Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta continued his fine form to hold the much higher-ranked Indian P. Harikrishna to an easy draw in the sixth round of the Qatar Masters International Open chess tournament here on Tuesday.
With his second straight draw against members of the top-50 club, Abhijeet took his tally to four points out of a possible six along with Harikrishna, and these two were joined by B. Adhiban, who scored his fourth victory on the trot to reach four points.
There are as many as 12 players sharing the third spot on 4.5 points apiece, and then the Indian trio of Abhijeet, Harikrishna and Adhiban share the 15th position now.
Important and Indian results: Round six (Indians unless specified): Anish Giri (Ned, 6) bt Nils Grandelius (Swe, 4.5); Vladimir Kramnik (Rus, 5) bt Sjugirov Sanan (Rus, 4); Evgeny Tomashevsky (Rus, 4.5) drew with Milos Perunovic (Srb, 4.5); A.R. Saleh Salem (U.A.E., 4.5) drew with Yuriy Kryvoruchko (Ukr, 4.5); Samuel Shankland (U.S.A., 4.5) drew with Yu Yangyi (Chn, 4.5).
Ivan Ivanisevic (Cro, 4.5) bt Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Aze, 3.5); P. Harikrishna (4) drew with Abhijeet Gupta (4); B Adhiban (4) bt Gunay Mammadzada (Aze, 3); Aravindh Chithambaram (3.5) drew with Ivan Salgado Lopez (Esp, 3.5); Debashis Das (3.5) bt Gabriel Sargissian (Arm, 2.5); Surya Shekhar Ganguly (2.5) lost to Elina Danielian (Arm, 3.5); David Anton Guijarro (Esp, 3) drew with D. Harika (3); Irina Krush (U.S.A., 3) drew with Sandipan Chanda (3); Ju Wenjun (Chn, 3) drew with M.S. Thejkumar (3); Artur Jussupow (Ger, 3.5) bt Neelotpal Das (2.5); G.N. Gopal (3.5) bt S. Kidambi (2.5).
Rishi Sardana (2.5) lost to Gabuzyan Hovhannes (Arm, 3.5); Ghaem Maghami Ehsan (Iri, 3) drew with Shardul Gagare (3); P. Konguvel (2.5) lost to Aleksandar Indjic (Srb, 3.5); S. Vijayalakshmi (3) drew with Xu Jun (3); Vazquez Guillermo (Par, 2) lost to M. Karthikeyan (3); Ankit Rajpara (2.5) drew with Caprio Guido (2.5); Saad Belouadah (Alg, 2) lost to M. Shyam Sundar (3); Sayantan Das (3) bt Sabina-Francesca Foisor (Fra, 2); Nezad Husein Aziz (Qat, 2.5) bt Mary Ann Gomes (2.5); Sameer Kathmale (2.5) bt Sarasadat Khademalsharieh (Iri, 1.5).
