Kolkata: Grandmaster G.N. Gopal took the lead at the Tata National premier Chess Tournament at the Khudiram indoor hall on Tuesday.

Playing against GM Sundarajan Kidambi with white pieces Gopal won the match in 28 moves. He is now on tied 1st position with fellow Grandmaster Neelotpal Das and International Master Swapnil Dhopade with two points.

Neelotpal Das beat Women Grandmaster Mary Ann Jones.

Results:

G.N. Gopal bt S. Kidambi ; Mary Ann Gomes lost to Neelotpal Das ; M.L. Abhilash Reddy drew with S. Satyapragyan ; Swapnil S. Dhopade bt V.A.V. Rajesh ; Debashis Das drew with Anurag Mhamal ; B. Adhiban bt Aravindh Chithambaram ; G. Akash lost to M.R. Lalith Babu, P. Kartikeyan drew with Sahaj Grover.

Praveen Thipsay drew with Bitan Banerjee ; Deep Sengupta bt Sohan Phadke ; Ram S. Krishnan lost to S.P. Sethuraman; Dibyendu Barua drew with Sashikant Kutwal ; S. Ravi Teja drew with Diptayan Ghosh ; Pratik Patil bt Suvrajit Saha; C. Praveen Kumar bt Murali Kartikeyan; C.R.G. Krishna lost to K. Praneeth Surya ; B.T. Muralikrishnan lost to Saptarshi Roy. 

Sagar Shah drew with Deepan Chakkravarthy ; Abhijit Kunte drew with Swayams Mishra; M.R. Venkatesh bt Atanu Lahiri; Arindam Mukherjee lost to S. Arun Prakash ; Vidit Santosh Gujrathi drew with S.L. Narayan.

By Indian Sports News Network