Vaishali Wins Women’s Grand Swiss, Vidit Also Gets Close To Title Triumph – News18

Isle of Man (UK), Nov 5: R Vaishali on Sunday clinched the FIDE Women’s Grand Swiss title together with a spot within the subsequent yr’s Candidate occasion after taking part in out a draw in opposition to Batkhuyag Mungutuul of Mongolia within the eleventh and remaining spherical, right here.

With 8.5 factors to her credit score Vaishali clinched the gold in addition to a prize purse of USD 25000 USD (over Rs. 20 Lakh) for her triumph.

The subsequent Women’s candidate occasion might be held in Canada subsequent yr.

On the second board, Anna Muzychuk of Ukraine performed out a draw with veteran Grandmaster Pia Cramling of Sweden that gave Vaishali an outright victory.

A double deal with awaits India if Vidit Gujrathi might convert a successful endgame in opposition to Alexandr Predke of Serbia.

If Vidit wins it will likely be a uncommon double of India as Vidit may also qualify for the Candidates in addition to annex the title within the open part.

Vaishali had her eyes educated for the title and the Grandmaster title can look forward to which she is shy of some factors.

The Chennai-based sister of Praggnanandhaa went for complexities but once more however met with stiff resistance from Mungutuul who is understood to be a fierce opponent.

For the information, it was a Ruy Lopez opening whereby Vaishali but once more went for complexities and stood higher based on the pc evaluation. Optically it appeared just like the Indian was dominating the proceedings however the benefit fizzled out very quickly as Munguttul opened up a file on the queen facet. The sport was drawn in simply 34 strikes.

Vaishali turns into the primary Indian to win the Grand Swiss and can have her process lower out within the Canddiates alongside India’s first woman to get to Grandmaster title – Koneru Humpy.

Humpy is more likely to qualify by advantage of her excessive ranking however the resolution might be recognized solely in January 2024.

For now it’s Vaishali all the best way. A brand new star for India Chess is born after a niche of 12 lengthy years. It was in 2011 that D Harika turned the second Grandmaster from India.

In her tenth spherical, up in opposition to Zhongyi Tan, the Sicilian protection by the Chinese got here as a shock to Vaishali as the previous world champion went for the Classical system.

Vaishali determined to sidestep from lengthy theoretical battles and her intuition proved proper although Zhongyi obtained a preventing place within the center sport.

Known to create possibilities, Vaishali geared as much as launch a king facet assault in opposition to a centralised black king and it paid nice dividends. Vaishali picked up pawns at will and black’s desired counter play by no means noticed the sunshine of the day.

In the open part, Grandmaster Vidit Gujrathi additionally continued together with his dazzling run and put it throughout Deac Bogdan-Daniel of Romania in a one-sided affair within the penultimate spherical.

Gujrathi employed the Sicilian protection to point out his intentions for a fancy battle. Bogdan-Daniel fell prey to a tactical shot and misplaced a pawn and thereon the Indian was an ideal image of composure as he improved slowly and wrapped up the complete level.

Praggnanandhaa (6 factors) in the meantime performed out a draw with Anton Korobov of Ukraine and remained within the hunt for a spot within the prize record together with P Harikrishna, Aravindh Chithambaram and S L Narayanan who all inched as much as 5.5 factors following attracts within the tenth spherical.

Amongst the women, Tania Sachdev and D Harika posted victories to achieve 5.5 factors whereas Vantika Agrawal and Divya Deshmukh additionally had successful outings to achieve 5 factors respectively. PTI Corr AT AT AT

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