38th Indian Women's National Chess Championship

From The Times of India:

Mary joins Tania at the topTNN | Nov 6, 2011, 11.06PM IST

CHENNAI: Padmini Rout's stint at the top came to a grinding halt on Sunday as Mary Ann Gomes of AAI played an attacking game in the eighth round and inflicted the first defeat on the Orissa girl in the 38th National Premier women's chess championship at the Nehru Stadium.

With this win, Mary Ann moved into joint lead with Tania Sachdev of Delhi with six points each. Rout, Nisha Mohota (PSPB), Eesha Karavade (Maharashtra) and Chandika Divyasree (AP) shared the second position with 5.5 points each. Nisha Mohota and Tania Sachdev faced off in a quiet Queens Gambit accepted opening.

Tania was probably not at her usual best as she claimed a draw claim by repeating photographic positions after 33 moves. Mary Ann Gomes and Padmini Rout went on attacking spree in the Sicilian Najdorf game. Padmini overlooked a bishop pin on her knight and rook before the time control and lost material.

Mary Ann slowly got into a position from where she could deliver mate or get material. Rout resigned after 60 moves. Eesha Karavade of Maharashtra defeated Woman Grandmaster Meenakshi Subbaraman of Air India. In the upset of the day, Chandika Divyasree inflicted a defeat on defending Champion Woman Grandmaster Sowmya Swaminathan.

Results (Round 8):

 

Nisha Mohota (PSPB) 5.5 drew with Tania Sachdev (AI) 6.0,

Padmini Rout (Ori) 5.5 lost to Mary Ann Gomes (AAI) 6,

Meenakshi Subbaraman (AI) 4.5 lost to Eesha Karavade (Mah) 5.5,

Soumya Swaminathan (PSPB) 4 lost to Chandika Divyasree (AP) 5.5,

Sai Meera (IB) 5 bt Swathi Ghate (LIC) 4,

Kiran Manisha Mohanty (Ori) 5 bt J Saranya (TN) 4,

A G Nimmy (Ker) 4 drew with Pratyusha Bodda (AP) 4.5,

Bhakti Kulkarni (Goa) 4 drew with M Mahalakshmi (TN) 4,

Pon N Krithika (TN) 3.5 lost to P Michelle Catherina (TN) 4.5,

R Bharathi (TN) 4 bt Cholleti Sahajasri (AP) 3,

P V Nandhidhaa (TN) 3 lost to S Harini (TN) 4,

Aarthie Ramaswamy (AI) 3.5 bt Shweta Gole (Mah) 2.5,

Swati Mohota (WB) 3.5 bt Madhurima Shekhar (Del) 2,

Supriya Joshi (Mah) 2 drew with A Akshaya (TN) 3,

P Bala Kannamma (TN) 2.5 - bye.

Rank after Round 8

Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	IM	Tania Sachdev	IND	2419	Air Ind	6.0	2262	2285	2284
2	WGM	Gomes Mary Ann	IND	2325	AAI	6.0	2244	2256	2288
3	IM	Mohota Nisha	IND	2320	PSPB	5.5	2257	2278	2293
4	WGM	Padmini Rout	IND	2356	ORI	5.5	2204	2209	2205
5	IM	Karavade Eesha	IND	2348	MAH	5.5	2144	2134	2112
6		Chandika Divyasree	IND	2129	AP	5.5	2138	2132	2111
7	WIM	Meera Sai	IND	2117	IB	5.0	2170	2182	2171
8	WGM	Kiran Manisha Mohanty	IND	2213	ORI	5.0	2062	2066	2065
9		Pratyusha Bodda	IND	2062	AP	4.5	2314	2313	2319
10	WGM	Meenakshi Subbaraman	IND	2297	Air Ind	4.5	2245	2254	2286
11		Michelle Catherina P	IND	2088	TN	4.5	2003	2002	2004
12	WFM	Saranya J	IND	2106	TN	4.0	2257	2269	2284
13		Harini S	IND	2055	TN	4.0	2223	2229	2246
14		Nimmy A G	IND	2252	KER	4.0	2159	2141	2102
15	WFM	Mahalakshmi M	IND	1954	TN	4.0	2143	2139	2121
16	WGM	Soumya Swaminathan	IND	2318	PSPB	4.0	2142	2120	2102
17	WGM	Swathi Ghate	IND	2278	LIC	4.0	2130	2099	2109
18	WIM	Kulkarni Bhakti	IND	2289	GOA	4.0	2107	2081	2084
19	WFM	Bharathi R	IND	2112	TN	4.0	2106	2099	2059
20	WFM	Pon Nkrithika	IND	2044	AICF	3.5	2155	2165	2161
21	WFM	Swati Mohota	IND	2030	WB	3.5	2068	2073	2097
22	WGM	Ramaswamy Aarthie	IND	2209	Air Ind	3.5	2068	2027	2022
23		Bala Kannamma P	IND	1978	TN	3.5	2058	2079	2081
24		Cholleti Sahajasri	IND	2074	AP	3.0	2237	2248	2233
25		A Akshaya	IND	1990	TN	3.0	2034	2022	2015
26		Nandhidhaa Pv	IND	2105	TN	3.0	2012	2010	2015
27		Shweta Gole	IND	1999	MAH	2.5	2181	2173	2163
28		Madhurima Shekhar	IND	1906	DEL	2.0	2029	2041	2043
29		Supriya Joshi	IND	1904	MAH	2.0	2019	2025	2017
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)

So far, Tania Sachdev has successfully held off the challengers, but there are three more round to go.  Anything can happen.