38th Indian Women's National Chess Championship

Tomorrow decides it, darlings!  Here are the pairings for the final round (11):

1	4	WGM	Gomes Mary Ann	2325	7½		6	WGM	Kiran Manisha Mohanty	2213	11
2	3	IM	Karavade Eesha	2348	7		7	WGM	Padmini Rout	2356	2
3	1	IM	Tania Sachdev	2419	6½		6	WIM	Meera Sai	2117	14

From The Times of India:

Mary Ann inches closer to national chess title
TNN | Nov 9, 2011, 02.01AM IST

CHENNAI: Mary Ann Gomes' first priority was to complete her International Master title. The Kolkata girl completed that with a draw against Eesha Karavade of Maharashtra in the penultimate round of the Premier National women's chess championship at the Nehru indoor stadium on Tuesday.

Mary Ann, representing Airport Authority of India, goes into her last-round game against Kiran Manisha Mohanty of Orissa on Wednesday gunning for her maiden Premier national title.

She has a half point lead over Eesha Karavande and Padmini Rout of Orissa but they are meeting each other in the last round so she needs to only watch that game.

Mary Ann had black pieces against Eesha and presented the Benoni with dynamic play. She rolled her pawns early in the game. After an hour, Mary had achieved more than equality. A rook for bishop sacrifice on move 23 showed her deep middle game calculation. Mary did not follow through with her attack and offered a draw, which the Pune player accepted. "I was black and I had compensation for the exchange but my primary target was the IM title," she said after the game.

Rout and Tania Sachdev of Delhi escaped on the second and third boards respectively. Padmini was let off by her Orissa state-mate Kiran Manisha Mohanty, who had a clear two pawn advantage in a rook and pawn ending after four hours and 65 moves of play. Padmini's dogged defence paid off as Kiran misplayed the ending and drew the game after 97 moves.

In a similar situation, Chandika Divyasree of AP allowed top seed Tania to get away with a draw. The Andhra girl gained the advantage in Sicilian and on completion of the first time control, Tania found herself in a clear minus position, with two pawns down in a rook and pawn ending. Divyasree could not keep the pressure and split the point after 100 moves.

 

Rank after Round 10

Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	WGM	Gomes Mary Ann	IND	2325	WB	7.5	2267	2282	2303
2	WGM	Padmini Rout	IND	2356	ORI	7.0	2196	2196	2188
3	IM	Karavade Eesha	IND	2348	MAH	7.0	2186	2181	2171
4	IM	Tania Sachdev	IND	2419	Air Ind	6.5	2256	2266	2285
5	IM	Mohota Nisha	IND	2320	PSPB	6.0	2248	2259	2278
6		Chandika Divyasree	IND	2129	AP	6.0	2188	2195	2198
7	WIM	Meera Sai	IND	2117	IB	6.0	2176	2181	2182
8	WGM	Kiran Manisha Mohanty	IND	2213	ORI	6.0	2097	2078	2081
9		Pratyusha Bodda	IND	2062	AP	5.5	2282	2297	2301
10	WGM	Meenakshi Subbaraman	IND	2297	Air Ind	5.5	2254	2264	2285
11		Nimmy A G	IND	2252	KER	5.5	2145	2136	2119
12	WIM	Kulkarni Bhakti	IND	2289	GOA	5.5	2124	2113	2084
13	WGM	Soumya Swaminathan	IND	2318	PSPB	5.5	2118	2104	2088
14	WFM	Bharathi R	IND	2112	TN	5.5	2101	2094	2072
15		Michelle Catherina P	IND	2088	TN	5.5	2069	2055	2040
16		Harini S	IND	2055	TN	5.0	2198	2219	2227
17	WGM	Swathi Ghate	IND	2278	LIC	5.0	2140	2125	2099
18	WFM	Pon Nkrithika	IND	2044	AICF	5.0	2139	2153	2165
19	WFM	Saranya J	IND	2106	TN	4.5	2206	2218	2224
20		Cholleti Sahajasri	IND	2074	AP	4.5	2174	2182	2197
21	WGM	Ramaswamy Aarthie	IND	2209	Air Ind	4.5	2086	2065	2037
22		Bala Kannamma P	IND	1978	TN	4.5	2083	2092	2094
23	WFM	Swati Mohota	IND	2030	WB	4.5	2065	2068	2073
24		A Akshaya	IND	1990	TN	4.5	2048	2045	2052
25	WFM	Mahalakshmi M	IND	1954	TN	4.0	2150	2143	2139
26		Shweta Gole	IND	1999	MAH	4.0	2123	2131	2136
27		Nandhidhaa Pv	IND	2105	TN	4.0	1996	1989	1993
28		Madhurima Shekhar	IND	1906	DEL	2.5	2027	2034	2032
29		Supriya Joshi	IND	1904	MAH	2.0	2027	2034	2035
30	WIM	Thipsay Bagyashree Sathe	IND	2108	AICF	1.0	2059	0	0

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