2012 Indian Women's Chess Championship

The Amity 39th National Women Challengers Chess Championship-2012 has finished!  Is Tamilnadu becoming the new Indian powerhouse for producing chessplayers?  Report.  Here are the final standings after R11 (Hint: see photo for winner):

Rk.			Name	FED	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1			Michelle Catherina P	IND	2079	TN	9.0	65.5	60.5	58.0
2		WIM	Priya P	IND	2167	TN	8.0	70.5	64.5	63.0
3		WFM	Saranya J	IND	2140	TN	8.0	70.0	64.0	62.5
4		WFM	Swati Mohota	IND	2025	WB	7.5	73.0	67.0	64.0
5		WFM	Mahalakshmi M	IND	2058	TN	7.5	72.5	67.0	63.5
6		WFM	Bharathi R	IND	2083	TN	7.5	71.5	66.0	62.5
7			Nimmy A G	IND	2195	KER	7.5	70.0	64.5	61.0
8		WFM	Chandika Divyasree	IND	2218	AP	7.5	68.5	62.5	61.0
9		WFM	Pujari Rucha	IND	2210	MAH	7.5	67.5	62.0	60.0
10		WIM	Thipsay Bagyashree Sathe	IND	2126	MAH	7.5	67.0	61.5	59.5
11			Cholleti Sahajasri	IND	2049	AP	7.5	66.5	61.5	58.5
12			Rajasurya J	IND	1957	TN	7.5	65.0	61.0	57.0
13			Harini S	IND	2029	TN	7.5	64.5	59.0	57.0
14			Mokal Amruta Sunil	IND	2073	MAH	7.0	70.0	64.5	61.0
15			Roy Pallabi	IND	1946	WB	7.0	68.0	62.5	60.0
16			Salini R	IND	1823	AP	7.0	67.0	61.5	59.0
17		WFM	Kotepalli Sai Nirupama	IND	1958	AP	7.0	64.5	59.0	56.5
18		WFM	Raghavi N	IND	2101	TN	7.0	62.5	57.0	55.0
19		WFM	Ramya Krishna I	IND	2128	AP	7.0	62.5	57.0	54.5
20			Lasya G	IND	1993	AP	7.0	61.5	56.5	54.0
21			A Akshaya	IND	2016	TN	7.0	60.5	55.5	53.0
22		WCM	Tejaswini Sagar	IND	1718	MAH	6.5	68.5	63.0	61.0
23			Varshini V	IND	1909	TN	6.5	67.0	61.5	59.5
24			Shweta Gole	IND	1984	MAH	6.5	66.0	61.5	58.0
25		WCM	Savant Riya	IND	1868	GOA	6.5	64.5	59.5	57.0
26			Sandhya G	IND	1713	AP	6.5	62.5	58.0	55.0
27			Hinduja Reddy	IND	1791	AP	6.5	61.0	57.0	53.0
28		WFM	Mitali Madhukar Patil	IND	1912	MAH	6.5	59.5	55.0	51.5
29			Pushpalata Mangal	IND	1846	MAH	6.5	58.5	54.0	49.5
30			Bala Kannamma P	IND	1996	TN	6.5	58.0	53.0	51.5
31			Anjana Krishna S	IND	1881	KER	6.0	67.0	61.5	58.0
32			Aparajita Gochhikar	IND	1849	ORI	6.0	66.5	61.5	58.5
33			Meenu Rajendran	IND	1967	KER	6.0	64.0	59.0	56.5
34			Priya Vss	IND	1795	AP	6.0	64.0	59.0	56.5
35			Ardra V H	IND	1812	KER	6.0	61.0	56.5	53.5
36			Shiny Das	IND	1786	TRI	6.0	60.5	56.0	53.0
37			Akhade Vaishnavi	IND	1609	MAH	6.0	59.5	55.5	52.0
38			Aakasha	IND	1620	BIH	6.0	59.0	55.0	51.5
39			Madhuri M Patil	IND	2014	MAH	6.0	58.5	53.5	51.0
40			Anigani Kavya	IND	1709	AP	6.0	57.0	52.5	50.0
41			Chandreyee Hajra	IND	1682	WB	6.0	56.5	52.5	48.5
42			Kesshni Bhasiin	IND	1594	DEL	6.0	56.0	52.5	48.5
43			Meghna Upadhyay	IND	1578	MP	6.0	55.5	51.0	48.5
44			Jayashree P Sankpal	IND	1735	LIC	6.0	51.0	46.5	45.0
45			Madhurima Shekhar	IND	1963	DEL	5.5	66.0	61.0	57.0
46			Meghna C H	IND	1779	KER	5.5	65.5	60.5	56.5
47			Smaraki Mohanty	IND	1771	ORI	5.5	65.0	60.0	56.0
