Top seed M. Mahalakshmi retained her sole lead at the end of the ninth round of the National under-17 girls’ chess championship at Patna on Monday. With two rounds remaining, she has 7.5 points, one ahead of G. Lasya, G.K. Monisha and V. Varshini.
Important results (ninth round): Baivab Mishra 6 lost to Aradhya Garg 8; V. Pranavananda 7.5 bt Neelash Saha 5.5; Hemanth Ram 5.5 lost to Y. Grahesh 6.5; Tridev Buragohain 5.5 drew with N. Krishna Teja 5.5; S. Adithya 5.5 drew with S. Prasanna 5.5; A. Abhishek 6 bt M. Vaisnav 5; Kumar Gaurav 6 bt Vishwanath Vivek 5; Srijit Paul 5 lost to S. Yogit 5.5; Sai Agni Jeevitesh 5 drew with Manan Rai 5; Saptorshi Gupta 5.5 bt M. Eashwar 4.5.
Girls: V. Toshasli 6 lost to M. Mahalakshmi 7.5; G.K. Monisha 6.5 drew with Srija Seshadri 6; V. Varshini 6.5 drew with Tejaswini Sagar 6; Sakshi Chitlange 6 lost to G. Lasya 6.5; Tarini Goyal 5.5 drew with Srishti Pandey 5.5; Sunyasakta Satpathy 5.5 drew with Jahnavi Soneji 5.5; Arpita Mukherjee 6 bt U. Ashwini 5; T.R.S. Dakshinya 5 lost to R. Divya Lakshmi 6; Samridha Ghosh 5 drew with Anwesha Mishra 5.5; Chandreyee Hajra 4.5 lost to Smaraki Mohanty 5.5.
