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Reykjavik (Iceland): India’s Grandmaster Harika Dronavalli began her campaign at the Rejkjavik Open in style, easily beating local lad Magnus Magnusson at the Herpa Concert Hall here.<\/p>\nReykjavik (Iceland): India’s Grandmaster Harika Dronavalli began her campaign at the Rejkjavik Open in style, easily beating local lad Magnus Magnusson at the Herpa Concert Hall here.<\/p>\n
Starting with black, the World No.11 took control of the game in the opening itself, forcing her opponent into a series of mistakes here late on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
“Magnus made a number of strategic errors and I exploited them to outplay him,” the Guntur lass said after the match.<\/p>\n
The tournament which offers an impressive prize purse of 5,000 euros (about $5379) to the winner is in its 32nd year of existence.<\/p>\n
It is a 10-round Swiss tournament with a time control of 90 minutes for 40 moves, with a further 30 minutes added till the end of the game, with a 30-second increment from the first move.<\/p>\n
The 2521 ELO-rated player from India is playing back to back matches on the opening day and takes on FIDE Master John Doknjas of Canada later on Thursday.<\/p>\n
A total of 266 players from across the globe are competing this year.<\/p>\n
Apart from Harika, the other Indians in the fray are Abhijeet Gupta, Magesh Panchanatan, Abhijit Kunte and Rameshbabu Praggnanadhaa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Reykjavik (Iceland): India’s Grandmaster Harika Dronavalli began her campaign at the Rejkjavik Open in style, easily beating local lad Magnus Magnusson at the Herpa Concert Hall here.<\/p>\n
Starting with black, the World No.11 took control of the game in the opening itself, forcing her opponent into a series of mistakes here late on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
“Magnus made a number of strategic errors and I exploited them to outplay him,” the Guntur lass said after the match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[12904,18349,466,22004,22003],"class_list":["post-34392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chess-chess","tag-chess-news","tag-harika-dronavalli","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-magnus-magnusson","tag-rejkjavik-open"],"yoast_head":"\n