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The Times of India
July 20, 2012 Friday
Danielian halts Humpy in FIDE Women's Grand Prix
CHENNAI: Koneru Humpy lost a game that she should have drawn easily.
In the third round of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix chess tournament at
Jermuk (Armenia) on Thursday, the Indian played well with black
against the Armenian and finally ran out of time.
In another interesting game that had a bearing on the lead positions,
joint leader Ju Wenjun of China held compatriot and Women's World
champion Hou Yifan to a draw and kept her slender lead with 2.5
points. But she has to share the lead with another Chinese Lufei Ruan,
who beat Lilit Mkrtchian of Armenia.
Humpy, Yifan, Kateryna Lahno of Ukraine and Ekaterina Kovalevskaya of
Russia shared the second position with two points each. Kovalevskaya
accounted for Batkhuyag Munguntuul of Mongolia in the third round.
Humpy seemed to have done enough after she on a pawn in the middle
game of a Queens Gambit declined. But she consumed a lot of time and
then got into a scramble in a queen and rooks ending. With an extra
pawn she should have easily drawn the game but she fell short by two
moves, according to the official clock.
Ju Wenjun did well to hold Yifan to a draw in 42 moves in an
opposite-coloured bishop ending of a Sicilian defence. Lahno, who had
a chance to go into the lead, could not do so as she drew with
Nadezhda Kosintseva of Russia in the third round.
July 20, 2012 Friday
Danielian halts Humpy in FIDE Women's Grand Prix
CHENNAI: Koneru Humpy lost a game that she should have drawn easily.
In the third round of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix chess tournament at
Jermuk (Armenia) on Thursday, the Indian played well with black
against the Armenian and finally ran out of time.
In another interesting game that had a bearing on the lead positions,
joint leader Ju Wenjun of China held compatriot and Women's World
champion Hou Yifan to a draw and kept her slender lead with 2.5
points. But she has to share the lead with another Chinese Lufei Ruan,
who beat Lilit Mkrtchian of Armenia.
Humpy, Yifan, Kateryna Lahno of Ukraine and Ekaterina Kovalevskaya of
Russia shared the second position with two points each. Kovalevskaya
accounted for Batkhuyag Munguntuul of Mongolia in the third round.
Humpy seemed to have done enough after she on a pawn in the middle
game of a Queens Gambit declined. But she consumed a lot of time and
then got into a scramble in a queen and rooks ending. With an extra
pawn she should have easily drawn the game but she fell short by two
moves, according to the official clock.
Ju Wenjun did well to hold Yifan to a draw in 42 moves in an
opposite-coloured bishop ending of a Sicilian defence. Lahno, who had
a chance to go into the lead, could not do so as she drew with
Nadezhda Kosintseva of Russia in the third round.