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Two Players Share Lead
By Arvind Aaron
Top seed Dronavalli Harika of Andhra Pradesh and oldest
Woman Grand Master in the fray, S. Meenakshi are leading
the 36th St Joseph's National Women Premier Chess
Championship in progress in Chennai on December 5.
Meenakshi used a pawn fork to win one of defending
champion Kruttika Nadig's piece for a place in the lead
on 3.5/4. Harika played more enterprisingly with a
higher degree of risk to defeat National Junior girls
champion Bhakti Kulkarni in this fourth round.
Harika and Meenakshi are leading with 3.5/4. Soumya
Swaminathan (Mah), Kiran Mohanty (Ori), Tania Sachdev
(Del) are in the third spot with three points each.
Seven rounds remain to be played.
The winner from this contest will get Rs.75,000 out of
the Rs.250,000 prize fund. Also a direct entry into the
2010 Chess Olympiad team to be held at Khanty-Mansiysk
in Russia. The top six will get a chance to play in two
overseas tournaments that will be decided by the All
India Chess Federation.
Kiran Manisha Mohanty scored an important win over
Aarthie Ramaswamy and is sure to be in the WGM norm race
if not the title itself. International Arbiter K.
Muralimohan, is the chief arbiter. Many norms are likely
to happen here and out of form WGMs could be possible
targets by younger players.
The results (round four): D. Harika (AP) 3.5 bt Bhakti
Kulkarni (Goa) 2.5, Kruttika Nadig (Mah) 2.5 lost to S.
Meenakshi (AI) 3.5, Tania Sachdev (Del) 3 drew with Mary
Ann Gomes (WB) 2.5, Soumya Swaminathan (Mah) 3 bt Pon N.
Krithikha (TN) 2, Aarthie Ramaswamy (AI) 2 lost to Kiran
Mohanty (Ori) 3, Pallabi Roy (WB) 1.5 lost to Eesha
Karavade (Mah) 2.5, Sai Meera (IB) 2.5 bt C.H. Savetha
(TN) 1.5, P. Priya (TN) 1.5 A. Sithalatchumi (TN) 1.5,
Nisha Mohota (PSPB) 1.5 drew with Amruta Mokal (Mah)
1.5, Bindu Saritha (LIC) 2 bt R. Bharathi (TN) 1, A.
Akshaya (TN) 1 lost to Swati Mohota (WB) 2, Supriya Maji
(WB) 1.5 bt C. Sahajasri (WB) 1, J. Saranya (TN) 1 -
bye.
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