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Creditable draw by Neelotpal Das

NEW DELHI: Neelotpal Das pulled off a creditable draw against fourth seed Maxim Rodshtein of Israel while fellow Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta dropped half a point to lowly-rated Spanish International Master in the sixth round of the 28th Benasque International Open chess tournament to slip to the tied fourth spot at Benasque, Spain, on Tuesday.

Soumya Swaminathan (4.5) once again impressed when she defeated Spanish International Master Aleksandar Colovic.

The results (sixth round, involving Indians):

Maxim Rodshtein (Isr, 5) drew with Neelotpal Das (5); Jose Fernando Cuenca Jimenez (Esp, 5) drew with Abhijeet Gupta (5); Swapnil Dhopade (4) lost to Jordi Magem Badals (Esp, 5); Vishnu Prasanna (4) lost to Sandro Pozo Vera (Cub, 5); M. R. Lalith Babu (4) lost to Sasha Kaplan (Isr, 5); S. P. Sethuraman (4.5) drew with Fernando Lopez Gracia (Esp, 4.5); Kruttika Nadig (4) lost to Alfonso Llorente Zaro (Esp, 5); Marocs Camacho Collados (Esp, 4) lost to B. Adhiban (5); Chiel Van Oosterom (Ned, 4.5) drew with Prasanna Rao (4.5); S. Meenakshi (3.5) lost to Ivan Salgado (4.5); Shyam Sundar (4) drew with Juan Mario Gomez Esteban (Esp, 4); Mikhail Ivanov (Rus, 4.5) bt S. Nitin (3.5); K. Priyadarshan (4) drew with Vlastimil Jansa (4); R. B. Ramesh (4) drew with Miguel Senlle Caride (4); Soumya Swaminathan (4.5) bt Aleksandar Colovic (Mkd, 3.5); D. Harika (4.5) bt Justin Horton (Eng, 3.5); Carlos Garcia Palermo (Ita, 4.5) bt Pon N. Krithika (3.5); Didier Collas (Fra, 4.5) bt Antonio Viani D’cunha (3.5); Yvain Bruned (Esp, 4.5) bt Devangi Patankar (3.5); Jonathan Tan (Ned, 3.5) drew with Deep Sengupta (3.5).

David Valles Mata (Esp, 3.5) drew with Mary Ann Gomes (3.5); T. Abhay (4) bt Pedro Vinal Gutierrez (Esp, 3); Francisco Javier Menendez Rey (Esp, 3.5) drew with P. Uthra (3.5); Asier Lakunza Plazaola (Esp, 3) lost to R. Preethi (4); Jose Luis Malo Guillen (Esp, 3.5) drew with A. Niji (3.5); Bhakti Kulkarni (4) bt Galder Gonzalez (Esp, 3); Enrique Fernandez (Esp, 4) bt G. V. Sai Krishna (3); Ignacio Ainsa Claver (Esp, 2.5) lost to Shalmali Gagare (3.5); S. V. Satyapriya (3) bt Manuel Bazan Solera (Esp, 2); Hector Reusga (Esp, 3) bt C. P. Aatirah (2).

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