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Bhagyashree maintains her lead in Asian women's meet

Shabana holds defending champ Gokhale
BHOPAL, Oct 27 : National women's champion Bhagyashree Thipsay maintained her half-point lead
over Ning Chun Hong of China at the end of the eight round of the fifth Asian women's chess championship being held here, reports PTI.
Bhagyashree playe'd the Austrian attack against Imasniti's (Indonesia) modern defence and gained a clear positional advantage. Imasniti lost a pawn in the Opening.
Bhagyashree played aggressively and opened up Imasniti's castled king side with a Thematic F5 break. She won an exchange and forced Imasniti to resign on 44th move.
Ning Chun Hong (China) also had an easy time today playing the early Pelikan variation against Bangladesh's national women's champion Tanina Parveen's E4 opening.
She gained a clear positional advantage due to the latter's passive play. Hong won a pawn on 23rd move and the game on 33rd move.
L Widjayanti of Indonesia was rather lucky to score over International Woman Master and former national women's champion I N Saritha. Widjayanti gained a slight space advantage against Saritha's dragon variation but played planlcssly and allowed Saritha to gain initiative.
Saritha played in a masterly style to win- a pawn on the queen's side. Widjayanti offered another pawn in despair and to her surprise Saritha made a decisive blunder on 36th mow After a few mistakes by both the players. Saritha blundered her queen and resigned on 39th move.
Defending champion Anupama Gokhale was held to a draw by the Bangladesh's Shabana Parveen. Anupama
gained an advantage when Shabana gave up her good bishop for a knight
However. Anupama could not exploit the organic weakness in Shabana's position — typical of the white side of the King's Indian defence — and the game was drawn in 27 moves.
International Woman Master T Battsetseg of Mongolia scored a crushing victory over local star Kiran Agrawal. Klrap played an antlpositional seventh move in the Maroczy bind system of accelerated dragon variation of the Sicilian defence and could not recover thereafter.
Battsetseg conducted the game in a grand style and won a 'pawn on 33rd move. Kiran dragged on the struggle till 59lh move and resigned.
Tomorrow is a rest day aixl the last round will be played on October 29.
Point position after the
penultimate round Bhagyasheree Thipsay 7, Ning Chun Hong (PRC) 6.5, L Widjayanti (Indonesia) 5.5. Shabana Parveen (Bangladesh) and I N Saritha 4.5, Anupama Gokhale 4, T Battsetseg (Mongolia) 3.5, Tanitna Parveen (Bangladesh) and K Agrawal 2. Imasniti 1.
An earlier report said : Bhagyashree Thipsay yesterday continued her winning spree by bcfeatlng Bangladesh’s na-’ tional womens champion Tanima Parveen and maintained her lead with six points at the end of seventh round in the fifth Asian Women's chess championship being held here, reports PTI.
In the adjourned game, Bhagyashree picked up the advantage and registered an emphatic win over her rival.
In another adjourned game, defending champion Anupam Gokhale was held io a draw by L Widjayanti of Indonesia.