After six rounds, the two Indian grandmasters Aravindh Chithambaram Vr. and Visakh, N R are still in the lead. In round five, the two players, who both started with 4.0/4, drew their game against each other. In round six, Aravindh also drew against Vladislav Artemiev.
Visakh also drew against his compatriot Aditya Mittal. Sethuraman and Pranav, the runners-up who were playing at table three, also drew. So there was no change at the top of the table.
Vasyl Ivanchuk defeated Sina Movahed and Arad Nazari, both International Masters from Iran, in rounds five and six, and with 4.5/6 he is now one of the eleven players chasing the leading Indian duo.
The top seed of the tournament, Chinese Grandmaster Yu Yangyi, is also part of this group. In round five he defeated IM Alparslan Isik from Turkey and in round six he won against Aleksandar Indjic from Serbia, the first Grandmaster Yu Yangyi had to face in the tournament.
With 4.0/6 Yu's compatriot, Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun, has half a point less. She came from the TePe Sigeman Tournament in Malmö and started in Dubai with a bye (you don't play, but you get half a point), and then followed up with with two wins and three draws in the next five games.
In round six she drew against Javokhir Sindarov from Uzbekistan and currently has a rating-performance of 2609.
Standings after six rounds
| 1 | 8 | GM | Aravindh, Chithambaram Vr. | IND | 2670 | 5 | 2788 | 0 | 18 | 15,5 | 4 | 10 | 7 | ||
| 2 | 41 | GM | Visakh, N R | IND | 2506 | 5 | 2774 | 0 | 16,5 | 15 | 4 | 10 | 20,2 | ||
| 3 | 49 | GM | Fawzy, Adham | EGY | 2486 | 4,5 | 2780 | 0 | 17,5 | 15,5 | 3 | 10 | 23 | ||
| 4 | 27 | GM | Pranav, V | IND | 2587 | 4,5 | 2742 | 0 | 16 | 14,5 | 3 | 10 | 12 | ||
| 5 | 35 | GM | Pranesh, M | IND | 2535 | 4,5 | 2737 | 0 | 16,5 | 14,5 | 4 | 10 | 15,7 | ||
| 6 | 3 | GM | Artemiev, Vladislav | RUS | 2705 | 4,5 | 2734 | 0 | 18,5 | 15,5 | 3 | 10 | 2,4 | ||
| 7 | 26 | GM | Sethuraman, S.P. | IND | 2588 | 4,5 | 2688 | 0 | 14,5 | 13 | 3 | 10 | 7,7 | ||
| 8 | 17 | GM | Salem, A.R. Saleh | UAE | 2629 | 4,5 | 2682 | 0 | 17 | 14 | 4 | 10 | 3,8 | ||
| 9 | 4 | GM | Narayanan, S L | IND | 2695 | 4,5 | 2680 | 0 | 14 | 12 | 3 | 10 | -0,6 | ||
| 10 | 1 | GM | Yu, Yangyi | CHN | 2728 | 4,5 | 2668 | 0 | 16 | 13 | 3 | 10 | -3,4 | ||
| 11 | 21 | GM | Aditya, Mittal | IND | 2607 | 4,5 | 2658 | 0 | 14,5 | 12,5 | 3 | 10 | 3,8 | ||
| 12 | 16 | GM | Puranik, Abhimanyu | IND | 2629 | 4,5 | 2637 | 0 | 13,5 | 12 | 4 | 10 | 0,7 | ||
| 13 | 20 | GM | Ivanchuk, Vasyl | UKR | 2609 | 4,5 | 2629 | 0 | 16 | 13 | 3 | 10 | 1,4 | ||
| 14 | 37 | GM | Vignesh, N R | IND | 2526 | 4 | 2658 | 0 | 15 | 13 | 2 | 10 | 10,4 | ||
| 15 | 38 | GM | Makhnev, Denis | KAZ | 2518 | 4 | 2645 | 0 | 15,5 | 14 | 2 | 10 | 10,1 | ||
| 16 | 6 | GM | Sindarov, Javokhir | UZB | 2684 | 4 | 2627 | 0 | 15,5 | 13 | 2 | 10 | -4 | ||
| 17 | 12 | GM | Sargsyan, Shant | ARM | 2637 | 4 | 2616 | 0 | 16 | 14 | 2 | 10 | -1,6 | ||
| 18 | 2 | GM | Tabatabaei, M. Amin | IRI | 2707 | 4 | 2614 | 0 | 16 | 13 | 3 | 10 | -6,3 | ||
| 19 | 32 | GM | Ju, Wenjun | w | CHN | 2559 | 4 | 2607 | 0 | 13,5 | 12 | 2 | 10 | 3,3 | |
| 20 | 7 | GM | Martirosyan, Haik M. | ARM | 2678 | 4 | 2601 | 0 | 16,5 | 14 | 2 | 10 | -5,3 | ||
| 21 | 14 | GM | Donchenko, Alexander | GER | 2631 | 4 | 2601 | 0 | 16 | 14 | 2 | 10 | -2,2 | ||
| 22 | 31 | GM | Ghosh, Diptayan | IND | 2560 | 4 | 2578 | 0 | 13,5 | 11,5 | 3 | 10 | 1,6 | ||
| 23 | 66 | GM | Zajic, Milan | SRB | 2436 | 4 | 2576 | 0 | 12,5 | 12 | 3 | 10 | 11,8 | ||
| 24 | 5 | GM | Niemann, Hans Moke | USA | 2688 | 4 | 2569 | 0 | 15,5 | 13 | 2 | 10 | -7,9 | ||
| 25 | 18 | GM | Suleymanli, Aydin | AZE | 2621 | 4 | 2554 | 0 | 15,5 | 12,5 | 3 | 10 | -4,8 |
...135 players
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