Vidit Gujrathi, Shyam Nikhil, Abhishek Das, Ankit Rajpara and Shiven Khosla achieved their nine game IM norms.

According to the organisers, the central government has sanctioned a Rs.600,000 grant-in-aid for the tournament.

Top board results :- (points in parenthesis)

GM Anton Filippov(6.5) GM Le Quang Liem(7.5)

GM Viktor Laznicka(7) beat GM Evgeny Postny(6)

GM Nigel Short(6) drew with IM S.Satyapragyan(6)

GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov(6.5) beat GM Merab Gagunashvili(5.5)

GM Aleksej Aleksandrov(6) drew with GM Eltaj Safarli(6)

GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly(6.5) beat GM Rustam Khusnutdinov(5.5)

IM R.R.Laxman(6) drew with GM Rauf Mamedov(6)

GM G.N.Gopal (6) drew with GM Parimarjan Negi (6)

GM Sandipan Chanda (6.5) beat IM B.Adhiban (5.5)

GM Jan Markos(5) lost to GM Ni Hua (6)

GM Ziaur Rahman (5.5) drew with GM Vladislav Tkachiev(5.5)

GM Abhijit Kunte (5.5) drew with GM Gadir Guseinov(5.5)

GM Mikheil Mchedlishvili (6) beat GM Deepan Chakkravarthy (5)

IM M.S.Thejkumar (5) lost to GM Abhijeet Gupta(6)

GM Tiger Hillarp Persson(5.5) beat FM Sayantan Das (5)