Two GMs suffer upsets, 6 others survive scare
Bhubaneswar, June 8:

 In a day of upsets, two Grandmasters suffered defeats and six others survived scares in the second round of the 1st SCS International Open GM Tournament being played at Swosti Plala here today.
Fourteen-year-old West Bengal boy Prantik Roy stunned Russia GM Alexander Fominyh, while Indian GM J Deepan Chakkravarthy was outplayed by compatriot Anurag Jaiswal.
Top seed Sergei Tiviakov (Holland), Yuriy Kuzubov (Ukraine), Yuri Drozdovskij (Ukraine), Roman Ovetchkin (Russia), Yaroslav Zinchenko (Ukraine) and Andrey Rychagov (Russia) are the six Grandmasters who were held to draws by Indian youngsters Sayantan Das, Sahaj Grover, Padmini Rout, OT Anilkumar, Utkal Ranjan Sahoo and GV Sai Krishna respectively.
RESULTS (Round 2):
Top 25 boards: Sergei Tiviakov (Ned, 1.5) drew with Sayantan Das (Ind, 1.5), Igor Kurnosov (Rus, 2) bt T Purushothaman (Ind, 1), Sahaj Grover (Ind, 1.5) drew with Yuriy Kuzubov (Ukr, 1.5), Padmini Rout (Ind, Ori, 1.5) drew with Yuri Drozdovskij (Ukr, 1.5), Evgeny Vorobiov (Rus, 2) bt Sohel Chowdhury (Ban, 1), Abhijeet Gupta (Ind, 2) bt Mehdi Hasan (Ban, 1), Alexander Zubarev (Ukr, 2) bt Swayams Mishra (Ind, Ori, 1), Georgy Timoshenko (Ukr, 2) bt Syed Nasir Ali (Ind, 1), OT Anilkumar (Ind, 1.5) drew with Roman Ovetchkin (Rus, 1.5), Enamul Hossain (Ban, 2) bt Kiran Manisha Mohanty (Ind, Ori, 1), Utkal Ranjan Sahoo (Ind, Ori, 1.5) drew with Yaroslav Zinchenko (Ukr, 1.5), GV Sai Krishna (Ind, 1.5) drew with Andrey Rychagov (Rus, 1.5), Anuar Ismagambetov (Kaz) bt Mahtabuddin Ahmed (Ban, 1), Sergey Vokarev (Rus, 2) bt Rajib Dhar (Ind, 1), R R Laxman (Ind, 2) bt Sai Meera (Ind, 1), Neelotpal Das (Ind, 2) bt LV Shivkumar (Ind, 1), Rustam Khusnutdinov (Kaz, 2) bt Javed Mohammad (Ban, 1), Amon Simutowe (Zam, 2) bt Krishan Soni (Ind, Ori, 1), Prantik Roy (Ind, 2) bt Alexander Fominyh (Rus, 1), B Adhiban (Ind, 2) bt Emam Hasan Mohammad (Ban, 1), Anurag Jaiswal (Ind, 2) bt Deepan Chakkravarthy (Ind, 1), MR Lalith Babu (Ind, 2) bt Atul Dahale (Ind, 1), Deep Sengupta (Ind, 2) bt VS Negi (Ind, 1), Aarthie Ramaswamy (Ind, 1.5) drew with Serikbay Temirbayev (Kaz, 1.5), Sriram Jha (Ind, 1.5) bt N Aravind Subramanian (Ind, 1).

Other important Orissa results: Subhransu Mohan Satpathy (1) lost to SP Sethuraman (Ind, 2), Swayangsu Satyapragyan (1.5) drew with Dilip Das (Ind, 1.5), Debasis Chakrabarty (1) lost to M Shyam Sundar (Ind, 2), KD Pillai (1) lost to BS Shivananda (Ind, 2), Manas Parida (1) lost to P Nikil Shyam (Ind, 2), Debashis Das (1.5) drew with Prince Bajaj (Ind, 1.5), GC Mohapatra (1) lost to Shashikant Kutwal (Ind, 2), Soumya Ranjan Mishra (1.5) drew with Sidhant Mohapatra (1.5), Anwesh Upadhyaya (1.5) drew with M Deepthamsh Reddy (Ind, 1.5), Biswajit Nayak (2) bt Vinay Kumar Matta (Ind, 1), Rajendra Kumar Sahu (1.5) drew with Meenakshi Subbaraman (Ind, 1.5), Soumya Ranjan Das (1) lost to Syed Mahfuzur Rahman (Ban, 2), Bhaskar Sri Viswaroopanand (1) lost to V Vishnu Prasanna (Ind, 2), Kamlesh Gupta (1) lost to Daklia Shreyansh Jain (Ind, 2), Prasanna Kumar Nayak (1) lost to Gurpreet Pal Singh (Ind, 2), Sekhar Chandra Sahu (2) bt (w/o)  Keshav Charan Sahu (Ind, Ori, 1), Shibashish Mahapatra (1) lost to Debaraj Chatterjee (Ind, 2), Pabitra Mohan Mohanty (2) bt Bijay Kumar Dash (1), Srinath Bhoi (1) lost to VAV Rajesh (Ind, 2), Manoj Kumar Panigrahi (2) bt Vishal Mohanty (Ind, Ori, 1), Binod Kumar Sahoo (0.5) lost to Niaz Murshed (Ban, 1), Chinmay Routray (0) lost to Himal Gusain (Ind, 1), Shyam Sundar Sharma (0) lost to Srivaths Akash (Ind, 1), Ayush Acharya (0) lost to Ajmera Atishay (Ind, 1), Sribinda Rout (0.5) drew with Zakia Sultana (Ban, 0.5), Smaraki Mohanty (0) lost to Pratik Patil (Ind, 1). Abhilash Kabi (0) lost to Sayan Bose (Ind, 1), Akankhya Kabi (0) lost to Sanjay Date (Ind, 1), Anant Narayan Mishra (0) lost to Suman Suwal (Ind, 1).



Orissa youngsters Utkal Ranjan Sahoo (Left) and Padmini Rout speak to the media after holding two Grandmasters to draws in the second round on Monday.

Top seed Sergei Tiviakov (right) faces India's Sahaj Grover in the third round on Monday.