Murali stuns Navin

 Adopting an unorthodox opening against Khanna, Karthikeyan approached his game aggressively which gave black’s Kingside a lot of space advantage on white’s Queenside.
Karthikeyan smartly defended and destroyed white’s attack which eventually resulted in a full point. Karthikeyan won in 47 moves. In another upset victory, Kartnataka’s Amogha HA -- playing black -- shocked Tamil Nadu’s J Arun. Amogha played the Sicilian defence for Arun’s King pawn opening. Black punished white for losing time and space which subsequently gave a winning advantage for white.
 
Important results (second round): Praveen Kumar C (TN, 2) bt Mugil Jayavel (TN, 1); Shreeshan S (Kar, 1) lt to Sanjay N (Kar, 2); Navin Khanna TU (TN, 1) lt to Karthikeyan Murali (TN, 2); Bharath L (AP, 2) bt Ramnathan Balasubramaniam (ICF, 1); Srinivasa Rao M (AP, 2) bt Augustin A (Kar 1); Shreyas J (Kar 1) lt to Stany GA (Kar, 2); Phoobalan P (ICF, 2) bt Gore Sharath (Kar, 1); Arjun TKS (TN, 1) lt to Arvind Shastry (Kar, 2); Mehar Chinna Reddy CH (AP, 2) bt Lasya G (AP, 1); Sharath E (TN, 1) lt to Anilkumar OT (Ker, 2); Linda Rangarajan (TN, 2) bt Neeraj S Pai (Kar, 1); Singh Soram Rahul (Asm, 1) lt to Rao J Malleswara (AP, 2); Shreyas K  Shah (Mah, 2) bt Ponkshe Sarang (Mah, 1); Jotish Joy (Kar, 1) lt to Vijendra YG (Mar, 2); Yashas D (Kar, 2) bt Raghav Srivathsav V (AP, 1); Venkatesh Babu Sundaresan (TN, 1) lt to Sekar B (TN, 2); Arun J (TN, 1) lt to Amogha HA (Kar, 2); Abishek TKS (TN, 1) lt to Manjunath J (Kar, 2); Niranjan Navalgund (Kar, 2) bt Chaithanyaa KG (TN, 1); Raju M (Kar, 2) bt Rakshith R Umesh (Kar, 1).