Promising start for the Indian Chess Queen

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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