Three Players Share the lead after seventh round

National Women Chess Championship-2018

Report by I.A Bhuvanaa Sai L R

WGM Gomes Mary Ann (PSPB), WIM Mahalakshmi M (Railways), and WGM Kulkarni Bhakti (AI) share the lead with 6 points from 7 rounds here at The Diamond, Urbana Housing Society, Jaipur on 22nd November 2018. Closely behind the leaders, WGM Swati Ghate (LIC), WIM Michelle Catherina P (TN) and the top-seed IM Vijayalakshmi S (TN) are on 2nd spot with 5.5 points each.

On the 1st board IM Vijayalakshmi S (AI) and WGM Gomes Mary Ann (PSPB) split the point.

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On the 2nd board, WIM Mahalakshmi M (Railways) beat WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty of LIC in 34 moves.

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WGM Swati Ghate defeated WFM Saranya J on the fourth board.

There was a decisive result on board 3 as IM Mohota Nisha (PSPB) lost to WGM Kulkarni Bhakti (AI).

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Pairings

Round 8 on 2018/11/23 at 10.00 am

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	2	WGM	Gomes Mary Ann	2286	6		6	WIM	Mahalakshmi M	2198	11
2	4	WGM	Kulkarni Bhakti	2256	6		5½	WGM	Swati Ghate	2256	5
3	13	WIM	Michelle Catherina P	2182	5½		5½	IM	Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman	2365	1
4	6	WIM	Nandhidhaa P V	2240	5		5		Nimmy A.G.	2136	16
5	7	WIM	Chitlange Sakshi	2237	5		5		Priyanka Kumari	2005	23
6	10		Priyanka K	2207	5		5	WFM	Arpita Mukherjee	2090	19
7	12	WGM	Meenakshi Subbaraman	2191	5		5	WGM	Ramaswamy Aarthie	1994	27
8	14	WGM	Kiran Manisha Mohanty	2164	5		5	WFM	Bommini Mounika Akshaya	1859	39
9	26		Harini S.	1998	5		4½	WIM	Chandreyee Hajra	1963	29
10	31		Saranya Y	1898	4½		4½	IM	Mohota Nisha	2276	3
11	8	WIM	Srija Seshadri	2224	4½		4½		Divya Lakshmi R	1893	33
12	55	WCM	Chinnam Vyshnavi	1686	4½		4½	WIM	Vantika Agrawal	2210	9
13	48		Deodhar Vrushali Umesh	1793	4½		4½	WCM	Jyothsna L	2060	21
14	22	WFM	Saranya J	2049	4½		4½	WCM	Bristy Mukherjee	1868	37
15	32		Nandhini Saripalli	1896	4		4½		Rathore Sonakshi	1798	47
16	40		Singh Neha	1835	4		4	WCM	Isha Sharma	2151	15
17	18		Bala Kannamma P	2101	4		4		Sheena E.	1773	49
18	24		Sudha P.	2001	4		4		Chaitanya V.	1700	54
19	44		Roy Pallabi	1811	4		4		Sandhya G	2000	25
20	28	WFM	Harshini A	1986	4		4		Andria L D`souza	1754	51