{"id":7011,"date":"2019-12-30T10:28:18","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T10:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=7011"},"modified":"2019-12-30T10:28:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T10:28:20","slug":"koneru-humpy-won-world-rapid-chess-title-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/koneru-humpy-won-world-rapid-chess-title-in-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Koneru Humpy won World Rapid Chess title in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Indian girl Koneru Humpy won Women\u2019s World Rapid Chess\nChampionship with defeated China\u2019s Lei Tingjie in a tense Armageddon battle in\nMoscow. After 12 rounds, Humpy accumulated nine points which left her tied with\nTingjie. The duo then played an Armageddon game to break the deadlock. Earlier,\nthe Indian had lost the opening game before making a speedy recovery in the\nsecond and then clinching the title in the decider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current\nAffairs Quiz 2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Humpy Koneru is an Indian chess grandmaster and current\nWorld Rapid Chess Champion. In October 2007, she became the second female\nplayer, after Judit Polg\u00e1r, to exceed the 2600 Elo rating mark, being rated\n2606.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian girl Koneru Humpy won Women\u2019s World Rapid Chess Championship with defeated China\u2019s Lei Tingjie in a tense Armageddon battle in Moscow. After 12 rounds, Humpy accumulated nine points which left her tied with Tingjie. The duo then played an Armageddon game to break the deadlock. Earlier, the Indian had lost the opening game before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":7012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[832],"tags":[59],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-7011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-december-2019","tag-sports-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7013,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7011\/revisions\/7013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7011"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=7011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}