Two star attractions of the tournament, top seed GM Radoslav Wojtaszek (2734) of Poland and GM Suryasekhar Ganguly (2630) however kept their head high on a day of upsets.
World Junior champion 4th seed GM Abhijit Gupta (2662), who brushed aside WGM Mary Ann Gomes on Monday, today did not take any risk against Russian GM Alexander Fominyh, who much below his rating (2455).
They had short work to share points. Rather Indian IM Vishnu Prasanna (2469) made a upset by snatching half point from 'Super GM' 2nd seed Anton Korobov (2702)of Ukrain.
Title aspirant Surya Sekhar today did not have to sweat much to overcome Shreyans K Shah (2231) even with black pieces.
One of the weakest players of the tournament Shreyans played with King