Humpy tastes success

Overcoming indifferent form which saw her lose her two first two outings, World junior chess champion Koneru Humpy staged a remarkable recovery to defeat International Master Cao Sang of Hungary in the third round of the First Saturday GM tournament, Budapest, Hungary.

It was the first victory in the tournament for the 14-year girl from Andhra Pradesh, who is aspiring for the third GM norm.

Humpy will meet top seed GM Jozsef Horvath of Hungary in the fourth round with black pieces.

GM Ilincic Zlatko of Yugaslovia is leading the table of 14 players with 2.5 points after the third round while IM Zebe Attile (Hung), IM Schenk Andreas (Germany), IM Pascall Williams (USA) are in joint second position with 2 points each.

The moves:
Koneru Humpy (India) vs Cao Sang (Hungary)
1. d2-d4 Ng8-f6 2. g2-g3 d7-d5 3. Bf1-g2 c7-c6 4. Ng1-f3 Bc8-g4 5. b2-b3 e7-e6 6. O-O Nb8-d7 7. c2-c4 Bf8-e7 8. Bc1-a3 O-O 9. Qd1-c1 Rf8-e8 10. Qc1-b2 h7-h6 11. Rf1-d1 Bg4-f5 12. e2-e3 b7-b5 13. Ba3xe7 Qd8xe7 14. c4-c5 Bf5-g4 15. h2-h3 Bg4xf3 16. Bg2xf3 e6-e5 17. Nb1-d2 e5xd4 18. e3xd4 Qe7-e6 19. Kg1-g2 Nf6-e4 20. Rd1-e1 f7-f5 21. b3-b4 a7-a5 22. a2-a3 Nd7-f6 23. Nd2-b3 a5-a4 24. Nb3-c1 Nf6-d7 25. Nc1-d3 Qe6-f6 26. Kg2-h2 Ne4-g5 27. Re1xe8 Ra8xe8 28. Bf3-g2 Ng5-e6 29. Ra1-e1 Re8-f8 30. Nd3-e5 Nd7xe5 31. Re1xe5 f5-f4 32. h3-h4 f4xg3 33. f2xg3 g7-g6 34. Bg2-h3 Ne6-g7 35. Qb2-e2 Kg8-h7 36. Qe2-e3 Qf6-f2 37. Qe3xf2 Rf8xf2 38. Kh2-g1 Rf2-f3 39. Bh3-d7 Rf3xa3 40. Bd7xc6 Ra3-b3 41. Bc6xd5 Rb3xb4 42. c5-c6 Rb4-b1 43. Kg1-f2 Rb1-c1 44. Re5-e1 Rc1-c2 45. Re1-e2 Rc2-c3 46. Re2-b2 Ng7-f5 47. Rb2xb5 Rc3-c2 48. Kf2-e1 a4-a3 49. Rb5-b7 Kh7-h8 50. Rb7-a7 Nf5-e3 51. Bd5-e4 Rc2-c3 52. Ke1-d2 Rc3-b3 53. c6-c7 Ne3-c4 54. Kd2-c2 Rb3-b2 55. Kc2-c1 Nc4-d6 56. Ra7xa3 Rb2-b4 57. Ra3-a8 Kh8-g7 58. Ra8-d8 Rb4-c4 59. Be4-c2 Rc4xc7 60. Rd8xd6

The standings after the third round:

1. Ilincic Zlatko (Yugoslavia) - 2.5 points
2. Berkes Ferenc (Hungary), Attila Czebe (Hungary), Andreas Schenk (Germany) and William Paschall (USA) - 2 points
6. Jozsef Horvath (Hungary), Ruben Felgaer (Argentina), Albert Bokros (Hungary), Zoltan Varga (Hungary) and Tejas Bakre (India) - 1.5 points
11. Koneru Humpy (India) and Gergely Antal (Hungary) - 1 points
11. Cao Sang (Hungary) and Adam Horvath (Hungary) - 0.5

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Source: www.koneruhumpy.com