Calcutta, March 18 :    Calcutta, March 18:  Day Two of the Goodricke Open clearly belonged to GM Krishnan Sasikiran of India who was at his innovative best at Alekhine Chess Club today. Playing against the English GM Bogdan Lalic, Sasikiran put up a sterling performance to make short work of the latter in a sharp tactical battle. With today's win Sasikiran jointly leads the field with five others on 2 points. Playing with the white pieces, Sasikiran launched an assault on his opponent's kingside by g4 on the 15th move which forced Lalic to weaken his defence and Sasikiran then wrapped up the game comfortably in a queen and pawn endgame. Lalic was all praise for his young opponent after the game. 'I had come prepared for 1d4 which Sasikiran normally plays but he surprised me with 1.Nf3. His 15th move to g4 was a novelty and totally unexpected,' Lalic told The Telegraph later. World junior girls' champion Koneru Humpy, however, disappointed, playing listlessly, to go down to Russian GM Alexey Kuzmin in a double fianchetto opening. Humpy lost a pawn in the opening for little compensation, and to make matters worse lost a piece after which it was curtains for her. GM Abhijit Kunte, playing with White against GM Pavel Kotsur of Kazakstan, stumbled, as he blundered in a drawish endgame to gift the point to his opponent. Local GM Dibyendu Barua held the second seed, GM Alexander Motylev of Russia, to a draw in the Dragon variation of the Sicilian defence in 20 moves. Rahul Shetty once again impressed and nearly held GM Evgeny Gleizerov of Russia, but the latter played the endgame in copy book fashion to net the full point. RESULTS Alexie Aleksadrov (1.5) drew with Andrey Shariyazdanov (1.5), Diyendu Barua (1.5) drew with Alexander Motylev (1.5), Abhijit Kunte (1) lost to Pavel Kotsur (2), K.Sasikiran (2) beat Bogdan Lalic (1), Asren Yegiazarian (2) beat Ehsan Ghaem Maghami (1), Krishna Thapa (1) lost to Maxim Sorokin (2), Alexander Goloshchapov (2) beat G.B. Prakash (1), Alexander Fominyh (2) beat S Kidambi (1), Rahul Shetty (1) lost to Evgeny Gliezerov (1.5), Drazen Sermek (1) drew with Tejas Bakre (1), Sarunas Sulskis (1.5) beat V Saravanan (0.5), Koneru Humpy (0.5) lost to Alexey Kuzmin (1.5), Sergei Ovsejevitsch (1.5) beat Saheli Dhar Barua (0.5), Sriram Jha (1) drew with R.B. Ramesh (1), P Mahesh Chandran (1.5) beat K Visweswaran (0.5), T.S. Ravi (0.5) lost to Abdulla Al-Rakib (1.5), Joerg Blauert (1.5) beat Enamul Hossain (0.5), Md.N Al Sayed (1.5) beat Dinesh Kr Sharma (0.5), Rahul Sangma (0.5) lost to Ruslan Sherbakov (1.5), Sandipan Chanda (1) beat P.D.S. Girinath (0), Aarthie Ramaswamy (0.5) drew with P Konguvel (0.5), Lanka Ravi (1) beat Yogesh Gore (0), Swati Ghate (1) beat Deep Sengupta (0), Vikramjit Singh (1) beat Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury (0), Nisha Mohota (0.5) drew with S Satyapragyan (0.5), Suvrajit Saha (0.5) drew with Somak Palit (0.5), Wong Zi Jing (1) beat Ghader Pour Shayesteh (0).