Hyderabad: Indian International Master P Karthikeyan and Himanshu Sharma held top seed Russian Grandmaster Ivan Popov and second seed Levan Pantsulaia of Georgia respectively in the 2nd Hyderabad International Grandmasters Chess Tournament here today.
Andhra Pradesh youngster YVK Chakravarthy and Delhi based Prince Bajaj continued their giantkilling spree as they registered victories over International Masters Vahe Baghdasaryan of Armenia and M S Thej Kumar respectively.
Andhra players Dhulipala Bala Chandra Prasad and Harsha Bharathakoti also held Grandmasters Neelotpal Das and Sudarjan Kidambi respectively.
Another casualty in the second round was former national champion Grandmaster Abhijit Kunte as he suffered a shock defeat at the hands of Railwayman Vikramjit Singh.
Category A Important Results (Round 2) (Indians otherwise specified): IM Karthikeyan(1.5) drew with GM Ivan Popov of RUS (1.5); GM Levan Pantsulaia of GEO (1.5) drew with IM Himanshu Sharma (1.5); IM Hafizulhelmi Mas of MAS (1) lost to GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi (2) ; GM Lalith Babu M R (2) beat WGM Soumya Swaminathan (1); GM Samvel Ter-Sahakyan of ARM (1.5) drew with FM Aravindh Chithambaram (1.5); IM Shivananda B S (1) lost to GM Vladislav Borovikov of UKR (2); IM Girinath PDS (1) lost to GM Merab Gagunashvili of GEO (2); Alon Greenfeld of ISR (2) beat IM Murali Krishnan B T (1) ; Himal Gusain (1) lost to GM Arun Prasad (2) ; GM Azer Mirzoev of AZE (2) beat CRG Krishna (1) ; Ravi Teja S (1.5) drew with GM Levon Babujian of ARM (1.5); GM Vasily Papin of RUS (1.5) drew with Aniruddha Deshpande (1.5); WGM Bhakti Kulkarni (1) lost to IM Mikhail Mozharov of RUS (2); GM Deepan Chakkravarthy (1) lost to IM Praveen Kumar (2); Arjun Tiwari (1) lost to GM Sinisa Drazic of SRB (2); IM Bahruz Rzayev of AZE (2) beat Visakh N R (1) ; Pratik Patil (1.5) drew with IM Swapnil Dhopade (1.5); IM Thej Kumar (1) lost to Prince Baja (2)j; Kumaran B (1.5) drew with IM Shardul Gagare (1.5); GM Neelotpal Das (1.5) drew with Dhulipala Bala Chandra Prasad (1.5).
