She completed strongly, beating Zhongyi Tanwho received the World Rapid name a few days in the past, within the seventeenth and ultimate spherical.
After posting most effective 4 wins from the primary 9 rounds on Thursday and being positioned within the mid-40s, the 35-year previous Humpy was once in height shape on day two of the contest, registering seven spectacular wins and drawing with compatriot Dronavalli Harika within the 14th spherical.
She completed on 12.5 issues, simply part some extent in the back of the winner. Bibisara Balabayeva of kazakhstan.
One of the highlights of Humpy’s efficiency at the day was once a defeat of China’s Zhongyi Tan within the seventeenth and ultimate spherical to dent her opponent’s probabilities of including to the gold medal within the World Rapid event.
Humpy had completed 6th within the Rapid championship which preceded the Blitz festival. She is a former winner of the World Rapid name.
“It was a perfect day for me with 7.5 points out 8 games, fetching the first ever silver medal in the women’s world Blitz chess championship!” Humpy wrote on Twitter.
It was once a great day for me with 7.5 issues out 8 video games ,fetching the primary ever silver medal within the ladies international Blitz chess championship!!
Humpy Koneru (@humpy_koneru) 1672406424000
Harika, who completed with 10.5 issues needed to accept thirteenth spot whilst Padmini Rout was once seventeenth. Tania Sachdev ended up twenty first and B Savitha Shri, winner of a bronze within the Rapid championship was once positioned thirty third with 9.5 issues in a powerful box.
In the Open match, received via international No.1 Magnus Carlsen of Norway with 16 issues, no Indian participant may just set up a top-10 end.
The skilled P Harikrishna was once the most efficient Indian within the Open segment, taking a seventeenth position end with 13 issues with Nihal Sarin a place in the back of with an equivalent choice of issues.
Fast-rising Arjun Erigaisi, the easiest seeded Indian right here, wound up forty second after a patchy show which noticed him lose video games 16, 17 and 18. Compatriot Vidit Santosh Gujrathi’s shape was once additionally up and down and he completed a lowly ninetieth.
Carlsen added the Blitz name to the arena fast name he received on Wednesday.
Despite struggling reverses by the hands of Russian gamers Ian Nepomniatchi within the fifteenth spherical and Alexey Sarana, the Norwegian received his video games within the twentieth and twenty first rounds in opposition to Aleksandr Shimanov and Uzbekistan’s Nodirbek Abdusattorov to complete some extent transparent of Hikaru Nakamura (15 issues).
Indian gamers efficiency in World Blitz event:
Women: Koneru Humpy 12.5 (2d position), Harika (10.5, thirteenth), Padmini Rout (10.5, seventeenth), Tania Sachdev (10, twenty first), B Savitha Shri (9.5, thirty third).
Men: P Harikrishna (13 issues, seventeenth), Nihal Sarin (13, 18th), Arjun Erigaisi (12, forty second), B Adhiban (12, forty ninth), V Pranav (11.5, 58th), Aravind Chithambaram (11.5, sixtieth), Surya Shekhar Ganguly (11, 72nd), Raunak Sadhwani (10.5, 83rd), Vidit S Gujrathi (10.5, ninetieth), SL Narayanan (10.5, 92nd).
