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Swati Ghate Moves To Joint Second Place
By Arvind Aaron
Defending champion Swati Ghate of LIC, Pune crushed her state mate Amruta
Mokal in the fourth round to move to joint second place in the Win TV
National Women A Chess Championship here on December 10.
Leader Dronavalli Harika of Guntur, Andhra Pradesh kept her top place with
an expected quick (14-move) draw against top seed S.Vijayalakshmi of
Indian Airlines, Delhi. Harika leads with 3.5 points. Six players are in
the joint second place with three points. They include: S.Vijayalakshmi
(Del), Swati Ghate (Mah), Tania Sachdev (Del), S.Meenakshi (TN), Eesha
Karavade (Mah) and Kruttika Nadig (Mah).
Amruta Mokal failed to close the centre on the 24th move and paid dearly
for it when she allowed a pawn break by Swati Ghate. Swati won a rook for
piece and soon her opponent gave up. In a very theoretical encounter,
Woman International Master Kruttika Nadig won an exchange and the game in
a long ending against National Women B champion Sai Meera.
Asian Under-16 champion Lakshmi Sahithi of Andhra Pradesh shocked woman
grandmaster Aarthie Ramaswamy of Tamil Nadu after the latter did not
castle and came up against a big attack. Seven rounds are still to be
played.
The results (round 4):
S.Vijayalakshmi (Del) 3 drew D.Harika (AP) 3.5,
Tania Sachdev (Del) 3 drew S.Meenakshi (TN) 3,
Padmini Rout (Ori) 2.5 drew E.Karavade (Mah) 3,
Amruta Mokal (Mah) 2 lost to Swati Ghate (Mah) 3,
Kruttika Nadig (Mah) 3 bt Sai Meera (TN) 2,
Saheli Nath (Ben) 2.5 drew Kiran Mohanty (Ori) 2.5,
S.Harini (TN) 2 lost to Nisha Mohota (Ben) 2.5,
Lakshmi Sahithi (AP) 2.5 bt Aarthie Ramaswamy (TN) 1.5,
Nimmy George (Ker) 2.5 bt J.E.Kavitha (TN) 1.5,
I.Ramya Krishna (AP) 2 drew M.R.Sangeetha (TN) 2,
Swati Mohota (Ben) 2.5 bt R.Mahima (TN) 1.5,
S.Sujatha (TN) 1 lost to Soumya Swaminathan (Mah) 2,
R.Preethi (TN) 2 bt Aabha Thakur (Mah) 1,
P.Priya (TN) 1.5 bt N.Raghavi (TN) 1,
Baisakhi Das (Jha) 1.5 bt Bhakti Kulkarni (Goa) 1,
H.Nilavoli (TN) 1 drew Kanuri Tejaswi (AP) 1.5,
Pon N.Krithikha (TN) 1 bye.
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