Niraj and Anirudh played against each other on first board and fought hard for 50 moves in the Scotch Opening but had to split the points.
In the second position, there were six players with six points each, namely, CM Nitish Belurkar, Rajas Chari, WCM Riya Savant, Sumit Asnodkar all from Goa, Dhiraj Patil of Maharashtra and D Ashraf of AP.
