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Alexei Fedorov in sole lead

Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI: Plenty of grit and a slice of luck combined to take 12-year-old Parimarjan Negi to a creditable draw against a slightly unwell fifth seed Abhijit Kunte before top seed Alexei Fedorov raced away with the sole lead with his sixth straight victory in the Parsvnath International Open chess tournament here on Wednesday.

On a day when six of the top-10 boards ended with honours even, National `A' qualifier Diwakar Prasad Singh upstaged seventh seeded Kazakh GM Nurlan Ibraev, that too, with black pieces to join the pack of 16 players sharing the second spot with five points. Fedorov needed 61 moves to down Uzbek Marat Dzhumaev to lead with six points.

Himanshu impresses

Himanshu Sharma continued his fine run by holding second seed Surya Shekhar Ganguly in 23 moves and joined Diwakar and Negi in the hunt for a GM norm. In fact, Himanshu and Diwakar, along with M. Vinoth Kumar, are within striking distance of an International Master norm. The day's other surprise results include Saptarshi Roy's 23-move checkmate of 10th seeded S. Kidambi after sacrificing two minor pieces and Rishipal Singh's triumph over higher rated K. Ratnakaran.

The results (Indians unless stated): Sixth round: Alexei Fedorov (Blr) (6) bt Marat Dzhumaev (Uzb) (5); Himanshu Sharma (5) drew with Surya Shekhar Ganguly (5); R. B. Ramesh (5) drew with B. S. Shivanandan (5); S. Satyapragyan (5) drew with Dibyendu Barua (5); Pavel Kotsur (Kaz) (5) bt S. Arun Prasad (4.5); Abhijit Kunte (4.5) drew with Parimarjan Negi (4.5); Nurlan Ibraev (Kaz) (4) lost to Diwakar Prasad Singh (5); Saptarshi Roy (5) bt S. Kidambi (4); S. Vijayalakshmi (4.5) drew with Tania Sachdev (4.5); T. S. Ravi (4.5) drew with Abdulla Al-Rakib (Ban) (4.5); Enamul Hossain (Ban) (5) bt Mehdi Hasan (Ban) (4); Sriram Jha (5) bt Rahul Sangma (4); M. R. Venkatesh (4.5) drew with Anup Deshmukh (4.5); Alexander Raetsky (Rus) (5) bt R. Balasubramanium (4); Rishipal Singh (5) bt K. Ratnakaran (4); Syed Anwar Shazuli (4) lost to R. Zhumabaev (Kaz) (5); Vinoth Kumar (5) bt Arghyadip Das (4); Ziaur Rehman (4.5) bt Mesgen Amanov (Tkm) (4); S. Meenakshi (3.5) lost to Konstantin Cherysov (Rus) (4.5); C. Natarajan (3.5) lost to Sandipan Chanda (4.5); Tejas Bakre (4) drew with Abu Sufian Shakil (Ban) (4); Niaz Murshed (Ban) (4.5) bt G. B. Joshi (4); Anuar Ismagambetov (Kaz) (4) drew with Saurabh Kherdekar (4); Serdar Bayramsahatov (Tkm) (3.5) lost to R. R. Laxman (4.5); Poobesh Anand (4) drew with C. Praveen Kumar (4); Vikramaditya Kamble (4.5) bt Hari Om Sharma (3.5); Akash Thakur (3.5) lost to P. Konguvel (4.5); Swati Ghate (4) drew with Deep Sengupta (4); Prasenjit Dutta (4) drew with Roktim Bandopadhyay (4); Vishal Sareen (4.5) bt V. Somesh (3.5); Mohammad Javed (3.5) lost to D. Harika (4.5); Rahul Shetty (4.5) bt Sandeep Chitkara (3.5); Prathamesh Mokal (4.5) bt N. Srinath (3.5); Ahmed Nasir (Ban) (4.5) bt T. Gowtham (3.5); S. P. Sethuraman (4) drew with Nisha Mohota (4); K. Priyadarshan (3.5) lost to Atanu Lahiri (4.5); Intikhab Alam (4) drew with V. Koshy (4); Padmini Rout (4) drew with T. Puroshothaman (4); Lanka Ravi (3.5) drew with Avinash Sethi (3.5).

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