ALMATY (Kazakhstan): Indian ace Koneru Humpy got here up with an excellent efficiency after a modest run within the preliminary section to say the silver medal within the girls’s part of the FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship on Friday.She completed strongly, beating Zhongyi Tan, who gained the World Fast title a few days in the past, within the seventeenth and remaining spherical.After posting solely 4 wins from the primary 9 rounds on Thursday and being positioned within the mid-40s, the 35-year previous Humpy was in high type on day two of the competitors, registering seven spectacular wins and drawing with compatriot Dronavalli Harika within the 14th spherical.She completed on 12.5 factors, simply half a degree behind the winner Bibisara Balabayeva of Kazakhstan.One of many highlights of Humpy’s efficiency on the day was a defeat of China’s Zhongyi Tan within the seventeenth and remaining spherical to dent her opponent’s probabilities of including to the gold medal within the World Fast event.Humpy had completed sixth within the Fast championship which preceded the Blitz competitors.
She is a former winner of the World Fast title.”It was an ideal day for me with 7.5 factors out 8 video games, fetching the primary ever silver medal within the girls world Blitz chess championship!” Humpy wrote on Twitter.It was an ideal day for me with 7.5 factors out 8 video games ,fetching the primary ever silver medal within the girls world Blitz chess championship!!— Koneru Humpy (@humpy_koneru) 1672406424000Harika, who completed with 10.5 factors needed to accept thirteenth spot whereas Padmini Rout was seventeenth.
Tania Sachdev ended up twenty first and B Savitha Shri, winner of a bronze within the Fast championship was positioned thirty third with 9.5 factors in a robust area.Within the Open occasion, gained by world No.1 Magnus Carlsen of Norway with 16 factors, no Indian participant may handle a top-10 end.The skilled P Harikrishna was the very best Indian within the Open part, taking a seventeenth place end with 13 factors with Nihal Sarin a spot behind with an equal variety of factors.Quick-rising Arjun Erigaisi, the best seeded Indian right here, wound up forty second after a patchy show which noticed him lose video games 16, 17 and 18.
Compatriot Vidit Santosh Gujrathi’s type was additionally up and down and he completed a lowly ninetieth.Carlsen added the Blitz title to the world speedy title he gained on Wednesday.Regardless of struggling reverses by the hands of Russian gamers Ian Nepomniatchi within the fifteenth spherical and Alexey Sarana, the Norwegian gained his video games within the twentieth and twenty first rounds towards Aleksandr Shimanov and Uzbekistan’s Nodirbek Abdusattorov to complete a degree away from Hikaru Nakamura (15 factors).Indian gamers efficiency in World Blitz event:Girls: Koneru Humpy 12.5 (2nd place), Harika (10.5, thirteenth), Padmini Rout (10.5, seventeenth), Tania Sachdev (10, twenty first), B Savitha Shri (9.5, thirty third).Males: P Harikrishna (13 factors, seventeenth), Nihal Sarin (13, 18th), Arjun Erigaisi (12, forty second), B Adhiban (12, forty ninth), V Pranav (11.5, 58th), Aravind Chithambaram (11.5, sixtieth), Surya Shekhar Ganguly (11, 72nd), Raunak Sadhwani (10.5, 83rd), Vidit S Gujrathi (10.5, ninetieth), S L Narayanan (10.5, 92nd)..
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