Odisha-KIIT held Air India to a draw in round 3 of 16th National Team for Women 2018

by Shahid Ahmed - 10/02/2018

There is a four-way lead in the Open section between PSPB, RSPB-A, RSPB-B and Air India at six match points ea after the end of round 3 in the of 38th National Team Chess Championship 2018. In the Women's section, PSPB and AAI are the only two teams who have 100% match point at the end of round 2. Hometown girl, reigning State Junior champion, Smaraki Mohanty of Odisha-KIIT defeated former Asian Champion WGM Bhakti Kulkarni of Air India and her teammate Commonwealth under 14 gold medalist WFM Salonika Saina defeated experienced IM Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi. In this report you will find games from both sections and photos from both rounds. Photos: IA Gopakumar Sudhakaran

Odisha girls ground Air India in round 2 of 16th National Team Chess Championship for Women 2018

Arjuna Awardee IM D V Prasad makes the inaugural move of round 2 | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran

Untitled Smaraki Mohanty of Odisha-KIIT outplayed WGM Bhakti Kulkarni in Modern Benoni opening with Black pieces | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran

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WFM Salonika Saina of Odisha-KIIT defeated veteran IM Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi in a sharp game arising out of Ruy Lopez | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran

Team Odisha-KIIT en route their way to a draw with Air India with a score of 2-2 | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran

WGM Soumya Swaminathan had a clinical win against Y Saranya in just 29 moves in Sicilian Velimirovic Attack | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran

WGM Mary Ann Gomes was held by Divya Lakshmi R in English Opening | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran

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IM Nisha Mohota was held to a draw by J Saranya in Caro-Kann Defence | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran

Round 2 on 2018/02/09 at 10:00

Bo.

Petroleum Sports Promotion Board

Rtg

Tamilnadu

Rtg

3 : 1

1.1

Karavade, Eesha

2386

Rindhiya, V

1848

1 - 0

1.2

WGM

Soumya, Swaminathan

2349

Saranya, Y

1966

1 - 0

1.3

WGM

Gomes, Mary Ann

2329

Divya, Lakshmi R (C)

1926

½ - ½

1.4

Mohota, Nisha

2256

WFM

Saranya, J

2077

½ - ½

Bo.

Odisha-KIIT

Rtg

Air India

Rtg

2 : 2

2.1

Hansdah, Namita

1167

Tania, Sachdev

2402

0 - 1

2.2

Smaraki, Mohanty

1814

WGM

Kulkarni, Bhakti

2290

1 - 0

2.3

WFM

Salonika, Saina

2151

Vijayalakshmi, Subbaraman

2352

1 - 0

2.4

Aparajita, Gochhikar

1740

WGM

Meenakshi, Subbaraman

2193

0 - 1

Bo.

Airport Authority of India

Rtg

Life Insurance Corporation

Rtg

2½:1½

3.1

WIM

Pujari, Rucha

2171

WGM

Swati, Ghate

2222

0 - 1

3.2

WIM

Parnali, S Dharia

2144

WGM

Kiran, Manisha Mohanty

2101

½ - ½

3.3

WIM

Chitlange, Sakshi

2089

S.Jayaseeli,

1174

1 - 0

3.4

WFM

Varshini, V

2103

WFM

Bindu, Saritha K.

1565

1 - 0

Bo.

Telangana

Rtg

Karnataka

Rtg

4 : 0

4.1

AFM

Advaita, Sharma K

1302

Tejaswini, M P

1 - 0

4.2

Yagna, Priya Polisetty

1112

Sakshi, S Auradkar

1 - 0

4.3

Chaitanya, V.

1813

Anvita, Aparanji

1 - 0

4.4

Sanvee, R

Sahana, Gobbur

1 - 0

Bo.

Punjab

Rtg

Uttar Pradesh

Rtg

2½:1½

5.1

Sharma, Deepanshi

1222

Shweta, Priyadarshini

1600

1 - 0

5.2

Kaur, Mandeep

1036

Tiwari, Aradhana

1502

1 - 0

5.3

Smily, Goyal

Mishra, Riya

1430

0 - 1

5.4

Kaur, Parminder

1047

Jaiswal, Ayushi

1175

½ - ½

Bo.

Himachal Pradesh-A

Rtg

Odisha-MCF-5

Rtg

0 : 4

6.1

Arsha, Verma Sh Sanjay

Biswal, Gitashree

1452

0 - 1

6.2

Kiran,

Dibyashrita, Swain

1052

0 - 1

6.3

Pingla, Devi

Shruti, Snehi

0 - 1

6.4

Suman, Devi

Rasmita, Kumari Patro

1073

0 - 1

Round 2 open section

PSPB had no difficulty whitewashing (4-0) Bengal Chess-B | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran

Tamil Nadu was unable to score against AAI | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran

Reigning National Amateur Champion, Hemal Thanki of BSNL played solid and drew with India's 47th GM Himanshu Sharma | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran

Susobhit Das of Odisha MCF-1 drew with GM Tejas Bakre of Air India | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran

Round 2 on 2018/02/09 at 10:00

Bo.

Petroleum Sports Promotion Board

Rtg

Bengal Chess-B

Rtg

4 : 0

1.1

Adhiban, B.

2643

Kaustuv, Kundu

2336

1 - 0

1.2

Gopal, G.N.

