PANJIM: GM Saptarshi Roy Choudhury of Railways has taken the sole lead with five points defeating FM Ramkrishna J of Union Bank in the fifth round of the Late Shri Vasudeva V Dempo Memorial Fide Rating Chess Tournament 2023 played at Rajaram Smruti Sabhagruha Gomantak Maratha Samaj, Panjim, on Sunday
Mandar Lad of Goa, Siddhanth Poonja of Karnataka, Marthandan K U of Kerala, and Aditya Savalkar of Maharashtra, are in second position with the score of 4.5 points.
IM Vikramaditya Kulkarni, FM J Ramkrishna, FM Joydeep Dutta, Sajay Kumar Rai, Santu Mondal, Ahaz E U, Joy Lazar, Anil Kumar O T, Aryan Raikar, Aditya Savalkar, Ivan Savio Rodrigues, Pradeep Tiwari, Edrick Vaz, Kirpesh, Avinash Kochrekar, Shriya Patil, and Joshua Telles are in the third position with four points.
