The World junior chess championship is just two days old but some of the lesser-rated Indian teens are already busy proving their prowess.

Mrudul Dehankar, seeded a distant 29, produced a cracker of a performance on the top board to stun second-seeded Greek IM Stavroula Tsolakidou in just 23 moves. That too, with black pieces!

She was among the 11 leaders, including teammates N. Priyanka and Arpita Mukherjee, at two points.

Less than 24 hours after holding top seed Amin Tabatabaei, 48th seed Aronyak Ghosh brought down third-seeded compatriot and National champion Aravindh Chithambaram in a 49-move thriller.

There were eight leaders, with the lone Indian being R. Praggnanandhaa, at two points.

The fifth-seeded medal aspirant in the girls’ section, R. Vaishali dropped half a point to Estonia’s Margareth Olde.

Important results (second round): Open: Shant Sargsyan (Arm, 2) bt Aditya Mittal (1) Bharath Subramanium (1) lost to Evgeny Shtembuliak (Ukr, 2); R. Praggnanandhaa (2) bt Or Bronstein (Isr, 1).

Anuj Shrivatri (1.5) drew with Harsha Bharathakoti (1.5); N.R. Visakh (1.5) drew with Vid Dobrovoljc (Slo, 1.5); Luke Mendonca (1.5) drew with Sergei Lobanov (Rus, 1.5); P. Iniyan (1.5) drew with Sankalp Gupta (1.5). M. Karthikeyan (1.5) bt Nitish Belurkar (0.5); Aronyak Ghosh (1.5) bt Aravindh Chithambaram (0.5).

Girls: Starvoula Tsolakidou (Gre, 1) lost to Mrudul Dehankar (2); Margareth Olde (Est, 1) drew with R. Vaishali (1.5); Bibisara Assaubayeva (Kaz, 1.5) drew with Aakanksha Hagawane (1.5); Saloni Sapale (1.5) drew with Gabriela Antova (Bul, 1.5); Rakshitta Ravi (2) bt Anaelle Afraoui (Fra, 1); N. Priyanka (2) bt C. Lakshmi (1); Polina Shuvalova (Rus, 1.5) bt Savitha Shri (0.5); Vyanla Punsalan (Nzl, 0.5) lost to Divya Deshmukh (1.5); Vantika Agarwal (1.5) bt Tumurbaatar Nomindalai (Mgl, 0.5).