S PRASSANNA of Tamil Nadu emerged as the sole leader after Round Six of the ongoing MLA Cup All India Open FIDE Rating Chess Tournament being organised by Jai Sai Welfare Foundation at Akhil Bhartiya Vishwakarma Vikas Mandal on Thursday. Playing on the top board, Fide Master Prassanna defeated Prakash Ram of Punjab with black pieces in 49 moves top go at the top with six points. Maharashtra’s Nirgun Keval, West Bengal’s Arpan Das, IM Vikramaditya Kulkarni of Railways are at the second spot with 5.5 points.

Kulkarni defeated Nagpur’s Siddhant Gawai with black piece while Nirgun Keval drew with Odisha’s Susobhit Das.

On other boards, Maharashtra’s Indrajeet Mahindrakar beat State-mate Sanjeev Mishra in a 48-move battle while West Bengal’s Das beat Shrayan Majumder with white.

Other Results: Saksham Singh (4.5) drew with Vishal Dharia (4.5), Anurag Jaiswal (4) lost to Jay Sawalakhe(5), Dishank Bajaj (4.5) drew with Vedika Pal (4.5), Shivam Chaudhary (4) lost to Daksh Goyal (5).