Sambit holds Vaibhav

Odisha youngster Sambit Panda held second seed and local favourite Vaibhav Suri in the second round of the Commonwealth Chess Championship now underway at Leela Ambience Convention Hotel on Wednesday.

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In other upsets of the day, Kerala lad Jubin Jimmy held Grandmaster Thej Kumar and former national champion to draw.

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Grandmaster Abhijit Kunte forced to sign the peace treaty with Ranveer Mohite while Grandmaster S Kidambai and International Master Visakh NR satisfied with half point with Priyanka K and Arpita Mukherjee respectively.

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Meanwhile top seed Deep Sengupta beat Shantanu Bhambure and Grandmaster Deepan Chakkravarthy defeated Sakshi Chitlange without much struggle. National champion Lalith Babu MR outwitted Baivab Mishra.

25 players are maintaining the perfect score at the end of round two.

Pairings/Results

Round 2 on 2018/06/27 at 15:00 hrs