Smooth sailing for seeded players in 2nd round of Delhi chess meet

New Delhi, May 9 (UNI) Dhara Gupta's upset voctory over higher rated Karun Duggal was the only highlight of the day as most of the seeded players had easy victories in the round two of the Delhi State Open seniors chess championship here today.

Playing on the fifth board, Gupta cashed in on the careless middle game play by her opponent who employed Kings Indian attack to score a scintillating victory with a better knights and pawns ending.

On the first board, Rahul Sangma pounced on his opponent Rishi Thariani's mistake and forced him to resign after 33rd move.

Meanwhile, Prasenjit Dutta got a walkover point against Akram Baig on the second board while in the third board game, Hemant Sharma got away with full points against Vaibhav Khanna after a tough fight.

Second Round Results: Rahul Sangma beat Rishi Thariani; Prasenjit beat Akram Baig Hemant Sharma beat Vaibhav Khanna; Deepak Rai baet Dinesh Gupta Karun Duggal lost Dhara Gupta; Rajesh Kumar beat Akshat Aggarwal Khakhai Zou lost to Saket Kumar; Sandeep Singh beat M S Din Anil Shivpuri beat Yatin Tiwari; Nupur Suri lost to P K Pant Tarun Kochar lost to Prince Bajaj; Jaydeep Sharma beat Suneet Jain Preetika Tayal beat Sudarshan Kumar Sharma; Hitesh Marwah drew Ram Gupta; Jotish Joy lost to Abhimanyu Poddar; Kanika Saxena lost to Mohan Virwani; Krishnankit Banerjee lost to Manish Vatsa Mohd Tanveer beat Mayank Rathee; Pavit Singh drew Ajitesh Kaicker Arjun Hans beat Rajbir Singh Malik; Raj Kumar beat Deep Kapoor Sanjay Gupta beat Inderdeep Singh; Sukrit Malhotra got bye UNI