Kolkata, June 20: Sayantan Dutta continued his winning spree in the Alekhine chess club national ''b'' selection chess tournament at Gorky Sadan here today. Playing with the black pieces, Sayantan outwitted Argyadip Das to lead the boards by half a point on 5.5 points. Somak Palit, who made short work of Dwijendra Chakraborty, was in the second spot on 5 points. Supriya Maji (4.5) jumped into the third position by getting the better of Dipankar Guha in 33 moves. Following are the results: Arghyadip Das(4) lost to Sayantan Dutta (5.5) Somak Palit(5) bt Dwijendra Chakraborty(4) Supriya Maji(4.5) bt Dipankar Guha(4) Tanmoy Pattanayak (4) drew with Joydeep Dutta(4) Satyajit Kundu(3) lost to Sudip Mallik (4) Abhratanu Dutta (4) bt Suchandra Chattapadhyay (3) Sandipan Chatterjee(4) bt Md.Qutubuddin (3) Payel guha(3.5) bt md.Faruque(2.5) ? Bitan Banerjee(3) bt Antarip Roy(2)

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