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Warsaw, Dec 31 (PTI): India’s top player Koneru Humpy finished fifth in the women’s event of the FIDE World Blitz championship while her compatriot R Vaishali, who was in second spot after nine rounds, slipped to 14th in Warsaw.<\/p>\n
Humpy scored 11.5 points from 17 rounds to take the fifth place after finishing equal on points with two others.<\/p>\n
A loss to Polina Shuvalova (Russia) in the final round hurt Humpy’s chances of a better finish. Vaishali also went down to Olga Girya (Russia) in the last round to slip out of the top 10.<\/p>\n
In the open section, Vidit Santhosh Gujrathi was the best Indian performer, taking 18th place with 13 points, while Nihal Sarin, who also scored 13 points, finished one spot lower.<\/p>\n
Eighteen-year old GM Arjun Erigaisi, who had held world No 1 Magnus Carlsen to a draw, finished 24th with 12.5 points.<\/p>\n
Teenager GM D Gukesh, who had finished 9th in the Rapid event, wound up with 12.5 points and finished 32nd.<\/p>\n
All other Indians in the Open event finished outside the top 50 with P Harikrishna, the highest-ranked from the country in the tournament, taking the 84th place and Harsha Bharathakoti (11 points) securing the 68th spot.<\/p>\n
Among the women, Vantika Agrawal (9.5 points) finished 30th and Padmini Rout with 8.5 points took the 55th place.<\/p>\n
France’s Maxime Vachier-Lagrave edged out Poland’s star player Jan-Kryzstof Duda in the tie-break to emerge champion while 17-year old Bibisara Assaubayeva dominated the Women’s Championship and captured the title with a round to spare.<\/p>\n
Carlsen, who was the defending champion in both the Rapid and Blitz events, lost both the titles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Warsaw, Dec 31 (PTI): India’s top player Koneru Humpy finished fifth in the women’s event of the FIDE World Blitz championship while her compatriot R Vaishali, who was in second spot after nine rounds, slipped to 14th in Warsaw. Humpy scored 11.5 points from 17 rounds to take the fifth place after finishing equal on […]<\/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-180771","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\/180771","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=180771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}