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Indian womens chess player Dronavalli Harika faced defeat, and Koneru Humpy played out a tie, while Arjun Kumar and Vidit Santosh won their games in the third round of womens and mens individual competition at the Asian Games in Hangzhou on Monday.
Harika lost 1-0 to Chinas Hou Yifan. Meanwhile, Humpy played a 0.5-0.5 with Chinas Zhu Jiner. On the other hand, Arjun defeated Vietnams Ngoc Truong Son Nguyen by 1-0. While Vidit clinched a win against Thilands Laohawirapap Prin by 1-0. Earlier in the second round of individual chess, Vidit lost 1-0 to Kazakhstans Kazybelk Nogerbek, and Arjun played a 0.5-0.5 tie with Vietnams Le Tuan Minh. On the other hand, Harika won by 1-0 against Singapores Gong Qianyun and Humpy won by 1-0 against Vietnams Pham Le Thao Nguyen. In the Mens first round, Vidit beat Bangladeshs Rahman Mohammad Fahad by 1-0. While Arjun won against Phillippines Bersamina Paulo by 1-0. In the womens round, Humpy clinched a 1-0 win against Irans Alinasabalamdari Mobina. Meanwhile, Harika has beaten United arab Emirates Alali Rouda also by 1-0. Chess at the Asian Games 2023 started on Sunday and the final is scheduled to take place on October 7. The round of four of the men's and women's individual chess events will also take place on Monday. Chess at the Asian Games was introduced in 2006 at the Doha Asian games and only featured in 2010 at Guangzhou. The sport returns to the quadrennial event in Hangzhou. India have won four medals in Asian Games chess - two gold and two bronze medals. Koneru Humpy won both the gold medals at Doha 2006 in the womens individual and mixed team events. Asian Games 2023 Chess: India squad Men: D Gukesh, Vidit Gujrathi, Arjun Erigaisi, P Harikrishna and R Praggnanandhaa. Women: Koneru Humpy, D. Harika, R Vaishali, Vantika Aggarwal and Savitha Shri. Shooters and rowers added five medals to India's tally today at Hangzhou 2023 while the women's cricket team struck Gold defeating Bangladesh in the final. With this Gold India now have 11 medals at the Asian Games which includes 2 Gold, 3 Silver and 6 Bronze medals.(ANI)
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