Top seed M. Mahalakshmi defeated second seed G.K. Monisha to move into the sole lead at the end of the seventh round of the National under-17 girls’ chess championship at Patna on Saturday.
With four rounds remaining, she has six points, half-a-point ahead of Tejaswini Sagar and V. Varshini.
In the boys’ event, fifth seed Aradhya Garg maintained his sole lead with 6.5 points, one point in front of V. Pranavananda.
Important results (seventh round):
A. Abhishek 4.5 lost to Aradhya Garg 6.5; V. Pranavananda 5.5 drew with Baivab Mishra 5; S. Adithya 5 drew with Y. Ganesh 5; Saptorshi Gupta 4.5 drew with N. Krishna Teja 4.5; S. Prasanna 5 bt M. Eashwar 4; S. Yogit 4.5 drew with Vishwanath Vivke 4.5.
Hemanth Ram 5 bt Saurabh Anand 4; Neelash Saha 4.5 drew with M. Vaisnav 4; Manan Rai 4 drew with Arka Sengupta 4; Srijit Paul 4.5 bt Sneh Dave 3.5.
Girls: G.K. Monisha 5 lost to M. Mahalakshmi 6; G. Lasya 4.5 lost to V. Varshini 5.5; Tarini Goyal 4.5 lost to Tejaswini Sagar 5.5; Arpita Mukherjee 5 drew with Srija Seshadri 4.5; Anwesha Misra 4 lost to Sakshi Chitlange 5; Isha Sharma 4 lost to Janhavi Soneji 5; Chandreyee Hajra 4 lost to V. Toshali 5; Smaraki Mohanty 4.5 drew with Samridha Ghosh 4.5; Sunyasakta Satpathy 4 drew with P. Thamaraiselvi 4; Tanya Pandey 4 drew with Ankitha Goud 4.
