M S Thejkumar and G A Staney shared the top spot with 7.5 points, but the former was declared the winner on the basis of a better progressive score in the Mangalore Fide-rated chess tournament here on Wednesday.
In the ninth and final round, Thejkumar drew with P Gopalkrishna, who finished with seven points. Stany too could not force a win against M G Gahan and had to settle for half-a-point and the second spot.
Results: Gopalkrishna P (7) drew Thejkumar M  (7.5); Gahan M G (7) drew Stany G A (7.5); Raghavendra V (7) drew Sanjay N (7); Nambiar Vivek (7) bt Yashas D (6); Vijendra Y G (7) bt Sushrutha Reddy (6); Shreeshan S (6) lt to Anand Kumar S (7); Prakash V  Rao (6) drew P V Srinivas (6); Srinivas G (6.5) bt Ajith M P (5.5); Naren N Kumar (5.5) lt to (6.5); Manasa K (5.5) lt to Pran Abhijith (6.5); Antonio Viani D'cunha (6) bt Chandrashekar T R (5); Deshik K J (5.5) drew Mahishi R K (5.5); Nagaraj Bhat B (5) lt to Shruthi K (6); Raju M (5) lt to Muralidhara G K (6); Raghuraman N  R (5.5) drew Rammohan Bhandary (5.5); Sanjith Shenoy (5) lt to Pavitra Jagtap (6); Sameer Ghotane (6) bt Sadashiva V (5); Suraj Prabhu (5.5) drew Benadikar Shashank D (5.5); Abhijit D (6) bt Santosh Jha (5); Vinay Praksh Ashirwad (5) lt to Bhagwat, S M (6).
Yarra Hemachandra Rao (5) lt to Sanjit Saha (4.5); Khan M A (4.5) lt to Bharadwaj H G (4.5); R Kaushik (5) drew Kiran A (5); Anand Swarup S N 4.5 bt Pangal Gopalkrishna Nayak (4.5); Yashes Salian (4.5) lt to Manohara Bhandary (4.5); Sankara Subramanian G (4.5) lt to Amogha H A (4.5); Andria L D`souza (4.5) bt Shridhar Bolar (4.5).
Sushrutha G (4.5) drew Anishcharith C Bhandary (4.5); Chirag M Ramesh (4.5) lt to Shashidhar K M (4.5); Mayank G Jain (4.5) drew Durgesh K (4.5); Shalon Joanne Pais (4) lt to Praveen Kamath (4); Akash H (4) bt Sakshath U K (4); Amith N Mahesh (4) bt Subodh P Rathi (4).
Final standings: M S Thejkumar (7.5) 1; Stany G A (7.5) 2; Raghavendra V (7) 3; Sanjay N (7) 4; Gahan M G (7) 5; Nambiar Vivek (7) 6; Pawashe Aniket R (7) 7; Gopalkrishna P (7) 8; Vijendra Y G (7) 9; Anand Kumar S (7) 10.