Overview

• GM Lalit Babu and IM Arsen Davtyan drew their sixth-round clash to produce a five-way tie at 5.5/6 points
• IM Nayaka Buddhidharma held top seed GM Levan Pantsulaia to a draw in one of the event’s biggest upsets
• GM Manuel Petrosyan defeated Alexander Slizhevsky and GM Aleksej Aleksandrov overcame GM Luka Paichadze to keep pace with the leaders
• FM Aansh Nandan Nerurkar and CM Madhesh Kumar share the Under-13 section lead with unbeaten 5.5/6 records after six rounds
• A chase pack of six players sits at 5.0/6, underscoring the competitive depth as the nine-round Swiss tournament with a Rs40 lakh prize pool enters its final stages in Mumbai