Aurangabad: Abhijeet Gupta (five points) maintained his half-point lead after six rounds of the National chess championship here on Friday.
Deepan Chakravarthy defeated Aswin Jayaram to join G.N. Gopal and S.P. Sethuraman in the third spot with 4.5 points.
The results (sixth round): G.N. Gopal (4.5) drew with Abhijeet Gupta (5); S.P. Sethuraman (4.5) drew with Deep Sengupta (4.5); Tejas Bakre (4) drew with M. R. Venkatesh (4); Aswin Jayaram (3.5) lost to Deepan Chakkravarthy (4.5).
Shyam Nikhil (3.5) drew with B. Adhiban (3.5); S. Satyapragyan (3) lost to Abhijit Kunte (4); S. Arun Prasad (4) bt Swapnil Dhopade (3); Saptarshi Roy (4) bt Vidit Gujarathi (3); Padmini Rout (4) bt M.R. Lalith Babu (3); Sriram Jha (3.5) drew with Shyam Sundar (3.5); R.R. Laxman (3) lost to P. Karthikeyan (4); Varugeese Koshy (3) lost to Vikramaditya Kulkarni (4); Pravin Thipsay (3.5) drew with B.T. Murali Krishnan (3.5); Girish Koushik (3.5) bt Aditya Udeshi (2.5); Parimarjan Negi (2.5) drew with S. Kidambi (3); Neelotpal Das (3) bt Anup Deshmukh (2); K. Ratnakaran (2.5) drew with Diptayan Ghosh (2.5).
Swati Ghate (2.5) drew with Rahul Sangma (2.5); G. Akash (3) bt N. Srinath (2); Soumya Swaminathan (1.5) lost to Himanshu Sharma (2.5); Shashikant Kutwal (2) drew with P. Konguvel (2); Suvrajit Saha (2) drew with Dinesh Sharma (2); S. Ravi Teja (2) drew with C.R.G. Krishna (1.5); N. Sudhakar Babu (2) bt Arjun Tiwari (1).
