Mysuru has been producing talented chess players from time to time who have gone on to represent the country in various events. Mysuru’s 11-year-old chess player Prasiddhi Bhat has done everyone proud with her feats in the State and National level Tournaments. Prasiddhi recently took part in the 44th National Women Challengers Chess Championships held…
Fifth seed WGM Bhakti Kulkarni (Air India) with 8.5 points continuing her excellent form beat overnight leader and top-seed WGM Soumya Swaminathan of PSPB to emerg as the sole leader after ten rounds. With this win Bhakti has brightened her chances of winning the title on 44th National Women Challengers Chess championship 2017 being held…
Top seed WGM Soumya Swaminathan (PSPB), Tamil Nadu’s WFM C. Lakshmi and fifth seed WGM Bhakti Kulkarni (Air India) share the lead scoring 6.5 points from eight rounds at the end of day 6 in the 44th National Women’s Challenger Chess Championship 2017, conducted by the Mysore Chess Centre at Sri Kanteerava Narasimharaja Sports Club…
Two players, WGM Soumya Swaminathan (PSPB) and WFM C. Lakshmi (TN) with six points from seven rounds jointly share the lead at the end of the seventh round in the 44th National Women Challengers Chess Championship 2017 being organised by Mysore Chess Centre at Sri Kanteerava Narasimharaja Sports Club here yesterday. Five players, WGM Kiran…
WGM Mary Ann Gomes is a three-time national champion (2011, 2012, 2013), Asian Junior Girls Champion (2006, 2007, 2008) and Asian U-16 junior girls title winner. One of the top women chess players in the country, this 28-year-old Chess champion wants aims at becoming a ‘Grand Master’. She is currently residing in Kolkata and is…
Top-seed WGM Soumya Swaminathan (PSPB) emerged as the sole leader scoring 5.5 points from six rounds, in the fourth-day of the 44th National Women Challengers Chess Championships 2017, conducted by the Mysore Chess Centre at the Mysore Sports Club’s premises here yesterday. Five players, WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty (LIC), second seed WGM Mary Ann Gomes…
18-year-old and current women’s chess champion R. Divya Lakshmi (rating 1957) of Chennai with 4 points from 4 rounds, scored the biggest win of her career by beating the current Commonwealth Games 2017 Women’s Champion and third seed WGM Swati Ghate in the fourth round of the tournament and went into the joint lead with…
After three rounds, seven players — top-seed WGM Soumya Swaminathan (PSPB), second-seeded WGM Mary Ann Gomes (PSPB), eight-seed WFM Srija Seshadri (Del), R. Divya Lakshmi (TN), fifteenth-seed WIM M. Mahalakshmi (TN), WIM Pranali S. Dharia (Mah) and K. Priyanka (TN) — with three points from three rounds, shared the lead at the end of the…
Woman Grandmaster (WGM) Soumya Swaminathan, an employee with PSPB, is a former National Champion (2011), World Junior Championship title winner (2009), Commonwealth Women’s Champion (2012) and has finished second in the 2016 Moscow Open. The 28-year-old WGM is one of the top women chess players’ in the country, and the top-seed in the ongoing 44th…
Lowly rated V. Rindhiya from Tamil Nadu (Rating 1485), playing a excellent game on the fifth board with white pieces, shocked fifth-seeded WGM Bhakti Kulkarni of Air India (Rating 2255) in 39 moves in the lone upset, on the inaugural day of the nine-day 44th National Women’s Challenger Chess Championship-2017, conducted by the Mysore Chess…
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