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Tania Sachdev Wins National Women's A Title
By Arvind Aaron
Tania Sachdev of Delhi sponsored by the Indian Airlines drew her final
round game against Aarthie Ramaswamy and won the Win TV National Women's
"A" Chess Championship here this afternoon. Tania totalled eight points
and did not require the tie-break after an eventful eleventh and final
round.
After the draw, two things had to go well for 20-year old Tania and they
happened. Harika and Vijayalakshmi required a win to share points with
Tania and win the title on tie-break. Harika only drew a better ending
against Nisha Mohota while Vijayalakshmi lost unexpectedly to Amruta Mokal
of Maharashtra.
"This was a much stronger event than the Asian Junior title I had won
before," said the new Indian queen Tania. Tania defended well with the
black pieces and accepted the draw offer that Aarthie made on the 30th
turn. Tania won five games and drew six for her maiden title. Tania is
into the team for the first time and received the gold medal and also
Rs.38,000 cash prize.
World under-18 girls champion Dronavalli Harika had her title opportunity,
slipped, made a draw and took the second prize of Rs.24,000. S.Meenakshi
of Indian Airlines is back in the Indian team after defeating Woman
International Master Kruttika Nadig of Pune in a rook and minor piece
ending. She took home Rs.16,000.
Aarthie Ramaswamy finished fourth and is in the Indian team after a long
gap. She worked hard and finished very strongly with 6/7. Six time
champion Vijayalakshmi finished fifth and is feeling the heat year after
year. A win would have given her the seventh title but she lost. Amruta
Mokal who finished sixth played a brilliant game to defeat Vijayalakshmi
and extend her WIM norm to eleven games and find a place in the Indian
team for the first time.
In the evening, Mrs Sudha Devanathan distributed cash prizes to the top 17
players and medals the first three. Krishnan Sasikiran who was the captain
of the Indian chess team that won a gold medal in the Asian Games was the
guest of honour. The All India Chess Federation organised the event in an
excellent manner.
Final top placings (in tie-break order): 1 Tania Sachdev (IA) 8/11, 2-4
D.Harika (AP), S.Meenakshi (IA), Aarthie Ramesh (IA) 7.5 each, 5-6
S.Vijayalakshmi
(IA), Amruta Mokal (Mah) 7 each, 7-11 Swati Ghate (LIC), Nisha Mohota
(Ben), Padmini Rout (Ori), S.Soumya (Mah), Baisakhi Das (Jha) 6.5 each,
12-15 Eesha
Karavade (Mah), Kruttika Nadig (Mah), Sai Meera (IB), Bhakti Kulkarni (Goa)
6 each.
Final results (round 11):
Aarthie Ramaswamy (IA) 7.5 drew Tania Sachdev (IA) 8,
S.Vijayalakshmi (IA) 7 lost to Amruta Mokal (Mah) 7,
D.Harika (AP) 7.5 drew N.Mohota (WB) 7.5,
S.Meenakshi (IA) 7.5 bt Kruttika Nadig (Mah) 6,
Eesha Karavade (Mah) 6 drew Swati Ghate (LIC) 6.5,
M.R.Sangeetha (TN) 5.5 lost to Padmini Rout (Ori) 6.5,
Baisakhi Das (Jha) 6.5 bt Saheli Nath (WB) 5.5,
S.Soumya (Mah) 6.5 bt S.Mohota (WB) 5.5,
Bhakti Kulkarni (Goa) 6 bt S.Harini (TN) 5.5,
Sai Meera (TN) 6 bt Kiran Mohanty (Ori) 5,
I.Ramyakrishna (AP) 5.5 bt Nimmy George (Ker) 4.5,
H.Nilavoli (TN) 4.5 lost to P.Priya (TN) 5.5,
N.Raghavi (TN) 4.5 drew Kanuri Tejaswi (AP) 4.5,
R.Mahima (TN) 4.5 drew S.Sujatha (TN) 4.5,
Pon N.Krithikha (TN) 4.5 bt P.Lakshmi Sahiti (AP) 4,
Aabha Thakur (Mah) 4 drew J.E.Kavitha (TN) 4,
R.Preethi (TN) 4.5 - bye.
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Published on : 16th Dec, 2006
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