Humpy continues her winning ways

The Indian took advantage of the situation thereafter and played brilliantly to outclass her rival in just 28 moves.

Soumya Swaminathan, Tania Sachdev, Aarthie Ramaswamy, Rahul Sangma, Sunil Rangarajan and P Harikrishna were the other Indians who recorded wins in the second round.

MR Venkatesh, playing in the boys U-14, was held to draw while Valay Parikh U-18 lost to 16th seeded Spaniard David Martinez.

Eesha Karavade U-12, Shraddha Somani U-14 and Y Pratibha U-16 were vanquished in their respective categories.

In girls U-10, Soumya Swaminathan faced the Steinitz variation in the RuyLopez and she played strongly from the beginning and mated her opponent in just 28 moves to open her account.

Tania Sachdev played the Sozin variation against the Sicilian defence. Her opponent blundered in the opening and lost a pawn and taking a cue from it Tania played an attacking game to win brilliantly in the end.