The tournament has finally found a sole leader. Defending Champion Woman Grandmaster Tania Sachdev of Indian Airlines today beat P Priya of Tamil Nadu to take lead while the top two boards witnessed fighting draws at the end of the 8th round of the 34th Women’s National A Chess Championship organized by Symbiosis Spa Chess School at Symbiosis Center for Health Care Campus, Range Hills Road, Kirkee, Pune. Five players share the second spot on 5.5 points
P Priya playing White chose the exchange variation of the Spanish Opening against Asian Individual Women’s Champion Tania. Priya made a questionable 8th move after which her pawn structure was severely weakened. Tania slowly maneuvered her pieces to build up pressure on White’s weak f5 pawn and soon gobbled it up. After a couple of exchanges the game steered into a Rook pawn ending where Tania used her advantageous Rook position to win another pawn and forced Priya to resign.
Game Ananysis
P, Priya vs. Sachdev, Tania
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Bxc6 dxc6 5. O-O f6 6. d4 exd4 7. Nxd4 Bd6 8. Nf5 Bxf5 9. exf5 Qd7 10. Re1 Be5 11. Qh5 Qf7 12. Qd1 Ne7 13. a4 O-O 14. Qg4 Rad8 15. c3 Rd5 16. g3 Bd6 17. Nd2 Nxf5 18. Ne4 Qg6 19. Qe2 Kh8 20. Nxd6 cxd6 21. Bf4 h6 22. Kh1 Qf7 23. Qe4 g5 24. c4 Rc5 25. Bxd6 Nxd6 26. Qd4 Rf5 27. Qxd6 Rxf2 28. Qd4 Rc2 29. Rac1 Rxc1 30. Rxc1 Qe7 31. Rd1 Re8 32. a5 Kg7 33. Qg4 Kg6 34. h4 Qe4 35. Qxe4 Rxe4 36. hxg5 hxg5 37. b3 Re3 38. b4 Rxg3 39. Rd7 Rh3 40. Kg2 Rh7 41. Rd1 Kf5 42. Rf1 Ke5 43. Re1 Kd4 0-1
On the top board WGM Swati Ghate of LIC, playing White chose the Be2 variation in the Sicilian Classical Opening but Harika transposed the game into Sicilian Dragon Classical variation. Swati did not get much out of the opening and very soon Harika maneuvered her Queen to a strong position. She then started to push her pawns on the Queenside to create a breakthrough. Swati sensed the danger and started a counter attack on Harika’s King, also sacrificing an exchange in the process. Harika did not play the most accurate moves after that and Swati was relieved to get a perpetual check and force a draw.
ary Ann Gomes played the Rosolimo variation from the White side of the Sicilian against Kiran Mohanty. Mary had an advantage in the Rook-Bishop endgame that arose and even got a deadly passed pawn on 6th rank. But she failed to find the best moves. After the Bishops got exchanged the game reached a Rook Pawn ending where Kiran played accurately to force a draw.
WGM R Aarthie playing White side of the Sicilian scheveningen against Pune’s WIM Soumya Swaminathan went for a typical attack against Soumya’s king. Soumya created counter play in the center and established her Knight on the strong e4 square. In the complex position where a small mistake would prove costly Aarthie blundered an important pawn and literally handed over Soumya the full point.
Amruta Mokal playing Black against WGM Nisha Mohota played inaccurately in the opening and then blundered a piece to give Nisha a simple win. Nimmy George beat Pon. Krithika in an Alekhine’s defense game. Krithika playing Black lost an exchange early in the game and Nimmy converted her advantage in the endgame. WGM Eesha Karavade finally scored a much desired victory. She beat her city-mate Anuprita Patil quite comfortably from the White side of the Slav Defense.
With three rounds to go the tournament is still wide open and as the top three finishers will make it to the Indian Olympiad team it is time for some exciting and fighting chess in the remaining rounds.
