After winning the important game today with black pieces, Rathnakaran emerged as the best performing Indian in the fray thus far and moved to 4.5 points out of a possible six games.
Rathnakaran played his pet French defense with black pieces and caught Kovchan napping in a better position. The Indian had sacrificed a piece for two pawns in the middle game and was rewarded for his brave move when Kovchan lost track and lost two pieces in tandem.
Meanwhile, draws were the order of the day at the top of the table as top seed David Howell of England signed peace with American counterpart Alexander Shabalov, French Andrei Istratescu drew with Vladimir Fedoseev of Russia while Igor Kovalenko (4.5) of Latvia achieved the same result against Nils Grandeloius of Sweden.
As a result, it's now an eight-way lead at the top with the five previous leaders are now joined by Solak Dragun of Turkey, Daniele Vocaturo of Italy and Yuri Solodovnichenko of Ukraine.
With three rounds still remaining in the $50000 prize money tournament, Rathnakaran is the only Indian sharing the ninth spot and a good finish from here can help the Indian reap high returns.
The highest ranked Indian, Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta could not find his rhythm yet again as he was held to a draw by compatriot Sameer Kathmale. Up against an Alapin opening, Gupta faced stiff resistance from Kathmale and even stood worse at one point in the game. However, exchanges at regular intervals restored the parity and the draw was another good result for Kathmale. Both Gupta and Kathmale have 3.5 points each.
Grandmaster Sahaj Grover also moved to 3.5 points after defeating talented Azerbaijani Nail Bashirli. It was a Sicilian defense wherein Grover won a pawn early in the opening and went on to score an easy victory after a shocking defeat at the hands of Abhishek Kelkar in the previous game.
Kelkar, however, ran out of steam as he went down fighting against Serbian Grandmaster Milos Perunovic in this round.
Among other Indians in the fray, Grandmaster R R Laxman and International Masters Sayantan Das and S Vijayalakshmi reached four points apiece and raised visions of an improved performance. Of the three, Das played a solid game to hold Hungarian Grandmaster Peter Prohaszka of Hungary, Laxman defeated A M Soozankar of Iran while Vijayalakshmi accounted for David Bit-Narva of Sweden.
Important and Indian Results Round 6 (Indians unless specified): David Howell (Eng, 5) drew with Alexander Shabalov (Usa, 5); Andrei Istratescu (Fra, 5) drew with Vladimir Fedoseev (Rus, 5); Igor Kovalenko (Lat, 4.5) drew with Nils Grandelius (Swe, 5); Yuriy Kuzubov (Ukr, 4) lost to Solak Dragan (Tur, 5); Mateusz Bartel (Pol, 4) lost to Daniele Vocaturo (Ita, 5); Yuri Solodovnichenko (Ukr, 5) beat Alexander Ipatov (Tur, 4); Murali Karthikeyan (3.5) lost to Ivan Ivanisevic (Srb, 4.5); Peter Prohaszka (Hun, 4) drew with Sayantan Das (4); Alexander Kovchan (Ukr, 3.5) lost to K Rathnakaran (4.5); Milos Perunovic (Srb, 4) beat Abhishek Kelkar (3.5); Sameer Kathmale (3.5) drew with Abhijeet Gupta (3.5); Fawzy Adham (Egy, 3.5) drew with S Arun Prasad (3.5); Aniruddha Deshpande (3.5) drew with Sagar Shah (3.5); S Kidambi (3.5) drew with Firouzja Alireza (Iri, 3.5); R R Laxman (4) beat A M Soozankar (Iri, 3); Eduard Kanter (Rus, 3.5) drew with Rajarishi Karthi (3.5); S Vijayalakshmi (4) beat David Bit-Narva (Swe, 3); Sahaj Grover (3.5) beat Nail Bashirli (Aze, 2.5); Rowe Duane (Jam, 2.5) lost to Eesha Karavade (2.5): Ahmad Al Khatib (Jor, 2.5) lost to Nr Vignesh (3.5); Nr Visakh (3.5) beat Abdulla Khayala (Aze, 2.5); L N Ram Aravind (3) drew with Mehar Chinna Reddy (3); Myrat Babaliyev (Tkm, 2.5) lost to Rakesh Kulkarni (3.5); Essa Al-Zarouni Kholoud (Uae, 2) lost to Siva Mahadevan (3); Vinayak Kulkarni (3) beat Elmejbri Ali (Lba, 2); Amruta Mokal (2.5) beat Mayed Alrashedi (Uae, 1.5); Inacio Rodrigues (2.5) beat M Kloub (Jor, 1.5).
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