Fifteen-year-old Indian WIM B Savitha Shri on Wednesday gained a bronze medal within the girls’s occasion of FIDE World Rapid Championship in Almaty, Kazakhstan Seeded thirty sixth, she completed with a powerful tally of eight factors from 11 rounds to complete third. The teenager, who was on 6.5 factors on the conclusion of the eighth spherical, picked up 1.5 factors to finish the match on a excessive in a star-studded area. A loss to Kazakhstan’s Zhansaya Abdumalik within the ninth spherical damage Savitha’s possibilities of a top-two end.

She bounced again by beating Qianyun Gong of Singapore in Round 10 and drew with Dinara Saduakassova of Kazakhstan within the closing spherical.

Savitha Shri turned the third Indian after Viswanathan Anand and Humpy to win a medal on the world speedy championship.

India’s prime participant and Asian Games gold medallist Koneru Humpy, who had come again into medal rivalry after a modest efficiency on day two, needed to accept sixth place although she logged eight factors.

Though Savitha, Humpy, a former world Rapid champion, and two others ended on eight factors, {the teenager} took bronze on the premise of a superior tie-break rating. Savitha had shone shiny on Tuesday, posting 4 consecutive victories.

Noted coach R B Ramesh wished Savitha Shri and wrote on Twitter: “Hearty Congratulations to @SavithashriB for winning the Bronze medal in the World Rapid Championship! Attended @ishafoundation inner engineering course & it seems to have calmed the nerves at crucial junctures. Let this be a good beginning! ” The All India Chess Federation additionally hailed the Chennai participant.

“It’s an incredible performance from 15 year old Savitha Shri B to clinch the Bronze medal in World Women Rapid Chess Championship at Almaty ahead of many fancied players. Congratulations Savitha!!” Tan Zhongyi of China gained the title, defeating Saduakassova in a play-off.

A complete of 5 Indians participated within the girls’s occasion whereas 15 had been within the fray within the Open part.

Meanwhile within the Open occasion gained by world No.1 Magnus Carlsen, 19-year outdated Indian Grandmaster Arjun Erigaisi completed fifth.

In the thirteenth and closing spherical, Erigaisi defeated Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan) to complete with 9 factors. Also securing 9 factors had been Vladimir Fedoseev, Vladimir Artemiev and Richard Rapport (Hungary).

Carlsen defeated Iran’s Parham Maghsoodloo within the closing spherical to emerge clear winner with 10 factors after having been in joint lead with Artemiev and Vincent Keymer (Germany) on 9 factors.

India’s Nihal Sarin took the tenth place logging 8.5 factors whereas compatriot Vidit Santosh Gujrathi with an equal variety of factors completed fifteenth.

Experienced Indian GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly scored 8.5 factors and ended up twentieth whereas teenaged GM Raunak Sadhwani (8 factors) settled for thirty third place.

Gujrathi, who had a combined run within the match, scored a memorable win over defending champion Nodirbek Abdusattorov (Uzbekistan) within the eleventh spherical. However, a defeat to Keymer within the twelfth spherical dented his possibilities of ending larger within the occasion.

In the ladies’s occasion, Padmini Rout took the thirty eighth place with six factors whereas GM D Harika with an equal variety of factors ended thirty ninth. Tania Sachdev (5.5 factors) was positioned fiftieth.

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