Deepan, Laxman continue to lead

Half a point behind the leaders were GMs Atalik Suat (Tur), Tiviakov Sergei (Ned), Sivuk Vitaly (Ukr), Dzhumaev Marat (Uzb) along with S Nitin, P Karthikeyan, Karthik Venkataraman, Erigaisi Arjun, Pranav V, Sidhant Mohapatra, Muthaiah AL, Visakh N R (all India). 

Earlier, top seed GM Timur Gareyev (US) defeated local boy Rajarishi Karthi. The win took Gareyev to five points with three games in hand.

Woman FIDE Master and World Under 12 Champion Divya Deshmukh went down in a hard fought battle to Khusenkhojaev Muhammad of Tajikstan.

Results (Round 7) (Indians unless specified):  

Deepan Chakkravarthy J (6) drew with Tukhaev Adam (UKR) 6, Rozum Ivan (RUS) 6 bt Karthik Venkataraman (5.5), Tiviakov Sergei (NED) 5.5 drew with Erigaisi Arjun (5.5), Atalik Suat (TUR) 5.5 drew with Pranav V (5.5), Sidhant Mohapatra (5.5) drew with Pruijssers Roeland (NED) 5.5, Muthaiah Al (5.5) drew with Visakh N R (5.5), Laxman R.R (6) bt Hegde Ravi Gopal (5), Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi (5) drew with Solodovnichenko Yuri (UKR) 5, Sivuk Vitaly (UKR) 5.5 bt Praveen Kumar C (4.5), Karthikeyan P (5.5) bt Maheswaran P (4.5), Dzhumaev Marat (UZB) 5.5 bt Ajay Karthikeyan (4.5), Nitin S (5.5) bt  Ram S. Krishnan (4.5), Rajarishi Karthi (4.5) lost to Gareyev Timur (USA) 5.0

Karthik Venkataraman (5.5) drew with Deepan Chakkravarthy J (5.5), Visakh N R (5) drew with Tiviakov Sergei (NED) 5, Tukhaev Adam (UKR) 5.5 bt Rathnakaran K (4.5) Pruijssers Roeland (NED) 5 drew with Laxman R.R (5), Hegde Ravi Gopal (5) drew with Sivuk Vitaly (UKR) 4.5, Gareyev Timur (USA) 4 lost to Sidhant Mohapatra (5), Hafiz Arif Abdul (INA) 4 lost to Rozum Ivan (RUS) 5, Tran Tuan Minh (VIE) 4 lost to Muthaiah AL (5), Gajwa Ankit (4) lost to Atalik Suat (TUR) 5, Pranav V (5) bt Horvath Adam (HUN) 4, Maheswaran P (4.5) drew with Nitin S (4.5), Tiwari Arjun (4.5) drew with Llaneza Vega Marcos (SPA) 4.5