On a day of upsets, Indian Grandmaster Vishnu Prasanna defeated highly regarded Grandmaster Emil Sutovsky of Israel while former world junior girls' champion Soumya Swaminathan came with an inspired performance to beat American Kayden Troff to maintain a clean slate after two games.
Also ending on a high was Indian GM M R Venkatesh who scored a fine victory over Simen Agdestein of Norway.
With eight rounds still to come, it was business as usual for some of the higher-ranked players but highest rated Indian P Harikrishna had to show his endgame-magic before he could secure his second victory in the tournament.
Quinten Ducarmon of Holland had an extra pawn in the endgame arising out of a French defense but Harikrishna used his Bishop pair well to catch the Dutchman off-guard and won in 52 moves.
The day however belonged to Debashis Das. It was a Nimzo Indian Classical in which Topalov tried a lot of tricks in the middle game. Starting with a piece sacrifice on the 25th move the Bulgarian ripped apart white's position on the king side but Das came up with some remarkable counter play to keep himself in the game.
The Indian was undeterred by the close to 300 rating points different between the two and even allowed Topalov to make a second queen when the position reached an exciting finish. When the dust subsided Topalov had an extra queen but Das had three pieces. The draw was signed on move 46.
Vishnu Prasanna defeated Sutovsky from the white side of an English opening game. Giving the Israeli a taste of his own medicine, Prasanna sacrificed a pawn early in the opening and reached a better endgame despite less material. What followed was a treat to watch as the Indian found an aesthetically pleasing finish leading to force checkmate.
Soumya Swaminathan excelled in a Sicilian Najdorf with her white pieces. Kayden Troff suffered once white started a massive attack in the centre and black's position fell apart after a thematic pieces sacrifice. Soumya finally trapped black's queen and won in just 30 moves.
Venkatesh won with black against Agdestein out of a King's Indian defense game while on the flip side Sandipan Chanda suffered a blow to go down to Manuel Juan Bellon Lopez.
Important and Indian results round 2 (Indians unless specified): Debashis Das (1.5) drew with Veselin Topalov (Bul, 1.5); Hikaru Nakamura (Usa, 2) beat D Harika (1); Dennis Wagner (Ger, 1.5) drew with Peter Svidler (Rus, 1.5); Nikita Vitiugov (Rus, 2) beat Danny Raznikov (Isr, 1); Yangyi Yu (Chn, 2) beat M Shyam Sundar (1); Quinten Ducarmon (Ned, 1) lost to P Harikrishna (2); Wei Yi (Chn, 2) beat Alan Pichot (1); Arghyadip Das (1) lost to Yifan Hou (Chn, 2); V Vishnu Prasanna (2) beat Emil Sutovsky (Isr, 1); Stefan Docx (Bel, 1) lost to B Adhiban (2); Simen Agdestein (Nor, 1) lost to M R Venkatesh (2); Ismael Teran Alvarez (Esp, 1.5) drew with S P Sethuraman (1.5); Aleksandr Lenderman (Usa, 1.5) drew with Neelotpal Das (1.5); Eesha Karavade (1) lost to Nils Grandelius (Swe, 2); Surya Shekhar Ganguly (2) beat David Martinez Martin (Esp, 1); Padmini Rout (1.5) drew with Sandro Mareco (Arg, 1.5); Manuel Juan Bellon Lopez (Esp, 2) beat Sandipan Chanda (1); Thomas Paehtz (Ger, 1.5) drew with Deep Sengupta (1.5); Soumya Swaminathan (2) beat Kayden Troff (Usa, 1); M R Lalith Babu beat Marta Bartel (Pol, 1).
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