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Negi in sole lead

Dubai: Indian Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi defeated top seeded compatriot Krishnan Sasikiran to jump into sole lead after the conclusion of the sixth round of the Dubai International Open chess tournament.

Important results involving Indians: Round six: (Indians unless stated): Parimarjan Negi (5.5) bt Krishnan Sasikiran (4.5); Abhijeet Gupta (4.5) drew with Evgenij Miroshnichenko (Ukr, 4.5); Sergey Volkov (Rus, 5) bt B.Adhiban (4); R.R. Laxman (4) lost to Csaba Balogh (5); Amin Bassem (Egy, 5) bt M. Shyam Sundar (4); A.R. Saleh Salem (UAE, 3.5) lost to Surya Shekhar Ganguly (4.5); Narayanan Srinath (4) drew with Stelios Halkias (Gre, 4); Merab Gagunashvili (Geo, 4) bt Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury (3.5); Yusup Atabayev (Tkm, 3) lost to M.R. Lalith Babu (4); Ghader Pour Shayesteh (Iri, 3) lost to Ashwin Jayaram (4); Anwesh Upadhyaya (3) lost to N. Surendran (4); Al-Tarbosh Ward (Syr, 3) lost to Ramnath Bhuvanesh (4); Sanal Vahap (Tur, 3.5) drew with Swapnil Dhopade (3.5); Prathamesh Mokal (4) bt El Jawich Amro (Lib, 3); Melissa Greeff (Rsa, 3) lost to G.V. Sai Krishna (4); Tania Sachdev (3) drew with Sayantan Das (3); Fenil Shah (2.5) lost to Suhrab Semiev (Tkm, 3.5); Mohannad Farhan (Jor, 2.5) lost to S. Nitin (3.5); Aditya Udeshi (2.5) lost to Amir Kowsarinia (Iri, 3.5); Vishnu Prasanna (3.5) bt Sarasadat Khademalsharieh (Iri, 2.5); S. Satyaragyan (3) bt P.I. Johny (2); Shiven Khosla (3) bt Mahmoud Haitham (Sud, 2) . — PTI

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