Babiy Olga Emerges Sole Leader – All India Chess Federation

Woman Grandmaser Babiy Olga (Ukraine) snatched the sole lead with 3.0 points after the third round of the Velammal AICF Woman Grandmaster Round Robin Chess tournament 2019 held at Hotel Abu Sarovar Portico, Chennai yesterday

Olga defeated WIM Nakhbayeva Guliskhan of Kazakhstan in a double edged French game where the Kazakh girl missed her way and lost in 42 moves.

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Former World Under 12 Champion Divya Deshmukh moved into the sole second spot with 2.5 points scoring a facile win over fellow Indian Sapale Saloni. It was all aggression in the Sicilian game between Divya and Saloni. In the ensuing time scramble, Saloni found herself a rook down as Divya forked her way to win after 33 moves.

Earlier the second round saw WGM Babiy Olga of Ukraine taking 2/2 lead, with Munguntuul, Michelle, Divya right behind at 1.5 points. Babiy accounted for Colombian Franco Valencia Angela in an interesting Sicilian game. Exerting pressure right through, Olga threatened the exchange of double rooks and queen moving into a winning king pawn ending. Angela gave up when she found she’d not be able to prevent Olga’s rook pawn promotion.

Round 1 on 2019/01/28 at 04.00 pm
Bo.	No.	FED	Rtg		Name	Result		Name	FED	Rtg	No.
1	1	KAZ	2336	IM	Nakhbayeva Guliskhan	0 – 1	IM	Osmak Iulija	UKR	2394	12
2	2	MGL	2314	WGM	Uuriintuya Uurtsaikh	0 – 1	WIM	Franco Valencia Angela	COL	2107	11
3	3	UKR	2275	WGM	Babiy Olga	1 – 0	WIM	Varshini V	IND	2171	10
4	4	IND	2259	WIM	Aakanksha Hagawane	½ – ½	IM	Munguntuul Batkhuyag	MGL	2428	9
5	5	IND	1925	WIM	Chandreyee Hajra	0 – 1	WIM	Sapale Saloni	IND	2198	8
6	6	IND	2175	WIM	Michelle Catherina P	½ – ½	WIM	Divya Deshmukh	IND	2168	7
Round 2 on 2019/01/29 at 09.30 am
Bo.	No.	FED	Rtg		Name	Result		Name	FED	Rtg	No.
1	12	UKR	2394	IM	Osmak Iulija	0 – 1	WIM	Divya Deshmukh	IND	2168	7
2	8	IND	2198	WIM	Sapale Saloni	0 – 1	WIM	Michelle Catherina P	IND	2175	6
3	9	MGL	2428	IM	Munguntuul Batkhuyag	1 – 0	WIM	Chandreyee Hajra	IND	1925	5
4	10	IND	2171	WIM	Varshini V	1 – 0	WIM	Aakanksha Hagawane	IND	2259	4
5	11	COL	2107	WIM	Franco Valencia Angela	0 – 1	WGM	Babiy Olga	UKR	2275	3
6	1	KAZ	2336	IM	Nakhbayeva Guliskhan	1 – 0	WGM	Uuriintuya Uurtsaikh	MGL	2314	2

Round 3 on 2019/01/29 at 04.00 pm
Bo.	No.	FED	Rtg		Name	Result		Name	FED	Rtg	No.
1	2	MGL	2314	WGM	Uuriintuya Uurtsaikh	½ – ½	IM	Osmak Iulija	UKR	2394	12
2	3	UKR	2275	WGM	Babiy Olga	1 – 0	IM	Nakhbayeva Guliskhan	KAZ	2336	1
3	4	IND	2259	WIM	Aakanksha Hagawane	1 – 0	WIM	Franco Valencia Angela	COL	2107	11
4	5	IND	1925	WIM	Chandreyee Hajra	½ – ½	WIM	Varshini V	IND	2171	10
5	6	IND	2175	WIM	Michelle Catherina P	½ – ½	IM	Munguntuul Batkhuyag	MGL	2428	9
6	7	IND	2168	WIM	Divya Deshmukh	1 – 0	WIM	Sapale Saloni	IND	2198	8