Third seed International Woman Master Nisha Mohota also posted a quick victory over her Tamil Nadu opponent P Priya in 35 moves. Nisha forced the exchange of Queens after just seven moves in the Caro-Kann advance variation game.

Results:

M Kavana 1 lost to Swati Ghate 2, Pallavi Shah 2 bt Shraddha Samani 1, P Priya 1 lost to Nisha Mohota 2, Aarthie Ramaswamy 2 bt S Cynthia 1, M Kasturi 1 lost to Neha Singh 2, Ashwini Pachapurkar 1 lost to Y Pratibha 2, Manasi Dadarkar 1.5 drew S Sujatha 1.5, MR Sangeetha 2 bt B Sini 1, Manjula James 1 lost to Sasinas Haritha 2, K Preethi 2 bt J Megha 1, TT Lakshmi 1lost to P Sivakami 2, Chitra Sridhar 1.5 bt Alpona Gogoi 0.5, N Sandhya 1 drew E Shabina 1, Pannaga Magal 1.5 bt H Nilavoli 0.5, Mili Sarkar 0 lost to JE Kavitha 1, Eesha Karvade 1 bt Leela Padmaja 0, M Priyadarshini 1 bt Madonna Fullmoon 0, Srivani 0 lost to Ramyashree 1, Isai Amudhu 1 bt M Lavanya 0, Navya Thaikkattil 0 lost to Preeti Bisoi 1.

Preetam shocks Jha

HYDERABAD: CS Gokhale (Indian Airlines), J Ramakrishna (AP) and Preetam Sharma (Chennai) share the lead with 88.5 points after 10 rounds in the 3rd Global Trust Bank All India rating Open Chess Tournament. On the top board, IM NK Mishra escaped to a draw against leader CS Gokhale. Ramakrishna came back into the reckoning with a victory over IWM S Vijayalakshmi (IA). The star of the day, unrated schoolboy Preetam Sharma shocked Sriram Jha (IA).Results (10th round): NK Mishra 8 drew with CS Gokhale 8.5; J Ramakrishna 8.5 bt S Vijayalakshmi 7.5; Preetam Sharma 8.5 bt Sriram Jha 7.5; Lanka Ravi 8 bt RK Mishra 7; Ravi Bhave 7.5 drew with PMitrakanth 7.5; K Visweswaran 8 bt Jayant Gokhale 7; Saptarshi Roy Chowdhary 7.5 drew with PDS Girinath 7.5; Rahul Shetty 7.5 bt Saritha Reddy 7; GB Joshi 6.5 lost to K Murugan 7.5; Vishal Sareen 7.5 bt Jitendra Choudhary 6.5; TS Ravi 7.5 bt Swayan Baran De 6.5; Vedant Goswami 6.5 lost to Sandipan Chanda 7.5; Shekar Sahu 7.5 bt Pradeep Paranjpe 6.5; Gurpreet Pal Singh 7.5 bt Amardeep Bartakke 6.5; Dilip Das 7 drew with J Venkataramana 7; R Balasubramaniam 7.5 bt M Rajendra 6.5; Sujoy Bhattacharya 6.5 lost to N Sanjay 7; DK Sharma 7 bt SR Radha 6; SK Rathore 7 bt V Arvind 6; SK Sinha 7 bt K Damodar Rao 6.

Gomes stuns top seed

AHMEDABAD: It was a day when the top seed in girls under-9, Saheli Nath of West Bengal suffered a shocking loss to Tamil Nadu's Mary Ann Gomes in the National Children's Chess Championship for under-9 and under-7 at the Amrta Campus.

Results (Boys under-9): Arvindam Das (WB) lost to Rahul Sangma (Bih), Gogi Nainy Rohit (AP) lost to M Suraj (Kar), Y Bhanu Prasad (AP) bt MSitaram Reddy (AP), Devvrat T (MP) lost to Vijay Kirtee (Kar), V Pujara (Guj) bt Akshay Deshmukh (Mah); (Under-7): Prubuddha Ghosh (WB) bt Abhishek Kohli (Har), Mohandeep Gogoi (Asm) lost to Ved Prakash (Bih), NT Rama Rao (Ori) bt Amarjyoti Mahasaur (Ori), Sandeep Maruti Pawar (Mah) bt JJ Vale Prasad (TN), Prachura PP (Kar) lost to Pragna Patavi (AP); Girls (Under-9): Saheli Nath (WB) lost to Mary Ann Gomes (TN), K Aarthi (TN) lost to Anoori Shah (Guj), Minki Sinha (Bih) lost to VS Bhairavi (Pondi), Ketki Kulkarni (Mah) drew with A Patnaik (Ori), Drona Valli Harika (AP) bt N Raghavi (TN); (Under-7): Devangi Patnakar (Mah) bt Saheli Banerjee (WB), S Bhattacharya (WB) bt K Phanichandra (AP), P Uttara (TN) bt Bhakti Kulkarni (Goa), Janani (TN) bt Payal Guha (WB), Purva Pawaskar (Mah) lost to Priya Ratnam (Bih).