bhagyashree Patil of Maharashtra and Leeladhar Kachroo of Haryana are the other players sharing the lead.
Eight Orissa players are sharing the joint second spot along with 17 others with 3.5 points each. They are Satopanth Gourav Nayak, Kumud Kumar Nath, Sudhir Kumar Behera, Susanta Kumar Sarangi, Binayak Rath, Rabindra Kumar Ojha, Prasanna Kumar Nayak and Priyanka Routray.
Sanjeeban scripted a convincing victory over D Neha Srinibash of Tamil Nadu. Satopanth got the better of Souhardo Basak of West Bengal, while Kumud forced statemate Prasanna to share points with him. Sudhir defeated M Tulasi Ram Kumar of Andhra Pradesh and Susanta prevailed over Shuvam Roy of West Bengal. Binayak beat E Balachandar of Tamil Nadu and Rabindra checkmated statemate Dinesh Kumar Behera. Prasanna played out a stalemate with statemate Kumud and Priyanka defeated Tapan Badamundi of Orissa.
Other results: Sunyasakta Satpathy bt Bhagyashree Patil, Aditya Ranjan Samal drew with Soundarya Kumar Pradhan, Pradipta Bisoyi bt Anish Rooj, Harshit Ranjan Sahoo drew with Sanchit Mukherjee, Priyabrata Samanta Singh bt Siddharth Mishra, Hrushikesh Rath bt Aaryansh Bhartya, Jyotiranjan Padhy bt Subhasish Barik, Nilsu Patnaik bt Soumyajit Das, Anisha Mishra bt Sai Aravindh Sridhar, Bishal Patnaik bt M Anirudh, Dikshant Dash bt Karthikeya Kashyap.
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