Wang Hao and Inarkiev set up the all important round 7 clash in Sharjah

Abhijeet Gupta is the highest scoring Indian and is on 4.5/6. After a fine win against Sargissian in round five, he lost his game to Inarkiev in round 6 | Photo: Niklesh Jain

The sole leader of the tournament - Ernesto Inarkiev | Photo: Niklesh Jain

The board two clash between Inarkiev and Gupta which ended in the Russian getting the full point | Photo: Niklesh Jain

Aditya Mittal with his mother Kusum and organizing secretary Talal Alzaabi. In round 6 Aditya played an excellent game to beat Eduardo Iturrizaga. | Photo: Niklesh Jain

If Raunak Sadhwani can finish well, he may well go back home with his second GM norm | Photo: Niklesh Jain

Nihal Sarin won his round 6 game and faces Vladimir Fedoseev in round 7 | Photo: Niklesh Jain

The top board clash between Wang Hao and Maghsoodloo ended in a draw | Photo: Niklesh Jain

Can Deepan show his fire on board approach in the last three rounds and finish on the top? | Photo: Niklesh Jain

The Uzbek boys are in top form at the Sharjah Masters! | Photo: Niklesh Jain

India's most experienced arbiter Anantharam with press officer of the Sharjah Masters Kema Goryaeva | Photo: Niklesh Jain

Inarkiev is the sole leader with 5.5/6 and is followed by Wang Hao, Parham Maghsoodloo, Shamsiddin Vokhidov and Nodirbek Yakkuboev

Inarkiev versus Wang Hao is the mouth watering clash that everyone is looking forward to

