NAGPUR: The battle of wits between two Asian women chess champions in the first game of second round in the FIDE World Cup ended in a draw in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Wednesday.
The reigning Continental chess queen Divya Deshmukh defended brilliantly with her black pieces as the Asian women’s champion of 2000 and Vietnamese-born Hungarian Grandmaster (GM) Hoang Thanh Trang was forced to offer a draw to her 17-year-old opponent.