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Stage set for exciting finish

NEW DELHI OCT. 7. A four-way tie at the top and just a round to go, the battle for honours in the National junior girls' chess championship is going all the way to the wire. After the eighth and penultimate round on Monday, top seed and defending champion Harika was in the company of Saheli Nath, Mahima Rajmohan and Nimmy George.

In case of a `tie' for the top spot, Harika will walk away with the trophy due to her superior progressive score of 38. Saheli (37), Mahima (36.5) and Nimmy (33.5), follow in that order.

The results:

Eighth round: Mahima Rajmohan (6.5) drew with D. Harika (6.5); Kruttika Nadig (5.5) lost to Nimmy A. George (6.5); N. Vinuthana (5) lost to Saheli Nath (6.5); Anuradha Beniwal (5.5) drew with P. Priya (5.5); H. Nilavoli (6) bt S. Banupriya (5); C. Delphin (5.5) bt M. Kasturi (5); M. Rajadarshini (4.5) lost to M. Priyadarshini (5.5); Y. Pratibha (5) drew with Eesha Karavade (5); Amruta Mokal (5.5) bt Anoori Shah (4); Kiran Monisha Mohanty (5) bt Anuprita Patil (4); J. E. Kavitha (5) bt Laxmi Sahiti (4); Baisakhi Das (4) lost to Alka Das (5); Namita V. Mhetar (4) lost to Malar Selvi (5); Dhara Gupta (4) lost to Suchandra Chatterjee (5); Pragna Patvi (4) lost to C. V. Rajalakshmi (5); Aswathy Balagopalan (3.5) lost to Aneeqha Tahseen (5); Ramya Krishna (3.5) lost to E. Shabina (4.5); Nabeela Farheen (4.5) bt Supriya Maji (3.5); N. Sandhya (4.5) bt Madhuri Patil (3.5); Rupinder Deep Kaur (4) bt Usha Upadhaya (3); Ekta Jha (3) lost to Divya Gupta (4); Swetha Narayan (4) bt Surabhi Bhargava (3); Ayushi Rai Choudhury (4) bt Pooja Bhartiya (3); Preeti Chahal (3.5) drew with Zonunmawii (3.5); Nivanthee Jayaraj (4) bt Swati Rajpurohit (2.5); Bhavya Khattar (3) drew with Mamta Agarwal (3); Akanksha Narain (2) lost to Ritika Malhotra (3); Pritti Oka (2.5) drew with S. Priyanka (2.5); Pallavi Dutta (3) bt Alisha Ashta (2); Nitya Ahuja (1) lost to Bhagyashree Shah (3); Kanchan Rawat (2) bt Lalmuankimi H. (1); M. Sravya (3) bye.

Seventh round: Harika drew with Kruttika; Mahima bt Rajadarshini; Nimmy bt Pratibha; Amruta lost to Saheli; Baisakhi lost to Vinuthana; Priya bt Rajalakshmi; Laxmi lost to Nilavoli; Anuprita lost to Banupriya; Malar lost to Anuradha; Kasturi bt Nabeela; Priyadarshini bt Sandhya; Eesha bt Aswathy; Anoori drew with Kiran; Supriya lost to Delphin; Alka drew with Kavitha; Suchandra bt Rupinder; Aneeqha bt Ayushi; Usha lost to Dhara; Pragna bt Swetha; Zonunmawii lost to Namita; Surabhi lost to Ramya; Mamta lost to Madhuri; Shabina bt Swati; Bhagyashree lost to Ekta; Divya bt Akanksha; Pooja bt Priti; Sravya lost to Preeti; Alisha lost to Nivanthee; Ritika drew with Pallavi; Lalmuankimi lost to Bhavya; Priyanka bt Nitya; Kanchan bye.

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