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Five Players Share Lead
By Arvind Aaron
Top seed Dronavalli Harika of Guntur, Andhra Pradesh
scored over Tamil Nadu's Pon N. Krithikha to be among
the five leaders in the 36th National Women Premier
Chess Championship sponsored and held at St Joseph's
College of Engineering in Chennai on December 3.
Harika, 18, trapped the bishop of Krithika to win in 24
moves. She shares the lead with four others. Kruttika
Nadig, Tania Sachdev, S. Meenakshi and Bhakti Kulkarni
are all on full two points along with Harika after two
rounds. Nine rounds are left to be played in this
contest which will conclude on December 12.
Among WGMs, Kruttika scored the best win over Mary Ann
Gomes. Tania accounted for bottom seed Sithalatchumi.
Meenakshi benefited from a tactical blunder by Sai Meera.
Bhakti played the Caro-Kann opening as black and
excelled in the middle and endgame against Savetha.
World Junior Girls champion Soumya Swaminathan has not
managed to win any of her first two games since the
title at Argentina. She tried hard but Eesha Karavade,
also of Pune was too strong and they drew a level queen
ending.
Aarthie rebounded with a win using the Dragon variation
as black against Amruta Mokal.
The results (round two): D. Harika (AP) 2 bt Pon N.
Krithikha (TN) 1, Tania Sachdev (Del) 2 bt A.
Sithalatchumi (TN) 1, Kruttika Nadig (Mah) 2 bt
Mary Ann Gomes (WB) 1, Sai Meera (IB) 1 lost to S.
Meenakshi (AI) 2, C.H. Savetha (TN) 1 lost to Bhakti
Kulkarni (Goa) 2, Soumya Swaminathan (Mah) 1 drew with
Eesha Karavade (Mah) 1, Nisha Mohota (PSPB) 1 drew with
Swati Mohota (WB) 1, Kiran Mohanty (Ori) 1.5 bt Supriya
Maji (WB) 0.5, Amruta Mokal (Mah) 0 lost to
Aarthie Ramaswamy (AI) 1, Pallabi Roy (WB) 0.5 drew with
P. Priya (TN) 0.5, A. Akshaya (TN) 1 bt R.
Bharathi (TN) 0, J. Saranya (TN) 0 lost to C. Sahajasri
(AP) 1, Bindu Saritha (LIC) 1 - bye.
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