J. Deepan Chakkravarthy and R.R. Laxman (six points) shared the lead with Adam Tukaev (Ukraine) and Ivan Rozum (Russia) after the seventh round of the 10th Chennai Open Grandmaster chess tournament on Monday.
Woman FIDE Master and World u-12 champion Divya Deshmukh went down in a hard-fought battle to Muhammad Khusenkhojaev of Tajikistan.
Important results: Seventh round: J. Deepan Chakkravarthy (6) drew with Adam Tukhaev (Ukr) 6; Ivan Rozum (Rus) 6 bt Karthik Venkataraman (5.5); Sergei Tiviakov (Ned) 5.5 drew with Arjun Erigaisi (5.5); Suat Atalik (Tur) 5.5 drew with V. Pranav (5.5); Sidhant Mohapatra (5.5) drew with Roeland Pruijssers (Ned) 5.5; A.L. Muthaiah (5.5) drew with N.R. Visakh (5.5); R.R. Laxman (6) bt Ravi Gopal Hegde (5); Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury (5) drew with Yuri Solodovnichenko (Ukr) 5; Vitaly Sivuk (Ukr) 5.5 bt C. Praveen Kumar (4.5); P. Karthikeyan (5.5) bt P. Maheswaran (4.5).
Marat Dzhumaev (Uzb) 5.5 bt Ajay Karthikeyan (4.5); S. Nitin (5.5) bt Ram S. Krishnan (4.5); Karthi Rajarishi (4.5) lost to Timur Gareyev (USA) 5.0.
Sixth round: Karthik 5.5 drew with Deepan 5.5; Visakh 5 drew with Tiviakov 5; Tukhaev 5.5 bt K. Ratnakaran 4.5; Pruijssers 5 drew with Laxman 5; Hegde 5 drew with Sivuk 4.5; Gareyev 4 lost to Sidhant Mohapatra 5.
Hafiz Arif Abdul (Ina) 4 lost to Rozum 5; Tran Tuan Minh (Vie) 4 lost to Muthaiah 5; Ankit 4 lost to Atalik 5; V. Pranav 5 bt Horvath 4; Maheswaran 4.5 drew with Nitin 4.5; Tiwari 4.5 drew with Marcos 4.5.
