Chennai: Top seed Diwakar Prasad Singh of Jamshedpur and ten others are leading with maximum three points at the end of the third round of the sixth Adyar Times FIDE-rated chess tournament being played here on Monday.

Seven rounds remain to be played.

O.T. Anil Kumar of Kozhikode was shocked by K. Narayanan. "I missed simple equality," said the loser. In a rook and minor piece ending, Narayanan pawn stormed and won a minor piece for an upset win and a place in the joint lead with three points.

Other favourites who did not win were IM Murugan and National sub-junior champion Ashwath. Murugan was `careless' after winning a pawn and Jayakumar defended the rook ending to draw in 45 moves. Ashwath also had an extra pawn but it was doubled and he could not put it to use against Sagar Shah.

Earlier, in the morning session, International Masters Laxman and Sudhakar Babu were held to draws. Shravan Talwar, 19, a third year student of St. Peter's Engineering, who had lost all previous games to Laxman, managed a creditable 64-move draw.

Leading results (round 3): Abhilash Reddy 2 lost to D.P. Singh, P. Jayakumar 2.5 drew with K. Murugan 2.5, T.S. Ravi 2 bt K. Gopalakrishnan 2, O.T. Anilkumar 2 lost to K. Narayanan, N. Surendran 2 lost to Shyam Nikhil 3, K.V. Shantharam 3 bt Vijaya Sarathi, K.N. Ranga 2 lost to Ram S. Krishnan 3, Vinoth Kumar 3 bt P. Sivasankari 2, Sagar Shah 2.5 drew with R. Ashwath 2.5, D. Das 3 bt T.S. Nandakumar 2, P. Uthra 2.5 drew with V. Hariharan 2.5, Stanley Samson 2 lost to S. Nitin 3, J. Sridhar 3 bt M. Natarajan 2, Hari Balu 3 bt Santhosh Kumar 2, D. Dutta 2.5 drew with Rahul Ved 2.5, R.R. Laxman 2.5 bt T.V. Subramanian, Sai Manivannan 1.5 lost to Sudhakar Babu 2.5.

Results (round 2): D.P. Singh bt P. Lokesh, Shravan Talwar drew with Laxman, Murugan bt S. Sathyanarayanan, Rakesh Kumar lost to T.S. Ravi, Sudhakar Babu drew with S. Shashank, Ajay Srikanth lost to O.T. Anilkumar, Shyam Nikhil bt Bavan Kumar, S. Arvind lost to Shantharam, Ram S. Krishnan bt E. Sarath, S. Nanthakumar lost to Vinoth Kumar, R. Ashwath bt R.K. Athavan. — Arvind Aaron

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