FIDE Ladies’s Grand Prix: Koneru Humpy defeats Divya Deshmukh, China’s Zhu Jiner emerges sole chief

Pune: Expertise prevailed over youth as India’s Koneru Humpy defeated compatriot Divya Deshmukh whereas China’s Zhu Jiner emerged as the only chief in an eventful third spherical of the FIDE Ladies’s Grand Prix right here on Wednesday.

Humpy was a category aside as she beat in a single day joint chief and compatriot Divya whereas Munguntuul Batkhuyag scored over Alina Kashlinskaya.

By the way, each 37-year-olds Humpy and Munguntuul have been contemporaries and it was attention-grabbing to witness them scoring emphatic victories on the day.

Dronavali Harika bought the higher of Nurgyul Salimova in an attention-grabbing recreation. Jiner was held to a draw by Melia Salome and has emerged as the only chief with 2.5 factors.

For years, Humpy, the reigning ladies’s world fast champion, has been stamping her authority on world chess, and gave a very good show of her positional energy on the day.

Humpy stunned Divya by choosing the English Opening, one which she hasn’t performed shortly and that left her opponent pondering from the second transfer itself.

A gap inaccuracy had Humpy sitting comfortably whereas Divya’s knight discovered itself on the fringe of the board. An open place had Humpy manoeuvring her items to maintain gaining benefit.Humpy’s bishop pair and a handed pawn on the queen facet resulted in a victory after 53 strikes.

“With a brand new opening, one which I used to play lengthy again, it was sort of sensible play on board. After the thirtieth transfer, all I wanted was to maintain getting my items to the fitting squares,” Humpy stated..

In a Queen’s Gambit Declined recreation between Alina and Munguntuul, it was obvious that the conflict was heading for an engrossing tussle with each gamers committing very early to castling on reverse sides and initiating assault on one another’s Kings.

The center-game was fluid with an open place with loads of play doable for each. Munguntuul was the primary one to interrupt by means of on the queen-side. A pawn change on the twenty third flip by Alina tilted the sport in Mongolian’s favour.

Alina resigned on the thirty fourth flip when threatened with a checkmate by Munguntuul’s queen and rook..

A visibly elated Mungultuul later stated, “I ready and stunned her within the Opening by choosing an unfamiliar variation and thought that the place within the middle-game was moderately unclear..

Nurgyul versus Harika was a Catalan recreation wherein the Indian ace most likely missed the quickest path to victory, however however, garnered some extent after 68 strikes.

The Italian Opening between Vaishali and Polina began with some fast exchanges within the opening levels, however by the twentieth flip, most items together with the Queen’s had been exchanged.

Each gamers determined towards calling it a day and tried for initiative until all potentialities for a decisive end result had been exhausted. The draw was signed after 63 strikes when every had a rook, king and couple of pawns.

Melia Salome adopted the Sicilian defence towards Jiner and the sport led to a hard- fought draw.