Rohit shock for Rajesh

The game between RS Prasanna (TNCA) and Syed Anwar Shazuli (TN) ended in a draw in 54 moves.

Manish Joshi (MP) playing black against unseeded N Raju (AP) registered a win in 34 moves. Raju, who lost on time, failed to complete his 40 moves in stipulated two hours time, in a game which began in Reti opening and converted into Kings Indian defence.

RESULTS

Dinesh Kumar Sharma (LIC) 6.5 bt Pankaj Joshi (Venus) 5, RS Prasanna (TNCA) 5.5 drew with Syed Anwar Shazuli (TN) 5.5, Manish Joshi (UP) 6 bt N Raju (AP) 4.5, K Gunusekharan (TN) 5.5 bt Pradeep Pathak (UP) 4.5, J Ramakrishna (AP) 5 bt S Raghvendra (Ker) 4, Banik Somanth (WB) 5 bt M Srinivasa Rao (AP) 4, J Malleswara Rao (AP) 5 bt SR Misra (Ori) 4, G Rohit (AP) 5 bt P Rajesh (TNCA) 4, D Sai Srinivas (AP) 4 drew with Pranjal Das (WB) 4, Ganesh Bhatt (Ker) 4.5 bt Smeeru Thakar (HP) 3.5, Ch K Krishna (Rly) 4 bt Ajay Pande (UP) 3.5, TL Shaji (Ker) 4 bt S Satyakam (Ori) 3, GN Gopal (Ker) 3.5 drew with D Dinesh Kumar (TN) 3.5, Amarnath (AP) 4 bt K Vedadri (AP) 3, L Basantha Singh (EMA) 4 bt KS Krishna (Capa) 3, P Srikanth (EMA) 4 bt Atul Pareek (Bihar) 4, T Keerthi Rana (AP) 3.5 bt N Vinuthna (AP) 3, M Abhinav (AP) 3.5 bt Dev Karan Bhatti (Mah) 2.5, LD Rao (IAF) 3 drew with T Vennala (AP) 3, K Girija Kumar (AP) 3.5 bt Mukesh Jain (Raj) 2.5, Ch Kavitha (AP) 3 bt Gururajan (IAF) 2, KN Kumar (EMA) 3 bt S Sanjay Kumar(Chrome) 2, J Karthik (Capa) 3 bt P Kranthi Kiran (Chrome) 2, Gaurav Nangia (Mah) 2.5 bt P Satyanarayana (AP) 2, D Harika (AP) 2.5 bt Neeraj Sharma (Raj) 1.5, G Inao Sharma (Mani) 2.5 bt S Praneeth (AP) 1.5, Jagan Mohan Reddy (Kar) 2 bt G Naveena (AP) 1.5, KB Choudary (AP) (gets a bye).