National Teams Championship Rd.2-6: PSPB dominates

Odisha: The Petroleum Sports Promotion Board (PSPB) is dominating in both Open and Women categories in 2018 National Teams Chess Championship, which is being held at KIIT University, Bhubaneshwar. In the open section, PSPB stamped their dominance by amassing 6 match points in a row. One point behind the leader is Airport Authority of India (AAI) and Life Insurance Corporation (LIC).

GM Surya Shekar Ganguly (PSPB) scored a important victory over GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J. (Railways-A) in the sixth match.

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In the earlier match, GM Adhiban Baskaran (PSPB) defeated GM Laxman R.R (Railways-B) in a 32 move battle.

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Team pairings

Round 7 on 2018/02/12 at 10:00
No.	Team	Team	Res.	:	Res.
1	Airport Authority of India	Petroleum Sports Promotion Board		:
2	Life Insurance Corporation	Railway Sports Promotion Board – B		:
3	Railway Sports Promotion Board – A	Bengal Chess-A		:
4	Air India	Bengal Chess-B		:
5	Odisha-KIIT	Odisha-A		:
6	Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited	Defence Accounts Sports Control Board		:
7	Assam	Tamilnadu		:
8	Services Sports Control Board	Uttar Pradesh		:
9	Odisha-MCF-3	Bihar		:
10	Andhra Pradesh	Odisha-MCF-2		:
11	Maharashtra-B	Odisha-MCF-1		:
12	Gujarat	Odisha-B		:
13	Odisha-MCF-4	Maharashtra-A		:
14	Himachal Pradesh	Punjab		:
15	Odisha-KCA	Himachal Pradesh-A		:
16	Haryana	Reserve Bank of India		:
17	Karnataka	UP-Kaushambi Academy		:
18	Telangana	spielfrei	2	:

Team Women

Team PSPB is leading in the women’s category with 4.0/4 match points. Notably, in the second match, host team Odisha-KIIT held higher rated Air India to a draw.

WFM Saina Salonika (Odisha-KIIT) defeated IM Vijayalakshmi, Subbaraman (Air India).

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While untitled Smaraki Mohanty (Odisha-KIIT) scored a victory over WGM Bhakti Kulkarni (Air India).

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Reigning National Women’s Champion IM Padmini Rout of PSPB.

Team pairings

Round 5 on 2018/02/12 at 10:00
No.	Team	Team	Res.	:	Res.
1	Life Insurance Corporation	Petroleum Sports Promotion Board		:
2	Airport Authority of India	Odisha-KIIT		:
3	Air India	Odisha-MCF-5		:
4	Telangana	Tamilnadu		:
5	Karnataka	Uttar Pradesh		:
6	Himachal Pradesh	Himachal Pradesh-A		:
7	Punjab	spielfrei	2	: