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Seven players — GMs K. Sasikiran, Deep Sengupta and Abhijeet Gupta, IMs Aronyak Ghosh, Ayush Sharma and Harsh Suresh and IM-elect Ajay Santhosh Parvathareddy were connected apical with six points apiece aft the seventh circular of the 62nd National chess title present connected Sunday.
Sasikiran declined the Queen’s Gambit by Abhijeet, forcing the duo to stock points aft 31 moves. N. Surendran caused an upset, beating GM Prraneeth Vuppala with the Sicilian defence, portion apical effect Pa Iniyan and young IM H. Goutham Krishna agreed to a gully connected the 3rd board.
Deep defeated IM Sidhant Mohapatra, who went incorrect successful the treble rook and knight endgame, and Ayush thwarted IM Manish Anto Cristiano’s ambitious knight sacrifice.
The person board: K. Sasikiran, Aronyak Ghosh, Ajay Santhosh Parvathareddy, Ayush Sharma, Gupta Abhijeet, Sengupta Deep, Harsh Suresh (all six points), Aaditya Dhingra, M.R. Lalit Babu, Surya Shekhar Ganguly, Harshit Ranjan Sahu, J. Deepan Chakkravarthy, S. Ravi Teja, S.P. Sethuraman, Pa Iniyan, Kashish Manoj Jain, Manas Gaikwad, H. Goutham Krishna, Ayaan Garg , Utsab Chatterjee, S. Nitin, N. Surendran (all 5.5 points).
