With a march of her king in the penultimate blitz game against China’s lei tingjie, koneru humpy, the undisputed queen of indian chess, barged into the fide women’s world cup final. In doing so, humpy set up an india vs India battle for the title, Tan zhongyi.
At 38, Humpy is twice divya’s age, which sets up a fascinating class of generations. Humpy has seen a resurgence in her career over the last year, kick-started by her winning the fide world world in December last year, Her Second Rapid Title after the one in 2019. The past few years to focus on her given to her given and family life.
“This is one of the happiest moments for Indian chess fans. The title is coming to India,” Humpy Told Fide in an Interview After Her Win. “In the final, it will be a touch game, divya has played tremendously well in this whole tournament.”
The presence of two indian women in the fide women’s world cup at Georgia’s batumi also means that there will be two indians at least in the fide women’s Candidates Tournament. The Candidates are an Eight-Player Royal Rumble to Decide the challenge to the woman’s world champion. Other players like vaishali rameshbabu, harika dronavalli and vantika agrawal will also have further chances to question for the candidates in the comths, like at the fide at the fide grnd swamp or throgh o. India Had its best head count at the previous candidates tournament when humpy and vaishaly had Qualified. That record is already set to be matched at the upcoming candidates.
Humpy’s win was remarkable because it took her Eight Games over three days to breach the challenge put up by lei tingjie in the semi-final. Humpy and Lei Played Out Two Draws on Tuesday and Wednesday in the Classical Format, before Tiebreaks on Thursday Became Necessary. There, the first two games, played with 15 minutes (with a 10 second account per move) Also ended as Draws before lei landed the first punch by Winning the first game of the 10 minute (+10 second) Tiebreak. Now, Humpy had to win on Demand, or else she would have to battle for the third spot against tan later this week.
Humpy didn’t just win the next game, she won the next three. The first win sent the battle into another best -f-two tiebreak, this time to be played in the blitz format with bot players having five minutes on the clock with a three -second in. There, bot set At some stage in the middle game, humpy had an adventage, then the adventage corroded away as the eval bar setled in the middle, then lei had the edge. Both players were playing with just seconds on their clock. In the heat of this battle, on movement 44, camera from lei: She pulled back her rook (44… RA6) Instad of Moving Her Queen Closer to the king to create an air-tighth. Humpy capitalized, and soon lei’s queen was off the board. Now Came Humpy’s moment, with both players having four pawns each, on the same side of the Board, humpy’s queen worth overpowering for lei’s remaining rok. When the resignation came on move 70 from the chinese gm, humpy’s king had marched down the board and was sitting on the sixth rank with the queen waiting to pounce and deliver a crushing checkmate.
Now lei had to win on Demand with white pieces, but she lost instead in 33 movies.
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“It was a very touch match, initially I played very badly with black pieces. Played a bit shaky in the rapid portion, “Admitted Humpy.
