Nandhidhaa beats Srishti in final round, retains National title

P.V. Nandhidhaa bushed Srishti Pandey successful the 11th and last circular connected Saturday to clasp her rubric successful the National women’s chess title astatine Durgapur. Starting the last circular adjacent connected points with Mary Ann Gomes, the Tamil Nadu subordinate defeated Srishti to seal the apical prize with 9.5 points portion the former, who could lone negociate a gully against V. Varshini had to settee for 2nd place.

Final placings (top five): 1. P.V. Nandhidhaa (TN) 9.5 points, 2. Mary Ann Gomes (PSPB) 9; 3. Arshiya Das (Tripura) 8.5, 4. Shubhi Gupta (UP) 8; 5. Kalyani Sirin (Ker) 8.