Manas, Natabara on top

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Bhubaneswar, Jan 24: Top seed Manas Parida and 10th seed Natabar Das of Bhubaneswar were leading the pack with six points each after the end of the sixth round of the 28th Bhubaneswar Open Chess Championship at the Secretariat Recreation Club here Sunday.

They were followed by eight players with five points each. They are Sahadev Khatei, Pravat Ojha, Amrutanshu Mohapatra, Rabindra Moharana, Sachin Pathy, Prakash Sahoo, Tukuna Kandi and Manas Singh. As many as four players are at the joint third position with 4.5 points each. They are I.M. Ali, Santosh Sinha, Akhila Majhee and Debojit Sarbagyan.