Indian Grand Master Harika Dronavalli beat England’s Martin P Burrows in her round four match to continue her good run at the Reykjavik Open at the Herpa Concert Hall on Friday.
With three wins and a draw in four outings, the world No 11 Indian has amassed a total of 3.5 points.
Playing in white pieces, Harika approached the game with a different strategy to catch her lower-ranked opponent off-guard from the early stages and capitalised on her opponent’s errors to wrap up the three-hour long tie in 30 moves.
“I had chosen a side line from the opening stages of the game which my opponent was not aware of. This strategy baffled him and he started playing over the board,” Harika said after the game.
“Even though the game lasted for three hours, my opponent found it hard to catch up to my strategy and made positional errors in inferior positions which I exploited and won the game,” she added.