Top seed GM Abhijeet Gupta and young CRG Krishna of Andhra Pradesh, with 5.5 points, shared the lead at the end of the sixth round of the Vizag Steel Vizag GMs international open prize money chess tournament at the Swarna Bharati indoor stadium here on Sunday.
Six players — IM M.R. Venkatesh, Evgeny, GMs Sumets Andrey of Ukraine and Dzhumaev Marat of Uzbekistan, and Indian IMs Vaibhav Suri and Sahaj Grover — are in the second place with five points each.
Important results (sixth round): Abhijeet Gupta (Ind, 5.5) bt Gleizerov Evgeny (Rus, 5), C.R.G. Krishna (Ind, 5.5) bt N. Sanjay (Ind, 4.5), Andriasian Zaven (Arm, 4.5) drew with Anwesh Upadhyaya (Ind, 4.5), S. Ravichandran (Ind, 4.5) drew with Ulibin Mikhail (Rus, 4.5).
Sumets Andrey (Ukr, 5) bt Ann Mary Gomes (Ind, 4), K. Priyadarshan (Ind, 4.5) drew with Arun Prasad (Ind, 4.5), M.R Venkatesh (Ind, 5) bt Minhazuddin Ahmed (Bangla, 4), D. Marat (Uzb, 5) bt Ankit R. (Ind, 4), Murshed Niaz (Bangla, 4.5) drew with S.L. Narayanan (Ind, 4.5).
Petrosian Tigran (Arm, 4) drew with Gireman Ja (Ind, 4.5), Danielsen Hanrik (Iceland, 4.5) bt Ram S. Krishnan (Ind, 3.5), Bitoon Richard (Philippines, 4) drew with C. Praveen Kumar (Ind, 4).
D.P. Singh (Ind, 3.5) lost to J. Deepan Chakkraborty (Ind, 4.5), R.R. Laxman (Ind, 4.5) bt M. Kunal (Ind, 3.5).
