Koneru Humpy, Dronavalli Harika in cruise mode
Mar 20, 2015 |
PTI |
Sochi (Russia)
Indian Grandmasters Koneru Humpy and Dronavalli Harika made it to the last-32, winning the second game of the first round of the world women’s chess championship, here.
Maintaining a clean slate, Humpy was a class act against Ayah Moaatz of Egypt in the second game of the mini-match and cruised through in a mere 28 moves to proceed to the next round without much ado.
After a difficult first game, all eyes were on Harika, the semi-finalist in the previous knockout world championship but she too did her best with white pieces in the return game to send Tatev Abrahamyan of United States packing.
The other Indian in the fray Mary Ann Gomes lived up to her reputation and forced Tatiana Kosintseva in the tiebreaker after drawing her second game on the trot against the highly regarded Russian.
Mary Ann will now play two sets of Rapid games and in case of a tied result there too, will play more games of shorter duration till a result is achieved.
Source: http://www.asianage.com