Commonwealth Chess Championship | Abhijeet Gupta beats Debashis Das, takes lead after sixth round

Four-time Champion Abhijeet Gupta continued his strong performance at the Commonwealth Championship as he defeated Debashis Das yesterday. He is now on the lead after the end of six rounds in the competition with a total of 5.5 points. M. R. Lalit Babu got the better of R. R. Laxman in 87 moves while Arjun Erigaisi managed to beat Ajay Karthikeyan in just 29 moves.

In other games of the day, Bhakti Kulkarni drew against second seed S. L. Narayanan while Suyog Wagh won against Abhijit Kunte. In a surprising turn of events, R. Vaishali got the better of M. S. Thej Kumar.

The results - Sixth round

Abhijeet Gupta (5.5) bt Debashis Das (4.5); Bhakti Kulkarni (4.5) drew with S. L. Narayanan (4.5); Aravindh Chithambaram (4.5) drew with Swapnil Dhopade (4.5); M. R. Lalit Babu (5) bt R. R. Laxman (4); Arjun Erigaisi (5) bt Ajay Karthikeyan (4); Deepan Chakkravarthy (4.5) bt S. Nitin (4); Rahul Sangma (4) drew with P. Iniyan (3.5); Suyog Wagh (4.5) bt Abhijit Kunte (3.5); M. S. Thej Kumar (3.5) lost to R. Vaishali (4.5); Shantanu Bhambure (4) drew with P. Karthikeyan (3.5); P. Saravana Krishnan (4.5) bt P. Shyam Nikhil (3.5).