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💢 Harika Dronavalli
💢 Indian chess Grandmaster
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💢 Harika Dronavalli
💢 Indian chess Grandmaster
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🅾️#about_Harika_Dronavalli
💢 Harika Dronavalli
💢 Indian chess Grandmaster
🔰Harika Dronavalli is an Indian chess grandmaster She has won three bronze medals in the Women's World Chess Championship, in 2012, 2015 and 2017. Dronavalli was honored with the Arjuna Award for the year 2007–08 by the government of India.
🔘Full name: Dronavalli Harika
🔘Country: India
🔘Born: 12 January 1991 (age 27)
🔻Gorantla, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India
🔘Title: Grandmaster (2011)
🔘FIDE rating: 2494 (August 2018)
🔘Peak rating: 2543 (November 2016)
🔰WGM (2004) and GM (2011). Harika is a bright young talent from India. Her achievements include conquering the world titles of World Youth Champion in 2006 (Girls Under-18) and U-14 Girls Champion in 2004. In 2007 Harika became the Women's Commonwealth Chess Champion. She added another feather to her cap, by becoming Women's World Junior Champion in 2008.
In 2011, Harika won her 3rd GM norm when she came second in the 1st Hangzhou Women's GM Tournament (2011) to become India's second female grandmaster. In August 2012, she came =3rd at the Hogeschool Zeeland Chess Tournament 2012 with 7/9, half a point behind the joint leaders. She competed in the FIDE Knock-Out Women's World Championship (2012) and defeated Indian WGM Soumya Swaminathan, Armenian GM Elina Danielian, Georgian IM and WGM Lela Javakhishvili, and Chinese GM Zhao Xue to reach the semi finals. There she met and lost to former Women's World Champion, Bulgarian GM Antoaneta Stefanova to bow out of the contest.
♦️A memorable game by Harika Dronavalli👇
▪️Tatev Abrahamyan vs Dronavalli Harika
▪️FIDE Women's World Chess Championship (2015), Sochi RUS, rd 1, Mar-17
▪️French Defense: Tarrasch. Closed Variation (C05)
♦️Review and download PGN file👇
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💢 Harika Dronavalli
💢 Indian chess Grandmaster
🔰Harika Dronavalli is an Indian chess grandmaster She has won three bronze medals in the Women's World Chess Championship, in 2012, 2015 and 2017. Dronavalli was honored with the Arjuna Award for the year 2007–08 by the government of India.
🔘Full name: Dronavalli Harika
🔘Country: India
🔘Born: 12 January 1991 (age 27)
🔻Gorantla, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India
🔘Title: Grandmaster (2011)
🔘FIDE rating: 2494 (August 2018)
🔘Peak rating: 2543 (November 2016)
🔰WGM (2004) and GM (2011). Harika is a bright young talent from India. Her achievements include conquering the world titles of World Youth Champion in 2006 (Girls Under-18) and U-14 Girls Champion in 2004. In 2007 Harika became the Women's Commonwealth Chess Champion. She added another feather to her cap, by becoming Women's World Junior Champion in 2008.
In 2011, Harika won her 3rd GM norm when she came second in the 1st Hangzhou Women's GM Tournament (2011) to become India's second female grandmaster. In August 2012, she came =3rd at the Hogeschool Zeeland Chess Tournament 2012 with 7/9, half a point behind the joint leaders. She competed in the FIDE Knock-Out Women's World Championship (2012) and defeated Indian WGM Soumya Swaminathan, Armenian GM Elina Danielian, Georgian IM and WGM Lela Javakhishvili, and Chinese GM Zhao Xue to reach the semi finals. There she met and lost to former Women's World Champion, Bulgarian GM Antoaneta Stefanova to bow out of the contest.
♦️A memorable game by Harika Dronavalli👇
▪️Tatev Abrahamyan vs Dronavalli Harika
▪️FIDE Women's World Chess Championship (2015), Sochi RUS, rd 1, Mar-17
▪️French Defense: Tarrasch. Closed Variation (C05)
♦️Review and download PGN file👇
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@unitychess
@Abrahamyan-Harika 2015.pgn
975 B
💢 Tatev Abrahamyan - Dronavalli Harika, FWWChCh 2015. Sochi
💢 PGN format
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A critical moment. Black wastes a lot of time on grabbing the white's pawns.
56... Qxg4??