2593

Sonkalan, Bharati

2164

1 - 0

1.3

Karthikeyan, Murali

2585

Saptorshi, Gupta

2087

1 - 0

1.4

Sengupta, Deep

2572

Sayantan, Chandra

1854

1 - 0

Bo.

Tamilnadu

Rtg

Airport Authority of India

Rtg

0 : 4

2.1

Sathya, Giri V

1913

Stany, G.A.

2500

0 - 1

2.2

Barath, Kalyan M

2127

Shyam, Sundar M.

2521

0 - 1

2.3

Hari, Madhavan N B

2086

Visakh, N R

2457

0 - 1

2.4

Kumar, S. (C)

1922

Rajesh, V A V

2315

0 - 1

Bo.

Railway Sports Promotion Board - A

Rtg

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited

Rtg

3½: ½

3.1

Himanshu, Sharma

2425

Thanki, Hemal Karsanji

2073

½ - ½

3.2

Deepan, Chakkravarthy J.

2516

Ram, S. Krishnan

2197

1 - 0

3.3

Karthikeyan, P.

2464

Sudhakar, Prem Dutt

1737

1 - 0

3.4

Swapnil, S. Dhopade

2531

Jayakumar, P.

1875

1 - 0

Bo.

Odisha-MCF-1

Rtg

Air India

Rtg

½ :3½

4.1

Samal, Ansuman

2022

Narayanan, Srinath

2530

0 - 1

4.2

Pattnayak, Nilsu

1987

Swayams, Mishra

2439

0 - 1

4.3

Das, Susobhit

1856

Bakre, Tejas

2444

½ - ½

4.4

Rabindra, Kumar Ojha

1721

Satyapragyan, Swayangsu

2398

0 - 1

Bo.

Railway Sports Promotion Board - B

Rtg

Assam

Rtg

4 : 0

5.1

Nitin, S.

2402

Santanu, Borpatra Gohain

1989

1 - 0

5.2

Das, Arghyadip

2443

Trailokya, Nanda

1969

1 - 0

5.3

Krishna, C R G

2416

Singh, Soram Rahul

1951

1 - 0

5.4

Shyaamnikhil, P

2394

Neelabh, Jyoti Borthakur

1794

1 - 0

Round 3 open section

LIC went down 0-4 against top seed PSPB | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran

GM Baskaran Adhiban smashed IM D K Sharma in French Tarrasch in just 25 moves

Team AAI lost to Team RSPB-B (Clockwise from top left: IM S Nitin, GM R R Laxman, IM Arghyadip Das and IM C R G Krishna) by 1.5-2.5 | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran

GM R R Laxman of RSPB-B won in a long Rook and opposite color Bishop ending against GM S L Narayanan of AAI

IM Sidhant Mohapatra of Odisha-KIIT drew with GM Himanshu Sharma of RSPB-A | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran

Team Odisha KIIT lost to Team RSPB-A (Clockwise from Top left: GM Himanshu Sharma, GM Deepan //chakravarthy, GM Swapnil Dhopade and GM M S Thejkumar) by 1.5-2.5 | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran

Round 3 on 2018/02/09 at 16:00

Bo.

Life Insurance Corporation

Rtg

Petroleum Sports Promotion Board

Rtg

0 : 4

1.1

Sriram, Jha

2388

Ganguly, Surya Shekhar

2650

0 - 1

1.2

Sharma, Dinesh K.

2238

Adhiban, B.

2643

0 - 1

1.3

Deshmukh, Anup

2284

Karthikeyan, Murali

2585

0 - 1

1.4

Agarwal, Brajesh

1899

Sengupta, Deep

2572

0 - 1

Bo.

Airport Authority of India

Rtg

Railway Sports Promotion Board - B

Rtg

1½:2½

2.1

Stany, G.A.

2500

Nitin, S.

2402

0 - 1

2.2

Narayanan.S.L,

2573

Laxman, R.R.

2456

0 - 1

2.3

Shyam, Sundar M.

2521

Das, Arghyadip

2443

½ - ½

2.4

Visakh, N R

2457

Krishna, C R G

2416

1 - 0

Bo.

Odisha-KIIT

Rtg

Railway Sports Promotion Board - A

Rtg

1½:2½

3.1

Sidhant, Mohapatra

2389

Himanshu, Sharma

2425

½ - ½

3.2

Rakesh, Kumar Jena

2387

Deepan, Chakkravarthy J.

2516

0 - 1

3.3

Sahoo, Utkal Ranjan

2252

Swapnil, S. Dhopade

2531

1 - 0

3.4

Badamundi, Tapan

1706

Thejkumar, M. S.

2500

0 - 1

Bo.

Air India

Rtg

Bengal Chess-A

Rtg

3 : 1

4.1

Narayanan, Srinath

2530

Bose, Sayan

1963

1 - 0

4.2

Swayams, Mishra

2439

Debarshi, Mukherjee

2303

1 - 0

4.3

Bakre, Tejas

2444

Sumit, Kumar

2191

½ - ½

4.4

Satyapragyan, Swayangsu

2398

Samrat, Ghorai

2108

½ - ½

Bo.

Bengal Chess-B

Rtg

Telangana

Rtg

3½: ½

5.1

Kaustuv, Kundu

2336

Satyanarayana, G

1427

1 - 0

5.2

Saptorshi, Gupta

2087

Srujan, Keerthan Solletti

1512

1 - 0

5.3

Suvradeepta, Das

1962

Naga Shashank, D

1700

½ - ½

5.4

Sayantan, Chandra

1854

Ravi, Golla

1 - 0

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