In the under-10 category, Akshay Khalwadekar and Aditya Vora share the lead with nine points. They have been maintaining their position over the last three rounds and the final round will determine the winner in the under-10 category.

On the top board of the open category, Saurabh rejected draw offers from Raj and went on to win in a game of Benoni Opening. In the second board, Srinivas Ramkumar defeated Vaibhav Saxena in 26 moves of an irregular opening. Amar Kamath's brilliant bishop sacrifice in the 15th move in a French Winawer opening helped him win the game againstChaitanya Vaidya.

In the under-10 category, Rohil Bhat and Akash Khalwadekar drew in a closed Sicilian game. Aditya Vora had passed pawns on the B, C, D files and exploited the advantage to win against Ishal Nadkarni. On the third board, Mugdha Variyar and Ashay Awate drew after the latter was an exchange up. Ashay was under time pressure and accepted the draw offer.

Results (Round 10)

Open category: Saurabh Barve (9) bt Raj Parakh (8); Srinivasan Ramkumar (8.5) bt Vaibhav Saxena (7); Amar Kamath (8) bt Chaitnya Vaidya (7); Sagar Masurekar (8) bt Parag Terwadkar (7); Amit Kamath (7.5) drew with R Chandrashekar (7.5); Gaurav Higne (7) lost to Archis Awate (8); Srinivas Menon (7) lost to Sagar Sadavarte (8); Kaustubh Nilegaonkar (8) bt Mahesh Rewaskar (7); Maheshwari Karan (7) drew with Vinay Kumar (7); Nikhil Bhat (7.5) bt Shashank Mutalik (6.5).

Under-10: Rohil Bhat (8) drew with Akash Khalwadekar (9); Ishan Nadkarni (7.5) lost to Aditya Vora (9); Mudgha Variyar (7.5) drew with Ashay Awate(7.5); Niharika Thakkar (8) bt Sachin Bedekar (7); Vishal Shah (8) bt Akshay Deshmukh (7); Ketaki Kulkarni (7) drew with Varun Dattani (7); Akshay Bhor (6.5) lost to Aniruddh Unni (7.5); Swapna Ramkumar (6.5) lost to Ambar Khalwadekar (7.5); Swarali Thipsay (6.5) lsot to KP Ninidev (7.5); Siddheshwar Birajdar (6.5) lost to Sachin Kamath (7.5).