38th Indian Women's National Chess Championship

OHMYGODDESS!  Mary Ann Gomes wins the title!

From The Times of India.

Mary Ann Gomes bags maiden national title
TNN | Nov 9, 2011, 04.07PM IST

CHENNAI: Finally, the Premier national women's chess title was decided on tiebreak. Mary Ann Gomes of Airport Authority of India, who drew her last-round game against Kiran Manisha Mohanty of Orissa and Eesha Karavade of Maharashtra, who got the better of Padmini Rout of Orissa on Wednesday tied for first place with eight points each but the former's tiebreak (average of opponents' score) stood her in good stead in the end.

The Kolkata girl, who won the winner's purse of Rs 75000, said she was delighted to take her maiden national senior women's title. "When I think of it, I feel great joy. I dedicate this title to my mother Freda Gomes," said the 22-year-old IM-elect.

International Master Eesha Karavade scoring a surprisingly quick final round victory over Woman Grandmaster Padmini Rout. The Grunfeld game saw white wresting the advantage early, and a rook for minor piece sacrifice by Padmini did not improve her position. Eesha's queen and double rooks decided the issue in 32 moves. The Pune girl has always been in the top bracket ever since she started playing in the senior women's national 10 years ago at the age of 14 in Lucknow.

By far, this has been Eesha's best performance. "I train with Raju at Hyderabad (with D Harika's coach) and I am right now focused on playing chess, taking it as a profession," said Eesha, who scored 5.5 points in the last six rounds. Experienced Tania Sachdev of Air India secured the third spot with an energetic victory over Woman International Master Sai Meera of Indian Bank.

Final Placings :

 

1-2 Mary Ann Gomes (AAI), Eesha Karavade (Mah) 8.0,

3 Tania Sachdev (AI) 7.5,

4-5 Nisha Mohota (PSPB), Padmini Rout (Ori) 7.0,

6-10 Pratyusha Bodda (AP), Meenakshi Subbaraman (IA), Sowmya Swaminathan (PSPB), Kiran Manisha Mohanty (Ori), P Michelle Catherina (TN) 6.5 pts

 

Results (Round 11):

 

Mary Ann Gomes (AAI) 8 drew with Kiran Manisha Mohanty (Ori) 6.5,

Eesha Karavade (Mah) 8 bt Padmini Rout (Ori) 7,

Tania Sachdev (AI) 7.5 bt Sai Meera (IB) 6,

Nisha Mohota (PSPB) 7 bt Chandika Divyasree (AP) 6.0,

Sowmya Swaminathan (PSPB) 6.5 bt A G Nimmy (Ker) 5.5,

Meenakshi Subbaraman (AI) 6.5 bt R Bharathi (TN) 5.5,

P Michelle Catherina (TN) 6.5 bt Bhakti Kulkarni (Goa) 5.5,

Pratyusha Bodda (AP) 6.5 bt S Harini (TN) 5,

Swati Ghate (LIC) 6 bt Cholleti Sahajasri (AP) 4.5,

Swati Mohota (WB) 5 drew with Pon N Krithika (AICF) 5.5,

A Akshaya (TN) 5 drew with P Bala Kannamma (TN) 5,

Aarthie Ramaswamy (AI) 5 drew with P V Nandhidhaa (TN) 4.5,

Madhurima Shekhar (Del) 2.5 lost to J Saranya (TN) 5.5,

Shweta Gole (Mah) 5 bt Supriya Joshi (Mah) 2,

M Mahalakshmi (TN) 4 bye.

Final Ranking after 11 Rounds

Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	WGM	Gomes Mary Ann	IND	2325	WB	8.0	2261	2272	2285
2	IM	Karavade Eesha	IND	2348	MAH	8.0	2205	2202	2196
3	IM	Tania Sachdev	IND	2419	Air Ind	7.5	2241	2244	2254
4	IM	Mohota Nisha	IND	2320	PSPB	7.0	2235	2241	2248
5	WGM	Padmini Rout	IND	2356	ORI	7.0	2212	2215	2214
6		Pratyusha Bodda	IND	2062	AP	6.5	2263	2271	2291
7	WGM	Meenakshi Subbaraman	IND	2297	Air Ind	6.5	2239	2242	2251
8	WGM	Soumya Swaminathan	IND	2318	PSPB	6.5	2132	2125	2113
9	WGM	Kiran Manisha Mohanty	IND	2213	ORI	6.5	2123	2113	2088
10		Michelle Catherina P	IND	2088	TN	6.5	2093	2088	2075
11		Chandika Divyasree	IND	2129	AP	6.0	2203	2213	2222
12	WIM	Meera Sai	IND	2117	IB	6.0	2195	2201	2205
13	WGM	Swathi Ghate	IND	2278	LIC	6.0	2132	2118	2094
14	WFM	Saranya J	IND	2106	TN	5.5	2180	2185	2202
15		Nimmy A G	IND	2252	KER	5.5	2164	2162	2154
16	WFM	Pon Nkrithika	IND	2044	AICF	5.5	2127	2135	2138
17	WFM	Bharathi R	IND	2112	TN	5.5	2123	2122	2113
18	WIM	Kulkarni Bhakti	IND	2289	GOA	5.5	2120	2109	2085
19		Harini S	IND	2055	TN	5.0	2183	2196	2203
20	WFM	Mahalakshmi M	IND	1954	TN	5.0	2132	2130	2129
21		Shweta Gole	IND	1999	MAH	5.0	2098	2099	2107
22	WGM	Ramaswamy Aarthie	IND	2209	Air Ind	5.0	2088	2071	2050
23		Bala Kannamma P	IND	1978	TN	5.0	2072	2077	2084
24	WFM	Swati Mohota	IND	2030	WB	5.0	2063	2064	2067
25		A Akshaya	IND	1990	TN	5.0	2040	2035	2037
26		Cholleti Sahajasri	IND	2074	AP	4.5	2186	2196	2213
27		Nandhidhaa Pv	IND	2105	TN	4.5	2020	2009	2006
28		Madhurima Shekhar	IND	1906	DEL	2.5	2036	2044	2043
29		Supriya Joshi	IND	1904	MAH	2.0	2024	2029	2027
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)