Shalon Joanne Pais State women’s Champion

 05.05.10 Mangalore : Karnataka State women’s Chess Championship 2010, organized by South Kanara District Chess Association concluded today at Subramanya Sabha, Mangalore. Mr M S Gururaj, President and Mr K Sudhakaran joint secretary of SKDCA distributed the prizes to the winners.

 Shalon of Mangalore, Manasa K of Mangalore, Gangamma B N of Mysore, and Vanessa D’souza of Mangalore will represent Karnataka State in the forthcoming Women’s National B Chess Championship.

 In the final and fifth round on the top board Gangamma B N of Mysore played with white pieces against Shalon Joanne Pais of Mangalore, Shalon opted Sicilian Najdrof f defence . In the 21st move shalon moved her g6 pawn that move made her pawn down, Gangamma failed to convert this advantage in to win at the 71st move both signed for peace and the game ended in draw. This half point helped Shalon to wear the championship crown.

 In the second board Manasa K of Mangalore played with white pieces against Vanessa D’souza of Mangalore. Vanessa opted scilian defence with black pieces ,Manasa played closed sicilian variation. The position was slightly better to Manasa in the middle game Vanessa played very nicely and on 70th move both agreed for draw . 

 In the fourth round, on the first table Shalon Joanne Pais of Mangalore played with white pieces against sole leader of the tournament Manasa K of Mangalore, Shalon opted king’s pawn opening Mansa played irregular opening as reply .In the 19th move Manasa made a mistake by moving her knight to opponent’s court Shalon trapped the knight by gaining the piece forced Manasa to resign the game at 46th move, and stoped the leader.  

In the second board Vanessa of Mangalore with white pieces played against Pavitra  Jagtap of Bangalore Vanessa played King’s Pawn opening Pavitra opted Sicilian defense. In the 14th move Vanessa created a weakness by forcing Pavitra to move her kingside pawn, played aggressively and on 35th move Pavitra surrendered her king,