Instead, he should have played sharply with 56... Qd2! 57. a5 e3 58. Ka4 e2 59. Bf2 Qd1 and now:
A) 60. Qb4 Qxd5 -/+
B) 60. a6?? Qf1 61. Bg3 Be5 -+
57.a5 Qxf5 58. a6 Qe5 59. a7 Qa1+ 60. Kb4 Bb2 61.Kb5 Qa3 62. Qa4 1-0
56... Qxg4??
Instead, he should have played sharply with 56... Qd2! 57. a5 e3 58. Ka4 e2 59. Bf2 Qd1 and now:
A) 60. Qb4 Qxd5 -/+
B) 60. a6?? Qf1 61. Bg3 Be5 -+
57.a5 Qxf5 58. a6 Qe5 59. a7 Qa1+ 60. Kb4 Bb2 61.Kb5 Qa3 62. Qa4 1-0
55... c4+??
26-year-old Russian GM throws away the win.
55... Bxb6! 56. Nxb6 Kf4 57. Kc3 Kg3 58. Kxd3 Kxh3 59. Ke3 Kg2
60. Nd5 h3 61. Nf4+ Kg3 62. Ne2+ Kg4 63. Kf2 f5 -+
56. Kxc4 d2 57. b7 d1=Q 58.b8=Q Qe2+ 59. Kd4 1/2-1/2
26-year-old Russian GM throws away the win.
55... Bxb6! 56. Nxb6 Kf4 57. Kc3 Kg3 58. Kxd3 Kxh3 59. Ke3 Kg2
60. Nd5 h3 61. Nf4+ Kg3 62. Ne2+ Kg4 63. Kf2 f5 -+
56. Kxc4 d2 57. b7 d1=Q 58.b8=Q Qe2+ 59. Kd4 1/2-1/2
33.Nd6??
A carelessness.
33. Qe2 h5 34. Ra1 Bb5 35. Qe1=
Now Khodashenas exploits it well.
33... c4 34. Ba2 Qb6+ 35.Kf1
(35. Kh1 Ng4 -+)
35... Rd8 36. Nxc4 Qc6 37. Qf4 Rc8 38. Rb1 Nd5 39. Qd4 Bxc4+ 40.Bxc4 Qxc4+ 0-1
if 41.Q×c4, then 41...Ne3+ 42.Ke2 Nxc4-+
A carelessness.
33. Qe2 h5 34. Ra1 Bb5 35. Qe1=
Now Khodashenas exploits it well.
33... c4 34. Ba2 Qb6+ 35.Kf1
(35. Kh1 Ng4 -+)
35... Rd8 36. Nxc4 Qc6 37. Qf4 Rc8 38. Rb1 Nd5 39. Qd4 Bxc4+ 40.Bxc4 Qxc4+ 0-1
if 41.Q×c4, then 41...Ne3+ 42.Ke2 Nxc4-+
18. Rb7!!
Omid wards off the threat on his knight indirectly and creates the obvious threat of Rd7 and in some cases Rxa7.
18...Rd8
18... fxe5 19. Rxa7
A)19...Rb8 20. Rxa6 Qc7 21. dxe5 +-
B)19... Rxa7 20. Qe8#
19. Qa5 cxd4 20. cxd4 Kf8 21. Nb3 Rc8 22. Rd7 Qb6 23. Qa3 Nb4 24. Nd3
Ke8 25. Rxe7+ Kxe7 26. Nxb4 Kf7 27. f5 +-
Omid wards off the threat on his knight indirectly and creates the obvious threat of Rd7 and in some cases Rxa7.
18...Rd8
18... fxe5 19. Rxa7
A)19...Rb8 20. Rxa6 Qc7 21. dxe5 +-
B)19... Rxa7 20. Qe8#
19. Qa5 cxd4 20. cxd4 Kf8 21. Nb3 Rc8 22. Rd7 Qb6 23. Qa3 Nb4 24. Nd3
Ke8 25. Rxe7+ Kxe7 26. Nxb4 Kf7 27. f5 +-
10...a5!
Now the bishop will make it to a6 and Black has an excellent game.
11.Nf4 Ba6 12.Re1 0-0-0 13.Be3 Nh6 14.Qh5 g6?! 15.Qd1! Nf5 16.Nce2! h5 17.c3 g5
Now the bishop will make it to a6 and Black has an excellent game.
11.Nf4 Ba6 12.Re1 0-0-0 13.Be3 Nh6 14.Qh5 g6?! 15.Qd1! Nf5 16.Nce2! h5 17.c3 g5