CHENNAI: Koneru humpy took the limelight by beating Monika Socko in a nervous tie-break to help India beat Poland in the semifinals and reach the summit clash of the FIDE Online Chess Olympiad on Saturday.
After the two teams won a round apiece in regular play, rapids world champion Humpy took on Socko for Armageddon (a tie-break), and the india beat her rival in style with black pieces to ensure a place in the end for her. side.
India will play the winner of the other semi-final between Russia and the United States in Sunday’s summit match.
However, it was not an easy job for the Indian team as they lost the first round 2-4 before recovering strongly in the second with a landslide 4.5-1.5 victory. Humpy did the rest in the decisive tiebreaker of the match.
Former world champion Viswanathan Anand he prevailed with a much-needed win over Jan-Krzystof Duda in 78 moves in the second round after losing to his opponent in the first round.
Captain Vidit Gujrathi led the way with a victory over Grzegorz gajewski while Humpy and D Harika also recorded victories. The young prodigy R Praggnanandhaa, who replaced Nihal Sarin, was defeated by Igor Janik while Vantika Agrawal drew with Alicja Silwicka.
In the first round, Anand was tamed by Duda, while Gujrathi lost to Radoslaw Wojtaszek and Divya Deshmukh was defeated by Alicja Silwicka.
Humpy and Harika drew against Socko and Karina Cyfika respectively, while Sarin achieved India’s only victory, beating Igor Janik, in the first round.
“We made it to the final! Nerves of steel @koneruhumpy !!! Great games everyone!” Divya Deshmukh tweeted after the match.
After the two teams won a round apiece in regular play, rapids world champion Humpy took on Socko for Armageddon (a tie-break), and the india beat her rival in style with black pieces to ensure a place in the end for her. side.
India will play the winner of the other semi-final between Russia and the United States in Sunday’s summit match.
However, it was not an easy job for the Indian team as they lost the first round 2-4 before recovering strongly in the second with a landslide 4.5-1.5 victory. Humpy did the rest in the decisive tiebreaker of the match.
Former world champion Viswanathan Anand he prevailed with a much-needed win over Jan-Krzystof Duda in 78 moves in the second round after losing to his opponent in the first round.
Captain Vidit Gujrathi led the way with a victory over Grzegorz gajewski while Humpy and D Harika also recorded victories. The young prodigy R Praggnanandhaa, who replaced Nihal Sarin, was defeated by Igor Janik while Vantika Agrawal drew with Alicja Silwicka.
In the first round, Anand was tamed by Duda, while Gujrathi lost to Radoslaw Wojtaszek and Divya Deshmukh was defeated by Alicja Silwicka.
Humpy and Harika drew against Socko and Karina Cyfika respectively, while Sarin achieved India’s only victory, beating Igor Janik, in the first round.
“We made it to the final! Nerves of steel @koneruhumpy !!! Great games everyone!” Divya Deshmukh tweeted after the match.
We reached the final !!!! Nerves of steel @koneruhumpy !!! Great games of all! Thank you all for your… https://t.co/cd9Is1xmpd
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