In another good result for India, Divya Deshmukh Scored a Crushing Victory Over Munguntuul Batkhuyag and Along with Zhu is Trailing Half a point a point a point behind humpy. With just two more rounds remaiing of the 10-Player round Robin Event, The Race for the Title will be amongst these three players.red more
Indian Grandmaster Koneru Humpy Defeated China’s Zhu Jiner to Jump Into Sole Lead with 5.5 points after the Seven Round of the Fide Women’s Grand Pune on Manday.
In another good result for India, Divya Deshmukh Scored a Crushing Victory Over Munguntuul Batkhuyag and Along with Zhu is Trailing Half a point a point a point behind humpy.
With just two more rounds remains of the 10-Player Round Robin Event, The Race for the title will be amongst these three players.
R Vaishali and Dronavalli Harika had to stay content with draws and are out of the race for the tile.
Humpy Surprised Overnight Leader Zhu by Not Playing The English Opening, One which she has been employing more often here.
It was a Queen’s indian defense where the players mathed steps.
Humpy’s position looked promising but a 30th KNight Move LED to a Few Exchanges with Her Advantage Evaporating. The Indian Had Bishop Pair as Against Zhu’s Double Knights with the Queens Still on Board.
At this point humpy had much less time on her clock and zhu tried to play fast. But the 22-year-old’S Knight Strayed Too Deep Inemy Territory on the Queen Side and Her Queen too TOOTOODE to Invade on the 44th Turn which was a blunder and She Lost Her Knight
🇮🇳 humpy koneru takes down 🇨🇳 zhu jiner in a crucial clash and claims the sole lead at the fide women’s Grand Prix in Pune – With just two rounds to go!
Results | Round 7🇧🇬 nurgyul salimova ½-½ salome melia 🇬🇪🇮🇳 vaishali rameshbabu ½ ½ alina kashlinskaya 🇵🇱🇮🇳 humpy koneru… pic.twitter.com/zfazkchmig
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In a last-ditch effort to blunt out the attack, zhu on again invaded with her Queen but humpy exchanged the Queens and the chinese had to part with her KNIGHT. Zhu resigned on the 55th turn.
Munguntuul played the Slav Defense Against Divya and this was more or less a game where divya was on the better side throughout.
After a hat trick of losses before this game, Mungultu was her best and aggressive divya capitalized on it to take the win.
“After My 20th Move, I was in a Happy Frame of Mind and Knew I Had a Winning Chance,” Divya said.
Harika is employed the petroff defense against polina and there has it was a solid show with both players preferring to exchange pieces at always posible opoportunity.
Results of Round 7: im salimova nurgyul (3) Drew im melia salome (2) gm vaishali rameshbabu (3) Drew im kashlinskaya alina (2) gm koneru humpy (5.5) Bt gm zhu jhu jhu jhu jhu jhu jhu jhu janer (5) Deshmukh (5) bt gm munguntuul batkhuyag (2) im shuvalova polina (4) drew gm draonavalli.