Fourth seed Sauravh Khherdekar of Central Railway defeated Hemanth Raam in the second round of the second St. Joseph's College FIDE-rating chess tournament here on Tuesday. Important results (second round): Srinivas Reddy 1 lost to Navin Kanna 2, Ram S. Krishnan 2 bt J.G. Nivedhitha 1, Rohit Vassan 1 lost to D.P. Singh 2, Sauravh Khherdekar 2 bt Hemanth Raam 1, Sadhu Adithya 1 lost to S.A. Shazili 2, M. Kunal 2 bt N. Thiripurasundaram 1, Siva Mahadevan 1.5 drew with R. Balasubramaniam 1.5, Aravindh Chithambaram 2 bt T.V. Subramanian 1, I. Abishek 1 lost to O.T. Anilkumar 2, Matta Vinay Kumar 2 bt A. Sowmia 1.
