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Hari takes lead

GIBRALTAR, FEB. 3. P. Hari Krishna stretched his winning sequence to six games by scoring over compatriot Sandipan Chanda in a violent seventh-round battle and snatched the lead with six points in the Gibtele.com Masters International chess tournament at the La Caleta hotel here.

Important results (seventh round): P. Hari Krishna (6) bt Sandipan Chanda (5); Alexie Dreev (Rus) (5) drew with Nigel Short (Eng) (5.5); Surya Shekhar Ganguly (5.5) bt Jonathan Speelman (Eng) (4.5);

Nigel Davies (Eng) (4.5) drew with Abhijit Kunte (5); Vladimir Epishin (Rus) (5) bt Antoan Stefanova (Bul) (4); Ernesto Inarkeiv (Rus) (4) lost to Tejas Bakre (5).

Other results (involving Indians): Till Wipperman (Ger) (4) drew with Dibyendu Barua (4); Ruslan Pogorelov (Rus) (4) bt Swati Ghate (3); S. Vijayalakshmi (4) bt Abdela Felloussi (Mor) (3).

Angelis Del Rio (Spa) (4) bt S. Meenakshi (3); Nisha Mohota (3) lost to Oyustein Fossum (Nor) (3.5); Kruttika Nadig (3) drew with Helen Milligan (Sco) (3).

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