38th Indian Women's National Chess Championship

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Padmini routs Tania to take leadTNN | Nov 3, 2011, 07.20PM IST

CHENNAI: Top seed Tania Sachdev of Delhi met her match in Padmini Rout of Orissa in the sixth round on Thursday. The Premier national women's chess came alive after the sixth round as Rout snatched the lead from Tania, who was surging ahead with a string of victories in the first five rounds. Rout is on five points, followed by Tania, who kept sole second position with 4.5 points despite her loss.

WGMs Sowmya Swaminathan (PSPB), S Meenakshi (AI), Mary Ann Gomes (AAI), Swati Ghate (LIC), IM Nisha Mohota (PSPB) and Pratyusha Bodda (AP) shared the third position with four points each.

Tania unleashed the unusual Schliemann-Jaenisch variation of Ruy Lopez against Rout. The Delhi lass could not find a proper plan. After move 11, the queens left the board and a positional fight ensued with a rook and two minor pieces. Thopugh she had an extra pawn, Tania consumed so much time in the middle game and lost her way as she reached the first time control. Rout capitalised on the chance and promoted her connected pawns to squeeze Tania's position. Faced with loss of material, Tania resigned after 50 moves.

Top board games featuring Mary Ann Gomes - Sowmya Swaminathan, Pratyusha Bodda - Nisha Mohota, A G Nimmy - S Meenakshi ended in draws.

Tamil Nadu's J Saranya defeated Woman International Master Bhakti Kulkarni. Saranya got some advantage in the middle game of Kings Indian defence. The TN girl combined her queen, rook and minor pieces to gain the winning edge after four hours of play. Faced with a forced mate, Bhakti resigned after 59 moves.

Results (Round 6):

Padmini Rout (Ori) 5 bt Tania Sachdev (AI) 4.5,
Mary Ann Gomes (AAI) 4 drew with Sowmya Swaminathan (PSPB) 4,
Pratyusha Bodda (AP) 4 drew with Nisha Mohota (PSPB) 4,
A G Nimmy (Ker) 3.5 drew with S Meenakshi (AI) 4,
S Harini (TN) 3 lost to Swathi Ghate (LIC) 4,
Sai Meera (IB) 3.5 drew with Chandika Divyasree (AP) 3.5,
Aarthie Ramaswamy (AI) 2.5 lost to Eesha Karavade (Mah) 3.5,
Bhakti Kulkarni (Goa) 2.5 lost to J Saranya (TN) 3.5,
C Sahajasri (AP) 3 drew with Kiran Manisha Mohanty (Ori) 3,
R Bharathi (TN) 3 bt Shweta Gole (Mah) 2.5,
P Bala Kannamma (TN) 2.5 drew with Pon N Krithika (TN) 2.5,
A Akshaya (TN) 2 drew with M Mahalakshmi (TN) 2.5,
Madhurima Shekhar (Del) 1.5 lost to P Michelle Catherina (TN) 2.5,
P V Nandhidhaa (TN) 2 bt Swati Mohota (WB) 1.5,
Supriya Joshi (Mah) 0.5 bye.
Cross-table from chess-results.com: 

Rank after Round 6

Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	WGM	Padmini Rout	IND	2356	ORI	5.0	2150	2109	0
2	IM	Tania Sachdev	IND	2419	Air Ind	4.5	2286	2284	0
3		Pratyusha Bodda	IND	2062	AP	4.0	2313	2319	0
4	IM	Mohota Nisha	IND	2320	PSPB	4.0	2217	2249	0
5	WGM	Gomes Mary Ann	IND	2325	AAI	4.0	2208	2213	0
6	WGM	Meenakshi Subbaraman	IND	2297	Air Ind	4.0	2199	2185	0
7	WGM	Soumya Swaminathan	IND	2318	PSPB	4.0	2101	2068	0
8	WGM	Swathi Ghate	IND	2278	LIC	4.0	2084	2084	0
9	WFM	Saranya J	IND	2106	TN	3.5	2303	2293	0
10		Nimmy A G	IND	2252	KER	3.5	2191	2186	0
11	WIM	Meera Sai	IND	2117	IB	3.5	2160	2171	0
12	IM	Karavade Eesha	IND	2348	MAH	3.5	2134	2112	0
13		Chandika Divyasree	IND	2129	AP	3.5	2064	2080	0
14		Harini S	IND	2055	TN	3.0	2256	2288	0
15		Cholleti Sahajasri	IND	2074	AP	3.0	2248	2233	0
16	WFM	Bharathi R	IND	2112	TN	3.0	2130	2139	0
17	WGM	Kiran Manisha Mohanty	IND	2213	ORI	3.0	2053	2052	0
18	WFM	Pon Nkrithika	IND	2044	AICF	2.5	2182	2231	0
19	WIM	Kulkarni Bhakti	IND	2289	GOA	2.5	2150	2109	0
20		Shweta Gole	IND	1999	MAH	2.5	2147	2115	0
21	WFM	Mahalakshmi M	IND	1954	TN	2.5	2109	2109	0
22	WGM	Ramaswamy Aarthie	IND	2209	Air Ind	2.5	2107	2059	0
23		Bala Kannamma P	IND	1978	TN	2.5	2089	2091	0
24		Michelle Catherina P	IND	2088	TN	2.5	2000	1992	0
25		A Akshaya	IND	1990	TN	2.0	2086	2068	0
26		Nandhidhaa Pv	IND	2105	TN	2.0	2028	2015	0
27	WFM	Swati Mohota	IND	2030	WB	1.5	2129	2107	0
28		Madhurima Shekhar	IND	1906	DEL	1.5	2038	2072	0
29		Supriya Joshi	IND	1904	MAH	1.5	2004	2011	0
30	WIM	Thipsay Bagyashree Sathe	IND	2108	AICF	1.0	2059	0	0

Annotation:
Tie Break1: rating average of the opponents (variabel with parameters)
Tie Break2: rating average of the opponents (variabel with parameters)
Tie Break3: rating average of the opponents (variabel with parameters)