Silver Lake Open R5: Nihal and Raunak stay at the top

by Shahid Ahmed - 27/06/2021

Raunak and Nihal made a short 19-move draw to maintain their lead 4.5/5 at the conclusion of the fifth round in Silver Lake Open 2021. Manuel Petrosyan of Armenia won his game to join the three-way lead. He will face Nihal Sarin in the sixth round. Raahil Mullick will face the top seed of the tournament, Samvel Ter-Sahakyan after winning his fifth round game. Abhimanyu Puranik moved to 4.0/5 by making a draw. Harshit Raja and Rakshitta Ravi won their respective games. Round 6 starts today at 8:30 p.m. IST. Photo: Rupali Mullick

Manuel Petrosyan joins the three-way lead

Nihal and Raunak made a short draw. One of Levon Aronian's second, Manuel Petrosyan defeated GM Aleksa Strikovic to join the three-way lead with Nihal and Raunak. IM Raahil Mullick and GM Abhimanyu Puranik maintains their chase at 4.0/5 each respectively.

Raunak and Nihal make a temporary truce | Photo: Rupali Mullick

Raunak - Nihal: 0.5-0.5

Raunak and Nihal had a short 19-move draw.

It was a short encounter | Photo: Rupali Mullick

Puranik - Markovic: 0.5-0.5

GM Abhimanyu Puranik had a solid draw with IM Zoran Markovic.

Markovic did not let Abhimanyu do much in their game | Photo: Rupali Mullick

IM Raahil Mullick defeated FM Beloslava Krasteva | Photo: Rupali Mullick

GM Branko Damljanovic won against WIM Isha Sharma | Photo: Rupali Mullick

IM Harshit Raja beat Maarten De Vleeschauwer | Photo: Rupali Mullick

WIM Rakshitta Ravi beat Alexander A Yakimenko | Photo: Rupali Mullick

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Round 5 results

Rd.	Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
5	1	6	GM	Sadhwani Raunak	2555	4	½ - ½	4	GM	Nihal Sarin	2620	3
5	3	4	GM	Puranik Abhimanyu	2589	3½	½ - ½	3½	IM	Markovic Zoran S	2315	36
5	11	22	IM	Mullick Raahil	2386	3	1 - 0	3	FM	Krasteva Beloslava	2305	39
5	15	8	GM	Damljanovic Branko	2501	2½	1 - 0	2½	WIM	Sharma Isha	2237	50
5	17	13	IM	Raja Harshit	2459	2½	1 - 0	2½		De Vleeschauwer Maarten	2198	57
5	34	58	WIM	Rakshitta Ravi	2190	2	1 - 0	2		Yakimenko Alexander A.	2058	90
5	39	37	GM	Dimitrov Vladimir	2314	1½	1 - 0	2		Phatak Aanjaneya	1769	123
5	57	89		Tonic Milos	2073	1	½ - ½	1		Devnani Kush	1855	114
5	62	131		Rajveer Pinkesh Nahar	1598	½	1 - 0	½		Katic Goran	1963	100
5	41	86		Mitic Aleksandar	0	1	0 - 1	1		Anaishaa Pinkesh Nahar	1155	72

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Round 6 pairings

Rd.	Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
6	1	3	GM	Nihal Sarin	2620	4½		4½	GM	Petrosyan Manuel	2625	2
6	2	7	GM	Sedlak Nikola	2519	4		4½	GM	Sadhwani Raunak	2555	6
6	3	1	GM	Ter-Sahakyan Samvel	2644	4		4	IM	Mullick Raahil	2386	22
6	4	25	FM	Stukan Martin	2376	4		4	GM	Puranik Abhimanyu	2589	4
6	11	35	IM	Hasanzade Toghrul	2317	3½		3½	IM	Raja Harshit	2459	13
6	25	64	CM	Jandric Damjan	2175	3		3	WIM	Rakshitta Ravi	2190	58
6	31	50	WIM	Sharma Isha	2237	2½		2½		Skonnord Uno	2112	78
6	47	123		Phatak Aanjaneya	1769	2		2		Konyves Almos	2102	81
6	51	114		Devnani Kush	1855	1½		1½		Gagic Milan A	2180	63
6	59	107		Djordjevic Nevena	1923	1½		1½		Rajveer Pinkesh Nahar	1598	131
6	34	72		Anaishaa Pinkesh Nahar	1155	2		2		Veljkovic Varvara	1621	49

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