Biel (Switzerland), Jul 24: World's second youngest Grandmaster ever Parimarjan Negi played out a draw with Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son of Vietnam in the fifth round of the Young Grandmasters tournament, apart of the 43rd Biel chess festival here.
After three losses in the first three rounds and a draw in the fourth, it was the second successive draw by the Indian who took his tally to one point from the first five rounds.
Fabiano Caruana of Italy shot in to sole lead at the expense of overnight leader Wesley Soof Philippines.
With 3.5 points in his kitty, Caruana is a half point ahead of So, Russian duo of Evgeny Tomashevsky and Dmitry Andreikin and Maxim Rodshtein of Israel who all have 3 points apiece.
With five draws from as many games, top seed Maxime Vachier-Lagrave of France and Truong Son have 2.