Saha beat Santosh Sinha while Rathod beat Ashish Thatte. Brajesh Agrawal scored a win over Sudhakar Babu, who lost a piece and the game in time pressure.

On the top table, Neelotpal Das of West Bengal playing with black pieces drew against Atanu Lahari of LIC while R B Ramesh shared a point with Gurpreet Pal Singh on the third board.

On the other board, IM Tejas Bakre of Gujarat had it easy against Pankaj Joshi while IM TS Ravi drew with Venkatraman. IM Sharad Tilak of BSB won over Pradeep Ghosh.

Kadekar blunders

PUNE: Pune's Abhay Kadekar almost had the game in his hands. However, when it mattered the most, his inexperience came in front. He committed a mistake, which many amateurs do inexcitement, thus letting the top seeded Abhay Karnataki off the hook in the second round of State Junior Chess tournament at Manohar Mangal Karyalaya, here today. In the event, Kadekar ended up on the losing side with Karnataki making most of his opponent's errors.

In the girls section, tenth seed Amruta Mokal pulled out the only upset of the day, defeating fifth seed Ashwini Kulkarni in 40 moves.

Results (2nd round): Boys: Abhay Kadekar (Pun) 1 lost to Abhay Karnataki (Pun) 2; Udayan Bapat (Pun) 2 bt Kaustubh Patwardhan (Pun) 1); Rishikesh Purohit (Pun) 1 lost to Vikrant Chole (Nag) 2; Pranav Akolkar (Pun) 2 bt Sohan Phadke (Pun) 1; Salil Nitsure (Pun) 1) lost to Utpal Sasane (Pun) 2; Prakash Golecha (Aur) 2 bt Rugved Kanthe (Pun) 1; Shridhar Dharne (Pun) 1 lost to Omkar Patwardhan (Sag) 2; Saurabh Deshpande (Pun) 2 bt Yuvraj Korde (Pun) 1; Rajesh Oza (Pun) 1 lost to Abhijit Patil (Pun) 20; Akash Thakur (Nag) 1.5 drew with Vinayak Gadgil (Nag) 1.5.

Girls: Manasi Dadarkar (Pun) 2) bt Madhuri Patil (Kol)1; Panagha Maghal (Pun) 1.5 drew with Ashwini Pachhapurkar (Sag) 1.5; Amruta Mokal (Pun) 2 bt Ashwini Kulkarni (Pun) 1; Mugdha Dolas (Nag) 2 bt Eesha Karavade (Pun) 1; Anusha Nandkumar (Pun) 0 lost to Nivedita Sagade (Pun) 1.5; Rusha Karavade (Pun) .5 lost to Krutika Nadig (Pun) 1; Sneha Ghatpande (Pun) 0 lost to Devangi Patankar (Pun) 1; Girija Kadlaskar (Pun) 1 w/o Ruchika Yadav (Pun) 0; Mrunmayee Bhagwat (Pun) 0 lost to Mohita Agarwal (Pun) 1; Anuprita Patil (Sag) 1 bt Gayatri Kadlaskar (Pun) 0.