It took just 24 moves for Humpy to down the former numero uno in the group B match. Humpy played with white pieces.
CAP D'AGDE (France) :Grandmaster Koneru Humpy scored a memorable win against former world champion Anatoly Karpov of Russia in the third round of the Cap D'Agde Intrenational rapid chess tournament here.
It took just 24 moves for Humpy to down the former numero uno in the group B match. Humpy played with white pieces.
As things stand in the group B after the third round, Andrei Volokitin of Ukraine is in sole lead on 2.5 points while Humpy stands joint second on 2 points along with Zhao Xue of China and Magnus Carlsen of Norway.
Four more rounds remain in this section. Parimarjan Negi, who is in the group 'A', inched to 2 points out of a possible four and is in with a chance for making it to the last four. P Harikrishna went down to former world women's champion Antoaneta Stefanova of Bulgaria.
Ivana, Sahajasri, Harika clinch world titles: India completed its richest ever medal haul in the history of World Youth Chess Championship winning five gold, two silver and three bronze medals at Batumi in Georgia on Saturday.
The Indian girls followed up the boys' stupendous performance with three of them being crowned world champions. Ivana Furtado (girls under-8) of Goa, Ch Sahajasri (girls under-10) of Karimnagar and Dronavalli Harika (girls under-18) of Guntur became world champions in their respective categories.
Ivana won the title on tie-break, pushing Mannepalli Navyavyshnavi (AP) to the silver medal. Both players won and scored 8.5/11.
Chennai's M Mahalakshmi won the bronze medal on eight points. Girish Koushik won the under-10 boys' title on Friday. Ch Mohineesh of Visakhapatnam was crowned under-8 champion.
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