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Tania Defeats Kruttika
By Arvind Aaron
As drawn games kept the leaders in their respectful
slots, former champion Tania Sachdev of Delhi defeated
national champion Kruttika Nadig of Pune in round seven
of the 36th National Premier Women Chess Championship
being sponsored and played at the St Joseph's College of
Engineering in Chennai on December 8.
Round seven was slightly noisy as World Champion
Viswanathan Anand visited the games and there was flash
photography for a few minutes. Players were delighted to
have a world champion come and watch their games. As all
12 games were in progress, only player who could get a
picture with Anand was Pallabi Roy who had the fortune
of getting a bye on this day.
Kruttika went for a pawn and strayed with her knight
while Tania attacked the minor pieces repeatedly and won
one of them to take her tally to 4.5 points, good for
joint fourth place.
Leader, Meenakshi Subbaraman of Air India, Chennai
played the Trompmowsky opening with the white pieces and
Kiran Mohanty of Orissa was not surprised. She equalised
easily. Meenakshi drew the rook ending in 46 moves
without much difficulty.
Meenakshi leads with six points from seven rounds. Her
rating performance is 2575 after this draw. It was close
to 2700 after round six. Four rounds remain to be played
in this 25-player eleven round Swiss. In the second
place on 5.5 is top seed Dronavalli Harika of Guntur.
Kiran Mohanty is in third place with five points. All
three of them have not won this championship before.
Let us see how much the earlier champions have scored:
Tania Sachdev (2006, 2007) 4.5, Nisha Mohota (2005) 4,
Aarthie Ramaswamy (2003) 3.5, Kruttika Nadig (2008) 3.5.
The results (round seven): S. Meenakshi (AI) 6 drew with
Kiran Mohanty (Ori) 5, Eesha Karavade (Mah) 4 drew with
D. Harika (AP) 5.5, Kruttika Nadig (Mah) 3.5 lost to
Tania Sachdev (Del) 4.5, Mary Ann Gomes (WB) 3.5 lost to
P. Priya (TN) 4.5, Aarthie Ramaswamy (AI) 3.5 lost to
Soumya Swaminathan (Mah) 4.5, Sai Meera (IB) 3.5 lost to
Bhakti Kulkarni (Goa) 4.5, Amruta Mokal (Mah) 4 bt R.
Bharathi (TN) 3, Nisha Mohota (PSPB) 4 bt C. Sahajasri
(AP) 2.5, Pon N. Krithikha (TN) 2.5 lost to Bindu
Saritha (LIC) 3.5, Supriya Maji (WB) 3 drew with C.H.
Savetha (TN) 3, A. Sithalatchumi (TN) 3 bt Swati Mohota
(Wb) 2.5, J. Saranya (TN) 3 bt A. Akshaya (TN) 2,
Pallabi Roy (WB) 2.5 -
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