Indian ace Koneru Humpy got here up with an excellent efficiency after a modest run within the preliminary part to say the silver medal within the ladies’s part of the FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship.
She completed strongly, beating Zhongyi Tan, who received the World Rapid title a few days in the past, within the seventeenth and remaining spherical. After posting solely 4 wins from the primary 9 rounds on Thursday and being positioned within the mid-40s, the 35-year outdated Humpy was in prime kind on day two of the competitors, registering seven spectacular wins and drawing with compatriot Dronavalli Harika within the 14th spherical.
BREAKING!
Koneru Humpy 🇮🇳 wins Silver Medal on the 2022 Women’s World Blitz Championship! 🥈
Humpy began with 0/2 however had an unbelievable day two to attain 12.5/17 ❤️
Congratulations to @humpy_koneru 🏆
She is the first Indian in historical past to win two medals at #RapidBlitz 😍 pic.twitter.com/KX0rXJSzVl
— Chess.com – India (@chesscom_in) December 30, 2022
She completed on 12.5 factors, simply half a degree behind the winner Bibisara Balabayeva of Kazakhstan.
One of the highlights of Humpy’s efficiency on the day was a defeat of China’s Zhongyi Tan within the seventeenth and remaining spherical to dent her opponent’s possibilities of including to the gold medal within the World Rapid event. Humpy had completed sixth within the Rapid championship which preceded the Blitz competitors. She is a former winner of the World Rapid title.
“It was a perfect day for me with 7.5 points out 8 games ,fetching the first ever silver medal in the women world Blitz chess championship!” Humpy wrote on Twitter.
Harika, who completed with 10.5 factors needed to accept thirteenth spot whereas Padmini Rout was seventeenth. Tania Sachdev ended up twenty first and B Savitha Shri, winner of a bronze within the Rapid championship was positioned thirty third with 9.5 factors in a powerful discipline.
In the Open occasion, received by world No.1 Magnus Carlsen of Norway with 16 factors, no Indian participant might handle a top-10 end. The skilled P Harikrishna was one of the best Indian within the Open part, taking a seventeenth place end with 13 factors with Nihal Sarin a spot behind with an equal variety of factors.
Fast-rising Arjun Erigaisi, the best seeded Indian right here, wound up forty second after a patchy show which noticed him lose video games 16, 17 and 18. Compatriot Vidit Santosh Gujrathi’s kind was additionally up and down and he completed a lowly ninetieth.
Carlsen added the Blitz title to the world fast title he received on Wednesday.
Despite struggling reverses by the hands of Russian gamers Ian Nepomniatchi within the fifteenth spherical and Alexey Sarana, the Norwegian received his video games within the twentieth and twenty first rounds towards Aleksandr Shimanov and Uzbekistan’s Nodirbek Abdusattorov to complete a degree away from Hikaru Nakamura (15 factors).
Indian gamers efficiency in World Blitz event: Women: Koneru Humpy 12.5 (2nd place), Harika (10.5, thirteenth), Padmini Rout (10.5, seventeenth), Tania Sachdev (10, twenty first), B Savitha Shri (9.5, thirty third).
Men: P Harikrishna (13 factors, seventeenth), Nihal Sarin (13, 18th), Arjun Erigaisi (12, forty second), B Adhiban (12, forty ninth), V Pranav (11.5, 58th), Aravind Chithambaram (11.5, sixtieth), Surya Shekhar Ganguly (11, 72nd), Raunak Sadhwani (10.5, 83rd), Vidit S Gujrathi (10.5, ninetieth), S L Narayanan (10.5, 92nd).
