Easy for Dinesh, Anwar

In another interesting encounter, M Srinivas of AP scored a victory over Karnataka8217;s JM Reddy when the latter made a mistake in the opening phase of the Queen Gambit Declined Variation.

Results Round I: Dinesh Kumar Sharma LIC 1 bt J Karthik CAPA 0; Syed Anwar TN 1 bt Gururajan IAF 0; Pankaj Joshi Venus 1 bt L D Rao IAF 0; J Ramakrishna AP 1 bt Sheenu Thakar HP 0; Gunasekharn TN 1 bt Ragavendra Kar 0; Srinivasa Rao AP 1 bt Jagan Mohan Reddy Kar 0; G N Gopal Kar 1 bt LV Siva Kumar 0; Pradeep Pathak UP 1 bt N Vinuthna AP 0; T Vennala AP 1 bt Satyakam Ori 0; Ganesh Bhatti Kar 1 bt G Rohit AP 0; G Dinesh Kumar TN 1 bt Chandrahasa AP 0; P Rajesh TNCA 1 bt G Naveena Rlys 0; SK Kashim AP 1 bt Mukesh Mandoli Raj 0; Amarnath 1 bt Sanjai Kumar CCA 0, Ch Kavitha AP 1 bt P Kranti Kiran CCA 0; Atul Parekh Raj 0.5 drew with Gaurav Nangia Mah 0.5; Devkaran Mah 1 bt G Varun KUmar 0; Sai Krishna CAPA 1 bt Praneeth 0; Nikhelesh EMA 1 bt KB Chowdary 0; Ajya Pande UP 0.5 drew with D Sai Srinivas AP 0.5; L Basanth Singh Manipur 1 bt P Srikanth EMA 0; D Harika AP 1 bt G Inao Sharma Manipur 0.