{"id":172846,"date":"2021-09-28T00:16:38","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T18:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=172846"},"modified":"2021-09-28T00:16:38","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T18:46:38","slug":"world-womens-team-chess-championship-india-play-draw-with-azerbaijan-in-opening-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/09\/28\/world-womens-team-chess-championship-india-play-draw-with-azerbaijan-in-opening-round\/","title":{"rendered":"World Women&#8217;s Team Chess championship: India play draw with Azerbaijan in opening round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sitges (Spain), Sep 27 (PTI): Harika Dronavalli and Vaishali Rameshbabu scored wins as India settled for a 2-2 draw against Azerbaijan in the Pool A opening round of the FIDE World Women&#8217;s Team Chess Championship, on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Harika, the top player in the absence of Koneru Humpy, expectedly won her game, beating Gunay Mammadzada on the first board.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The promising, young R Vaishali, sister of teen prodigy R Praggnanandhaa, scored another point for India, beating Gulnar Mammadova on the fourth board.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, Tania Sachdev and Bhakti Kulkarni were beaten by their Azerbaijan opponents to help them draw level.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Harika, playing black pieces, outmaneuvered Mammadzada in 34 moves to provide India a strong start while Vaishali had to fight hard to subdue the challenge of Mammadova in 60 moves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sachdev was outgunned by Ulviya Fataliyeva in 42 moves and Kulkarni lost to Turkan Mamedjarova in a 50-move game which enabled Azerbaijan to share honours.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In other opening round matches in Pool A, a formidable Russian team trounced Spain 4-0 and Armenia edged out France 2.5-1.5.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">India play Spain in the second round.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sitges (Spain), Sep 27 (PTI): Harika Dronavalli and Vaishali Rameshbabu scored wins as India settled for a 2-2 draw against Azerbaijan in the Pool A opening round of the FIDE World Women&#8217;s Team Chess Championship, on Monday. Harika, the top player in the absence of Koneru Humpy, expectedly won her game, beating Gunay Mammadzada on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-172846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}