Results-: round 8
Swati Ghate 5.5 drew with Harika Dronavalli 5.5;
Mary Ann Gomes 5.5 drew with Kiran Manisha Mohanty 5.5;
P Priya 4.5 lost to Tania Sachdev 6;
Aarthie Ramaswamy 4 lost to Soumya Swaminathan 5.5;
Nisha Mohota 5 beat Amruta Mokal 4;
Nimmy George 5 beat Pon. Krithika 4;
Eesha Karavade 4.5 beat Anuprita Patil 3.5;
Divyasri Ch 4.5 beat S Nabeela Farheen 3.5;
Padmini Rout 4 beat Rucha Pujari 3;
S Harini 3 lost to Sai Meera 4;
P Uthra 4 beat Swati Mohota 3;
Dhyani Dave 3 drew with R Preethi 3;
S Athirai 2.5 lost to M R Sangeetha 3;
C H Sevitha had a bye
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| Rank | SNo. | | Name | Rtg | FED | Pts | BH. | RtgØ |
| 1 | 3 | WGM | Tania Sachdev | 2413 | IND | 6 | 34½ | 2269 |
| 2 | 6 | WGM | Swathi Ghate | 2316 | IND | 5½ | 34½ | 2270 |
| 3 | 7 | WIM | Kiran Manisha Mohanty | 2263 | IND | 5½ | 34 | 2276 |
| 4 | 1 | IM | Harika Dronavalli | 2480 | IND | 5½ | 34 | 2275 |
| 5 | 8 | WIM | Gomes Mary Ann | 2262 | IND | 5½ | 32½ | 2208 |
| 6 | 9 | WIM | Soumya Swaminathan | 2244 | IND | 5½ | 31 | 2230 |
| 7 | 2 | WGM | Mohota Nisha | 2416 | IND | 5 | 32½ | 2213 |
| 8 | 12 | Nimmy A G | 2196 | IND | 5 | 29½ | 2166 | |
| 9 | 4 | WGM | Karavade Eesha | 2331 | IND | 4½ | 35½ | 2265 |
| 10 | 15 | Priya P | 2129 | IND | 4½ | 31 | 2229 | |
| 11 | 25 | Divyasri Ch | 2050 | IND | 4½ | 24½ | 2102 | |
| 12 | 5 | WGM | Ramaswamy Aarthie | 2317 | IND | 4 | 35½ | 2258 |
| 13 | 11 | WFM | Meera Sai | 2205 | IND | 4 | 35½ | 2248 |
| 14 | 13 | Amrutha Mokal | 2159 | IND | 4 | 31½ | 2184 | |
| 15 | 14 | WFM | Pon N Krithika | 2140 | IND | 4 | 31½ | 2177 |
| 16 | 10 | Padmini Rout | 2226 | IND | 4 | 27½ | 2166 | |
| 17 | 24 | Uthra P | 2055 | IND | 4 | 22 | 2072 | |
| 18 | 22 | Anuprita Patil | 2060 | IND | 3½ | 32½ | 2224 | |
| 19 | 20 | Syed Nabeela Farheen | 2093 | IND | 3½ | 28½ | 2129 | |
| 20 | 23 | Harini S | 2060 | IND | 3 | 28½ | 2153 | |
| 21 | 21 | WFM | Pujari Rucha | 2061 | IND | 3 | 27½ | 2128 |
| 22 | 17 | Sangeetha M R | 2118 | IND | 3 | 27½ | 2126 | |
| 23 | 26 | WFM | Dave Dhyani | 2002 | IND | 3 | 27 | 2109 |
| 24 | 18 | Swati Mohota | 2112 | IND | 3 | 26 | 2089 | |
| 25 | 16 | Preethi R | 2125 | IND | 3 | 25 | 2100 | |
| 26 | 27 | Athirai S | 2000 | IND | 2½ | 22½ | 2091 | |
| 27 | 28 | Savetha C H | 1968 | IND | 2½ | 21½ | 1959 | |
| 28 | 19 | Baisakhi Das | 2101 | IND | 1 | 22½ | 2090 |
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