On the top board, Karnataki (white), an Elo rated player saw his gameplan go haywire. A first year B.Sc student of Fergusson college, Karnataki tried to launch an early attack on the King's side. Kadekar, however, employing the short castling on the other side left Karnataki's attack fizzle out.

Receiving an early jolt, Karnataki opted to wait and watch, thus playing a safe game. However, he took too long a time to play the 12th move (Rc8), which was no use to him in the latter part. ``I should have developed other pieces. That was an unnecessary move,'' he admitted.

Kadekar, an 11th standard student of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose school, Yerwada, by that time had a good command over the game as he inched towards Karnataki's King. However, Kadekar, excited by dreaming of an early win, overlooked a crucial checkmate position on the 32nd move (Qb2), allowing the top seed to escape defeat. Kadekar, thereafter, played all irregular moves in disappointment and resigned soon.

In the girls section, tenth seed Amruta Mokal brought about the only upset of the day, defeating fifth seed Ashwini Kulkarni in 40 moves. Ashwini, being a pawn up in the initial stage and enjoying a slight advantage in the ending game, however, weakened her defence by playing Bishop on `c6' instead of `g4'. Later, coming under time pressure, she resigned to hand over a full point to the Jog High School lass Amruta.

Results (after II Rd)
Boys: Abhay Kadekar (Pn, 1) lost to Abhay Karnataki (Pn, 2); Udayan Bapat (Pn, 2) bt Kaustubh Patwardhan (Pn, 1); Rishikesh Purohit (Pn, 1) lost to Vikrant Chole (Nag, 2); Pranav Akolkar (Pn, 2) bt Sohan Phadke (Pn, 1); Salil Nitsure (Pn, 1) lost to Utpal Sasane (Pn, 2); Prakash Golecha (Aur, 2) bt Rugved Kanthe (Pn, 1); Shridhar Dharne (Pn, 1) lost to Omkar Patwardhan (Sag, 2); Saurabh Deshpande (Pn, 2) bt Yuvraj Korde (Pn, 1); Rajesh Oza (Pn, 1) lost to Abhijit Patil (Pn, 20; Akash Thakur (Nag, 1.5) drew with Vinayak Gadgil (Nag, 1.5).
Girls: Manasi Dadarkar (Pn, 2) bt Madhuri Patil (Kol, 1); Panagha Maghal (Pn, 1.5) drew with Ashwini Pachhapurkar (Sag, 1.5); Amruta Mokal (Pn, 2) bt Ashwini Kulkarni (Pn, 1); Mugdha Dolas (Nag, 2) bt Eesha Karavade (Pn, 1); Anusha Nandkumar (Pn, 0) lost to Nivedita Sagade (Pn, 1.5); Rusha Karavade (Pn, .5) lost to Krutika Nadig (Pn, 1); Sneha Ghatpande (Pn, 0) lost to Devangi Patankar (Pn, 1); Girija Kadlaskar (Pn, 1) w/o Ruchika Yadav (Pn, 0); Mrunmayee Bhagwat (Pn, 0) lost to Mohita Agarwal (Pn, 1); Anuprita Patil (Sag, 1) bt Gayatri Kadlaskar (Pn, 0).