Koneru Humpy held China’s Tingjie Lei to a comfortable draw, while Divya Deshmukh’s solid defence frustrated former women’s world champion Zhongyi Tan in the first game of the FIDE Women’s World Cup semi-finals here on Tuesday.

Both Indians played their respective first games with black pieces and will then fight with white pieces in an attempt to progress to the final.

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