FIDE Ladies’s World Cup: Harika, Divya, Humpy, Vaishali by to quarters

Grandmasters Koneru Humpy, D Harika and R Vaishali and Worldwide Grasp Divya Deshmukh stormed into the quarterfinals of the FIDE World Ladies’s Chess Cup, scripting historical past as India grew to become the primary nation to have 4 gamers within the event’s last-eight stage.

All 4 girls received their tiebreaks to advance to the final eight stage.

Humpy gave a glimpse of her previous self trying assured and calm as she overcame Alexandra Kosteniuk, who’s now representing Switzerland after switching from Russia.

Humpy received within the first spherical itself which was a testomony to her superiority over different rivals. She defeated Kosteniuk received with a 1.5-0.5 margin.

Divya continued to punch above her weight, gorgeous second seed China’s Jiner Zhu 1.5-0.5. She received the primary recreation with black and held a draw within the return leg with white, showcasing composure past her years.

That left Harika on the toes as she misplaced the primary recreation as black in opposition to one other Russian Kateryna Lagno. However she struck again as white to succeed in the second tiebreaker.

The Indian then drew the primary recreation as black and pounced on her possibilities with white to maneuver to the quarterfinals.

Vishali, however, defeated Kazakhistan’s Meruert Kamalidenova.

With all 4 Indian girls into the quarterfinals it has now turn out to be a race between India and China as to who would annex the Cup and make to the highest three that ensures a spot in to the ladies’s Candidates that can decide the challenger for the subsequent Ladies’s World Championship.

Whereas Humpy and Vaishali will subsequent face China’s Music Yuxin and Tan Zhongyi respectively, Divya will tackle Harika in an all Indian quarterfinal.

It could be recalled that the lone Georgian Nana Dzagnidze can also be into the quarters with some distinctive play to this point.