Player overview for IND

SNo		Name	Rtg	RtgI	FED	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Pts.	Rk.	K	rtg+/-
13	GM	Ganguly Surya Shekhar	2633	2633	IND	1	1	½	0	1	½				4,0	31	10	-6,30
17	GM	Gupta Abhijeet	2602	2602	IND	1	1	½	1	1	0				4,5	6	10	6,40
19	GM	Nihal Sarin	2578	2578	IND	1	1	1	0	1	½				4,5	19	10	4,80
23	GM	Chanda Sandipan	2534	2534	IND	1	1	½	1	0	½				4,0	27	10	-0,80
24	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.	2534	2534	IND	1	½	½	1	1	½				4,5	17	10	3,80
25	GM	Debashis Das	2532	2532	IND	1	1	½	0	½	½				3,5	56	10	-6,00
26	IM	Gukesh D	2529	2529	IND	½	1	1	0	0	1				3,5	66	10	-9,00
28	GM	Vishnu Prasanna. V	2524	2524	IND	1	1	½	½	½	1				4,5	22	10	3,00
30	GM	Venkatesh M.R.	2517	2517	IND	1	1	0	½	1	0				3,5	60	10	-1,50
31	GM	Stany G.A.	2507	2507	IND	1	1	½	0	½	½				3,5	50	10	-1,60
35	GM	Harsha Bharathakoti	2497	2497	IND	½	½	1	½	1	0				3,5	62	10	-9,00
36	GM	Karthik Venkataraman	2494	2494	IND	1	1	0	½	½	0				3,0	85	10	-12,50
39	IM	Iniyan P	2487	2487	IND	1	1	½	0	½	½				3,5	59	10	-4,50
42	IM	Vignesh N R	2476	2476	IND	1	1	½	½	1	½				4,5	14	10	9,80
45	IM	Sadhwani Raunak	2455	2455	IND	1	0	1	1	1	½				4,5	21	10	2,20
46	CM	Aditya Mittal	2454	2454	IND	1	1	0	1	½	1				4,5	20	10	11,20
47	CM	Mendonca Leon Luke	2446	2446	IND	1	½	0	1	1	½				4,0	41	10	7,30
50	IM	Shyaamnikhil P	2429	2429	IND	1	0	½	1	0	1				3,5	70	10	-2,90
51	GM	Laxman R.R.	2425	2425	IND	1	0	1	1	0	1				4,0	35	10	3,70
53	IM	Raja Rithvik R	2423	2423	IND	1	0	1	1	0	½				3,5	58	10	-2,10
55	IM	Akshat Khamparia	2415	2415	IND	½	1	0	1	0	1				3,5	67	10	-2,40
56	GM	Sundararajan Kidambi	2413	2413	IND	1	½	0	1	½	1				4,0	34	10	6,90
57	IM	Akash G	2411	2411	IND	1	0	1	1	0	0				3,0	86	10	-6,70
58	IM	Nitin S.	2408	2408	IND	1	½	0	1	0	1				3,5	63	10	-0,60
62		Saurabh Anand	2385	2385	IND	1	0	1	½	½	1				4,0	38	20	1,00
63	IM	Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad	2384	2384	IND	1	½	½	1	½	½				4,0	30	20	20,60
67	IM	Rathnakaran K.	2361	2361	IND	1	0	1	0	1	1				4,0	42	10	2,70
68	IM	Fenil Shah	2360	2360	IND	1	0	0	1	1	1				4,0	48	10	-5,40
69	FM	Pranav Anand	2359	2359	IND	½	1	0	1	0	1				3,5	75	20	-13,60
71	IM	Raghunandan Kaumandur Srihari	2352	2352	IND	1	½	½	½	1	0				3,5	55	10	12,30
72	IM	Sidhant Mohapatra	2348	2348	IND	1	½	0	0	½	1				3,0	88	10	-3,60
73	FM	Shailesh Dravid	2316	2316	IND	1	0	1	1	0	0				3,0	80	20	6,00
74	CM	Bharath Subramaniyam H	2301	2301	IND	1	0	1	½	½	½				3,5	72	20	15,00
75		Ajay Karthikeyan	2298	2298	IND	1	0	1	½	½	0				3,0	90	40	9,60
76	WIM	Priyanka Nutakki	2297	2297	IND	1	0	1	0	1	1				4,0	47	40	31,20
78	IM	Sharma Dinesh K.	2286	2286	IND	1	½	0	0	1	1				3,5	65	10	4,30
80	IM	Ravi Thandalam Shanmugam	2276	2276	IND	½	0	1	0	0	1				2,5	125	10	-21,70
82	CM	Mullick Raahil	2275	2275	IND	1	0	1	0	1	0				3,0	92	40	-11,20
84	WIM	Divya Deshmukh	2266	2266	IND	1	0	1	0	1	0				3,0	93	40	-14,00
86		Kunal M.	2258	2258	IND	1	1	½	0	½	1				4,0	39	20	40,60
87		Pranav V	2258	2258	IND	1	0	1	1	0	1				4,0	46	20	20,00
88	IM	Praveen Kumar C	2243	2243	IND	1	1	½	½	0	½				3,5	49	10	16,00
91	FM	Jeet Jain	2219	2219	IND	0	1	1	½	½	1				4,0	37	20	29,00