48			Supriya Joshi	IND	1815	MAH	5.5	63.0	58.5	55.5
49			Arunima Kalra	IND	1871	DEL	5.5	60.0	55.0	52.5
50			Minki Sinha	IND	1822	BIH	5.5	59.5	55.0	52.0
51			Manasa H R	IND	1653	KAR	5.5	59.0	54.5	52.0
52			Matta Theja Sahhethhe	IND	1631	AP	5.5	57.0	53.5	50.0
53			Pammi Rani	IND	1574	BIH	5.5	57.0	52.5	49.5
54			Anshul Kaushik	IND	1591	HAR	5.5	56.5	52.5	48.5
55			Shweta Priyadarshini	IND	1583	UP	5.5	56.5	52.0	48.5
56			Vaibhavi Thakur	IND	1598	HAR	5.5	56.0	52.0	48.5
57			Sushmita Lama	IND	1559	SIK	5.5	55.5	51.5	48.5
58			Pranisha Gurung	IND	0	SIK	5.5	50.0	46.0	44.0
59			Vantika Agrawal	IND	1458	DEL	5.0	64.0	58.5	56.5
60			Radhika Devi Chavali	IND	1432	LIC	5.0	53.5	50.0	46.0
61			Ravneet Kaur	IND	0	PUN	5.0	52.0	47.5	45.5
62			Hada Nancy	IND	1344	DEL	5.0	51.5	49.0	44.0
63			Kaur Palkin	IND	1371	DEL	5.0	51.5	47.5	45.0
64			Pratiksha Pandey	IND	1316	MP	5.0	47.5	45.0	41.5
65			Apoorva Sharma	IND	0	PUN	5.0	47.5	45.0	40.5
66			Rama Balhara	IND	0	HAR	5.0	47.5	43.5	41.5
67			Kritvee Kapoor	IND	0	DEL	5.0	44.5	42.0	38.0
68			Shweta	IND	1544	CGH	4.5	58.0	54.0	49.0
69			Vaishnavi Thakur	IND	1530	HAR	4.5	54.5	50.0	47.5
70			Vaishnavi MSL	IND	0	AP	4.5	54.0	50.0	47.5
71			Jesica	IND	0	DEL	4.5	52.5	48.5	46.0
72			Kumari Shristi	IND	1421	BIH	4.5	52.0	48.0	44.5
73			Gurpreet Kaur	IND	1512	PUN	4.5	52.0	48.0	44.5
74			Shruti Kakar	IND	1177	DEL	4.5	48.0	44.0	41.5
75			Khusboo Bari	IND	0	BIH	4.5	47.5	44.0	41.5
76			Gurung Pushpa	IND	0	SIK	4.5	47.5	43.5	41.5
77			Shailaja M	IND	0	AP	4.0	53.5	49.0	46.5
78			S Jayaseeli	IND	0	LIC	4.0	53.0	49.0	45.5
79			Shah Anila Kishorekumar	IND	1551	GUJ	4.0	52.0	48.0	44.5
80			Janaki Devi M	IND	1349	AP	4.0	51.0	47.0	44.5
81			Arundhati Brahmachari	IND	0	LIC	4.0	49.5	45.5	43.0
82			Rai Supriya	IND	0	SIK	4.0	47.0	43.5	41.0
83			Namrata Sharma	IND	0	HP	4.0	46.0	43.0	39.0
84			Gole Vaishnavi	IND	1409	MAH	4.0	45.5	42.0	38.5
85			Sagnika Pratihari	IND	0	ORI	4.0	45.0	42.5	38.5
86			Shreya Sharma	IND	0	SIK	4.0	44.5	42.0	39.0
87			Ria Dawar	IND	0	DEL	4.0	43.5	40.0	37.5
88			Satabdi Majumder	IND	0	TRI	3.5	48.0	44.5	42.0
89			Arti Kapoor	IND	0	DEL	3.5	39.5	37.0	33.5
90			Priyanka Sahoo	IND	0	ORI	3.0	45.0	41.5	39.5
91			Amritpal Kaur Kang	IND	0	PUN	3.0	40.5	38.0	35.0
92			Ananya Aggarwal	IND	0	UTT	3.0	40.5	38.0	33.5
93			Richa Savant	IND	0	GOA	3.0	39.0	36.5	33.5
94			Rathore Sonakshi	IND	1987	RAJ	2.5	53.0	48.0	46.5
95			Saranya Sivani Varma	IND	0	AP	2.5	41.0	38.5	34.5
96			Sonal Parmar	IND	0	HP	2.5	40.5	38.0	34.5
97			Anushree Aggarwal	IND	0	UTT	1.5	35.5	33.0	28.0
98			Arushi Kotwal	IND	0	J & K	0.0	55.0	49.5	49.5
			Hoinu Lhouvum	IND	0	MAN	0.0	55.0	49.5	49.5
			Ritika Nag	IND	0	ASM	0.0	55.0	49.5	49.5

Congratulations to P. Michelle Catherina for her victory and impressive score of 9.0/11! She is about 16 years old (date of birth 1996 per FIDE information).