Second seed GM V. Aravindh Chithambaram from Tamil Nadu defeated his Statemate and top seed GM Karthikeyan Murali to take the lead with eight points from nine rounds in the 45th National under-19 chess championship for boyshere on Wednesday.
Important results (ninth round):Boys: Karthikeyan Murali (TN) 6.5 lost to V. Aravindh Chithambaram (TN) 8; G. Akash (TN) 7 lost to B. Kumaran (TN) 7; Sammed Jaykumar Shete (Mah) 7 bt Akash P. Iyer (TN) 6; Harsha Bharathakoti (Tel) 7 bt M. Chakravarthi Reddy (Tel) 5.5; Gajwa Ankit (Del) 5.5 lost to C. Sai Vishwesh (TN) 6.5; V. Ap. Karthik (AP) 5.5 lost to D. Bala Chandra Prasad (AP) 6.5; Nihal Sarin (Ker) 5.5 lost to V. Varun (Tel) 6.5; M.L. Abhilash Reddy (AP) 6.5 bt J. Sai Agni Jeevitesh (Tel) 5.5; Sahoo Utkal Ranjan (Odi) 6 drew with Sadhu.S.Adithya (TN) 6; S. Adhithya (TN) 5.5 lost to N. Krishna Teja (AP) 6.
Girls: Hilmi Parveen (Ker) 6 lost to P. Michelle Catherina (TN) 7.5; G.K. Monnisha (TN) 6.5 drew with M. Mahalakshmi (TN) 6.5; Srija Seshadri (TN) 6 lost to R. Vaishali (TN) 7; Priyanka Nutakki (AP) 6.5 bt Sapale Saloni (Mah) 5.5; Sanskriti Goyal (UP) 5.5 lost to Madhurima Shekhar (Del) 6.5; Bidhar Rutumbara (Odi) 6 drew with V. Varshini (TN) 6; Harshita Guddanti (AP) 6.5 bt G. Lasya (AP) 5.5; Priyamvada Karamcheti (AP) 5.5 lost to K. Priyanka (TN) 6; C.H. Meghna (Ker) 6 bt Chitlange Sakshi (Mah) 5; Ananya Suresh (Kar) 5 lost to Sunyasakta Satpathy (Odi) 6.
