On the joint second spot are 14 players with 5.5 points. They are Konguvel, Murugan, PK Sharma, V Koshy, Kashelkar, TS Ravi, H Sharma, SS Ganguly, Kidambi, Shriram Jha, Swati Ghate, Imocha, Gurpreet Pal and top seed Ramesh.

Among the women competitors, Swati Ghate outplayed Jayant Gokhale in 37 moves to finish with 5.5 points. S Vijaylakshmi defeated Prathamesh Mokal in a long-fought battle lasting over 100 moves to take her tally to five points. Nisha Mohota (4) played against the other Gokhale and agreed for a draw in 33 moves, while Anupama Gokhale (4) defeated Kalayan Mukherjee to claim her full points.

Results:

Top board: Sandeepan Chanda (6) drew with Konguvel (3.5); LankaRavi (5) lost to P Harikrishna (6); PK Sharma (5.5) drew with K Murugan (5.5); V Koshy (5.5) drew with BS Kashelkar (5.5); Hemanshu Sharma (5.5) drew with TS Ravi (5.5); Arjun Tiwari (5) lost to SS Soman (6); Gurpreet Pal (5) drew with RB Ramesh (5); Neelotpal Das (5) drew with N Sanjay (5): Srinivas Rao (5) drew with Atanu Lahiri (5); Ravi Hegde (5.5) beat B Roktim (4.5); NS Babu (5) drew with V Hariharan (5); TV Karthikeyan (5) drew with Vishal Sareen (5); M Chandran (4.5) lost to SS Ganguly (5.5); Shriram Jha (5.5) bt MR Venkatesh (4.5); S Kidambi (5.5) bt SK Sinha (4.5); Swati Ghate (5.5) bt Jayant Gokhale (4.5); L Imocha (5.5) bt MB Murlidharan (4.5); Tej Kumar (5) drew with S Sahu (5); Hari Sharma (4) lost to Tejas Bhakre (5); Prasanjit Dutta (4) lost to Anup Deshmukh (5); Sharad Tilak (4.5) drew with Sayeed Anwar (4.5); S Vijaylakshmi (5) bt Prathamesh Mokal (4).