The first one is perfect for beginners to play against, while the highest level is challenging even for experts. It features an excellent AI that has ten levels of difficulty. The Indian women chess duo of Harika Dronavalli and Koneru Hampy and Uzbekistan’s Javokhir Sindarov managed to pull off draws to ensure a thrilling one-point victory.This programme plays like any other chess option. Yu’s compatriot Wie Yi then scored a victory against India’s Vidit Gujrathi, earning three points but the Kings were still a point short. The victory gave the team an important advantage as a win with black pieces counts as four points compared to the three points awarded for a win while playing with the white pieces. However, it was on the second board that Grischuk showcased his heroics with late decisive move to pull off a victory and the crucial four points against Chinese Grandmaster Yu Yangyi. Both settled for a draw and shared a point each. The Masters’ had their icon player France’s Maxime Vachier-Lagrave on the opening board against USA’s Levon Aronian.

Having lost the toss and playing with black pieces, the Mumba Masters rode on Russia’s Alexander Grischuk win to emerge victorious (8-7) against the Triveni Continental Kings. Mumba Masters edge past Triveni Continental Kings We all came here curious to see what will happen and how this will play out and so far it is proving to be exciting and promises a lot,” said Anand. Those two victories were the only decisive games of the match as the other four ended in a draw.

In the new circumstances, the side playing with white pieces has the initial advantage of the first move which might prove valuable for the outcome.Īnand’s early victory gave an important boost to the Ganges team.įour-time world champion China’s Yifan was the second to score, defeating another former women’s world champion Alexandra Kosteniuk in a thrilling game. The entire team plays with the same colour of pieces, unlike in standard chess events where both teams have an equal number of black and white boards. Starting off the proceedings five-time world champion Anand used his experience while capitalising on the advantage of playing with white pieces to get the better of 2021 World Cup winner Jan-Krzysztof Duda.įor the first time ever, chess is employing the practice of flipping to decide the colour of the pieces. In the other tie, upGrad Mumba Masters eked out a thrilling 8-7 win over Triveni Continental Kings.

Ganges Grandmasters defeated the Chingari Gulf Titans 10-4 here on Thursday night. Former world champions Vishwananthan Anand and Hou Yifan notched big victories to help Ganges Grandmasters begin the inaugural Global Chess League on a winning note.

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