FM Minhazuddin Ahmed Sagar maintained his solo lead in the Mercantile Bank 36th National Chess Champion-ship at the close of the seventh round at the Bangladesh Chess Federation hall room yesterday.
Sagar beat Sharif Hossain to keep his unbeaten run and has seven points from as many games.
GM Reefat Bin Sattar and FM Abu Sufian Shakil shared the second position with six points each while FM Mehdi Hasan Parag and Debaraj Chatterjee were in the third position with five points each.
Reefat beat Abdullah Al Saif, Shakil beat Parag, Debaraj beat Arman Monir, Mizanur Rahman Labu beat Mahtabuddin Ahmed Robin, FM Kh. Aminul Islam
drew against FM Syed Mahfuzur Rahman Emon, FM Mohammad Javed drew against Golam Mostafa Bhuiyan.
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