Sriram Jha emerges sole leader

In the upsets of the day, Rashmin Pulekar drew with former national champion, Ponnuswamy Konguvel, while GM Dibyendu Barua Tisco and Rahul Shetty Indian Airlines were likely to be held by their weaker opponents, N Sanjay and Ramkrishna Kashelkar respectively.

RESULTS

Round 10:

Sriram Jha 2230 International rating points 8 points bt IM Sudhakar Babu 2335 6.5 in 39 moves; Atanu Lahiri 2310 7.5 bt IM Verghese Koshu 2340 6 in 17 moves; V Saravanan 2390 7 bt Amardeep Bartakke 2220 6 in 28 moves; IM Shekar Sahu 2290 7 bt Ketan Boricha 2225 6 in 22 moves; Vedant Goswami 2230 6 lost to Hari Om Sharma 2235 7 in 40 moves; Anup Deshmukh 2430 6 drew with Dilip Pagay 2230 6 in 28 moves; SaptarshiRoy Choudhary 2190 6.5 bt Dinesh Kumar Sharma 2375 5.5 in 35 moves; Arghyadip Das 2170 6 drew with SJ Kamath 2240 6 in 22 moves.