GUWAHATI, April 22 � Arpan Das of West Bengal toppled table leader Arvinder Preet Singh of Punjab to grab the top position after completion of the 8th round of the 5th Jugal Kishor Newatia Memorial FIDE Rating Chess Tournament at Terapanth Bhawan, Fancy Bazar, here today.
Arpan Das of West Bengal took sole lead with 7.5 points. On the first board Arpan defeated Arvindar (6.5).
On the second board 2nd seed Rajib Dhar (6) of Assam lost to RK Bhogen Singh (7) of Manipur.
Other results: On the 3rd board Santanu BP Gohain (6.5, Asm) draw with Hamal Manish (6.5, Nepal), on the 4th board Bidyut Bikash Handique (7, Asm) beat Rupankar Nath (6, WB), on the 5th board Kantilal Dave (6, Raj) lost to top seed Laltu Chatterjee (7, WB), on the 6th board M Vinoth Kumar (6.5, TN), beat Gaurav Kumar (5.5, Bhr), on the 7th board Shrestha Surandra Prasad (5.5, Nepal) of Nepal lost to SS Manigandan (6.5, TN), on the 8th board, Dhanbir Singh (6, Mani) drew with Imtiaz Islam Bora (6, Asm), on the 9th board Sahjahan Ali (6, Asm) drew with Yohan J (6, Ker), on the 10th board Subhayan Kandu (6.5, WB) beat Anjan Mallik (5.5, WB), on the 11th board LT Gobin (6.5, Mani) beat Raunak Mandal (5.5, WB), Other players with 6 points are Santu Mandal (WB), K Sanjoy Singh (Mani), Anurag Jaiswal (WB), Kesar Shrestha (Nepal), Bimal Lal Shrestha (Nepal), Chingkhai Singh (Asm), K Madan Krishna (Nepal), Dilip Das (WB), Krishna Thapa (Nepal), Ashutosh Kumar (Bhr), Niarula Niraj (Bangladesh), Rajendra Bajiracharya (Delhi), Nihar R Banarjee (WB), Anustoop Biswas (WB), Saptarshi Gupta (WB), H Jacky Singh (Mani), MK Kunjabai (Mani), Nandan Buragohain (Asm), Rahul S Singh (Asm), C Purushottam (Nepal).