93		Panda Sambit	2218	2218	IND	0	1	½	0	1	½				3,0	83	40	4,40
95	FM	Srihari L R	2211	2211	IND	0	1	0	1	0	1				3,0	96	20	-9,80
101	IM	Gokhale Chandrashekhar	2185	2185	IND	0	0	1	1	0	1				3,0	102	10	-7,30
103		Gandhi Anish	2156	2156	IND	0	0	1	½	1	0				2,5	123	20	-19,40
106		Jaeel Atharva	2145	2145	IND	0	1	0	½	½	1				3,0	103	40	-25,20
110		Thrish Karthik	2096	2096	IND	½	½	0	1	1	½				3,5	64	40	79,20
111		Shiva Pavan Teja Sharma U	2093	2093	IND	0	½	1	0	1	0				2,5	117	20	-10,20
114	WCM	Mrudul Dehankar	2078	2078	IND	0	1	0	½	1	0				2,5	121	40	-20,00
115	WFM	Bommini Mounika Akshaya	2076	2076	IND	½	0	1	0	1	0				2,5	112	40	10,40
116		Kumar Gaurav	2074	2074	IND	0	1	0	1	0	1				3,0	100	20	0,00
119		Shanya Mishra	2026	2026	IND	0	1	1	0	½	0				2,5	110	40	41,20
121		Sri Sai Baswanth P	2018	2018	IND	½	1	½	½	0	0				2,5	107	20	37,20
122	CM	Shahil Dey	2007	2007	IND	0	1	0	1	½	0				2,5	116	40	7,60
123	WFM	Sanskriti Goyal	2006	2006	IND	0	0	1	1	0	1				3,0	105	40	-4,00
124		Mohammed Dilshad	2006	2006	IND	½	0	1	0	0	1				2,5	114	20	4,60
125		Krithigga K	2002	2002	IND	0	1	1	0	0	0				2,0	132	40	19,20
126		Niklesh Kumar Jain	1995	1995	IND	0	1	0	½	0	½	0	0	0	2,0	138	20	-24,00
127	WIM	Gokhale Anupama	1994	1994	IND	0	1	0	1	1	0				3,0	97	20	13,60
128		Parthasarathy R	1989	1989	IND	0	1	0	0	1	0				2,0	135	20	-6,80
132		Anilkumar O.T.	1975	1975	IND	0	1	0	0	1	0				2,0	133	20	-9,00
133		Mota Pankit	1974	1974	IND	½	0	0	1	0	1				2,5	118	20	2,80
138	WCM	Isha Sharma	1935	1935	IND	0	1	0	½	1	0				2,5	111	20	33,40
139		Rakshith Srinivasan	1923	1923	IND	0	0	1	½	0	1				2,5	126	40	0,00
141		Souradip Deb	1899	1899	IND	0	0	1	0	1	1				3,0	106	20	11,00
142		Gokhale Rishabh Chandrashekhar	1895	1895	IND	0	½	½	0	1	0				2,0	149	40	13,20
144		Abid Ali Mujawar	1869	1869	IND	0	0	1	0	½	1				2,5	128	20	-13,00
145		Rohit S	1868	1868	IND	½	0	1	0	0	1				2,5	113	40	69,60
146	WFM	Meghna C H	1863	1863	IND	0	0	1	½	1	0				2,5	124	20	17,60
147	WFM	Dhyana Patel	1848	1848	IND	0	1	0	0	0	½				1,5	158	40	-5,20
148		Jinan Jomon	1848	1848	IND	0	1	1	½	0	½				3,0	87	40	61,20
150		Varsha Ramesh	1831	1831	IND	0	½	0	0	1	½				2,0	153	40	-10,00
151	AIM	Kaushik G Iyer	1771	1771	IND	0	0	1	½	0	0				1,5	166	40	-2,40
153	AIM	Sidharth Balaji Sridharan	1732	1732	IND	0	½	0	0	1	0				1,5	164	40	-18,40
155		Devnani Kush	1650	1650	IND	0	1	0	0	0	1				2,0	141	40	30,80
156		Aagam Aditya E	1649	1649	IND	0	0	½	0	½	½				1,5	161	40	-6,40
157		Antony Jesumarian Leslie	1621	1621	IND	0	½	0	0	1	½				2,0	148	40	30,80
159		Singh Gurmeher	1589	1589	IND	0	0	0	1	0	0				1,0	171	40	-31,60
162		Rebecca Jesumarian	1561	1561	IND	0	0	0	1	0	½				1,5	167	40	14,40
167	AIM	Vishal Choudary B	1519	1519	IND	0	0	½	1	0	0				1,5	160	40	34,80
168		Harikrishnan C	1514	1514	IND	0	0	0	1	½	0	0			1,5	165	40	14,80
169		Sharon Rafael	1474	1474	IND	½	0	0	1	0	½				2,0	143	40	60,80

Round 6 highlights by Niklesh Jain from the Sharjah Chess Club

Wang Hao and Inarkiev set up the all important round 7 clash in Sharjah

Player overview for IND

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