Principal Correspondent
RIDING HIGH her Woman Grandmaster title, Divya Deshmukh added another feather to her cap when she won another international crown the other day.
Brilliantly switching to the online event from Over The Board competition, Vidarbha’s first Woman Grandmaster Divya clinched the silver medal in the Asian Youth Chess Championship that was played online.
In the Under-16 girls’ category, 16-year-old Divya finished on top but was declared second best based on the Buchholz Tie-Break Points system.
In the nine-round rapid competition, Divya won seven games, drew one, and suffered a loss in the last round to end at par with eventual winner Balabayeva Xeniya of Kazakhstan garnering 7.5 points each.
Divya, who was seeded third in the competition, started on expected lines winning five games she played. However, her winning run was stalled by Xeniya in the sixth round where both the seeded players split points.
Divya then posted back-to-back victories in the next rounds. But in a bid to gain full points in the last round, Divya suffered a defeat at the hands of China’s Sun Jihan and settled for silver.
In her matches, the city’s only WGM beat Mongolia’s Urangoo Kherlenzorig, Fang Kun from Singapore, Vietnam’s Bui Ngoc Phuong Nghi and Ngo Xuan Quynh, Abbaspoorrad Nikoo of Iran and compatriots Bhagyashree Patil and Saniya Rafique Tadavi.
https://www.thehitavada.com//Encyc/2021/10/28/WGM-Divya-settles-for-Asian-silver.html
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