The other upset was Shyam Sundar winning against higher rated Akshat Khamparia. Eleven players -- Purshothaman, Javad Sayed Alavi, Deep Sengupta, SP Sethuraman, Shyam Sundar, Aditya Udeshi, Lalith Babu, P Karthikeyan, Vishnu Prasana, Snehal Bhosale and Rakesh Kulkarni -- are clustered together at the top of the table with two points each from as many games in the 52-player nine-round Swiss League event.
In the girls’ section, Krutika Nadig displayed good endgame technique to hold top seed Atousa Pourkashiyam of Iran to a draw. Second seed Kiran Manisha Mohanty too was held by 13-year-old Padmini Rout. Reigning champion Mary Ann Gomes easily outplayed P Sivasankari while Soumya Swaminathan scored over Shamima Liza Akter.
Mary and Soumya are jointly sharing the lead with two points each. There are 38 entries in this section and here too, nine rounds will be played.
Like the Commonwealth Championship in Delhi, Parimarjan is the most followed player here also. It was a trifle disappointing to see the Delhi youngster fumble against Purushothaman in a Slav Defence game. After misplaying the opening, there was no respite for Parimarjan as his opponent relentlessly maintained the pressure and superiority in the game.
Sorry sight
Parimarjan's King was a sorry sight as Purshothaman closed in with the queen, bishop and knight to garner a point after 36 moves.
“I did mishandle the opening and then there was no going back as it became difficult to defend,” said a crestfallen Parimarjan, while Purshothaman appeared delighted with the way his pieces co-ordinated to bring down his opponent's defence..
In a Caro-Kann defence, Sahaj Grover was also caught on the wrong foot against Iranian Javad Alavi, who had castled on the queenside.
Sahaj failed to sense danger with his opponent's pieces gunning fire long range and after Alavi sacrificed his rook for a knight, Sahaj was unable to repel the invading pieces. Alavi's rook entered the eighth rank with the support of the queen and the bishop, prompting Sahaj's resignation on the 42nd turn. 
Atousa Pourkashiyan adopted the Sicilian defence against Krutika and the transposition to the ending where each had double rooks needed Krutika to play accurately.
At this point, both had three pawns but Atousa had a passed pawn on the queen flank. The further exchange of a rook enhanced drawing possibilities but Atous pressed for a victory by trying to advance her passed pawn. Krutika in turn tried to capitalise on her pawn majority on the Kingside and the game ended in deadlock after 55 moves.
The other Sicilian encounter between Kiran Manisha and Padmini was also drawn after 42 moves.
Round-two results: T Purshottam (2) bt GM Parimarjan Negi (1); Sahaj Grover (1) lt to Javad Sayed Alavi (1); Deep Sengupta (2) bt Swapnil Dhopade (1); Swayam Mishra (1) lt to SP Sethuraman (2); Akshar Khamparia (1) lt to Shyam Sundar (2); Meghan Gupte (1) lt to Aditya Udeshi (2); Lalith Babu (2) bt Sagar Shah (1); N Surendran (1) lt to P Karthekeyan (2); N Surendran (1.5) drew Bitan Banerjee (1.5); Vishnu Prasana (2) bt Aniruddha Deshpande (1); Snehal Bhosale (2) bt Debashis Das (1); Saravana Krishnan (1) lt to Rakesh Kulkarni (2).
Girls: Krutika Nadig (1.5) drew Atous Pourkashiyan (1.5); Kiran Manisha Mohanty (1.5) drew Padmini Rout (1.5); Mary Ann Gomes (2) bt P Sivasankari (1); Soumya Swaminathan(2) bt Shamina Akhtar Liza (1); P Priya (1.5) bt Pon Krithika (0.5); Mitali Madhukar Patil (1.5) bt Tara Rahimi (0.5).