S Poobesh Anand continued with his dream run and scored another brilliant victory, crushing Grandmaster Ernesto Inarkiev of Russia in the 10th round of the 41st World Junior Chess Championship in Panaji.

Luke McShane of Engalnd shot into sole lead with a swift victory over Russian Grandmaster Dimitry Jakovenko. The victory took McShane's tally to 7.5 points from 10 games.

Seven players, Ferenc Berkes of Hungary, Levon Aronian of Armenia, R Wojtaszek of Poland, Timofeev Artyom of Russia and Indians P Harikrishna, Surya Shekhar Ganguly and S Poobesh Anand, follow him in the joint second spot with seven points each.

For the second day in succession, Poobesh defeated a much higher rated opponent. Playing white, the Indian ensured a bloody battle in the early part of opening by choosing the ultra sharp four pawns attack against the King's Indian defence.

Inarkiev, who definitely underestimated Poobesh's acumen in handling complex positions, chose a dubious variation and was found struggling for the major part of the game.

Poobesh won a pawn in the middle with a simple combination and the rest was easy. On his 38th move, Inarkiev resigned.

"I was confident once he made a few mistakes in the middle game, it was a nice win," said Poobesh.

Despite hard fought games on the top tables between eight overnight leaders, only McShane successfully broke the defences of Jakovenko with his Rossolimo attack. Playing white, McShane was up against a Sicilian and launched a queenside attack.

Jakovenko got some counter play in the centre but with McShane's nights doing a tango, he lost a pawn in the ensuing rook and minor pieces endgame. Mcshane got a passed pawn on the queen Bishop file and marched it to glory quite easily. The game lasted just 35 moves.

Harikrishna surprised Ganguly on the first move itself. Playing with the white pieces, Harikrishna opened with the king pawn and went for the Ruy Lopez. Ganguly employed his favourite Arkhengelsk variation and had little trouble in drawing level.

The pieces got traded at regular intervals and the draw was agreed to in just 23 moves when the game reached a level Rook and opposite colours Bishop endgame.

"It was all theory and I had no troubles," said Ganguly after the game.