Harikrishna upset

Lakshminarayanan, on three points, stayed in lead with top seed K Sasikiran, MR Venkatesh both TN and Manthan Chokshi Gujarat.

Harikrishna went for an unsound course in his favourite English Opening and gave the advantage to Lakshminarayanan on move 19.

The Kerala junior champion won two pieces for his rook and slowly tightened the screws. In the end, Harikrishna had to part with a full rook after 60 moves.

Top board results

Sasikiran TN,3 bt R Kashelkar Mah, 2; S Satyakam Ori, 2.5 drew with Karthik TN, 2.5; M Chokshi Guj, 3 bt Rishipal Singh AP, 2; CJ AravindTN, 2.5 drew with G Vinod T.Nagar,2.5; Harikrishna AP, 2 lost to Lakshminarayanan Ker,3; Yeshwant Shenoy Kar 2 lost to MR Venkatesh TN, 3; S Kidambi TN,2.5 bt Vikramaditya Mah,2; Venkat TN,2.5 bt Vivek Anand Bih,1.5; P Mokal Mah,1.5 lost to Tejas Bakre IA,2; S Kutwal Mah,1 lost to Sajesh Ker,2; SK Jain UP,1 lost to K Ramu AP,2; Bharat Gupta Raj 2 bt Sujeesh K Ker,1; Salilkumar Ker,1 lost to Ratnakaran Ker,2, S Kherdekar Mah,2 bt Pradeeep Kumar Ker,1

GIRLS: Swati Mohota WB,3 bt PL Sivakami TN,2; Ananya Sarkar GNCA,3 bt Nisha Mohota WB,2; Pallavi Shah Mah,3 bt Manasi Dadarkar Mah,2; S Sujatha TN,2 lost to Meenakshi TN,3; Chitra Sridhar Kar,2.5 bt M Priyadarshini TN,2; Moutry Padma AP,1.5 lost to Charanya T Nagar, 2.5; Ashwini Puchpurkar Mah,2 bt Baisakhi Das WB,1.5; P Vijayalakshmi AP,1 lost to Ashwini Kulkarni Mah,2; Sasinas Haritha Ker,2 bt Monalisa Malakar WB,1; Arvind Lochanai AP,2 bt S Cynthia TN,1; Pratibha GSWCA,2 bt Kavitha AP,1; K Prajeesha Ker,1 lost to N Sandhya Ker,2