GM Dibyendu Barua of Tata Steel also finished with the same number of points after beating IM Shekar Sahu of Union Bank but was edged out of the top prize on better progressive score.

Lahiri's team-mate, Sriram Jha, had a great opportunity to win the before the start of the round as he had the best progressive score. But from a poor position against IM Verghese Koshy (ONGC), he recovered to draw and finished third. Saravanan was fourth followed by Anup Deshmukh of LIC and N Sanjay of Income-Tax, Mysore.RESULTS

Atanu Lahiri (2310) 9 drew with V Saravanan (2390) 8.5; IM Shekar Sahu (2290) 7.5 lost to GM Dibyendu Barua (2540) 9; Sriram Jha (2330) 8.5 drew with IM Verghese Koshy (2340) 7.5; IM Sudhakar Babu (2335) 7.5 lost to N Sanjay (2285) 8; Anup Deshmukh (2430) 8 bt Saptarshi Roy Choudhary(2190) 7; D Ravi Shankar (2090) 7.5 drew with Hari Om Sharma (2235) 7.5; IM Ponnuswamy Konguvel (2410) 7 drew with Dilip Pagay (2230) 7.5; Prathamesh Mokal (2175) 7.5 bt IM Arun Vaidya (2310) 6.5; N Neelakantan (2260) 7.5 bt Ramkrishna Kashelkar (2175) 6.5; Sashikant Kutwal (2140) 7.5 bt SJ Kamath (2240) 6.5.

FINAL POSITIONS: 1. Lahiri 9 points (47 progressive score); 2. Barua 9 (45); 3. Jha 8.5 (48); 4. Saravanan 8.5 (43); 5. Deshmukh 8 (44); 6. Sanjay 8 (43.5); 7. Babu 7.5 (46); 8. Hari Om Sharma 7.5 (42); 9. Sahu 7.5 (41.5); 10. Pagay 7.5 (39.5).