Sunday, February 26, 2017

Chess News

At FIDE Women's World Chess Championship 2017, Tehran, Iran

[SF] (4) Harika Dronavalli (IND) l (9) Tan Zhongyi (CHN) 4-5

In the last nerve wrecking decisive Armageddon game, Harika failed to win playing with White pieces and game ended after the 99th move ...In Armageddon game, White has to win this game or lose the match and Black only need to draw ... Before that in the tie-break games, the player with White pieces won their matches ... Both blitz games ended in a draw ... In this match, Harika had chances which she failed to take ... So third Bronze medal at World Championship for Harika.

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