Chennai girl Michelle Catherina stunned favorite and higher rated Grandmaster Arun Prasad in the fifth round of the The India Cements Ltd 3rd Chennai Open International Grandmaster Chess tournament at SDAT Multipurpose Indoor Stadium, Chennai.

Another local favorite Grandmaster Baskaran Adhiban went down to Ukraine Grandmaster Yaroslav Zherebukh in a complicated Sicilian game that lasted 37 moves. The win takes Ukraine Grandmaster Yaroslav Zherebukh on top of the table with 5.0 points, along with IM Tamir Nabaty of Israel.

Top seeds, Grandmasters Alexander Areshchenko scored over Chennai based Grandmaster Sundararajan Kidambi and moved within half a point of the leaders.

Sharing the third spot with Areschchenko were eight other players including GMs Kuzubov, Postny, Greenfeld, Oleksienko, Abhijeet Gupta and Ziaur Rahman.

The interesting sixth round battle pits two talented youngsters, Tamir Nabaty against Yaroslav Zherebukh, in the top board.

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