Konero Humpy wins Cairns Cup, becomes World No. 2
Other Sports | Feb 17, 2020, 01:17 PM ISTIndian chess grandmaster Konero Humpy won the Cairns Cup tournament to reclaim the world no. 2 rank.
Indian chess grandmaster Konero Humpy won the Cairns Cup tournament to reclaim the world no. 2 rank.
Ajay Patel has been elected as president, Bharat Singh Chauhan as secretary, Naresh Sharma as treasurer, M Arun Singh as joint secretary and Vipnesh Bharadwaj as vice-president.
World Rapid Champion Koneru Humphy and Harika Dronavalli are ranked as world number three and nine respectively in the women's section.
The polls will be held to elect the president, six vice presidents, one honorary secretary, six joint secretaries and one treasurer.
Prithu Gupta, who picked up the sport as a nine-year-old, has achieved the sensational feat at the age of 15 years, 4 months and 10 days.
The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) General Assembly met in Bangkok on March 3 and its president Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad Al-Sabah officially confirmed the development to World Chess Federation (WCF) president Arkady Dvorkovich.
The All India Chess Federation (AICF) has removed the restrictive undertaking that players had to give while registering themselves with the body, which sought to comply with the Competition Commission of India's order.
Anand, the reigning world rapid chess champion, also said the constant zigzagging of the three formats was unhelpful.
The Indian women came almost close to beating sole leaders United States but eventually had to settle for a draw.
In 2016, Praggnanandhaa became the youngest International Master at the age of 10 years, 10 months and 19 days.
It was on the eighth move that Anand was caught unaware. Aronian was following an earlier game by countryman Hrant Melkumyan and as Anand confided to him after the game, he had not paid enough attention to this move order.
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The Indian ace had scored an excellent victory over Caruana in the same opening a couple of days back but Wei Yi appeared better prepared.
Anand said there have been very few people who have finished on the podium in both formats, which made the achievement all the more sweet.
Anand will face Latvian grandmaster Shirov Alexei, while Harika will take on French Grandmaster Laurent Fressinet in the fourth round.
The World Cup is a knock out event with two games under normal time control followed by Rapid or blitz games to determine the winner.
Former world champion Viswanathan Anand, S P Sethuraman and Vidit Gujarathi had already made it to the second round with victories under normal game itself.
Anand was superior in all departments of the game. The Alapin opening by the Malaysian did not bother the Indian ace much as he gained easy equality early in the opening.
The Indian ace was pegged back by an opening round loss against Hikaru Nakamura of United States and then suffered another debacle against Levon Aronian of Armenia in the third round.
Anand played his last white game in the tournament against Vachier-Lagrave and had a small advantage but the Frenchman was quite up to the task in defence and steered the game to a draw.
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