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Second straight win for Padmini

Principal Correspondent

HYDERABAD: Top-seeded Padmini Rout of Orissa recorded her second straight win against C.H. Savetha of Tamil Nadu on the top board in the second round of the National `B' women's chess championship at the Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy Indoor Stadium here on Tuesday.

Padmini had little difficulty in disposing off the challenge of the Tamil Nadu girl with black pieces. On the second board, WIM Kiran Monisha Mohanty got the better of Chandana Priya Reddy in the Sicilian Pelikan Variation immediately after the 19th move.

Easy for Saimeera

Defending champion Saimeera Ravi (BSB) scored another facile win over P.K. Jayashree with black in the Sicilian Defence Najdorff. Though white tried to come back into the game by castling on the queenside on the 13th move, the champion was equal to the task by slowly moving her pieces to the queenside. Then it was a mere formality for her to clinch the issue.

Shristi J. Shetty surprised World under-10 champion Ch. Sahajasri in another second round game.

The results: Second round: C.H. Savetha (1) lost to Padmini Rout (2); Kiran Manisha Mohanty (2) bt Chandana Priya Reddy (1); P.K. Jayashree (1) lost to Saimeera (2); Nimmy A. George (2) bt K. Shruthi (1); Mohana Sengupta (1) lost to I. Ramyakrishna (2); P. Priya (2) bt Gagare Shalmali (1); V. Bhavana (1) lost to P. Lakshmi Sahiti (2); Swati Mohota (2) bt Pallabi Roy (1); Devangi Patankar (1.5) drew with Anuprita Patil (1.5); R. Preethi (2) bt Pushpalata Mangal (1); Aswathy Balagopalan (1.5) drew with M.R. Sangeetha (1.5): Arpi Shah (1.5) drew with V. Sreelakshmi (1.5); Y.G. Sriharika (1) lost to Rajadarshini (2); Pon N. Krithika (2) bt A. Sithalatchumi (1); N.L.V. Anusha (1.5) drew with P. Uthra (1.5); K. Tejaswi (2) bt S.V. Sathya Priya (1); V. Chaitanya (1) lost to Syed Nabeela Farheen (2); S. Harini (2) bt Mitali Madhukar Patil (1); C.P. Aarirah (2) bt Alka Das (1); Ketaki Kulkarni (2) bt G. Sandhya (1); Sneha Ghatpande (1) lost to Pujari Rucha (2); Ch. Divyasri (2) bt S. Nandini (1); Pavitra Jagtap (1) lost to J. Mohana Priya (2); N. Pragna (2) bt K. Manasa (1); Tayal Preetika (1) lost to K. Bindu Saritha (2); Ch. Sahajasri (1) lost to Shristi J. Shetty (2); M. Navya Vaishnavi (1) lost to Tejaswini Reddy (2); S. Athirai (2) bt Pranali M. Patil (1); Dhyani Dave (2) bt Pallavi Dutta (1); Mili Ghosh (2) bt Nandita Devi (1); R. Bharathi (2) bt Karekar Sneha (1); Thomas Teenu (1.5) drew with Supriya Joshi (0); J. Sahari (1) bt R. Yashodha (0.5); V.S.S. Priya (1) bt Agnihotri Ghosh (0).

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