NAGPUR: Top seed Divya Deshmukh played out a quick draw with seed no.2 Mkrtchyan Mariam of Armenia to maintain sole lead in the World Junior girls chess championship currently in progress at Gandhinagar, Gujarat, on Sunday.
At the end of the seventh round of the World Chess Federation (FIDE) organized U-20 championship, five players are closely trailing 18-year-old Divya by half a point.