38th Indian Women's National Chess Championship

From The Times of India

Pratyusha scalps Bhakti at Premier national chess
TNN | Nov 2, 2011, 09.58PM IST

CHENNAI: Vizag girl Pratyusha Bodda swung into action for a third time in five rounds scalping a seeded player in the Premier national women's chess on Wednesday. Pratyusha, who had shocked Soumya Swaminathan and Swati Ghate in the previous rounds, accounted for Goa's Bhakti Kulkarni in the fifth round at the Nehru indoor stadium, moved into joint third position with 3.5 points after her upset victory.

Top seed International Master Tania Sachdev (Delhi) shot into lead with 4.5 points after defeating Woman Grandmaster Mary Ann Gomes (AAI). Tania's closest rival Padmini Rout of Orissa is on four points in second position. Padmini scored over higher seeded WGM Nisha Mohota. Sharing the third spot with Pratyusha were WGMs Sowmya Swaminathan (PSPB), S Meenakshi (AI), Mary Ann Gomes (AAI) and IM Nisha Mohota (PSPB).

Pratyusha Bodda, who trains with Rama Raju, coach of Dronavalli Harika, took only 24 moves in Caro-Kann defence to beat Bhakti Kulkarni. Bhakti went for a bishop for knight swap, that allowed Pratyusha to take control of the seventh rank with her rook. Then, the Andhra girl sacrificed an exchange and pushed for a massive kingside attack. Bhakti could only watch helplessly as Pratyusha rushed to victory with a queen and knight combination on the kingside. Pratyusha has so far played four WGMs and a WIM and she should be gunning for a Woman Grandmaster norm.

International Master Tania Sachdev had another successful round, scoring a methodical win over Woman Grandmaster Mary Ann Gomes. Though Tania consumed a lot of time in the Kings Indian Defence, she got a firm grip of the position. Tania forced Mary Ann into errors in the middle game. Conceding a pawn in a weakening position, Mary Ann failed to see the knight trap and resigned after 37 moves.

Padmini Rout scored a fluent win over International Master Nisha Mohota and Sowmya Swaminathan stopped TN girl Harini's good run.

Results (Round 5):

Tania Sachdev (AI) 4.5 bt Mary Ann Gomes (AAI) 3.5,
Nisha Mohota (PSPB) 3.5 lost to Padmini Rout (Ori) 4,
Sowmya Swaminathan (PSPB) bt S Harini (TN) 3,
J Saranya (TN) 2.5 lost to S Meenakshi (AI) 3.5,
Pratyusha Bodda (AP) 3.5 bt Bhakti Kulkarni (Goa) 2.5,
Eesha Karavade (Mah) 2.5 drew with Sai Meera (IB) 3,
Swathi Ghate (LIC) 3 bt R Bharathi (TN) 2,
Pon N Krithika (AICF) 2 lost to A G Nimmy (Ker) 3,
Aarthie Ramaswamy (AI) 2.5 drew with Cholleti Sahajasri (AP) 2.5,
Chandika Divyasree (AP) 3 bt P Bala Kannamma (TN) 2,
Kiran Manisha Mohanty (Ori) 2.5 bt Swati Mohota (WB) 1.5,
Shweta Gole (Mah) 2.5 bt A Akshaya (TN) 1.5,
M Mahalakshmi (TN) 2 bt P V Nandhidhaa (TN) 1,
P Michelle Catherina (TN) 1.5 bt Supriya Joshi (Mah) 0.5,
Madhurima Shekhar (Del) 0.5 bye.

Rank after Round 5

Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	IM	Tania Sachdev	IND	2419	Air Ind	4.5	2273	2278	0
2	WGM	Padmini Rout	IND	2356	ORI	4.0	2093	2106	0
3		Pratyusha Bodda	IND	2062	AP	3.5	2311	2318	0
4	IM	Mohota Nisha	IND	2320	PSPB	3.5	2265	2289	0
5	WGM	Meenakshi Subbaraman	IND	2297	Air Ind	3.5	2181	2117	0
6	WGM	Gomes Mary Ann	IND	2325	AAI	3.5	2171	2129	0
7	WGM	Soumya Swaminathan	IND	2318	PSPB	3.5	2064	2062	0
8		Harini S	IND	2055	TN	3.0	2248	2297	0
9	WIM	Meera Sai	IND	2117	IB	3.0	2170	2213	0
10		Nimmy A G	IND	2252	KER	3.0	2155	2074	0
11	WGM	Swathi Ghate	IND	2278	LIC	3.0	2093	2106	0
12		Chandika Divyasree	IND	2129	AP	3.0	2046	2055	0
13	WFM	Saranya J	IND	2106	TN	2.5	2308	2297	0
14		Cholleti Sahajasri	IND	2074	AP	2.5	2260	2252	0
15	WIM	Kulkarni Bhakti	IND	2289	GOA	2.5	2165	2112	0
16		Shweta Gole	IND	1999	MAH	2.5	2158	2117	0
17	IM	Karavade Eesha	IND	2348	MAH	2.5	2109	2106	0
18	WGM	Kiran Manisha Mohanty	IND	2213	ORI	2.5	2046	2030	0
19	WGM	Ramaswamy Aarthie	IND	2209	Air Ind	2.5	2036	2044	0
20	WFM	Pon Nkrithika	IND	2044	AICF	2.0	2250	2252	0
21	WFM	Bharathi R	IND	2112	TN	2.0	2174	2278	0
22	WFM	Mahalakshmi M	IND	1954	TN	2.0	2115	2112	0
23		Bala Kannamma P	IND	1978	TN	2.0	2104	2108	0
24	WFM	Swati Mohota	IND	2030	WB	1.5	2136	2108	0
25		A Akshaya	IND	1990	TN	1.5	2115	2106	0
26		Michelle Catherina P	IND	2088	TN	1.5	2031	2030	0
27		Madhurima Shekhar	IND	1906	DEL	1.5	2021	2055	0
28	WIM	Thipsay Bagyashree Sathe	IND	2108	AICF	1.0	2059	0	0
29		Nandhidhaa Pv	IND	2105	TN	1.0	2027	1999	0
30		Supriya Joshi	IND	1904	MAH	0.5	2037	2044	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)