Mumbai, June 16 -- IM Soham Kamotra caused a flutter at the 360 ONE Global Chess Festival, displaying a strong defence to halt Iniyan Pa's winning streak in the sixth round ofthe Master's section at the World Trade Centre.
Iniyan had been in blistering form, winning all his first five games and looked set to score his sixth successive victory in the early stages of his game but lost way and had to settle for a draw against Kamotra, who incidentally is the first and only International Master (IM) from Jammu and Kashmir.
Iniyan with 5.5 points however holds onto a slender half point lead over second placed Aakashchandra Dalvi, while Kamotra, Ayush Sharma and Harsh Suresh are bunched behindwith 4.5 points each.
In other results, GM Abhijit ...