Hari, who had a satisfactory position till the 22nd move made a blunder from which he never recovered.

``I want to erase it from my memory. It sometimes happens. Anyway, I will fight back to do well'' said the disappointed Hari, while the TN's CAPA boy was jubilant and said, ``to beat Hari is no joke as he is in top form. It is big surprise for me also as I played him for the first time and it gives me extra confidence to do better in the remaining rounds.''

Hari, nevertheless kept his u-12 hat-trick title hopes alive as he had no difficulty in overcoming Lashu Ravin (Ker) and Sai Srinivas (AP) in the first and second rounds respectively.Top-seed MR Venkatesh (TN), the U-14 boys' defending champion wonhis games without much trouble. And, if nothing goes wrong he seems to win the title again.

There was one more upset in the girls U-14 group. The second seed TS Subhashini, of Tamil Nadu was held to a draw by AP's Krishna Manjula.But, Karnataka's Chitra Sridharan, the defending champion, having struggled to win the first round prolonged game against A Deepa (her colleague), had a smooth win in the second round against Tamil Nadu's P Malarselvi.

Koneru Humpy maintained her brilliant form from where he left in Aurangabad as she got the better of her opponents quite comfortably.

Goodrick Chess Academis' Ananya Sarkar too exhibited a superb performance as she defeated her opponents easily.

Results (Second round)

Boys: MR Venkatesh (2 points) bt Rohan Shandilya (Bihar, 1); P Laxminarsimhan (CAPA, 2), bt P Harikrishna (AP, 1); A Arghyadeep Das (GDCA, 2) bt K Apoorva (Kar, 1); P Anand (TN, 2) bt C Praveen Kumar (TN, 1), Valay Parikh (Guj, 2) bt BK Nayak (Ori, 1), K Anagabalan (Pon, 1) lost to PranavM Akolkar (Mah, 2), M Satyajit (AP, 1) lost to SR Misra (Ori, 2), P Kumaresh (TCA, 1) lost to S Pande (Mah, 2).

Girls: Chitra Sridharan (Kar) 2, Ananya Sarkar (GDCA) 2, Alka Das (Bihar) 1, Pannaga Magal (Mah) 2, K Krishna Manjusha .5 (AP) 1, JE Kavitha (CPTCA) 1, BV Deepti (AP) .5, P Vijaya Laxmi (AP) .5, Neenu A (Ker) 1, K Ramya (AP) 0, J Nalini (POND) 1, K Thilakavathy (PON) 1, P. Malarselvi (TN) 1, Nema Jaiswal (Bhir) 1, Sandya (Ker) 1, M. Priyadarshini (TN) 1, TS Subhashini (TN) .5, Shradda Samavi (Mah) .5, M. Rajadarshini (Top Pyramid) .5, K Swetha (AP) .5, A Deepa (Kar) 0, Vaidehi Dave (Guj) 1, J. Megha (Kar) 1, K. Sindhu (AP) 1.