Xu Jun Stretches Lead

Xu Jun with a comfortable victory over Morteza Mahjoob of Iran stretched his elad to a full point and is leading the 76 player field with 5.5 points after the completion of the sixth round of the ?A?sian chess championship at the Gorky Sadan. Today two rounds are wscheduled in the 76 player 11 round Swiss league. Harikrishna with a lucky victory over Rahman Ziaur has catapulted to joint second position along with IM Ghaem Maghami of Iran, Mohamad Al Modiaki of Qatar, GM Saidali Iuldachev of Yzbekistan and GM Alexei Barsov. Harikrishna playing the Slav defence after mishandling the opening was in a minus position and after thet ransposition to the rook and pawn ending had disaster facing him. Ziaur however lost way fumbling first in finding a win and then muffling drawing chances to go down finally. Barua also scored a lucky vicotry over GM Wu Wenjin while Praveen Thipsay inched slowly with another draw against Li Wenliang Among prominent upsets GM Mohamad Al Modiahkibt GN Leonid Yurtaevand Zeng Pengxiang shocked Utut Adianto. D V Prasad held GM Liang Jingrong and
has tallied 3.5 points and needs two points from the enxt three games to gain his final GM norm.

Results Of Round 6

MAHJOOB MORTEZA(4) LOST TO XU JUN (5.5)
GHAEM MAGHAMI (4.5) DREW WITH BARSOV ALEXEI (4.5)
AL MODIAHKI MOHAMMAD (4.5) BEAT LEONID YURTAEV (3.5)
VAKHIDOV TAHIR (4) DREW WITH NGUYEN ANH DUNG (4)
RAHAMAN ZIAUR (3.5)LOST TO HARIKRISHNA P (4.5)
WANG YUE (3.5) LOST TO IULDACHEV SAIDALI(4.5)
ABDULLA AL RAKIB (4) drew DZHUMAEV MARAT (4)
LI WENLIANG (4) DREW WITH THIPSAY PRAVIN(4)
PENG XIAOMIN(3.5) DREW WITH ZAGREBELNY SERGEY(3.5)
ADIANTO UTUT (3) LOST TO ZHANG PENGXIANG(4)
BARUA DIBYENDU (4) BEAT WU WENJIN (3)
WANG ZILI (4) BEAT REEFAT BIN SATTAR(3)
GANGULY SURYA SEKHAR(3.5) DREW WITH LIANG CHONG (3.5)
EGIN VLADIMIR (3.5) DREW WITH MAGAI VLADIMIR(3.5)
SAFIN SHUKHRAT (4) bt DONGUINES FERNIE (3)
PRASAD DEVAKI V (3.5) DREW WITH LIANG JINGRONG (3.5)
GARMA CHITO(2.5) LOST TO VLADIMIROV EVGENY (3.5)
SASIKIRAN KRISHNAN(3.5) BEAT LIU DEDE(2.5)
PARAGUA MARK (2.5) lost to SADVAKASOV DARMEN (3.5)
KUNTE ABHIJIT(3.5) BEAT ISAEV JAMSHED(2.5)
TORRE EUGENIO (3) DREW WITH SRIRAM JHA(3)
ANTONIO ROGELIO JR LANKA RAVI YU SHAOTENG(3.5) BEAT RAHMAN TAIBUR (2.5)
HOSSAIN ENAMUL(2.5) LOST TO ODEEV HANDSZAR(3.5)
KOTSUR PAVEL (2) LOST TO MORADIABADI ELSHAN (3)
DAO THIEN HAI (2)LOST KONGUVEL PONNUSWAMY(3)
AL SAYED MOHAMMAD N (2.5) DREW WITH ANNAGELDYEV ORAZLY (2.5)
MALLAHI AMIR (3) BEAT IZMUKHAMBETOV SALAUA (2)
LODHI MAHMOOD (2) LOST TO NOLTE ROLANDO (3)
RAHAMAN S MANFUZUR (2) LOST TO KAZHZALEYEV MURTAS(2.5)
VILLAMAYOR BUENAVENT(2.5) BEAT NADER BARLO A (1.5)
ABU SUFIAN SAKIL (1.5) LOST TO KOSTENKO PETR (2.5)
TURPANOV MILAN (2.5) BEAT HOANG THANH TRANG(1.5)
NAZAROV ANVAR (1.5) LOST TO WOHL ALEKSANDAR (2.5)
SANDIPAN CHANDA (1.5) DREW WITH GHORBANI MOHSEN(2)
MISHRA NEERAJ KR (1.5) DREW WITH HAKKI IMAD(1.5)
PIERIS TDR (1) LOST TO DABLEO RONALD (2)

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