National youth chess: Meghna stuns Krishna Teja

C.H. Meghna shocked seventh seed Krishna Teja in the fourth round of the National youth chess championship here on Friday. The Kerala girl has now three points, one point behind the leaders and top seeds V.A.V. Rajesh and Ramanth Bhuvanesh.

V. Varun is in second position with 3.5 points. Five rounds remain.

Important results (fourth round): Saumil Padhya 3 lost to V.A.V. Rajesh 4; Ramnath Bhuvanesh 4 bt K. Arjun 3; V. Varun 3.5 bt Saravana Krishnan 3; Ameya Audi 2.5 lost to Chakravarthi Reddy 3; Krishna Teja 2 lost to C.H. Meghna 3; Ritviz Parab 2.5 Chandar Raju 2.5; Abir Sinha 3 bt V. Karthik 2; Jaspreet Singh 2 lost to S. Kannan 3; A. Abhishek 3 bt A.S. Sreejith 2; K. Senthil Maran 2 drew with Himal Gusain 2; V. Haribalu 2.5 bt Awadh Chaitanya 1.5; Arjun Satheesh 2.5 bt Harsh Srivastav 1.5; Saksham Dewan 2.5 bt P. Elancheralathan 1.5; Ruthra Kumar 1.5 lost to K. Athish 2.