JOIN USAt the Radhakrishna Temple hall on Tuesday, Nitin got the better of Orissa’s Upadyaya in 51 moves to remain the only player to have won all his games so far.
A host of players lay a half point behind in second place, among them IM Suvrajit Saha and FM Maheshwaran P, who stunned defending champion Praveen Thipsay. Important results (round six): IM Nitin S (TN, 6) bt IM Anwesh Upadhyaya (Ori, 5); IM Thejkumar MS (SWR, 4.5) lt to IM Suvrajit Saha (WB, 5.5); FM Maheswaran P (TN, 5.5) bt GM Praveen Thipsay (Mah, 4.5); Stany GA (Kar, 5) drew Premnath R (TN, 5); Sriram Sarja (Kar, 5) drew IM Konguvel Ponnuswamy (TN, 5); IM Saptarshi Roy (Rly, 5.5) bt IM Rahul Sangma (Del, 4.5); IM Himanshu Sharma (Har, 4) lt to Hemant Sharma (Del, 5.5); Dusthageer Ibrahim M (TN, 4.5) drew IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh R (TN, 4.5); GM Sriram Jha (Del, 4.5) drew Aravindh Chithambaram Vr (TN, 4.5); IM Swapnil S Dhopade (Mah, 5) bt Laltu Chattarjee (WB, 4); IM Shyam Nikil P (TN, 4.5) drew Santu Mondal (WB, 4.5); Suresh Kumar TJ (ICF, 4.5) drew IM Shivananda BS (Kar, 4.5); Vasli Aref (4) lt to IM Karthikeyan P (TN, 5); Navin Kanna TU (TN, 4.5) drew Surendran N (TN, 4.5); IM Atanu Lahiri (LIC, 4.5) drew Ravi Teja S (AP, 4.5); Abhishek Das (SWR, 5) bt Vijendra YG (Kar, 4); Krishna CRG (AP, 4) lt to Soni Krishan (Ori, 5); Unni CS (Mah, 4) lt to IM N Sudhakar Babu (IB, 5); Niladri Shekhar Bhattacharya (WB, 5) bt FM Girish A Koushik (Kar, 4); Linda Rangarajan (TN, 4) lt to IM Anup Deshmukh (Mah, 5).