B C Cochin FIDE Rated Open 2004, Cochin

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B C Cochin All-India FIDE Rated Open, Cochin

Ratnakaran emerges champion

Kerala Champion K Ratnakaran of Railways, with eight points, emerged champion in the FIDE-rated second B C Cochin All India Chess tournament, which concluded here today.

After the ninth and final round, both Ratnakaran and International Master S Poobesh Anand were tied with equal progressive scores. In the lightning play-off applied to decide the winner, Ratnakaran won the title 2-1.

In the top board today, Poobesh drew with IM D V Prasad, while in the second board, IM Koshy Varghese drew with Ratnakaran.

Kerala's G N Gopal defeated former Kerala champion M B Muraleedharan, B S Shivananda of Karnataka beat K Haridas, top seed Himanshu Sharma of Haryana drew with Sai Srinivas, while IM U C Mohanan (Ker) lost to IM V Saravanan.

G N Gopal and B S Shivananda took the third and fourth slots respectively.

Final Standings

Rank	Player	State	Points
1	K Ratnakaran	Railways	8.0
2	S Poobesh Anand	TN	8.0
3	G N Gopal	Kerala	7.5
4	B S Shivananda	Karnataka	7.5
5	Koshy Varugeese	ONGC	7.0
6	D V Prasad	IOC	7.0
7	V Saravanan	BPCL	7.0
8	Alex Thomas	Kerala	7.0
9	Arindam Mukherjee	West Bengal	7.0
10	M B Muraleedharan	Kerala	6.5

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