Chess WC: Divya, Vantika share lead after 3rd-round opener, close in on pre-quarterfinals

Indian chess stars Vantika Agrawal and Divya Deshmukh precocious toward the pre-quarterfinals successful the FIDE World Women's Chess Cup. They won their archetypal games against Kateryna Lagno of Russia and Teodora Injac of Serbia, respectively.

The USD 691250 knockout tourney has reached its last 32 participants. Vantika demonstrated her increasing capabilities by defeating the higher-ranked Lagno.Divya Deshmukh, playing with achromatic pieces, met expectations by winning against Teodora Injac. She present stands arsenic a beardown contender among the 5 remaining Indian players.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!Top-rated Indian subordinate Koneru Humpy drew her lucifer with Kulon Klaudia of Poland portion playing with achromatic pieces.

Harika Dronavalli besides drew with Tsolakidou Stavroula, and R Vaishali shared points with Carissa Yip from the United States.Lei Tingjei of China, the tournament's apical seed, won against Bulgaria's Antoaneta Stefanova. Stefanova present faces the situation of defeating the highest-rated subordinate to unit a tiebreaker.Chinese subordinate Zhu Jiner defeated Aleksandra Maltsveskaya of Poland, advancing person to securing a spot successful the past 16.

Vantika's show against 1 of the favoured Russian players became the day's highlight. The Russian participants are competing nether the FIDE flag.

The crippled began with a Grunfeld opening and developed into a symmetrical pawn operation during the mediate game. While Lagno struggled with strategy, Vantika excelled successful creating complications.Lagno's mistake connected her 20th determination gave Vantika an other portion advantage.

Vantika maintained her pb passim the game. She present needs lone a gully successful her adjacent crippled arsenic achromatic to beforehand to the adjacent round.Divya secured her triumph against Teodora Injac successful an endgame that emerged from a queen pawn opening. The Serbian player's calculation errors allowed Divya to capitalise connected the opportunities.Complete results circular 3 crippled 1: Antoaneta Stefanova (Bul) mislaid to Lei Tingjie (Chn); Zhu Jiner (Chn) bushed Aleksandra Maltsveskaya (Pol); Irina Bulmaga (Rou) drew with Tan Zhongyi (Chn); Koneru Humpy (Ind) drew with Kulon Klaudia (Pol); Anna Muzychuk (Ukr) drew with Yixing Song (Chn); Vantika Agrawal bushed Kateryna Lagno (Fid); Nana Dzagnidze (Geo) bushed Valentina Gunina (Fid); Bella Khotenashvili (Geo) mislaid to Mariya Muzychuk (Ukr); Dronavalli Harika (Ind) drew with Tsolakidou Stavroula (Gre); Carissa Yip (Usa) drew with R Vaishali (Ind); Polina Shuvalova (Fid) drew with Lela Javakhashvili (Geo); Teodora Injac (Srb) mislaid to Divya Deshmukh (Ind); Kaliakhmet Elnaz (Kaz) drew Umida Polonova (Uzb); Meri Arabidze (Geo) drew with Alexandra Kosteniuk (Sui); Osmak Yuliia (Ukr) bushed Lu Miaoyi (Chn); Kamalidenova Meruert (Kaz) drew with Anna Shukhman.