Pune: D Harika did not try to push for a win despite having an advantageous position and time on her hand against R Vaishali. But K Humpy and Divya Deshmukh pounced on the opportunities. Their crucial wins over Russia’s Polina Shuvalova and Melia Salome of Georgia, respectively, did not make them leaders after four rounds of FIDE Women’s Grand Prix. However, it reduced a number of joint second from four to two.
Zhu Jiner of China retained sole leadership at Amanora The Fern here on Thursday by beating Poland’s Alina Kashlinskaya. She is on 3.5 points followed by Humpy and Divya with three points each. Their accuracy percentage was 99 and 90, respectively. Playing with white pieces, Shuvalova did the early castling in the Guico Piano opening.
She did not allow Humpy to castle with queen exchange from the original squares. But Humpy’s active king again proved out to be a winner as it marched forward diagonally and attacked the rival rook in the double rook and pawns endgame within the first time control. Divya stormed back after losing to Humpy on the previous day by beating Salome after 77 moves of Caro Kann Exchange Variation. First, she survived a bluff of a kingside attack orchestrated by the queen and bishop.
The middle game was a complicated struggle that transposed into queen, double rook and pawns endgame; and then into a single rook and pawns each.
The multiple and mutual inaccuracies were somewhat unavoidable as the game entered the sixth hour of play. But Divya farmed her two cleared pawns at the centre and hit home the advantage.
Harika was looking at a tricky position out of the Grunfeld opening against Vaishali. The feeling of surviving that situation probably dictated her choice in queen, double rook, bishop and pawns endgame. She went for the three-fold repetition when the computer evaluated the position to be plus-three in her favour.
More importantly, she had eight minutes on the clock to think it through. Batkhuyga Munguntuul of Mongolia played the fourth successive decisive game, losing against Nurgyul Salimova of Bulgaria in 56 moves for a 50% score.
She resisted a bit in rook, three pawns vs knight, bishop and three pawns endgame. But it was always going to be a tall task.
Zhu Jiner of China retained sole leadership at Amanora The Fern here on Thursday by beating Poland’s Alina Kashlinskaya. She is on 3.5 points followed by Humpy and Divya with three points each. Their accuracy percentage was 99 and 90, respectively. Playing with white pieces, Shuvalova did the early castling in the Guico Piano opening.
She did not allow Humpy to castle with queen exchange from the original squares. But Humpy’s active king again proved out to be a winner as it marched forward diagonally and attacked the rival rook in the double rook and pawns endgame within the first time control. Divya stormed back after losing to Humpy on the previous day by beating Salome after 77 moves of Caro Kann Exchange Variation. First, she survived a bluff of a kingside attack orchestrated by the queen and bishop.
The middle game was a complicated struggle that transposed into queen, double rook and pawns endgame; and then into a single rook and pawns each.
The multiple and mutual inaccuracies were somewhat unavoidable as the game entered the sixth hour of play. But Divya farmed her two cleared pawns at the centre and hit home the advantage.
Harika was looking at a tricky position out of the Grunfeld opening against Vaishali. The feeling of surviving that situation probably dictated her choice in queen, double rook, bishop and pawns endgame. She went for the three-fold repetition when the computer evaluated the position to be plus-three in her favour.
More importantly, she had eight minutes on the clock to think it through. Batkhuyga Munguntuul of Mongolia played the fourth successive decisive game, losing against Nurgyul Salimova of Bulgaria in 56 moves for a 50% score.
She resisted a bit in rook, three pawns vs knight, bishop and three pawns endgame. But it was always going to be a tall task.
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