Humpy, Divya set to battle it out in tie-breaks as Recreation 2 of Girls’s Chess World Cup closing ends in draw

Grandmaster Koneru Humpy and Worldwide Grasp Divya Deshmukh are set to battle it out within the tie-breaks of their all-Indian closing on the FIDE Girls’s World Cup in Batumi, Georgia
after their second Classical sport additionally led to a draw.

Humpy held Divya to a draw taking part in as white regardless of the latter having fun with a substantial time benefit over her at one stage in Recreation 2, with the 2 gamers shaking arms after 34 strikes by way of a three-fold repetition.

In the meantime, Recreation 2 of the all-Chinese language third-place playoff between Lei Tingjie and Tan Zhongyi was nonetheless underway with the previous staging an excellent comeback with white items after permitting her opponent to grab management with a thirty fourth transfer blunder.

Little to separate Humpy and Divya after Reti Opening

The sport kickstarted with a Reti Opening with Humpy advancing knight to f3, with Divya following go well with within the following transfer (Nf6). Exchanges started as early because the seventh transfer with each gamers dropping a pawn. By transfer 13, Divya and Humpy had misplaced a bishop and a knight respectively and had additionally castled.

The 2 Indians continued to commerce punches thereafter, with each units of rooks getting knocked off the board by the 18th transfer – from the place the sport began growing in direction of a queen’s endgame.

Divya additionally had a substantial time over her opponent at one level – which was over half-hour earlier than she consumed quarter-hour for her twenty first transfer (Ne4). The 19-year-old, who’s aiming to realize the Grandmaster title with out having to undergo all of the norms just by profitable the World Cup, couldn’t translate that hole into a bonus on the board.

Humpy, in spite of everything, matched her transfer for transfer, with the eval bar remaining considerably even between the 2 all through the course of the second Classical sport. Divya later initiated a repetition by providing Humpy a test together with her queen, which her skilled compatriot accepted as the 2 opted to pull their battle into the ultimate scheduled day of the competitors.

🇮🇳 Humpy Koneru and 🇮🇳 Divya Deshmukh will play tie-breaks tomorrow!

Recreation 1 & 2 led to attracts. Keep tuned!

Tie-Break Begin – 12:00 native time 🇬🇪#FIDEWorldCup pic.twitter.com/NFAHGaXdwA

— Worldwide Chess Federation (@FIDE_chess) July 27, 2025

The tie-breaks that happen on Monday can have two fast video games with 15+10 time controls adopted by two extra with 10+10 time controls. That’s adopted by two blitz video games (5+3) if the 2 gamers stay stage adopted by a sequence of three+2 blitz video games till a decisive result’s achieved.

Given Humpy had been topped ladies’s fast world champion for the second time in her profession as not too long ago as December, she definitely will probably be fancying her probabilities within the tie-breaks, by which Divya begins with the white items on Monday.