PUNE: K Humpy, already in with a chance to convert a good position into a winning advantage, almost touched her bishop before playing the 31st move. And her rival Divya Deshmukh lifted her pen to write the move.
Humpy changed her course and came up with a better move — Qc8. Humpy’s performance was not machine like. But she brought all her experience into play and outplayed the overnight leader with white pieces to win in 53 moves in almost five hours of play in the third round of the FIDE Women’s Grand Prix on Wednesday.
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Not for nothing is she the reigning world rapid champion and has maintained her status as India’s premier woman player. Divya’s defeat and other overnight leader Zhu Jiner’s draw with Salome Melia of Georgia meant the Chinese took the sole lead with 2.5 points. It was a good day for India as D Harika beat Bulgarian Nurgyul Salimova for her first win.
R Vaishali drew with Russian Polina Shuvalova in the rook and pawns endgame and recovered from her defeat to Divya the previous day. Batkhuyag Munguntuul of Mongolia (Elo 2361) beat Alina Kashlinskaya of Poland (2196) with black pieces. Munguntuul, like Divya, has played all three decisive games so far.
Humpy and Shuvalova are with them in joint second spot with two points each. Humpy got the good vibes after Divya played ‘h6’ on the 11th turn i n t h e Fo u r Knights Symmetrical English, an opening in which both are not regulars.
Though the engine did not object to Divya’s pawn push, Humpy felt it was “bad”. The 38-year-old even searched for a mating attack by first putting her knights in the centre and then getting a double bishop advantage (against knight and bishop; in rook and pawns each endgame).
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But she had to recalibrate her thoughts after Divya fought well. Humpy had to accept that the likelihood of mating attack had evaporated. She had to be flexible, ruthless and practical in this phase when queens were exchanged. And she squeezed out the winning advantage in a professional manner.
Divya resigned when she was about to lose material. Earlier, Divya felt she had not made the time control after the first 40 moves. Her move sheet was showing only 38 moves since she had written them close to each other and not in the designed rectangles.
Here again Humpy’s wisdom showed as she made some waiting moves to ensure that she would make the time control even if the fault could be spotted in her notation of moves later
Humpy changed her course and came up with a better move — Qc8. Humpy’s performance was not machine like. But she brought all her experience into play and outplayed the overnight leader with white pieces to win in 53 moves in almost five hours of play in the third round of the FIDE Women’s Grand Prix on Wednesday.
Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel.
Not for nothing is she the reigning world rapid champion and has maintained her status as India’s premier woman player. Divya’s defeat and other overnight leader Zhu Jiner’s draw with Salome Melia of Georgia meant the Chinese took the sole lead with 2.5 points. It was a good day for India as D Harika beat Bulgarian Nurgyul Salimova for her first win.
R Vaishali drew with Russian Polina Shuvalova in the rook and pawns endgame and recovered from her defeat to Divya the previous day. Batkhuyag Munguntuul of Mongolia (Elo 2361) beat Alina Kashlinskaya of Poland (2196) with black pieces. Munguntuul, like Divya, has played all three decisive games so far.
Humpy and Shuvalova are with them in joint second spot with two points each. Humpy got the good vibes after Divya played ‘h6’ on the 11th turn i n t h e Fo u r Knights Symmetrical English, an opening in which both are not regulars.
Though the engine did not object to Divya’s pawn push, Humpy felt it was “bad”. The 38-year-old even searched for a mating attack by first putting her knights in the centre and then getting a double bishop advantage (against knight and bishop; in rook and pawns each endgame).
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But she had to recalibrate her thoughts after Divya fought well. Humpy had to accept that the likelihood of mating attack had evaporated. She had to be flexible, ruthless and practical in this phase when queens were exchanged. And she squeezed out the winning advantage in a professional manner.
Divya resigned when she was about to lose material. Earlier, Divya felt she had not made the time control after the first 40 moves. Her move sheet was showing only 38 moves since she had written them close to each other and not in the designed rectangles.
Here again Humpy’s wisdom showed as she made some waiting moves to ensure that she would make the time control even if the fault could be spotted in her notation of moves later
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