38th Indian Women's National Chess Championship

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Tania Sachdev, Nisha Mohota, Mary Ann Gomes share lead
Last Updated: Tuesday, November 01, 2011, 21:51

IM Tania Sachdev, 2011 Indian Women's
National Chess Championship

Chennai: International Masters Tania Sachdev of Delhi and Nisha Mohota of PSPB, along with Women Grandmaster Mary Ann Gomes (AAI) shared the lead with 3.5 points at the end of the fourth round of the 38th National Women Premier Chess Championship on Tuesday.

In second place with three points are two players – WGM Padmini Rout (Orissa) and S Harini of Tamil Nadu.

The top board saw Tania employ the Nimzo Indian Defence against Candidate Master Bhakti Kulkarni of Goa.

Tania accepted an isolated pawn to gain good piece play. In a bid to gain some space on the kingside, Bhakti unwisely moved her pawns on the kingside, enabling the Delhi girl to get some vital entry points.

With both players willing to take that extra risk to gain a valuable point, Tania`s foray with her major pieces proved to be Bhakti`s undoing in 38 moves.


In the second table, Mary Ann Gomes employed an irregular set up with white pieces to confuse Pratyusha Bodda of Andhra Pradesh.

Pratyusha seemed to have equalised comfortably until a hasty pawn move on kingside forced Mary to show her hand on the queenside with a timely pawn break on the 19th move.

The balance shifted in Mary`s favour and she won two pawns and had a flowing kingside attack. A hapless Pratyusha Bodda threw in the towel in 35 moves.

Nisha Mohota had a relatively easy day as Meenakshi Subbaraman (IA) misplayed the opening to lose a pawn in seven moves.

Nisha played some easy moves to consolidate on the advantage and soon won another pawn on the 17th move. She converted the advantage into a full point in 44 moves.

Tamil Nadu`s S Harini scored an upset victory over higher rated IM Esha Karvade of Maharashtra, employing the Four Knights opening with white.

Some unorthodox handling of the position by Esha saw Harini gain a big advantage on the kingside. She then forcibly converted the advantage into a big attack against the Black king to win an exchange on the 25th move and the game in just 29 moves.

With this win Harini has moved into joint second spot with three points. WGM Padmini Rout of Orissa outplayed Pon N Krithika in an Alekhine game in 38 moves.

PTI
First Published: Tuesday, November 01, 2011, 21:51

Cross-table from chess-results.com

Rank after Round 4

Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	IM	Tania Sachdev	IND	2419	Air Ind	3.5	2265	0	0
2	IM	Mohota Nisha	IND	2320	PSPB	3.5	2249	0	0
3	WGM	Gomes Mary Ann	IND	2325	AAI	3.5	2109	0	0
4		Harini S	IND	2055	TN	3.0	2213	0	0
5	WGM	Padmini Rout	IND	2356	ORI	3.0	2084	0	0
6		Pratyusha Bodda	IND	2062	AP	2.5	2322	0	0
7	WFM	Saranya J	IND	2106	TN	2.5	2313	0	0
8	WGM	Meenakshi Subbaraman	IND	2297	Air Ind	2.5	2219	0	0
9	CM	Kulkarni Bhakti	IND	2289	GOA	2.5	2216	0	0
10	WIM	Meera Sai	IND	2117	IB	2.5	2106	0	0
11	WGM	Soumya Swaminathan	IND	2318	PSPB	2.5	2068	0	0
12		Cholleti Sahajasri	IND	2074	AP	2.0	2285	0	0
13	WFM	Pon Nkrithika	IND	2044	AICF	2.0	2249	0	0
14		Nimmy A G	IND	2252	KER	2.0	2211	0	0
15	WFM	Bharathi R	IND	2112	TN	2.0	2122	0	0
16	IM	Karavade Eesha	IND	2348	MAH	2.0	2106	0	0
17		Bala Kannamma P	IND	1978	TN	2.0	2091	0	0
18	WGM	Swathi Ghate	IND	2278	LIC	2.0	2084	0	0
19		Chandika Divyasree	IND	2129	AP	2.0	2080	0	0
20	WGM	Ramaswamy Aarthie	IND	2209	Air Ind	2.0	2017	0	0
21		Shweta Gole	IND	1999	MAH	1.5	2185	0	0
22		A Akshaya	IND	1990	TN	1.5	2158	0	0
23	WFM	Swati Mohota	IND	2030	WB	1.5	2098	0	0
24	WGM	Kiran Manisha Mohanty	IND	2213	ORI	1.5	2054	0	0
25	WFM	Mahalakshmi M	IND	1954	TN	1.0	2121	0	0
26		Nandhidhaa Pv	IND	2105	TN	1.0	2064	0	0
27	WIM	Thipsay Bagyashree Sathe	IND	2108	AICF	1.0	2059	0	0
28		Madhurima Shekhar	IND	1906	DEL	0.5	2080	0	0
29		Michelle Catherina P	IND	2088	TN	0.5	2069	0	0
30		Supriya Joshi	IND	1904	MAH	0.5	2011	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)