Top seeds move up

NEW DELHI, Aug 18: Seeded players KBL Srivastava of DDA, RS Tiwari of NABARD and MS Kalra won their first round matches on the opening day of first Kingkoil Open chess tournament organised by Botwinnik Chess Academy at the Russian Culture Centre. Young player R Srinivasan beat Rohit Gupta while Setia lost to Sanjay Sharma.

Results
Chander Paul bt Sunil Kumar, Krishnan lost to Harish Sharma, HS Verma bt BVS Prajwal, Sidhartha Narain lost to MK Jain, DS Negi bt AK Dutta, SK Sharma lost to KBL Srivastava, Sandeep Chitkara bt Anand Dev, Rishad lost to MG Kalra, Virat lost to Dinesh Gupta, Shiv Kumar Sharma bt Ravinder, Swatank Rai bt K Rajesh, RS Tiwari bt Niraj Kumar, SR Hussain bt SK Sharma, Manmohan lost to MC Harikrishna, Bhriguraj bt Suresh Bakshi, Rohit Gupta lost to R Srinivasan, NV Krishnan drew with KL Kad, Sanjay Sharma bt Setia, Zing Yao lost to Surya Prakash, SD Sharma lost to Ashwin Chhiber, Rajesh bt GM Khan, KS Negi lost to Rajeev, Danish Islam lost to JP Srivastva, Mohd. Idrish lost to Anurag.