Ninth seed V. Pranavananda caught up with fifth seed Aradhya Garg going into the final round of the National Under-17 chess championship at Patna on Tuesday. They have 8.5 points each, and are 1.5 points ahead of Y. Grahesh and A. Abhishek.
Important results (tenth round): Y. Grahesh 7 drew with Aradhya Garg 8.5; V. Pranavananada 8.5 bt Kumar Gaurav 6; A. Abhishek 7 bt Baivab Mishra 6; N. Krishna Teja 6.5 bt Sanchay Dubey 5.5; M. Satvik 6 drew with S. Prasanna 6; S. Yogit 6.5 bt S. Adithya 5.5; Saptorshi Gupta 6 drew with Hemanth Ram 6; Neelash Saha 6.5 bt Tridev Buragohain 5.5; Vishwanath Vivek 5 lost to Sai Agni Jeevitesh 6; M. Vaisnav 5.5 drew with Srijit Paul 5.5.
Girls: M. Mahalakshmi 8 drew with Arpita Mukherjee 6.5; G. Lasya 6.5 lost to G.K. Monisha 7.5; R. Divya Lakshmi 6 lost to V. Varshini 7.5; Srija Seshadri 7 bt Sakshi Chitlange 6; Tejaswini Sagar 6.5 drew with V. Toshali 6.5; Ankitha Goud 5.5 lost to Tarini Goyal 6.5; Anwesha Mishra 5.5 lost to Sunyasakta Satpathy 6.5; Sristhi Pandey 5.5 lost to Janhavi Soneji 6.5; Smaraki Mohanty 5.5 lost to U. Ashwini 6; Samridha Ghosh 5 lost to Sanskriti Goyal 6.
