Bhavesh Mahajan stunned top seeded grandmaster Prithu Gupta in the third round of the National (under-18) online rapid chess championship on Thursday.

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Bhavesh is among the 21 leaders with three points after as many rounds.

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Top seed Mrudul Dehankar led 11 leaders at three points in the girls section.