Indian ace Koneru Humpy got here up with an outstanding efficiency after a modest run within the preliminary section to say the silver medal within the ladies’s part of the FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship in Almaty, Kazakhstan on Friday. She completed strongly, beating Zhongyi Tan, who gained the World Rapid title a few days in the past, within the seventeenth and ultimate 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After posting solely 4 wins from the primary 9 rounds on Thursday and being positioned within the mid-40s, the 35-year outdated Humpy was in high kind on day two of the competitors, registering seven spectacular wins and drawing with compatriot Dronavalli Harika within the 14th spherical.

She completed on 12.5 factors, simply half some extent 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 ultimate spherical to dent her opponent’s probabilities 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 subject.

In the Open occasion, gained by world No.1 Magnus Carlsen of Norway with 16 factors, no Indian participant may 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 very 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 speedy title he gained on Wednesday.

Despite struggling reverses by the hands of Russian gamers Ian Nepomniatchi within the fifteenth spherical and Alexey Sarana, the Norwegian gained his video games within the twentieth and twenty first rounds towards Aleksandr Shimanov and Uzbekistan’s Nodirbek Abdusattorov to complete some extent 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).

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