Lahiri sneaks into top spot

Saravanan and Jha exchanged their queens early in a Ruy Lopez game. Saravanan ground a win after 50 moves. Two college students from the city caused upsets. Rashmin Pulekar, a 20-year-old third year student of RA Podar defeated IM elect Rahul Shetty of Indian Airlines in 45 moves. Shetty has a rating of 2385 while Pulekar has 2105.

In the other upset, D Ravishankar 2090 of Mulund College of Commerce defeated K Vishweshwaran 2240 of Tamil Nadu in 32 moves.

Results 10th round

V Saravanan 2390 international rating points 8 points bt Sriram Jha 2330 8 in 50 moves; N Sanjay 2285 7 lost to Atanu Lahiri 2310 8.5 in 25 moves; Hari Om Sharma 2235 7 lost to GM Dibyendu Barua 2540 8 in 31 moves; Saptarshi Roy Choudhary 2190 7 drew with IM Shekar Sahu 2290 7.5 in 35 moves; Ramkrishna Kashelkar 2175 6.5 lost to IM Sudhakar Babu 2335 7.5; Valay Parikh 2125 6 lost to Anup Deshmukh 2430 7 in 59 moves; IM Verghese Koshy 2340 7 bt Ravi Bhave 2195 6 in 31 moves; SJ Kamath 2240 6.5 drew with Prathamesh Mokal 2175 6.5 in 58 moves; K Vishweshwaran 2240 6 lost to D Ravishankar 2090 7 in 32 moves.