National chess

Five more players joined leaders FM Minhazuddin Ahmed Sagar, FM Mehdi Hasan Parag, FM Mohammad Javed and Debaraj Chatterjee on top of the points table of the preliminary phase of 36th National Chess Champion-ship at the close of the sixth round games at Bangladesh Chess Federation Hall Room yesterday.
FM Abu Sufian Shakil, FM Syed Mahfuzur Rahman Emon, Golam Mostafa Bhuiyan, Abdullah Al Saif and Miznur Rahman Labu won their respective sixth games to raise their points to five from six matches while Sagar drew against Debaraj and Parag drew against Javed.
Six players -- FM Kh. Aminul Islam, Saifuddin Lavlu, FM Rezaul Haque, Arman Monir, Delwar Hossain and SM Sharon -- followed the leaders with 4.4 points.