Saranya goes down fighting to Georgian GM Pantsulaia

Georgian GM Levan Pantsulaia, fresh from his Delhi Open title victory, posted a hard-fought win over Chennai's J Saranya in the second round of the 11th Chennai Open International Grand Master Chess tournament here Saturday.

With two points, he shares the lead with GMs Ivan Rozum and Ivan Popov (both Russia), Luka Paichadze (Georgia), Aleksej Aleksandrov, Kirill Stupak (both Belarus), Raset Ziatdinov (USA), Tran Tuan Minh (Vietnam),