Bengal players dominate national chess

Grandmaster Surya Sekhar Ganguly narrowly missed out on his seventh National chess title after he was pipped at the post by Andhra GM Karthik Venkataraman in Gurugram on Tuesday. Karthik, Surya and International Master Neelash Saha all ended with nine points and the final standing was arrived at using the Buchholz System as Karthik’s tie-break score was 78, against Ganguly’s 77.5.