Saheli, Humpy, SR Radha, M Kasturi and V Aishwarya shared the lead with three points at the end of third round of the Sportstar 25th National Women's `B' Chess Championship at the Nehru stadium on Sunday.

Aarthie Ramaswamy had former National champion Anupama Gokhale in a spot of bother. Anupama was forced to exchange Queens which resulted in fractured pawn structure. The Tamil Nadu girl spoiled her good play with 27 Be3.

Anupama exchanged bishop for knight to force draw.

Humpy is enjoying her outing here. She just pushed her e and f pawn down the board which battered Sangeetha's king-side. TN state champion was a mere onlooker today, unable to stop opponents threats and called it a day on the 37th move.

Results (3rd round): Aarthie Ramaswamy (2.5) drew Anupama Gokhale(2.5), Saheli Dhar Barua (3) bt Neha Singh (2), Safira Shanaz (2.5) drew S Subhashini (2.5), MR Sangeetha (2) lost to Koneru Humpy (3), S Meenakshi (2.5) drew JE Kavitha (2.5), SR Radha (3) bt Indulakshmi (2), M Kasturi (3) bt Anjali Palande (2), Saimeera Ravi (1.5) lost to V Aishwarya (3), Chitra Sridhar (2) drew Sushma Singh (2), P Priya (1.5) lost to Swati Mohota (2.5), M Priyadarshini (1.5) lost to E Sheena (2.5), Arpi Shah (2.5) bt Preeti Bisoz (1.5), Bindu Saritha (2) bt Humaira (1.5), Saritha Reddy (2) bt Rajadarshini (1), Abha Thakur (1) lost to Mrunalini Kunte (2), Kiran Agarwal (2) bt Madhavi Latha (1), H Nilavoli (1.5) drew Baisakhi Das (1.5), Anuradha Beniwal (2) bt Isaiamudhu (1), P Malarselvi (1) lost to Snehal Mahajan (2), Krishna Babu (1) lost to Ra Mahima (2).