Local boy and IM R. Raja Rithvik shocked top seed GM Boris Savchenko of Russia on the third board in the fifth round of the Tetrasoft Hyderabad Marriott International Grandmasters chess tournament here on Friday.
Important results (Indians unless otherwise mentioned, fifth round): Triapishko Alexandr (Rus) 5 bt P. Karthikeyan 4; Muhammed Khusenkhojaev (Tajik) 4.5 drew with V. Pranav 4.5.
R. Raja Rithvik 4.5 bt Boris Savchenko (Rus) 3.5; Sahoo Utkal Ranjan 3.5 lost Adam Tukhaev (Ukr) 4.5; Aaryan Varshney 4 drew with Masoud Mosadeghpour (Iran) 4.
R.R. Laxman 4.5 bt Manish Kumar 3.5; Pavel Smirnov (Rus) 3.5 drew with Pratik Patil 3.5; Rodrigo Vasques Schroeder (Chi) 3.5 drew with Atul Dahale 3.5.
J. Ramakrishna 3.5 drew with Al Muthaiah 3.5; M. Kalyan Bharath 3 lost to K. Rathnakaran 4.
Chandra Sekhar Sahu 3 lost to P. Bharat Kumar Reddy 4; Kaustuv Kundu 4 bt Akila Kavinda (SL) 3; De Silva (SL) 3 lost to Shantanu Bhambure 4.
Kushagra Mohan 4 bt J.K. Raju 3; M. Ajay 3 lost to V. Varun 4.
N. Surendran 2.5 lost to Md. Abzid Rahman (Ban) 3.5 ; P. Anirudha 3 drew with Vedant Pimpalkhare 3 .
