In the final game of round 3, Muzychuk and Harika were tied 3-3. They went on to a one game Armageddon blitz playoff. Harika won the coin toss and chose Black with 4 minutes and draw odd. White had...
Harika Dronavalli moving forward
Chasing the menRajesh PansareTuesday, May 5, 2009 3:00 IST Mumbai: If International Master Harika Dronavalli is called India’s Judit Polgar, it won’t be an understatement. At a very young age Polgar was considered better than her male counterparts, which...
Harika shines at Corus
Corus chess: Harika shines as Abhijeet, Sasikiran go down Wijk Aan Zee, The Netherlands (PTI): World junior girls’ champion D Harika beat English Grandmaster David Howell while Abhijeet Gupta and K. Sasikiran suffered setbacks in the 10th round of...
The first to make the final 8
IM Mkrtchian (2436) – IM Harika (2461) [B90]Women’s World Championship, 04.09.2008 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e5 7.Nb3 Be6 8.f3 Be7 9.Qd2 0–0 10.0–0–0 Nbd7 11.g4 b5 12.Rg1 Nb6 13.Na5 Nc4 14.Nxc4 bxc4...
Interview with Dronovalli, world’s girl champion
Interview with World Junior Chess Champion Harika DronavalliTuesday, 26 August , 2008, 21:37Last Updated: Tuesday, 26 August , 2008, 21:46 No one can deny that there is that extra bit of pressure playing as the top seed, but for...
Following Humpy’s footstep
Harika world’s Junior Girls ChampionUpdated: 08-16-2008 By HYDERABAD : Dronavalli Harika became the second Indian to win the World Junior Girls Chess Championship. This 18-year-old, Andhra chess prodigy picked the World under-20 championship title in Turkey on Friday even...
Germany and India on top in Turkey
World Junior leaders after 9 rounds: 1 IM BRAUN Arik 2533 GER 7½ 2 GM HOWELL David 2561 ENG 73 GM RODSHTEIN Maxim 2605 ISR 7 4 GM LI Chao B 2590 CHN 6½5 GM SAFARLI Eltaj 2527 AZE...
Harika leads World Girls, Abrahamyan 2 pts back
Here are the leaders after round 8: 1 IM HARIKA Dronavalli 2461 IND 72 WGM MUZYCHUK Mariya 2413 UKR 6½3 WIM MIKADZE Miranda 2258 GEO 64 WFM NAKHBAYEVA Guliskhan 2170 KAZ 65 WIM SOUMYA Swaminathan 2293 IND 66 WFM...
Harika leads, Abrahamyan in contention
After 7 rounds, IM Harika takes over the clear lead. She is one of the favorites to win the tournament. Full standings: http://wjcc2008.tsf.org.tr/component/option,com_turnuva/task,show/dosya,23/Itemid,23/lang,en/ 1 IM HARIKA Dronavalli 2461 IND 6 2 WGM MUZYCHUK Mariya 2413 UKR 5½3 WFM NIKOLOVA...
Chess.FM India with WGM Dronavalli Harika
Chess.FM India Weekly Saturday show – Interview with WGM Dronavalli Harika Chess.FM India’s weekly Saturday Show at 7.00 PM IST, 14th July 2007, presents an Interview with World Under-18 Champion WGM Dronavalli Harika. Sixteen year old Harika who hails...