Chess Updates: Divya Deshmukh wins First round of FIDE Women’s Grand Prix after Brief Stoppage of Play
Indian Chess is attaining achievement day by day, latest to join this bandwagon is none other than Divya Deshmukh who currently possess 2460 ELO points against her opponent Salimova 2402 ELO points managed to win first round of FIDE Women’s Grand Prix after brief stoppage of play.
The play was stopped, as the event was brought to halt due to heavy noise coming for wedding function, coming from lawns coming from the adjacent hall where the noise was continuously coming up on regular basis.
The event is played in Pune Hadapsar, the event was continuously stopped it irked players and fans in such a way that Chief Arbiter Ivan Syrovy had to apologize to all players and stop game as it was getting difficult for them to concentrate.
Divya Deshmukh
He took all those players in one huddle room, after that he seeked help from local organizers, thankfully play got resumed after 10 minutes.
The moment game progressed, Divya was looking all set to cook Bulgarian goose. due to divya’s inability to play Precisily she managed to claim double bishop, double rook, pawns vs double bishop, knight and pawns endgame after her scintillating 53 moves.
The Opening round of 10 player nine round tournament, witnessed four of five games ending decisively.
However, it was mix day for India as D Harika, lost to Zhu Jiner suffered a heavy material loss where she failed to stop the Chineese pawn, from queening first.
The rut was started by claiming two consecutive knight moves from a5 square.
Indian Chess is reaching towards next pedestal and credit should be given to all stakeholders who have worked hard behind the scenes to make this entity extremely popular.
The policies implemented by All India Chess Federation, based in Chennai deserve applause to implement policies which can take this popular indoor sport to next level.
Currently India possess more than 95 Grandmasters in the country that speaks a volume about Infrastructure about Chess in India.
