Mumbai, Sept 07: Junior national champion Laxminarayan Adhikari scored a fine win over Irving of England in the fifth round of the Junior World Chess Championship for the visually impaired being played in Pontivedra (Spain).
Second-seed San Jose of Spain looks all set to win the title after he scored yet another fluent victory over Lukasz of Poland and take his points tally to five.

Top-seed Nasobin and Komissarov (both from Russia) are in the joint second place with four points apiece, according to information received here.

Fifth round results: San Jose (Spa-5 points) bt Lukasz (Pol-35), Nasobin (Rus-4) bt Havranke (Ger-3), Komissarov (Rus-4) bt Harkowski (Pol-3), Stolarcik (Pol-3.5) bt Fernandez (Spa-3), Chan (Eng-3) bt Williams (Eng-3), L Adhikari (Ind-3) bt Irving (Eng-2), Drazetic (Cro-3) bt Escudeiro (Spa-2). Bureau Report