Friendly Match Harika Dronavalli vs Zhu Jiner - Dec. 2022

Friendly match Harika Dronavalli vs Zhu Jiner

Watch Game 1 (60+30): https://lichess.org/wvb0NgmC

Watch Game 2 (60+30): https://lichess.org/EqoPa1W9

Watch game 3 (25+10): https://lichess.org/Qo9U2H6l

Watch game 4 (25+10): https://lichess.org/5Ul2luYt

Watch game 5 (5+3): https://lichess.org/Me0HR7m1

Watch game 6 (5+3): https://lichess.org/cXnsSy5o

Watch game 7 (5+3): https://lichess.org/OMBTY0Ne

Watch game 8 (5+3): https://lichess.org/yDJ0Echg

Players

Zhu Jiner (China - WGM - 2486)
Zhu Jiner, with a rating of 2486, is currently ranked first in the world among girls under 20.

Zhu Jiner was born on November 16, 2002 in Jiaxing, Zhejiang. Zhejiang is a famous place for Chinese chess talents, with Women's World Champions Zhu Chen and Xu Yuhua, and Ding Liren who will compete for the title of World Chess Champion, and Lu Shanglei, a member of the 2022 World Team Championship Champion team, and Ding Yixin, a member of the 2019 Women's World Team Championship team.

In October 2016, Zhu Jiner won the FIDE World Youth Championship in U14 category. In May 2019, she won the National Women's Individual Championship. In October 2019, she won the Zonal Tournament . In November 2021, she became the third place in the FIDE Women's Grand Swiss Tournament .

In 2020, Zhu Jiner became Women's Grandmaster (WGM). At the 2019 SCO Open and the 2021 Women's Grand Swiss Tournament, Zhu Jiner scored 2 GM norms.

Harika Dronavalli (IND - GM - 2507)
Harika Dronavalli, with a rating of 2507, is currently ranked 12th in the world.

Born on January 12, 1991, in the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh, India, Harika obtained the silver medal in the 2000 World Youth Girl’s U10 Championships, with one more U12 silver medal 2001.

In 2003, she became the youngest Women's International Master (WIM) in Asia. In 2004, she became the youngest Women's Grandmaster (WGM) in Asia.

In 2006, she won the World Youth U18 category at 15 years old. In 2008, she won the World Girls Championship (U20).

In 2010, she won the Commonwealth Women's Championship. In 2011, she won the Asian Women's Individual Championship. In the same year, she became the second Indian woman ever and the 26th female player in chess history to covet the Grandmaster (GM) title.

In 2012, 2015 and 2017, she reached the semifinals of the Women's World Championship three times in a row.

In 2021, she was the runner-up of the FIDE Women's World Team Championship. In 2022, she was the third place in the Chess Olympiad.

Schedule
The match consists in 8 games:

• 2 Standard games - rate of play 60' + 30" per move
• 2 Rapid games - rate of play 25' + 10" per move
• 4 Blitz games - rate of play 5' + 3" per move

Saturday 10 December 2022 - 15:30 Beijing time (07:30 GMT)
1st Game Standard

Sunday 11 December 2022 - 15:30 Beijing time (07:30 GMT)
2nd Game Standard

Monday 12 December 2022 - 15:30 Beijing time (07:30 GMT)
Rapid games session

Monday 12 December 2022 - 18:30 Beijing time (10:30 GMT)
Blitz games session