Sunday, December 5, 2010

Promising start for the Indian Chess Queen


Humpy makes promising start
Hari Hara Nandanan, TNN, Dec 5, 2010, 01.21am IST

CHENNAI: Koneru Humpy made a promising start to her campaign in the first game of the first round of the Women's World Chess Championship at Hatay ( Turkey) on Saturday.

Her opponent Melissa Greeff may have looked like a sitting duck for the Indian if one takes her rating (2082) into account. But the South African, 518 points below Humpy on the Elo scale, fought hard before losing her way in early middle game against the Sicilian defence.

After a slow build-up, Humpy broke through the Queenside with her Queen and won a pawn. Sensing that white's bishop was out of action, Humpy soon ventured into a Queen sacrifice that netted her two rooks.

After that, blacks rooks swung into action and trapped Greeff's knight on move 42. The Indian then promoted her Queenside passer and got back her Queen to seal the point by 47th move.
Humpy will have white in the return game on Sunday.

Read more: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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Match 1 / Game 1 results

1 1 Kosteniuk, Alexandra RUS g 2507 1-0 64 Mezioud, Amina ALG wm 2029
2 63 Greeff, Melissa RSA wg 2082 0-1 2 Koneru, Humpy IND g 2600
3 3 Hou, Yifan CHN g 2591 1-0 62 Heredia Serrano, Carla ECU wm 2087
4 61 Mona, Khaled EGY wg 2093 0-1 4 Kosintseva, Tatiana RUS g 2581
5 5 Dzagnidze, Nana GEO g 2551 1-0 60 Kagramanov, Dina CAN wm 2101
6 59 Aliaga Fernandez, Ingrid Y PER wf 2154 0-1 6 Stefanova, Antoaneta BUL g 2548
7 7 Muzychuk, Anna SLO m 2530 1-0 58 Zuriel, Marisa ARG wm 2208
8 57 Yildiz, Betul Cemre TUR wm 2225 1/2-1/2 8 Cramling, Pia SWE g 2526
9 9 Harika, Dronavalli IND m 2525 1/2-1/2 56 Nadig, Kruttika IND wg 2230
10 55 Caoili, Arianne AUS wm 2242 - + 10 Ju, Wenjun CHN wg 2524
11 11 Lahno, Kateryna UKR g 2522 1-0 54 Ozturk, Kubra TUR wm 2264
12 53 Demina, Julia RUS wg 2323 0-1 12 Cmilyte, Viktorija LTU g 2514
13 13 Chiburdanidze, Maia GEO g 2502 1-0 52 Meenakshi Subbaraman IND wg 2328
14 51 Soumya, Swaminathan IND wg 2332 0-1 14 Socko, Monika POL g 2495
15 15 Sebag, Marie FRA g 2494 1-0 50 Vasilevich, Irina RUS m 2333
16 49 Baginskaite, Camilla USA wg 2336 0-1 16 Ruan, Lufei CHN wg 2480
17 17 Mkrtchian, Lilit ARM m 2479 1/2-1/2 48 Zhang, Xiaowen CHN wg 2339
18 47 Lomineishvili, Maia GEO m 2347 0-1 18 Zatonskih, Anna USA m 2478
19 19 Zhu, Chen QAT g 2477 1-0 46 Muminova, Nafisa UZB wm 2360
20 45 Fierro Baquero, Martha L. ECU m 2363 0-1 20 Zhao, Xue CHN g 2474
21 21 Paehtz, Elisabeth GER m 2474 1/2-1/2 44 Zawadzka, Jolanta POL wg 2368
22 43 Ding, Yixin CHN wg 2370 1-0 22 Hoang Thanh Trang HUN g 2473
23 23 Pogonina, Natalija RUS wg 2472 0-1 42 Kovanova, Baira RUS wg 2380
24 41 Shadrina, Tatiana RUS wg 2384 1-0 24 Danielian, Elina ARM g 2466
25 25 Muzychuk, Mariya UKR m 2462 1-0 40 Cori T., Deysi PER wg 2384
26 39 Ovod, Evgenija RUS m 2387 1-0 26 Shen, Yang CHN wg 2461
27 27 Ushenina, Anna UKR m 2460 1/2-1/2 38 Huang, Qian CHN wg 2402
28 37 Foisor, Cristina-Adela ROU m 2403 1/2-1/2 28 Skripchenko, Almira FRA m 2460
29 29 Dembo, Yelena GRE m 2454 1/2-1/2 36 Munguntuul, Batkhuyag MGL m 2409
30 35 Romanko, Marina RUS m 2414 1/2-1/2 30 Zhukova, Natalia UKR g 2447
31 31 Rajlich, Iweta POL m 2446 - + 34 Houska, Jovanka ENG m 2421
32 33 Khukhashvili, Sopiko GEO m 2430 1/2-1/2 32 Turova, Irina RUS m 2439

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