Top seed Abhijeet Gupta beat M. Karthikeyan in 32 moves in the fifth round of the Commonwealth chess championship here on Friday, and grabbed the sole lead after Niaz Murshed, the other overnight leader, surrendered in 42 moves to Deep Sengupta.
The results: Fifth round: Abhijeet Gupta (5) bt M. Karthikeyan (4); Arghyadip Das (4.5) drew with M.R. Lalith Babu (4.5); Himanshu Sharma (4.5) drew with Sahaj Grover (4.5); Deep Sengupta (4.5) bt Niaz Murshed (Ban, 4); Ziaur Rahman (Ban, 4.5) bt Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury (3.5); N.R. Visakh (4) drew with Deepan Chakkravarthy (4); Abhijit Kunte (4) drew with G. Akash (4); Harsha Bharathkoti (4) drew with S.L. Narayanan (4); Ankit Rajpara (4.5) bt B. Sekhar (3.5); Saptarshi Roy (4) drew with N. Sanjay (4); Athul Krishna (4) drew with Sriram Jha (4); Aravindh Chithambaram (4) bt Dhananjay (3); Ajay Krishna (3) lost to Padmini Rout (4); Michelle Catherina (3) lost to Mohammad Minhasuddin (Ban, 4); Ivana Furtado (3) lost to K. Ratnakaran (4); Srinath Rao (3.5) drew with Ramnath Bhuvanesh (3.5); R.R. Laxman (3.5) drew with Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad (3.5); Ravi Teja (4) bt Chandrasish Majumdar (3); P. Iniyan (3) lost to Akshat Khamparia (4); N.R. Vignesh (4) bt N. Lokesh (3).
