All-India Affair: Koneru Humpy to fulfill Divya Deshmukh in FIDE Girls”s World Cup remaining

Grandmaster Koneru Humpy held her nerves to attain a come-from-behind victory over China’sTIngjie Lei within the tiebreaker to arrange an all-Indian summit conflict in opposition to Divya Deshmukh on the FIDE Girls’s World Cup right here on Thursday (July 24, 2025).

Humpy will conflict with Divya Deshmukh within the remaining beginning after a day’s relaxation beginning on Saturday. With Humpy successful, each she and Divya have now certified for the Girls’s candidates’ event subsequent 12 months.

Having drawn the primary two video games within the regular time management Humpy needed to settle up with one other 1-1 draw within the tiebreaker that comprised two video games with quarter-hour for each gamers with an increment.

After two attracts right here, Humpy needed to actually work laborious within the subsequent set of tiebreak video games that had 10 minutes for each gamers with one other increment. Lei received within the lad early within the set of those two video games and Humpy erred within the center sport to lose a pawn and get in to a tough endgame.

What adopted was fairly logical as Lei received in command and even thought the place was nearer to a draw Humpy didn’t discover the most effective defensive assets to equalize.

Humpy misplaced one other pawn on the queen aspect and regardless of the presence of reverse colored Bishops within the endgame, white’s affect on each flanks tilted issues decisively in her favour.

It was a win on demand whereby Humpy dominated the subsequent sport. The Queen pawn opening was ok whereby Humpy was in command proper from the phrase go.

Humpy gained together with her superior method and in addition her absolute willpower to show the tide in her favour from any given place.

Within the third set of tie-break video games Humpy drew white within the first sport and crushed Lei in all departments of the sport.

Successful this sport meant that only a draw was wanted for her to get in to the ultimate and within the return sport Humpy was at her technical greatest as she gained once more out of an Italian opening.

If there’s one title that has eluded Humpy it’s the World Cup and world championship. Aside that Humpy has gained all the pieces underneath the solar.