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 International Master Lanka Ravi stole the honours in day two also when he beat his second grandmaster opponent in a row to be among the eight leaders at the end of the second round in the 5th Asian Chess Championship being played here on Friday.
 Eight leaders include two Indians, Neelotpal Das of Kolkata and Lanka Ravi of ONGC, Hyderabad. The six others are: Zhao Jun, Wang Hao (Chn), Zhang Zhong (all China), Reefat Bin-Sattar (Ban), Dao Thien Hai (Vie) and Marat Dzumaev
(Uzb).
India suffered a major blow at the top. Sasikiran lost in 44 moves with the black pieces in a Slav defence game. His young Chinese opponent surprised him in the opening and seized a significant advantage. Sasikiran with black tried his best by sacrificing a knight but his opponent returned the material and kept a two pawn advantage which mattered in the end.
 On the second table, Sundararajan Kidambi, Sasikiran's one time sparring partner held the second seed former world junior champion Darmen Sadakasov to a fighting 52-move draw. "I was slightly better but got nothing," said
Kidambi.
Ramesh and his Chinese opponent Ni Hua drew in 58 moves in a game devoid of serious risk. "We both had to play carefully, I never got any chance," said Ramesh. The three Chennai players on the top three boards was an impressive sight but the day belonged to the visitors.
Ravi's victory was unlike in the first round. Wu Wenjin's optimistic bishop sacrifice in the ending to win cost him a point when Ravi nursed the extra pawn after returning a knight. Humpy rebounded to win while Harika drew.
"This event is so strong that it will offer plenty of grandmaster norm opportunities for our players," said R.B.Ramesh. Seven rounds remain to be played in this 86-player nine round Swiss format event.
Zhao Jun (Chn) 2 bt Krishnan Sasikiran (Ind) 1,
Darmen Sadvakasov (Kaz) 1.5 drew Sundararajan Kidambi (Ind) 1.5,
R.B.Ramesh (Ind) 1.5 drew Ni Hua (Chn) 1.5,
Tejas Bakre (Ind) 1 lost to Zhang Zhong (Chn) 2,
Reefat Bin-Sattar (Ban) 2 bt Ehsan Ghaem Maghami (Iri) 1,
Anton Filippov (Uzb) 1.5 drew Xu Jun (Chn) 1.5,
Dao Thien Hai (Vie) 2 bt Dibyendu Barua (Ind) 1,
Mohammad Al-Modiahki (Qat) 1.5 drew Orazly Annageldyev (Tkm) 1.5,
Sandipan Chanda (Ind) 1.5 drew Abdullah Al-Rakib (Ban) 1.5,
Enamul Hossain (Ban) 1.5 drew Abhijit Kunte (Ind) 1.5,
Nguyen Anh Dung (Vie) 1.5 drew M.R.Venkatesh (Ind) 1.5,
B.S.Sivanandan (Ind) 1.5 drew Saidali Iuldachev (Uzb) 1.5,
Sergey Kayumov (Uzb) 1.5 drew Susanto Megaranto (INA) 1.5,
Wu Wenjin (Chn) 1 lost to Lanka Ravi (Ind) 2,
Zhao Weiqi (Chn) 1 lost to Wang Hao (Chn) 2,
Himanshu Sharma (Ind) 1.5 drew Li Shilong (Chn) 1.5,
Neelotpal Das (Ind) 2 bt Valay Parikh (Ind) 1,
Stephen G Lukey (NZ) 1 lost to Marat Dzhumaev (Uzb) 2,
Wang Yue (Chn) 1.5 bt K.Visweswaran (Ind) 1,
Deep Sengupta (Ind) 0.5 lost to Ziaur Rahman (Ban) 1.5,
Vishal Sareen (Ind) 1 drew S.S.Ganguly (Ind) 1,
R.R.Laxman (Ind) 1 drew Yu Shaoteng (Chn) 1,
Zhou Jianchao (Chn) 1.5 bt Arghyadip Das (Ind) 0.5,
Wang Rui (Chn) 1.5 bt Suvrajit Saha (Ind) 0.5,
Murtas Kazhgaleyev (Kaz) 1 bt Hirawan Mohd Omar Ak (Bru) 0.5,
Pavel Kotsur (Kaz) 0.5 drew Mohsen Sharbaf (Iri) 0.5,
Koneru Humpy (Ind) 1 bt Roktim Bandyopadyay (Ind) 0,
Moussa Taleb (UAE) 0.5 drew D.P.Singh (Ind) 0.5,
Jayson Gonzales (Phi) 0.5 drew Prathamesh Sunil Mokal (Ind) 0.5,
D.K.Sharma (Ind) 0.5 drew Deepan Chakravarthy (Ind) 0.5,
Pavel Gnusarev (Kaz) 1 bt. Lim Yee-Weng (Mas) 0,
Meilis Annaberdiev (Tkm) 0.5 drew V.Saravanan (Ind) 0.5,
Atanu Lahiri (Ind) 0 lost to Karen Grigoryan (Tkm) 1,
Morteza Mahjoob (Iri) 1 bt. Xie George Wendi (Aus) 0,
S.Satyapragyan (Ind) 0.5 drew G.N.Gopal (Ind) 0.5,
Sergei Simonenko (Tkm) 1 bt Yogesh Gore (Ind) 0,
D.Sai Srinivas (Ind) 0 lost to Abhijeet Gupta (Ind) 1,
S.Rishipal Singh (Ind) 0 lost to G.Rohit (Ind) 1,
N.Sudhakar Babu (Ind) 0.5 drew Poobesh Anand (Ind) 0.5,
Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury (Ind) 0.5 drew Somak Palit (Ind) 0.5,
D.Harika (Ind) 0.5 drew J.Ramakrishna (Ind) 0.5,
Mohd Omar Ak Hira (Bru) 0.5 drew P.D.S.Girinath (Ind) 0.5,
P.Konguvel (Ind) 1 bt K.Ramu (Ind) 0.
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