Ramana shocks Kongvel

In the other interesting match of the day, A Shankar of Southern Railway scored a fine win over IM Mishra of Tata Steel of India in a Catalan Defence.

Commonwealth champion Atanu Lahiri, who has had a bad run so far, succumbed to S Mari Arul, while IM-elect Jayant Gokhale was stunned by AS Baratakka.

Fourth seed SK Rathore lost to Dilip Pagay, while PDS Girinath defeated K Chakravarthy.

Results: P Konguvel 4.5 ;lost to J Venkataramana 6; V Koshy 5.5 bt Muralidharan 4.5; NK Mishra 4.5 lost to A Sankar 5.5; SC Subramanian 5 drew with Vishal Sareen 5; TS Ravi 4.5 lost to TB Muralikrishna 5.5; Amardip S Bartakke 5.5 bt Jayant Gokhale 4.5; Ravi Kumar 5 drew with SS Sopman 5; A Mari Arul 5 bt Atanu Lahiri 4; SK Rathore 4 lost to Dilip Pagay 5; KN Gopal 4 lost to Tejas Bakre 5; Rahul G Shetty 5 bt Beenish Bhatia 4; PDS Girinath 5 bt K Chakravarthy 4; Manoj Kumar Panigrahi 5 bt M Srinivas Rao 4; Nisha Mohota 4.5 drew with R Bandyopadhyay and RS Gupta 4.5 drew with KV Shantaram.