Sixth seed S.L. Narayanan stayed in the title-hunt beating Serbia’s Luka Budisavljevic and sharing the lead with Latvia’s Igor Kovalenko at six points after seven rounds of the RTU Open chess in Riga on Friday. With two rounds to go, Arjun Erigaisi and Arjun Kalyan (5.5 each) were tied for the third spot with eight others. Aravindh Chithambaram, Nihal Sarin, D. Gukesh, Pranav Anand and Murali Karthikeyan (5 each) were among those sharing the 13th spot. Leading results (involving Indians): Seventh round: Igor Kovalenko (Lat, 6) bt D. Gukesh (5); S.L.

Source: The Hindu August 14, 2021 15:00 UTC