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Five Players Wins Both Games On Monday
April 10 produced exciting results and the day saw four players in
men and one women win both the games of the day. It includes
leader Koneru Humpy, Abhijit Kunte, Abhijeet Gupta and Arun
Prasad. Humpy had wins against the tail - Sriram Jha and Thejkumar
to lead with 8.5 points from ten games.
Deepan Chakkaravarthy crushed Lanka Ravi with white to move to
second place on 8.5 points from eleven games. In third place is
defending champion Surya S Ganguly of Indian Oil, Kolkata on 7.5
points from ten games. In fourth place is Diwakar Prasad Singh of
Jharkhand who has made 7.5 points from eleven games. D.P.Singh had
made an IM norm already from this event.
It was a heavy day of upsets in the 32nd National Women A
Championship with the Subbaraman sisters - Vijayalakshmi and
Meenakshi - being defeated for the second time in a single round.
Ramyakrishna trapped Vijayalakshmi's bishop and won the game after
plenty of complications. Nimmy George who troubled Vijayalakshmi
in the earlier round before letting her draw nailed her younger
sister Meenakshi.
Woman Grand Master Swati Ghate continues her ride in the
relatively easy side of the pairing draw to lead with 7.5 points
from ten games. She beat Kiran Mohanty in the morning and drew
Kavitha in the evening. The games are played from 10-2pm and 5-9pm
when there are double rounds.
An unknown little girl from Sangli in Maharashtra went on to win
the National U-12 Championship at Ahmedabad in 1992. That is Swati
Ghate. Today she has moved to Pune and joined the LIC and is
looking for her maiden national women's title. With nine rounds
still to go she leads the 19-player event by 1.5-points. In second
place with six points from nine games are Mary Ann Gomes of
Kolkata and Dronavalli Harika of Guntur. In fourth place is Nimmy
George of Kerala with six points from ten games.
Soumya Swaminathan who had not won a single game in the first half
has suddenly woken up. On April 10 she won both her games to move
out of the last place. She had three points from nine games and
Supriya Maji is on three points from ten games.
The results:
Men round 11:
Arghyadip Das (Ben) 4/11 lost to D.P.Singh (Jha) 7.5/11,
P.D.S.Girinath (AP) 3/11 lost to S.Arun Prasad (TN) 5.5/11,
Vikramaditya Kamble (Mah) 3.5/11 drew Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury
(Ben) 6/11,
J.Deepan Chakkaravarthy (TN) 8.5/11 bt Lanka Ravi (PSPB) 3.5/11,
R.B.Ramesh (PSPB) 5.5/11 bt Himanshu Sharma (Har) 3/10,
Dinesh Kumar Sharma (LIC) 3/11 lost to Abhijeet Gupta (Raj)
5.5/10,
Sandipan Chanda (PSPB) 5.5/10 drew Sundararajan Kidambi (PSPB)
6/10,
M.S.Thejkumar (Kar) 3.5/10 lost to Abhijit Kunte (PSPB) 6.5/10,
Sriram Jha (LIC) 2.5/10 lost to Koneru Humpy (AP) 8.5/10,
M.R.Venkatesh (PSPB) 7/10 bt B.S.Sivanandan (Kar) 4.5/10,
Surya S Ganguly (PSPB) 7.5/10 - bye.
Women round 10:
Amruta Mokal (Mah) 4/10 lost to Mary Ann Gomes (Ben) 6/9,
Alka Das (Jha) 3/10 lost to Nisha Mohota (PSPB) 4.5/9,
L.Ishwarya Shobana (TN) 5/10 drew Dronavalli Harika (AP) 6/9,
Nimmy George (Ker) 6/10 bt S.Meenakshi (TN) 5.5/9,
I.Ramyakrishna (AP) 4.5/9 bt S.Vijayalakshmi (TN) 5.5/10,
Swati Mohota (Ben) 4.5/9 drew Aarthie Ramesh (TN) 4.5/10,
Soumya Swaminathan (Mah) 3/9 bt Supriya Maji (Ben) 3/10,
Kiran Monisha Mohanty (Ori) 5.5/9 bt Anupama Gokhale (PSPB)
3.5/10,
J.E.Kavitha (TN) 4/9 drew Swati Ghate (LIC) 7.5/10,
Eesha Karavade (Mah) 4.5/9 - bye.
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