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Top seed Soumya Ranjan Mishra and third seed Rajendra Kumar Sahu emerged joint leaders with five points each after the end of fifth round of the 1st Kalinga Open All-India Rating Chess Tournament at OAS Association Bhawan in Bhubaneswar today. Five players — Subhransu Mohan Satpathy, Vijay Kumar, Krishan Soni, Manas Parida, Sumit Banarjee — occupied the second place with 4.5 points apiece.
Important results (Round 5): Soumya Ranjan Mishra (5) bt Ashutosh Kumar (4), Rajendra Sahu (5) bt Rakesh Kumar Nayak (4), Subhransu Satpathy (4.5) drew with Vijay Kumar (4.5), Krishan Soni (4.5) beat Rabindra Kumar Ojha (4), Manas Parida (4.5) bt Priyabrata Panda (3.5), Ashraf Mohammad (4) drew with Guru Prasad Bhatta (4), Sumit Banarjee (4.5) bt Haribandhu Singh (3.5), Pabitra Mohan Mohanty (4) bt Bhaskar Sri Viswaroopananda (3), Smaraki Mohanty (4) bt Dasarathi Sahoo (3), Subasis Barik (3.5) drew with Narayan Swain (3.5), Sohini Ganguly (4) bt Gobardhan Behera (3), Johnson Sahoo (4) bt G L Agarwal (3), Sudhir Behera (4) bt Pradeep Panda (3), Ashutosh Mohapatra (4) bt Soumyadeep Chaudhuri (3), Ramesh Subudhi (4) bt Manoj Das (3), Baibhab Mishra (4) bt Sarbeswar Sahoo (3), Debarshi Mukherjee (4) bt K L Padhi (3), Bishnu Charan Sahoo (4) bt Ashutosh Pradhan (3), Dhirendra Das (4) bt Sailendra Rout (3), Susant Sarangi (3.5) drew with Mahesh Sethi (3.5), Rakesh Jena (4) bt Thompson Sahu (3), Hrudananda Samantaray (4) bt Rabindra Moharana (3), Santosh Sinha (4) bt Soumen Amlan (3).
