Young Abhimanyu Puranik of India caused a major flutter in the opening round, beating fourth seeded Grandmaster Ortiz Suarez of Cuba in the LIC international Grandmasters chess tournament here on Monday.
Important results (first round, all Indians unless specified): Nigel Short (Eng) 1 bt B.T. Murali Krishnan 0; B. Pratyusha 0 lost to Dimitry Kokarev (Rus)1; Quesada Perez (Cub) 0.5 drew with Rajdeep Sarkar 0.5; Abhimanyu Puranik 1 bt Ortiz Suarez (Cub) 0; Surya Sekhar Ganguly 1 bt A. Ra. Harikrishnan 0; Hemant Sharma 0 lost to G.N. Gopal 1; Lu Shanglei (Chn) 1 bt Niranjan Navalgund 0; Deep Sengupta 1 bt Swati Ghate 0; Utkal Ranjan Sahoo 1 bt Kirill Stupak (Blr) 0; M.R. Lalith Babu 0.5 drew with Aniruddha Deshpande 0.5; Abdulla Al Rakib (Ban) 1 bt Abhishek Das 0; B. Sekar 1 bt Oral Tomas (Cze) 0.