Aradhya Garg and V. Varshini emerged as the National under-17 chess champions at Patna on Wednesday.
Fifth-seeded Aradhya won the boys' title on a superior tie-breaker score after tying on 9.5 points with V. Pranavnananda, the ninth seed who finished runner-up.
Varshini, also seeded fifth, won the girls title with 8.5 points, half-a-point ahead of top seed M. Mahalakshmi, who took the second place.
Important results (11th round): Boys: Y. Grahesh (7) lost to V. Pranavananda (9.5); Aradhya Garg (9.5) bt N. Krishna Teja (6.5); S. Yogit (7.5) bt A. Abhishke (7).
Sai Agni Jeevitesh (6.5) drew with Neelash Saha (7); S. Prasanna (7) bt Saptorshi Gupta (6); Kumar Gaurav (7) bt M. Satvik (6).
Rahul Kumar (6) lost to Hemanth Ram (7); Baivab Mishra (7) bt M. Vaisnav (5.5); Sanchay Dubey (5.5) lost to Manan Rai (6.5); Eshan Lawaniya (5.5) lost to S. Adithya (6.5).
Standings: 1-2. Aradhya and Pranavananda (9.5); 3. Yogit (7.5); 4-10. Baivab, Prasanna, Grahesh, Neelash, Hemanth, Abhishek, Kumar (7).
Girls: Srija Seshadri (8) bt M. Mahalakshmi (8); G.K. Monisha (7.5) lost to Tarini Goyal (7.5).
V. Varshini (8.5) bt Sunyasakta Satpathy (6.5); Arpita Mukherjee (7) drew with G. Lasya (7); Janhavi Soneji (7.5) bt Tejaswini Sagar (6.5).
Sanskriti Goyal (6) lost to V. Toshali (7.5); Sakshi Chitlange (6) lost to R. Divya Lakshmi (7); U. Ashwini (6.5) drew with Anwesha Mishra (6); Chandreyee Hajra (6.5) bt P. Thamaraiselvi (5.5).
K. Kavya Srishti (5.5) lost to Smaraki Mohanty (6.5).
Standings: 1. Varshini (8.5); 2-3. Mahalakshmi, Srija (8); 4-7. Monisha, Janhavi, Tarini, Toshali (7.5); 8-10. Lasya, Arpita, Divya (7).
