Four decisive games meant that it was a fighting Tuesday at the Men’s National Premier Chess Championship. Kunte and M. Karthikeyan managed to open their accounts, the latter at the expense of an extremely consistent Venkatesh who remains at a sorry 0/3.
To both Vidit and P. Karthikeyan’s dismay, they were held to draws. Deep and Rathnakaran lost their second consecutive games, the former tragically from a won position. Praneeth caused yet another upset when he took down Dhopade while Shyam Sundar and Arghyadip played out an entertaining draw.
Check the Round 4 pairings here.