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They person kept the emblem of Indian women’s chess flying precocious for years. Koneru Humpy and D. Harika are present good into their 30s and person families to look after, too.
The 2 Telugu-speaking women connected Wednesday delivered erstwhile their squad needed astatine the Royal Opera House. The wins of Humpy and Harika were instrumental successful upGrad Mumba Masters’ triumph 18-2 triumph against PBG Alaskan Knights, for which the nightmare continues, arsenic it inactive is looking for a victory.
The broad triumph has enactment Mumba connected apical of the array with 51 crippled points, 8 up of the defending champion Triveni Continental Kings. Ganges Grandmasters is lying 3rd with 35 points.
Humpy defeated Kateryna Lagno, portion D. Harika bushed Sarasadat Khademalsharieh to guarantee that Mumba got the maximum points from their 2 Superstar Women boards. Wesley So and Baridya Daneshvar) besides won their games too, against Arjun Erigaisi and Daniel Dardha, though connected the apical committee Maxime Vachier-Lagrave was held to a gully by D. Gukesh.
Like Mumbai, Continental Kings excessively has been playing solidly and some person won 3 retired of their 4 matches. In the day’s past match, the reigning champion defeated Ganges Grandmasters 11-6.
The Continental Kings were erstwhile again led from the beforehand by Alireza Firouzja, who defeated Viswanathan Anand connected the Icon board. On the 2nd board, successful a lucifer betwixt 2 men who person been successful bully signifier of late, Wei Yi prevailed implicit Vincent Keymer. There was besides a important triumph for Alexandra Kosteniuk, implicit Stavroula Tsolakidou.
In the day’s different match, Alpine SG Pipers bushed Fyers American Gambits 10-4. All the 4 apical boards were drawn, but Nino Batsiashvili and Leon Mendonca scored much-needed wins, implicit Teodora Injac; and Volodar Murzin, respectively.
The results (fourth round): Alpine SG Pipers bt Fyers American Gambits 10-4 (Fabiano Caruana drew with Hikaru Nakamura; Anish Giri drew with Vladislav Artemiev; R. Praggnanandhaa drew with Richard Rapport; Hou Yifan drew with Bibisara Assaubayeva; Nino Batsiashvili bt Teodora Injac; Leon Mendonca bt Volodar Murzin).
PBG Alaskan Knights mislaid to upGrad Mumba Masters 2-18 (D. Gukesh drew with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave; Arjun Erigaisi mislaid to Wesley So; Leinier Dominguez drew with Shakhriyar Mamedyarov; Kateryna Lagno mislaid to Koneru Humpy; Sarasadat Khademalsharieh mislaid to D. Harika; Daniel Dardha mislaid to Baridya Daneshvar).
Triveni Continental Kings bt Ganges Grandmasters 11-6 (Alireza Firouzja bt Viswanathan Anand; Wei Yi bt Vincent Keymer; Vidit Gujrathi mislaid to Javokhir Sindarov; Zhu Jiner drew with Polina Shuvalova; Alexandra Kosteniuk bt Stavroula Tsolakidou); MarcAndria Maurizzi drew with Raunak Sadhwani.
(The writer is successful Mumbai astatine the invitation of Tech Mahindra).
