Humpy in prequarters of World Women Chess

Indian Grandmaster Koneru Humpy made it to the last 16 stage of the world women chess championship outplaying Chinese Tingjie Lei in the second game of the second round here today.
Going in to the return game of the second round of this knockout championship with a point lead thanks to her victory in the opening game, Humpy won her fourth game on the trot to also keep a clean slate in the championship thus far.
Grandmaster D Harika was stretched to the tiebreaker by her American counterpart Irina Krush after the second game between them also ended in a draw. Harika will now play a set of two rapid games with 25 minutes each to determine the winner in this contest.

In the event of a further tied result, two blitz games with 10 minutes each will be played and if necessary two more blitz games with 5 minutes each and a three seconds increment will be played.
Should the deadlock continue, the players will play one Armageddon game with five minutes for white and four to black and black will proceed to the next round in case of a draw.
It may be recalled that the third Indian in the fray - Mary Ann Gomes was ousted from the championship losing the Armageddon game against Tatiana Kosintseva of Russia in the first round.

After a relative lull that provided just five decisive games out of a possible 16 in the first game of the second round, as many as eight decisive games were played in the second game of this round.
The biggest causalty of the round was second seed Wenjun Ju of China who was shown the exit door by experienced Natalija Pogonina of Russia.
Humpy proved a class act once again. Playing the white side of a Grunfeld defense, the Indian went for the Fianchetto variation that is in vogue. The position oscillated between equal and slightly better for Humpy and the exchange of pieces did not deter her to push for a decisive advantage.