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Two share lead

NEW DELHI: Rahul Sangma and Prasenjit Dutta led with five points after the sixth round in the Delhi State Open chess championship.

Rahul beat Akram Baig in 29 moves in the Sicilian Defence on the second board to catch up with overnight leader Prasenjit, who drew with Hemant Sharma on the first board.

The results (sixth round): Hemant Sharma (4.5) drew with Prasenjit Dutta (5); Akram Baig (4) lost to Rahul Sangma (5); Rishi Thariani (3.5) lost to Deepak Rai (4.5); Abhimanyu Poddar (3.5) lost to Saket Kumar (4.5); Sandeep Singh (3.5) lost to Prince Bajaj (4.5); M. S. Din (4.5) bt Prabodh Kumar Pant (3); Akshat Aggarwal (4) bt Mohan Virwani (3); Hitesh Marwah (3) lost to Vaibhav Khanna (4); Dinesh Kumar Gupta bt Ram Gupta (3); Raj Kumar (3.5) drew with Jaydeep Sharma (3.5); Khakhai Zou (3) lost to Rajesh Kumar (3.5); Nupur Suri (3.5) bt Anil Shivpuri (2.5); Tarun Kochar (2.5) drew with Dhara Gupta (2.5); Preetika Tayal (3.5) bt Krishnakit Banerjee (2.5); Manish Vatsa (3); bt Sanjay Gupta (2); Inderdeep Singh (2.5) drew with Pavit Singh (2.5); Yatin Tiwari (2) lost to Jotish Joy (3); Sukrit Malhotra (2.5) bt Ajitesh Kacker (1.5); Suneet Jain (1.5) lost to Arjun Hans (2.5); Sonu Sambharwal (2) bt Mayank Rathee (1); Kanika Saxena (0.5) lost to Deep Kapoor (1.5).

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