Krishnan grabs lead

Calcutta: Ram S. Krishnan outwitted Nilandri S. Bhattacharya to shoot into the lead after Round VI in the Howrah District Chess Association-organised Dr. U.K. Rathi’s Divine Foundation’s meet Monday.

RESULTS

Round VI: Ram S. Krishnan (5.5 points) bt Niladri S. Bhattacharya (4.5); Amritesh Roy (4.5) lost to Arindam Mukherjee (5.5); Debashish Mukherjee (4) lost to Baisakhi Das (5); Rajesh Diwan (4.5) drew with Sridhar J. (4.5); Rajib Dhar (4) bt Pradip Ghosh (3.5); Suman Basu (4) drew with Joydeep Dutta (4); Anirban Guha Roy (4.5) bt Tamal Chakraborty (3.5); Gourinath Bannerjee (3.5) lost to Santu Mondal (4.5); Diptayan Ghosh (3.5) lost to Dushyant Das (4.5); Arindam Das (3.5) lost to Rupankar Nath (4.5).