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Rani maintains her lead

Sports Reporter
National women * champion Rani Hamid main tai ned her lead in. the 18th national chess champton
•hip*. At the end of the seventh round of the 15-round robin league competition at the NSC chess room yesterday. Rani Hamid had stx pointe to her credit from five wins and
Rani'* Blman team mate and defending champion Reefat btn-Sattar and former national champion Jamliur Rahman of Bangladesh Ansars shared the *econd spot with five point, each Another for mer champion Zlaur Rahman. •l*o of Blman. waa in third po-•illon with four and a half pointe.
International Woman Maa ter Rani Hamid yesterday got the better of last year* runner-up Zlaul Kader Tuhln. forcing a decision In her favour by the 29th move.
Playing with the white piece. Rani opened with a Sicilian defence and thank* to ■everal bad move* bjf her opponent who had a moat tn au*pictou* start to this year • meet—having had to concede hi* first round rmteh to Zlaur Rahman due to Indtspo.ltton-M was a fairly earn victory for the only lady in the player competition.
Defending champton Ree
fat. who has already lost a game, to hia schoolmate Zlaur Rahman In Round Two. ye* terday needed all hl* *kllla to overpower a determined Nlamul Huq Nlru of An*ar*. Nlru. who topped the 108 player qualifying meet for the national*, wasn't forced Into submission until the 55th
Jamliur Rahman, a FIDE Maater. representing Ansar*, suffered a setback of sort*, being held to a draw by Syed Ruhul Kabir Shlplu in a match that lasted 22 moves before both player* realised the Impossibility of any other deci■ton The draw look Shlplu s points taffy to four from seven games
FIDE Master Zlaur Rahman sustained his title hopes by beating Anteur Rahman of Dhaka Metropolia. The torn left Anis stuck on three pointe.
Two other*. Khandaker Kayes Hassan of Ansar* and Syed Iqbal Raklb of Dhaka Metro, also have three point*
each Yesterday. Kayes beat Nahld Mlaztd of Chittagong while Raklb lost to Abdul Khakq of Jamalpur Mlazid has two and a half points and Khaleq two pointe to his credit.
The match between 1990 champion Syed Tahmldur Rahman of Blman and Khalimullah Khan Kalam of Dhaka Metro and that between Dhaka Metro team mate* Amir Hossain and M R Hafiz were in progress at the time of filling this report last night.
The eighth round matches will be held today