In other fourth round matches, Kruttika Nadig beat Sachini Ranasinghe of Sri Lanka while Sultana Sharmin Shirin of Bangladesh made major upset by beating women Grandmaster Swathi Ghate in 46 moves.
Results: (Indians, otherwise stated)
Men (Round-6): Gillani Tunveer of Pakistan (2.5) lost to Hapuarachchi HLM of Sri Lanka (1); Amir Karim of Pakistan (1) lost to GM Rahman Ziaur of Bangladesh (4.5); IM Sriram Jha (4.5) drew with GM Deepan Chakkravarthy (4); Ahmed Ashraf of Maldvies (1) lost to GM Neelotpal Das (5); Surbir Lama of Nepal (2.5) lost to GM Praveen Thipsay (5); IM K Rathnakaran (4) beat Kesav Malla of Bhutan (0). GM Reefat Bin-Sattar of Bangladesh(1) got bye.
Men (Round-5): Malla Kesav lost to Surbir Lama; Praveen Thipsay beat Ahmed Ashraf; Neelotpal Das drew with Sriram Jha; Deepan Chakkravarthy beat Amir Karim; Ziaur Rahman beat Tunveer Gillani; Hapuarachchi HLM lost to Reefat Bin-Sattar; K Rathnakaran got bye.
Women (Round-4): WGM Kruttika Nadig (2.5) beat Sachini Ranasinghe of Sri Lanka (1); WGM Nisha Mohota (2) drew with IM Tania Sachdev (3.5); WGM Swathi Ghate (.5) lost to Sultana Sharmin Shirin of Bangladesh (2.5); Monalisa Khamboo of Nepal (0) got bye.