FIDE Master Aravindh beat Ritviz Parab (Goa) while Visakh defeated V Karthik (AP) to be in joint lead with 6.5 points. Sharing the third spot with six points were M Aadhityaa, Pranav Vijay (both TN) along with Sharan Rao of Karnataka.
In a closed Sicilian game, Aravindh outwitted his Goan challenger, going for an exchange of queen versus two rooks. Making further in-roads into his opponents territory, Aravindh gained the full point when Ritvik lost a piece and resigned on the 32nd move at the Multipurpose Indoor Stadium.
In the girls section, top seeded and national Under-11 champion R Vaishali of Tamil Nadu continued her winning spree by defeating second seed challenger from Goa, Savant Riya.
The win gave the Chennai girl a clear one point lead at 7.0 points. Following the leader is Woman Candidate Master Tejaswini Sagar of Maharashtra at 6.0 points.
Round 7 Results: (Boys)
Ritviz Parab (Goa) 5.5 lost to V R Aravindh Chithambaram (TN) 6.5, N R Visakh (TN) 6.5 bt V Karthik (AP) 5, M Aadhityaa (TN) 6 bt Abhimanyu Puranik (Mah) 5, Pranav Vijay (TN) 6 bt S Ajay Krishna (TN) 5, Naik Rishubh Naresh (Goa) 5.5 drew with C Sai Vishwesh (TN) 5.5, A L Muthaiah (TN) 5.5 drew with Y Grahesh (AP) 5.5, Sharan Rao (Kar) 6 bt V Pranavananda (AP) 4.5, Aradhya Garg (Del) 5.5 bt Harsha Bharathakoti (AP) 4.5, Kaustuv Kundu (WB) 5.5 bt R U Anantharam (Kar) 4.5, A Abhishek (Ker) 5 drew with Chandar Raju (Ker) 5
Round 7 Results (Girls): R Vaishali (TN) 7 bt Savant Riya (Goa) 5, Tejaswini Sagar (Mah) 6 bt Bakshi Rutuja (Mah) 4.5, Bidhar Rutumbara (Ori) 4.5 lost to Shiny Das (Tri) 5.5, R Manjula (TN) 5.5 bt C R Varsha (TN) 4.5, Anigani Kavya (AP) 4.5 lost to D Meera (TN) 5.5, Bhagya Jayesh (Ker) 4.5 lost to Potluri Srreezza (AP) 5.5, H Guddanti (AP) 5.5 bt Vishwa Shah (Mah) 4.5, Shweta Priyadarshini (UP) 5.5 bt H R Manasa (Kar) 4, Ananya (Kar) 5 bt P Supreetha (AP) 4, Angira Choudhuri (WB) 4.5 drew with I Harivardhini (TN) 4.5.
