Lalit Babu and 23 others in lead
Raset opted to exchange his queen for a couple of minor pieces and pawns, but it did not work to his advantage. Tornike made a second queen and ripped through the defence.
Except for two boards, the rest of the top players won their third round. There were as many as 24 players with three points, including International Master Soumya Swaminathan.
After two tough rounds, Grandmaster Lalit Babu eased to victory in 23 moves against Prakhar Raj.
In the junior section, 12 players led with three points
The results (third round): Levan Pantsulaia 3 bt Shrayan Majumder 2; Daksh Goyal lost to Manuel Petrosyan 3; Luka Paichadze 3 bt Rupesh Jaiswal 2; Arnav Agrawal 2 lost to Mihail Nikitenko 3; Lalit Babu 3 bt Prakhar Bajaj 2; Arshpreet Sigh 2 lost to Mamikon Gharibyan 3; Boris Savchenko 3 bt Alluri Reddy 2; Aamuktha Guntaka 2 lost to Vedant Panesar 3; Tornike Sanikidze 3 bt Raset Ziatdinov 2; Guru Prakash 2.5 drew with Deepan Chakkravarthy 2.5; Arsen Davtyan 3 bt Yohan Boricha 2; Sri Sandipagu 2 lost to Duc Hoa Nguyen 3; Alexander Slizhevsky 3 bt Om Nagnath 2; M Mridav 2 lost to Aleksej Aleksandrov 3; Alexei Fedorov 3 bt Akila Kavinda 2; Ram Parab 2 lost to Nayaka Budhidharma 3; Neelotpal Das 3 bt Samuel Noble 2; Dinesh Jaganathan 2 lost to Nithin Babu 3; Van Huy Nguyen 3 bt Adhiraj Mitra 2; Vinayak Kulkarni 2.5 drew with Semetei Tegin 2.5; David Gochelashvili 3 bt Ashish Chaudhari 2; Siddhant Salunke 2 lost to Soumya Swaminathan 3.
Under-13: Mysha Perwez 2 lost to Aansh Nerurkar 3; Madhesh Kumar 3 bt Advik Reddy 2; Shitiz Prasad 2 lost to Madhvendra Sharma 3; Samuel Noble 3 bt Rishen Jilowa 2; Hriday Maniar 2 lost to Shaunak Badole 3; Adhiraj Mitra 3 bt Aarav Dhayagude 2; Taseen Tadavi 2 lost to Vyom Malhotra 3; Jai Vanum 2 lost to R Nijesh 3; Sameer Shergill 2 lost to Andalamala Varshan 3; Ramesh Goutham 3 bt Johny Arixander 2; Shaashvat Gupta 2 lost to Mahir Taneja 3; Sahejveer Singh 2.5 drew with Aradhy Roy 2.5; Amber Gangwal 2 lost to Shaurya Singh 3; V tripurambika 1.5 lost to Amit Agrawal 2.5; Avirat Chauhan 2 drew with Pratyush Kumar 2; HP Angada 1.5 lost to Aadik Lenin 2.5.
= = = EOM
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