Purushottam and Rison's lead in national amateur intelligence

CM Purushottam defeated 1810 rated Vishwa Vijay Ghimire, 1796 rated Neelam Basnet and East Nepal Champion 1885 rated CM Naveen Tandukar in the tournament being conducted in Mechinagar, Jhapa under the joint organization of Nepal Buddhichal Federation and Night Chess Club Jhapa.

Young player Risone won over 1714 rated Narayan Rai, 1708 rated Sindira Joshi and 1817 rated Chudamani Kulung respectively. In the fourth round, Risone will compete against Purushottam from Kalo Goti on Sunday.

1891 rated Vikas Mainali, former winner 1885 rated CM Krishna Thapa and 1896 Redet Ashish Phuyal, who are in the running to participate in the Asian Amateur Tournament in Dubai, and 1896 redet Ashish Phuyal, are in joint second place with 2.5 points after playing 2 wins and one draw.

The game of Sindira, the women's champion of Nepal who was competing in the same group, was not satisfactory. An important player who trained with the Grand Master for the Chess Olympiad to be held in Hungary in September was defeated. Pooja Bhandari, a 1687 rated female player of the

Chess Olympiad team, performed an average game. She had a thrilling win over young up-and-comer Arena Candidate Master in the third round under the 1700 rating. She has tied with another young player Vishnulal Limbu in the second round. Pooja has 2.5 marks.

After the fourth stage under 1700 rating, 1699 rated Ranjit Rai, 1626 rated Kapil Gurung and 1648 rated Shivkumar Bick have taken the joint lead by scoring the same 4 points.

1694 rated Govindaman Shrestha and 1598 rated Krishna Prasad Sigdel played 3 wins and 1 draw and took the joint second place by adding 3.5 points. According to senior national arbiter Soraj Tamrakar, the chief judge of the

competition, the sixth national amateur chess group 'A' will have 7 rounds of matches, while the under 1700 group 'B' matches will have 9 rounds. He informed that the winning players will receive 282 thousand prizes.