Aurangabad: Deepan Chakkravarthy scored an important 42-move victory over Shyam Nikhil to move into the second spot behind leader Abhijeet Gupta after the 11th round of the National chess championship at the MIT campus here on Wednesday.
With two rounds to go, Deepan (eight points) trails the leader by half a point. Abhijeet drew with Abhijit Kunte in 30 moves on the top board.
G.N. Gopal held top seed and defending champion Parimajan Negi in 72 moves to share the third spot with S. P. Sethuraman at 7.5 points.
The Hindu