Abhay opened with the Queen's pawn to which Sandeep replied with the Nimzo Indian Defence which was converted into a Queen's Indian set up. After a hard fought struggle a double Rook situation arose after simplification. Sandeep Gohad was a pawn up with one rook each present. However, Sandeep could not profit from this small advantage of Rooks which simplified the position to a theoretical King's and pawn's confrontation ending in a draw.

Ashwini, who has travelled from Sangli district, and a TYBCom student of the Matumai Garware College of Commerce (MGCC) Sangli, leads the table with 3.5 points. Ashwini playing with whites had two Bishops in the middle of the game which was a clear advantage, however, in view of losing pieces in the middle of the game, she resigned.

Results
Pranav Akolkar (3.5) drew Abhijit Patil (3.5); Saurabh Deshpande (3.5) drew Utpal Sasane (3.5); Prakash Golecha (3) lost to Ashish Dhamdhere (4); Amogh Sarpotdar (3.5) drew Omkar Patwardhan (3.5); Akash Thakur (2) lost to Abhay Karnataki (3); Sandeep Gohad (3) bt Santosh Sapkal (2)Udayan Bapat (3) bt Vinayak Gadgil (2); Anand Kulkarni (2) lost to Vikrant Chole (3); Nitin Randive (2) lost to Saurabh Ambekar (3); Ninad Ingale (2) lost to Tanmay Rajphatak (3); Saumitra Mujumdar (3) bt Yuraj Korde (2); Shantanu Thuse (3) bt Rajesh Oza (2); Harshal Deshpande (3) bt Kiran Gulane (2); Abhay Kadekar (3) bt Aman Narang (2); Chinmaya Kulkarni (2) lost to Kaustubh Patwardhan (3); Mayurkumar Gadewar (2) lost to Sohan Phadke (3); Shridhar Dharne (3) bt Santosh Sonawane (2); Rishikesh Purohit (3) bt Ninad Sancheti (2); Yash Agarwal (1.5) drew Chinmay Sathe (1.5); Jejas Konde Deshmukh (2) bt Jameer Shaikh (1); Saurabh Chhatre (1.5) drew Ashish Wagh (1.5); Mohit Shah (2) bt Prashant Memane (1).