Three players share lead in 246th Brilliant Trophy chess tournament

Hyderabad: Three players K. Perumallu, Y. Muralimohan and Purav Jain shared the lead with three points each from three rounds in the 246th Brilliant Trophy chess tournament at Brilliant Grammar School (Dilsukhnagar) here on Saturday.

In the juniors category,four players Sathya Karthikeya, Avaneesh Gadipelli, Snithik Vengala and Mokshith Makani are in lead jointly with three points each out of three rounds, while M.Adithya is in second place with 2.5 points out of three rounds.

Important results: 3rd round: Juniors: Sathya Karthikeya (3) bt Chintala Varun (2); Snithik Vengala (3) bt Rushika Bhaskar (2); Makani Mokshith (3) bt Surin Raj (2); M. Adithya (2.5) drew with P.Sushanth (2.5); Vihaan Chandra (2) lost to Avaneesh Gadipelli (3).

Open category: K.Perumallu (3) bt Renuka Kumari (3); Chethan (2) lost to Murali Mohan (3); Purav Jain (3) bt Manaswini Resham (2); Rigved Reddy (2.5) bt Siva Satyanarayana (1.5); Raja Gopal (1.5) lost to M.Akhil (2.5).