Top seed Eesha Karavade beat C.R. Varsha in the first round of the National women Challengers chess championship at the Nehru stadium on Friday.
The results (Round one): Eesha Karavade bt C.R. Varsha; Minki Sinha lost to Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman; Soumya Swaminathan bt Pallavi; G. Abirama Srinithi lost to Pratyusha Bodda; Mary Ann Gomes bt Arunim Goyal; T.R.S. Dakshinya lost to R. Vaishali; P. Jayashree Sankpal lost to Nisha Mohota; S. Vandana Bandodkar lost to P. Michelle Catherina.