MPL 47th National Women Chess Championship-2022
Report of round-2 &3
Velpula Sarayu of Telengana held the current Asian Junior Girls Champion WIM Savitha Shri in the 2nd round of MPL 47th National Women Chess Championship here at International Chess Hall, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar on Friday,25th Feburary 2022.
Five Share the lead at the end of the third round
IM Vaishali R (TN), IM Sowmya Swaminathan (PSPB WIM Chitlange sakshi (MAH), WIM Priyanka Nuttaki (AP) and 39th seed Velpula sarayu of Telengana share the lead with perfect score at the end of the third round. Third round also was in Velpula Sarayu’s favor to beat WIM Parnali S Dharia of Maharashtra. Orissa Player Smaraki Mohanty stunned the WGM Kiran Monisha Mohanty of LIC in 24 moves. 15 Players are following the leaders with 2.5 points each.

Important Results of 3rd round
| Bo. | Title | Name | IRtg | Club | Pts | Res. | Pts | Title | Name | IRtg | Club |
| 1 | IM | Vaishali R | 2403 | TN | 3 | Beat | 2 | WGM | Varshini V | 2206 | TN |
| 2 | WIM | Chitlange Sakshi | 2205 | MAH | 3 | beat | 2 | WGM | Nandhidhaa P V | 2380 | TN |
| 3 | WGM | Gomes Mary Ann | 2361 | PSPB | 2½ | drew with | 2½ | WIM | Michelle Catherina P | 2176 | TN |
| 4 | WFM | Pandey Srishti | 2177 | MAH | 2 | lost to | 3 | IM | Soumya Swaminathan | 2360 | PSPB |
| 5 | IM | Padmini Rout | 2350 | PSPB | 2½ | drew with | 2½ | IM | Mohota Nisha | 2147 | PSPB |
| 6 | WFM | Bommini Mounika Akshaya | 2145 | AP | 2½ | drew with | 2½ | WGM | Pratyusha Bodda | 2328 | AP |
| 7 | WGM | Swati Ghate | 2136 | LIC | 2 | lost to | 3 | WIM | Priyanka Nutakki | 2301 | AP |
| 8 | Bala Kannamma P | 2120 | TN | 2½ | drew with | 2½ | WIM | Arpita Mukherjee | 2260 | WB | |
| 9 | WFM | Kotepalli Sai Nirupama | 1914 | AP | 2½ | drew with | 2½ | WIM | Sharma Isha | 2253 | KAR |
| 10 | Velpula Sarayu | 1875 | TEL | 3 | beat | 2 | WIM | Parnali S Dharia | 2224 | MAH | |
| 11 | WGM | Srija Seshadri | 2219 | TN | 2½ | drew with | 2½ | WCM | Bristy Mukherjee | 1856 | WB |
| 12 | WGM | Divya Deshmukh | 2301 | MAH | 2½ | beat | 1½ | WFM | Harshini A | 2131 | TN |
| 13 | WFM | Salonika Saina | 2206 | ORI | 2½ | beat | 1½ | Mrittika Mallick | 1666 | WB | |
| 14 | WGM | Kiran Manisha Mohanty | 2168 | LIC | 1½ | lost to | 2½ | Smaraki Mohanty | 1725 | ORI | |
| 15 | Meenal Gupta | 1941 | JK | 1½ | lost to | 2 | IM | Kulkarni Bhakti | 2388 | GOA |

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