Harsha Bharathakoti is just 10 Elo points away from becoming India's 56th GM
Indian players in a light mood before the start of the fourth round
Harsha Bharathakoti started the tournament with a rating of 2474 and three GM norms. He has already gained 16 Elo points and is on 2490, just 10 points away from GM title.
Harsha Bharathakoti vs Alan Pichot
Harsha was under grave time pressure, but he managed to keep his cool and came out on top by making some amazingly accurate moves towards the end.
Harsha speaks to ChessBase India after his victory
S.L. Narayanan vs Harsha Bharathakoti
In the second round of the day S.L. Narayanan was in an agressive mood. He sacrificed quite a bit of material and the game was quite interesting. But after a point he blundered and Harsha took home the full point.
Karthikeyan and Karthik played in the third round against each other and drew their game
The 12-year-old Uzbek wunderboy Javokhir Sindarov managed to beat Aravindh Chithambaram
Overview of Indian performance:
| SNo | Name | Rtg | FED | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Pts. | Rk. | K | rtg+/- | Group | |
| 4 | GM | Karthikeyan Murali | 2605 | IND | 1 | 1 | ½ | ½ | 3,0 | 14 | 10 | 2,10 | Open |
| 10 | GM | Aravindh Chithambaram Vr. | 2578 | IND | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3,0 | 9 | 10 | 2,40 | Open |
| 13 | GM | Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan | 2573 | IND | 1 | ½ | 1 | 0 | 2,5 | 38 | 10 | -3,90 | Open |
| 23 | GM | Puranik Abhimanyu | 2524 | IND | 1 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 3,5 | 8 | 10 | 5,80 | Open |
| 27 | IM | Karthik Venkataraman | 2519 | IND | 1 | 1 | ½ | ½ | 3,0 | 18 | 10 | 6,90 | Open |
| 40 | IM | Harsha Bharathakoti | 2474 | IND | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4,0 | 4 | 10 | 15,60 | Open |
| 50 | IM | Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh | 2443 | IND | ½ | 1 | ½ | 0 | 2,0 | 72 | 10 | -2,80 | Open |
| 56 | IM | Raja Harshit | 2419 | IND | 1 | 0 | ½ | 1 | 2,5 | 57 | 10 | -0,10 | Open |
| 77 | IM | Krishna Teja N | 2356 | IND | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2,0 | 89 | 10 | -8,60 | Open |
| 94 | FM | Shailesh Dravid | 2325 | IND | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2,0 | 85 | 20 | -2,40 | Open |
| 12 | WIM | Chitlange Sakshi | 2279 | IND | 1 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 2,5 | 26 | 40 | -14,40 | Girls |
| 21 | WIM | Mahalakshmi M | 2213 | IND | ½ | 1 | ½ | 1 | 3,0 | 20 | 20 | 0,00 | Girls |
| 32 | WIM | Varshini V | 2173 | IND | 1 | 0 | 1 | ½ | 2,5 | 28 | 20 | -6,40 | Girls |
| 36 | WIM | Ivana Maria Furtado | 2144 | IND | 1 | ½ | 1 | 0 | 2,5 | 22 | 20 | 14,60 | Girls |
| 55 | WCM | Isha Sharma | 2012 | IND | 1 | 0 | ½ | 0 | 1,5 | 60 | 40 | 28,80 | Girls |
| 65 | Meenal Gupta | 1963 | IND | ½ | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2,5 | 33 | 40 | 42,00 | Girls |
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