11th seed and National Junior Girls Champion Bhakti Kulkarni (ELO 2166) of
Goa was in the joint lead with Woman Grandmaster Eesha Karavade of
Maharashtra after the fourth round of the National Women's 'B' Chess
Championship being played in Calicut. They both have four points each and
Bhakti next plays her coleader in the 5th round.
Woman FIDE Master Bhakti defeated N. Raghavi (ELO 2057) of Tamil Nadu in an
extremely hard fought game. At one stage it seemed that Raghavi had a
crushing Kingside attack. However, Bhakti hung on for dear life and defended
accurately to restore parity. Raghavi finally overstretched in the position
to go down in the endgame after 55 moves.
Her coach Dronacharya Awardee Raghunandan Gokhale was clearly delighted with
the fighting qualities showed by Bhakti in this particular encounter, She
will need all these and more if she has to get past the highly reputed Woman
Grandmaster from Pune in the next crucial battle.
One of the other major aspirants for the event WIM Padmini Rout (ELO 2238)
of Orissa was upset by unfancied Devangi Patankar (ELO 2035) of Maharashtra
in a marathon 81 move encounter featuring the Sicilian Najdorf opening.
Goa's other entry - Nandhini Saripalli (ELO 1844) - has two and a half
points after beating unrated Apoorva Sawant of Maharashtra. She next plays
K. Shruthi (ELO 1992) of Karnataka in the 5th round.
The moves of N. Raghavi - Bhakti Kulkarni :-
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6
6.Bg5 Bg7 7.Qd2 O-O 8.O-O-O a6 9.f3 b5 10.g4 Qe8
11.h4 Nc6 12.Nxc6 Qxc6 13.Bxf6 Bxf6 14.Nd5 Bd8
15.Qh6 Be6 16.h5 Qd7 17.g5 Bxd5 18.Rxd5 Qe7
19.Kb1 Ra7 20.Rg1 c6 21.Rd1 Qe5 22.Rg4 Be7
23.Bd3 Rb8 24.hxg6 fxg6 25.f4 Qd4 26.Qh3 Bf8
27.f5 c5 28.e5 Qxe5 29.fxg6 hxg6 30.Bxg6 d5
31.Rg2 Re7 32.Qh2 Qxh2 33.Rxh2 Re5 34.Rf2 d4
35.Bf7 Kg7 36.g6 Rh5 37.Re2 Rb6 38.Ree1 Rh2
39.Rh1 Rf2 40.Rh5 c4 41.Rg1 Kf6 42.Rd5 Rf4
43.a3 Bg7 44.Rd7 Rb8 45.Rd6 Kf5 46.Rxa6 d3
47.Rd6 Rf2 48.Rd5 Kf4 49.Rc1 b4 50.b3 bxa3
51.Ra5 dxc2 52.Ka2 Bb2 53.Bxc4 Bxc1 54.Bd3 Bd2
55.Rf5 Kg4 0-1
and can be found at:
http://www.monroi.com/watch/?tnm_id=1071#
SOURCE: Sameer Salgaocar - Vice President, All-India Chess Federation
