Divya Deshmukh shocks Zhu Jiner as Harika, Humpy, and Vaishali additionally qualify for the FIDE Girls’s World Cup quarter-finals

Divya Deshmukh, Koneru Humpy, Harika Dronavalli, and R Vaishali, all 4 Indian individuals, have booked a spot within the quarter-finals of the FIDE Girls’s World Cup after profitable their respective tiebreakers.

Delight for Indians within the FIDE Girls’s World Cup

The victory row was began by Divya Deshmukh, who surprised the second seed Chinese language Zhu Jiner 1.50-0.5 in tiebreaks within the pre-quarterfinals. The 19-year-old Divya received the higher of Zhu in Recreation 1 of the 25+10 Speedy tiebreaks and drew Recreation 2 to emerge victorious within the match. Deshmukh’s victory got here after a setback on Thursday, when she misplaced her second sport with black items to Zhu. She defeated the world No. 6 from China with white items a day earlier than.

The evergreen Koneru Kumpy additionally made it to the final eight by beating Switzerland’s Alexandra Kosteniuk with the identical scoreline within the tiebreaks. Humpy will lock horns with China’s Yuxin Tune for a spot within the semi-finals.

🇮🇳 Humpy Koneru makes it to the quarter-finals! ♟️🔥

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As for Harika, she misplaced the primary sport of her 15+10 Speedy tiebreaks towards Russia’s Katerina Lagno however bounced again in the second to even issues out. The competition then moved to 10+10 Speedy tiebreaks the place Harika drew the primary sport with black items however then lastly got here up with a win with white items to seal a spot within the quarter-final. Harika will meet Divya in an all-Indian quarter-final.

With three Indians already in, it was then the flip of R. Vaishali to get to the victory path. She break up the video games 15+10 in addition to 10+10 Speedy tiebreaks towards Meruert Kamalidenova of Kazakhstan. It went deeper to blitz tiebreaks with every participant getting 5 minutes with an increment of three seconds per transfer in every sport. Vaishali drew the primary sport with black items after which went on to win the second sport with white items. Vaishali’s quarter-final opponent shall be China’s Tan Zhongyi.

It have to be famous that the FIDE Girls’s World Cup gives three spots to the FIDE Girls’s Candidates Event, which is ready to happen within the first half of 2026.

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In FIDE Girls’s World Cup gamers are required to compete in two classical video games (one with white, one with black). If there’s no winner after these two video games, tiebreaks with progressively shorter time controls determine the winner. Classical video games span two days; tiebreaks happen on the third day.