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The Times of India
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Amit Sampat | TNN

Divya Deshmukh holds Hungarian GM in Game 1 of round two with black in chess World Cup

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.

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