Sport - Chess

Five share lead

KOZHIKODE: Five players shared the lead at the end of the ninth round of the 35th National women’s ‘B’ chess championship at Hotel Sana Tower here on Thursday. Nisha Mohota, Mary Ann Gomes, Eesha Karvade, Aarthie Ramaswamy and Bhakti Kulkarni have seven points with two rounds remaining.

Following them half-a-point behind are Swati Ghate, Kruttika Nadig, Mohana Priya, Padmini Rout, Pon N. Krithika and A. Niji.

Important results (ninth round): Mary Ann Gomes 7 drew with Nisha Mohota 7; Kruttika Nadig 6.5 drew with Eesha Karvade 7; Mohana Priya 6.5 drew with Swati Ghate 6.5; Aarthie Ramaswamy 7 bt Alka Das 6; Bhakti Kulkarni 7 bt R. Preethi 6; Shalmali Gagare 5.5 lost to Padmini Rout 6.5; Nimmy A. George 6 drew with N. Raghavi 6; Baisakhi Das 5.5 to lost to Pon N. Krithika 6.5; Swati Mohota 5.5 lost to A. Niji 6.5; Pallabi Roy 6 bt Saimeera Ravi 5; V. Bhavana 5 lost to Amruta Mokal 6; M.R. Sangeetha 6 bt K. Shruthi 5; Nabeela Farheen 5 lost to Seetha Lakshmi 6; Teenu Thomas 6 bt S. Harini 5; Aurprita Patil 5.5 drew with S.V. Sathyapriya 5.5; Taraswini 6 bt Bindu Saritha 5; Prathyusha Bodda 4.5 lost to Supriya Maji 5.5; Nandini 4.5 lost to Ch. Divyasri 5.5; R. Bharathi 5.5 bt Pushpalata Mangal 4.5; G. Sandhya 4.5 lost to Devangi Patankar 5.5; P.K. Jayasree 5.5 bt J. Sharanya 4.5; Ch. Savetha 5.5 bt Akshaya 4.5; Mitali Patil 5.5 bt S. Anushya 4.5; Supriya Joshi 4.5 lost to Madhuri Patil 5; Shikha Shah 5 bt P.V. Nanditha 4; Navya Vyshnavi 4 lost to E. Sheena 5; Priyanka Ved 4 lost to C.P. Athira 5; Sahajasri 5 bt Arna Sarkar 4; J.G. Niveditha 4 lost to Shaadi Majumdar 5; Diocima Dutta Gupta 4 lost to Sahari 5; Sitali Shetty 4.5 drew with Agnihotri Ghosh 4.5. — Principal Correspondent

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