Thejkumar takes lead

However, Karnataka’s Niranjan Navalgund lost to Praveen Thipsay  and Saralaya Vikram held Murali Krishnan BT of Southern Railway.

Results: Sixth round: Thejkumar MS (SWR, 6) bt Singh DP (SR, 5); Satyapragyan Swayangsu (IA, 5.5) bt Abhishek Das (SWR, 4.5); Vikram Saralaya (Kar, 4.5) drew Murali Krishnan BT (SR, 4.5); Babu N Sudhakar (IB, 5) drew Venkatesh MR (BPCL, 5); Premnath R (TN, 4.5) lt to Sangma Rahul (Del, 5.5); Udeshi Aditya (Mah, 4.5) lt to Navin Kanna TU (TN, 5.5); Laxman RR (ICF, 5) bt Anilkumar OT (Ker, 4); Navalgund Niranjan (Kar, 4) lt to Thipsay Praveen M (Mah, 5); Vinoth Kumar M (TN, 4) lt to Neelotpal Das (ONGC, 5); Rathnakaran K (SR, 4) lt to Muralidharan MB (Ker, 5); Kathmale Sameer (Mah, 5) bt Prakash GB  (IB, 4); Rao J Malleswara (AP, 4.5) drew Shivananda BS (Kar, 4.5); Maheswaran P (TN, 5) bt Singh Sukhpal (MP, 4); Bhattacharya Niladri Shekhar (WB, 4) lt to Tiwari Arjun (WR,5); Joshi Pankaj (WR, 4.5) drew Mithil Ajgaonkar (Mah, 4.5).