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Holder Stany, Koushik emerge joint leaders
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Earlier, Koushik eased past Mysore’s Vijendra YG in the sixth round.
Stany on the other hand suffered a sixth round defeat to Yashas but later fought back to defeat title contender Arvind Shastry in the seventh round. Both Stany and Koushik have seven points each as they head into the final round to be played on Thursday.
Nihal Manjunath overcame Santosh Kashyap in round seven to conjure up 6.5 points. Nihal is in lone second place, half-a-point adrift of third place players.

Important results: Round VIII: Stany GA (7) bt Arvind Shastry (6); Girish A Koushik (7) bt Yashas D (6); Gopalkrishna P (6.5) bt Ganesh Kumar (5.5); Nihal Manjunath (6.5) bt Santosh Kashyap HG (5.5); Navalgund Niranjan (6) bt Bhat Narayan K (5.5); Vijendra  YG (5.5) drew Kishan Gangolli (5.5); Satvik M (5.5) drew Suraj M (5.5); Vanessa D`Souza (6) bt Gautam JK (5); Upendra K (6) bt Nisha N  Patkar (5); Rakshith R Umesh (5.5) drew Kulkarni Vinayak (5.5); Sameer Ghotane (5) lt to Varma Shabdhik (6); Gavi Siddayya (5.5) bt Amogha HA (4.5); Augustin A (4.5) lt to Akshay V Halagannavar (5.5); Nikhil R  Umesh (5.5) bt Kaushik R (4.5).

Round VII: Yashas D  (6) bt Stany GA (6); Arvind Shastry (6) bt Navalgund Niranjan (5); Vijendra YG (5) lt to Girish A Koushik (6); Santoshkashyap HG (5.5) drew Gahan MG (5.5); Suraj M (4.5) drew Nihal Manjunath (5.5); Vijeth TA (5) lt to Gopalkrishna P (5.5); Ganesh Kumar (5.5) bt Gavi Siddayya (4.5); Bhat Narayan K (5.5) bt Augustin A (4.5); Karthik HS (5.5) bt Shreeshan S (4.5); Varma Shabdhik (5) bt Raju M (4); Gautam JK (5) bt Sumith Bhat (4); Neeraj S Pai (4) lt to Upendra K (5); Andria L D`Souza (4) lt to Kulkarni Vinayak (5); Pangal Gopalkrishna Nayak (4) lt to Sameer Ghotane (5); Kishan Gangolli (5) bt Naren N Kumar (4).

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(Published 28 April 2010, 22:18 IST)