manipal the south zone interuniversity chess tournament got under way here in maniapl on tuesday with 57 teams vying for top honoursthe best four universities will qualify to represent south zone at the allindia interuniversity chess tournament to be held in meerut later this month university teams from karnataka andhra pradesh telangana tamil nadu puducherry and kerala will play seven rounds in the swiss league formatthe tournament was formally inaugurated by international master stany george antony from shivamogga speaking on the occasion im stany praised the facilities in the mahe to conduct a chess tournament of this size and requested the authorities to consider hosting an international grand masters tournament to which dr h s ballal pro chancellor mahe agreedwhen stany got the im status he became the youngest player in karnataka to achieve the distinction registrar narayana sabhahit welcomed the gatheringosmania university hyderabad is the top seed with average rating 2158 followed by anna university chennai 2121 university of madras chennai 2111 international master al muthaiah 2408 from srm university fide master sai agni jeevithes 2336 from osmania university kumaran b from university of madras ajay krishna 2289 from anna university are the star players of championshipat the end of second round twelve team are leading with four match points eachimportant results of round twoosmania university 4 defeated university of kerala 2 university of calicut 2 lost to anna university4 university of madras 4 defeated andhra university2 bharathiar university 2 lost to srm university 4 pes university 2 lost to kannur university 4 manonmaniam sundaranar university 2 lost to national institute of technology karnataka 4 mangalore university 4 defeated acharya nagarjuna university2