India’s young Grand Master Harika Dronavlli continued her brilliant run by winning her second game in the Chinese A Division Chess League here on Sunday. Playing for Team Shandong, she beat Ni Shiqun of Team Tianjing to put her side in a sting position after two days. Harika comfortably drew her opening game against Qi Guo of Team Jiangsu.
“I started today with black and immediately guided the game to a complicated position. My opponent made a few mistakes and I pounced on them to extract a victory in 26 moves. I am very happy with the way I played,” she said, shortly after completely the win.
India’s other Grand Master in fray in the elite tournament, P Harikrishna also won his game against Zen Chongsheng of Team Guangdong. Hari is representing Team Shanghai.
The Chinese Chess League is an annual elite tournament, comprising of 12 teams. All of China’s top players and a number of foreign players have assembled in Jiaxing for this event.
The entire league is played from April to December, lasting 22 rounds in six 3-4 day sessions. The current leg will end on July 26. Each match is played over five boards, with women playing on two of them.
The Guntur lass will take on Team Hangzhou’s Shengxin Zhao and Harikrishna will be taking on Yu Yangyi of Team Beijing respectively tomorrow.