Calcutta: Two players, top seed FM Rajdeep Sarkar and IM norm holder Srijit Paul, shared the lead with six points each at the end of the sixth round of the 26th Telegraph Schools' Chess Championship at Alekhine Chess Club, Gorky Sadan on Tuesday.

The leaders defeated their respective opponents on the day. Close on the heels of the leaders are Fide Masters Mitraba Guha, Mohammed Fahad and Neelash Shah with 5.5 points each.

Rajdeep opened up the game to build a strong citadel with Reti opening.

IMPORTANT RESULTS

Round 6: Rajdeep Sarkar bt Sonkalan Bharati; Mohammed Fahad Rahman drew with Mitrabha Guha; Srijit Paulbt Subhayan Kundu; Neelash Saha bt Aditya Basu; Sambarta Banerjee lost to Aronyak Ghosh; Anustoop Biswas bt Shuvam Roy; Ayan Pal lost to Zia Tahsin Tajwar; Anish Rooj lost to Shouvik Kar; Rupam Mukherjee drew with Bhattacharyya Soham; Aditya Chatterjee drew with Ambarish Sharma; Ankan Ghosh lost to Soumik Datta; Rahul Krishna Viswanathan bt Anukarssa Dutta; Mahfuzur Rahman Saif lost to Atri Chattopadhyay; Aditi Sahal lost to Sudipa Haldar; Soham Dey bt Arijit Ghosh; Ayush Jha bt Anjishnu Mondal; Sankalan Shah bt Manon Reja Neer.