Air-India scored a crushing 3-1 victory over defending champion and top seed Petroleum Sports Promotion Board (PSPB) to cause the biggest upset in the tournament.

In spite of having it all,  PSPB an all  Grandmaster team with the expertise help from IM D.V.Prasad, who himself was a seasoned manager of  Petroleum Sports Promotion Board, could not stop the outcome against the spirted Air India Team.

S. Satyapragyan  held Abhjit Kunte in 40 moves on the third board.Mean while Parimarjan Negi held Sasikiran to a  draw.
G. B. Joshi defeated GM Deepan Chakkravarthy in 40 moves.Tejas Bakre played Sachin's Innings by beating  Arun Prasad in 60 moves to give Air-India the lead.

The results:

Open (fifth round): Air-India (10) beat Petroleum (8) 3-1
Railways ‘A’ (8) beat West Bengal (6) 4-0;
Railways ‘B’ (8) beat Kerala (6) 3.5-0.5;
Tamil Nadu (7) drew with LIC (7);
Punjab (6) beat Delhi (4) 3.5-0.5

Pairings of the 6th round

Round 6 on 2010/02/25 at 10.00.A.M.
No.	Team	Team	Res.	:	Res.
1	Railway SPB - A	Air India		:
2	Petroleum Sports P B	Tamil Nadu		:
3	LIC	Railway SPB - B		:
4	West Bengal	Bihar - A		:
5	Madhya Shetra SS - B	Punjab		:
6	Kerala	Tata Consultancy Services		:
7	Services SCB	Haryana - A		:
8	UP Chess	HP - A		:
9	Delhi	Bihar - B		:
10	A I Electricity SCB	Budhibal Kreeda Trust		:
11	Haryana - B	All Inda Chess Fed - Blind		:
12	Kamaksha HP	HBTI		:
13	Madhya Shetra SS - A	spielfrei	1	:	0

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