zhaozhuang china youngest asian champion parimarjan negi showed the way as indian men coasted to a 31 victory over singapore in the second round of asian nations chess cup on friday on a day when krishnan sasikiran settled for an early draw and p harikrishna could make no headway negi who is fresh from his victory in the asian continental showed some fine technique to beat yi ren daniel chan to ensure that india win later from a seemingly drawn position g n gopal swindled peng kong chan to make the victory margin look healthier china1 scored a comprehensive 3505 victory over kazakhstan to share the lead with india on four match points after two rounds with seven rounds still to come in the nineround swiss the indians will hope for a good show when they take on china in the third round meanwhile the indian eves also recovered to post a minimal 2515 victory over kazakhstan surprisingly the thinktank decided to rest in form mary ann gomes who was the lone winner on a dismal opening day for the indians when all the other three had lost the trio of d harika eesha karavade and tania sachdev mustered just 15 points on the top three boards however padmini rout won on the fourth board against dinara saduakassova to save the blushes the china1 team beat indonesia 3505 to remain the table toppers along with iran that continued to impress with a 2515 victory against mongolia with two points in their kitty out of a possible four the indian eves stand joint third along with kazakhstan china23 and vietnam seven rounds remain here too but the womens champion is being played on a round robin basis among ten teams parimarjan negi was most impressive with his white pieces coming in the team in place of abhijeet gupta who was rested negi opened with his pet king pawn and got a small advantage in the middle game after a notsoregular ruy lopez by his opponent going for opposite side castling negi went for an attack through the center and cashed in when chan could not find the right path to safety the game lasted 37 moves gopal got lucky in mutual time scramble when his opponent blundered a pawn the remaining technicalities were handled with precision in other games for the indians p harikrishna conceded a draw to wei ming kevin goh while krishnan sasikiran signed peace with zhang zhongcomplete results round 2 open team points in bracket kazakhstan 2 lost to china1 4 3505 india 4 beat singapore 2 31 iran 3 drew with vietnam 3 22 china 2 3 beat iraq 0 40 korea 0 lost to mongolia 3 3505 chinese taipei 0 lost to yemen 2 04 indonesia 2 beat hong kong 0 31indian results krishnan sasikiran drew with zhang zhong wei ming kevin goh drew with p harikrishna parimarjan negi beat yi ren daniel chan peng kong chan lost to g n gopalwomen china 1 4 beat