Top seed Woman Grandmaster D Harika remained at the second spot after bting Tatev Abrahayman of the United States in the sixth round of the World Junior Girls chess championship here.

The victory helped Harika move to five points out  but Vera Nebolsina remained a full point ahead with her sixth victory on the trot at the expense of WGM Eesha Karavade.

Besides Eesha, Soumya Swaminathan ended on the losing side against Gutierrez and remained on four points, while Padmini Rout increased her chances of a WGM norm after beating  Marine Grigoryan and moving to four points as well.

The other two Indian girls in the fray — Mary Ann Gomes and P Priya — also scored fine victories over Karelle Bolon of France and Anna Rudolf of Hungary respectably to move to 3.5 points apiece.

In the World Junior Championship,  G N Gopal beat Pablo Garcia Cardenas  to take his tally to 4.5 points.

Indian results:
Sixth round (Indians unless specified):

World Junior:  Wang Hao (Chn, 4.5) bt Deepan Chakravarthy (3.5); Ashwin Jayaram (4.5) bt Amin Bassem (Egy, 3.5); Pablo Garcia Cardenas (Esp, 3.5) lt to G N Gopal (4.5); Bulski Krzysztof (Pol, 3) lt to Parimarjan Negi (4); Nino Vlashki (3) lt to Abhijeet Gupta (4); Tigran Mamikonian (Arm, 2.5) lt to G Rohit (3); Ivan Galic (2.5) drew with Abhishek Das (2.5); Gudmundur Kjartansson (Isl, 2) drew with R Arun Karthik (2).

Girls: D Harika (5) bt Tatev Abrahamyan (USA, 4); Sabrina Vega Gutierrez (Esp, 5) bt Soumya Swaminathan (4);  Padmini Rout (4) bt Marine Grigorian (Arm, 3); P Priya (3.5) bt Anna Rudolf (Hun, 2.5); Mary Ann Gomes (3.5) bt Karelle Bolon (Fra, 2.5).