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Pallavi Dutta clinches title

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NEW DELHI: Pallavi Dutta of Ryan International School, Vasant Kunj, won the Delhi women's chess championship on better progressive score after having tied with Preetika Tayal with four points.

Pallavi drew with Kanika Saxena, but Preetika humbled top-seed Dhara Gupta to catch up with Pallavi. The top four have been selected to represent Delhi in the National women's `B' championship.

The final standings (women): 1. Pallavi Dutta (4), 2. Preetika Tayal (4), 3. Dhara Gupta (3.5), 4. Kanika Saxena (3.5), 5. Gayatri Pasricha (3), 6. Arunima Kalra (3), 7. M. Sravya (3), 8. Madhurima (3), 9. Savitri Joshi (2), 10. Kalyani Trivedi (2), 11. Ananya Sharma (1.5), 12. Seemantani Sharma (1.5), 13. Himani Sharma (1), 14. Snigdha Gupta.

The results (fifth round): Dhara Gupta (3.5) lost to Preetika Tayal (4); Kanika Saxena (3) drew with Pallavi Dutta (4); Gayatri Pasricha (3) lost to M. Sravya (3), Madhurima (3) bt Savitri Joshi (2); Himani Sharma (1) lost to Arunima Kalra (3); Seemantani Sharma (1.5) drew with Ananya Sharma (1.5).

Open (fourth round): Rahul Sangma (4) bt Hemant Sharma (3); Sandeep Singh (3.5) drew with Prasenjit Dutta (3.5); Anil Shivpuri (2.5) lost to Deepak Rai (3); Vaibhav Khanna (2.5) drew with Prabodh Kumar Pant (2.5); Dhara Gupta (2.5) drew with Rajesh Kumar (2.5); Jaydeep Sharma (2) lost to Saket Kumar (3); Manish Vatsa lost to Abhimanyu Poddar (3); Rishi Thariani (3) bt Ram Gupta (2); M.S. Din (2.5) drew with Prince Bajaj (2.5); Raj Kumar (2) lost to Akram Baig (3).

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