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Gopal overcomes Saptarshi Roy

PUNE: Surya Shekhar Ganguly led the Grandmaster-brigade into the round of 16 after a series of enthralling second-round matches in the inaugural Poona Club knockout rapid chess tournament here on Tuesday.

While most of the fancied names won with varying degrees of difficulty, former National junior champion G.N. Gopal came out a 4-3 victor over Saptarshi Roy in the only match that went the distance.

The results (second round): Surya Shekhar Ganguly bt Sudhakar Babu 1.5-0.5; R.B. Ramesh bt Anup Deshmukh 2-0; K. Ratnakaran bt Kruttika Nadig 1.5-0.5; V. Saravanan bt Arun Prasad 2-0; Akshayraj Kore bt C.S. Gokhale 2-0; Lanka Ravi bt S. Satyapragyan 2-0; M.R. Venkatesh bt Vikramaditya Kamble 1.5-0.5; Pravin Thipsay bt Nisha Mohota 1.5-0.5; Deepan Chakravarthy bt Arjun Tiwari 2-0; Dibyendu Barua bt M. Shyam Sundar 2.5-0.5; Abhijit Kunte bt Eesha Karavade 3-1; Tejas Bakre bt B.S. Shivanandan 4-2; Abhijeet Gupta bt Prathamesh Mokal 3-1; Tania Sachdev bt P. Karthikeyan 2.5-0.5; S. Kidambi bt Sharad Tilak 3.5-2.5; G.N. Gopal bt Saptarshi Roy 4-3.

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