After Divya Deshmukh, Konera Hampi has also reached the final of the Women's Chess Fide World Cup. Humpy defeated China's tingji in a tie-breaker in the semifinals and made his place in the final. This will be the first time when both players will be Indian in the World Cup final. The tournament is being played in Georgia's batumi.
Lee had success at the beginning of a tie breaker In a tiebreaker, two games for 15 minutes are played with extra time. Then the next two tiebreaker games are 10 minutes. Lei won the first game but despite being in a difficult state, Humpy won the second game and re -equaled the match.
In the third set of the tie-break match, Humpy started with white piece in the first game and won by beating Lein in all the sections of the game. After winning the first game, Humpy just needed a draw to reach the final and won it to make it to the title match.
During the tie-breaker, Chinese player Tingji Lei and Indian chess player Honera Hampi.
Both games remained drawn Both games were drawn in the past. Then a tie breaker was organized on Thursday. In the second game, Humpy had white pieces, but she could not break Lei's strong defense.
Divya defeated former World Champion
Divya defeated former world champion Tan Zongai in the semifinal match by a margin of 1.5-0.5. 19 -year -old Divya performed brilliantly while playing with white pieces and defeated Tan Zongai in 101 walks. In the second game, he got the benefit of playing with white pieces. He constantly pushed in the middle game and forced Tan Zongy to make mistakes.
White (Divya) was in the winning position on the Queen Exchange, but even though the Queen was on the board, his position was very strong. Zongai then made a comeback and got the lead.
Due to the lack of time, Zhongai drove the wrong move, after which Divya led the two paws. In the last game, Zongai had many opportunities for the draw, but she could not take advantage of it.
The first game was a draw. Divya played with black pieces in the first game. The game remained a draw. Divya adopted a strategy to balance the game at the beginning of the first game. Zhongy started the game with the 'Queens Gambit Decline' opening, in which Divya continued to balance the pieces and maintained a balance. Zhongai also looked satisfied with this situation, where Black found some activity.
In the end, both of them left with three pawns, one rook and a minor piece (bishop/knight), so nothing else can last except the game draw.
For the first time four Indian women players reached the quarter -finals For the first time in the tournament, four Indian women players reached the quarter -finals. In addition to Konera Hampi, Harika Dronavalli, R. Vaishali and Divya Deshmukh secured their place in the quarter -finals.
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