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Meera - Ten New Qualifiers This Time
By Arvind Aaron
Press Officer - AICF
The 33rd St Joseph's National B Chess
Championship concluded with Indian Bank's Sai Meera Ravi of Chennai
winning the title with a clear score of nine points from eleven rounds.
The event was held at the St Joseph's College of Engineering near Chennai.
It was organised by the Mount Chess Academy.
In the title deciding encounter, Sai Meera was little lucky as she was
fighting an ending with a two pawn deficit. Saheli Nath walked into a
self mate and lost the game. Sai Meera's biggest triumph as she returns
to the National A
This event is going to be remembered for many
things. Ten extra places were provided by the AICF this time. Ten new
players occupied them. Youngsters like Bhakti Kulkarni, Padmini Rout have
added their states of Goa and Orissa in the top list.
Two of the qualifiers belong the organising college: H.Nilavoli and
P.Sivasankari. Talents like Krithikha, Preethi and Aabha Thakur and Kanuri
were seen getting noticed in this event. Lakshmi Sahithi is also a new
qualifier though she had won five National and three Asian age group
titles. She lost three games but did not lose heart and came back to
defeat Jennitha Anto with white for a well deserved place in the A.
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In the closing ceremony woman grandmaster
Aarthie Ramesh distributed the prizes in the presence of Dr Babu Manoharan,
Director, St Joseph's College of Engineering. Speaking at the ceremony,
D.V.Sundar asked the hosts to organise the National Women's A too and keep
the old tradition. He said, the Men's National B was recently held at
Ahmedabad and the Gujarat State is also taking the men National A at
Rajkot.
Aarthie in her address noted that the Women's
National B saw more fighting spirit that the men's event which was
dominated by draws after round seven. Adding to this, IM Manuel Aaron said
he had been advicing his girl students to play like men and me more
aggressive as girls tended to be timid. Now I have to tell the men to
fight like women, joked Aaron. Speaking on behalf of the players,
S.Sujatha who is making another entry into the National A after 1999 said
this was among the three best chess events she played in her career
spanning 18 years. The routine was excellent and I hope to come back here
for the National A, she said.
List of qualifiers: 1 Sai Meera (BSB)
9/11, 2 R.Mahima (TN) 8.5, 3 Baisakhi Das (Jha) 8, 4-13 R.Preethi (TN),
Nimmy A.G. (Ker), P.Priya (TN), Padmini Rout (Ori), Pon N.Krithikha (TN),
Saheli Nath (Ben), R.Sanggeetha (TN), Bhakti Kulkarni (Goa), S.Harini
(TN), Kiran Monisha Mohanty (Ori) 7.5 each, 14-20 Lakshmi Sahithi (AP),
N.Raghavi (TN), P.Sivasankari (TN), S.Sujatha (TN), Kanuri Tejaswi (AP),
H.Nilavoli (TN), Aabha Thakur (Mah) 7 each. Others who did not qualify: 21
Savetha Ch (TN) 7, 22-30 Jennitha Anto (TN), P.Uthra (TN), Mohana Priya (AICF),
Iswarya Shobana (TN), J.Rajasurya (TN), Pallabi Roy (Ben), Nabeela Farheen
(TN), V.Bavana (AP), Mohana Sengupta (Ben) 6.5 each.
Important results (round 11): Saheli Nath lost to Sai Meera,
R.Mahima bt Padmini Rout, Baisakhi Das bt R.Preethi, Kiran Mohanty drew
Nimmy A.G., P.Priya drew S.Harini, Bhakti K bt Nabeela Farheen, Pon
N.Krithikha bt Iswarya Shobana, Sanggeetha bt P.Uthra, N.Raghavi drew
H.Nilavoli, Lakshmi Sahithi bt Jennitha Anto, Aabha Thakur bt J.E.Kavitha,
K.Shruthi lost to P.Sivasankari, J.Saranya lost to S.Sujatha, Kanuri bt
Kumari Rama.
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Published on : 26.09.2006 |
