Two players in lead in FIDE rating chess tournament

Top-seeded Ravichandran Siddharth and IM norm-holder Ram S Krishnan of BSNL were in joint with six points each after six rounds in the 6th Sri MSV Memorial International FIDE rating chess tournament in Chennai on Monday.

Two players from Kerala – O T Anilkumar and M A Joy Lazer were in second spot with 5.5points each.

A total of 17 players including FM Vinothkumar, Syed Anwar Shazuli, B Savitha Sri, S Harini and Gunasekaran were in third spot with five points each.

Important results (Sixth round): Syed Anwar Shazuli lost to Ravichandran Siddharth 6; Alan Diviya Raj 5 lost to Ram S Krishnan 6; P Vijay Shreeram drew K Gunasekaran 5; S Ganesh Babu 5 drew Kishore Kumar Jaganathan 5.

B Savitha Shri 5 drew S Harini 5; Joy Lazar 5.5 beat P Srikrishnan 4.5; K S Sridhar 4.5 lost to O T Anilkumar 5.5; R Ashwath 5 beat A R Ilamparthi 4.