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ప్రపంచ బ్లిట్జ్ చెస్ ఛాంపియన్షిప్లో హంపి@12 - World Women's Blitz Chess Championship 2019: Koneru Humpy Finishes 12th position
మాస్కో వేదికగా ప్రపంచ ర్యాపిడ్ చెస్ ఛాంపియన్షిప్లో స్వర్ణం గెలిచిన తెలుగమ్మాయి కోనేరు హంపి.. బ్లిట్జ్ విభాగంలో 12వ స్థానంతో సరిపెట్టుకుంది. అగ్రస్థానంలో నిలిచిన రష్యా మహిళా గ్రాండ్మాస్టర్ లాగ్నో కేథరినా టైటిల్ గెలిచింది. పురుషుల్లో నార్వేకు చెందిన మాగ్నస్ కార్ల్సన్ విజేతగా నిలిచాడు.
ప్రపంచ బ్లిట్జ్ చెస్ ఛాంపియన్షిప్లో హంపి@12
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Published : Dec 31, 2019, 7:27 PM IST
పెళ్లయిన రెండేళ్ల తర్వాత పునరాగమనం చేసిన చదరంగ ధ్రువతార, తెలుగమ్మాయి కోనేరు హంపి... ఈ ఏడాది అద్భుతమైన ప్రదర్శనతో రాణించింది. ఇటీవలే భారత్కు ప్రపంచ ర్యాపిడ్ చెస్ ఛాంపియన్షిప్లో స్వర్ణం అందించింది. తాజాగా బ్లిట్జ్ విభాగంలో మరో పతకం ఆశించినా, అభిమానులకు నిరాశే ఎదురైంది. ఇందులో 12వ స్థానానికే పరిమితమైంది హంపి.
రేసులో నిలబడి.. తర్వాత వెనుకబడి
బ్లిట్జ్లో 14వ రౌండ్‌ వరకు రెండో స్థానంలో కొనసాగింది హంపి. కచ్చితంగా ఏదో ఒక పతకం తెస్తుందని అంతా భావించారు. అయితే వరుసగా 15, 16, 17వ రౌండ్‌ల్లో ఓడిపోయిన ఆమె... పతక అవకాశాలను చేజార్చుకుంది. చివరికి 17 రౌండ్ల తర్వాత 10.5 పాయింట్లతో నిలిచింది. టైబ్రేక్‌ స్కోరు ఆధారంగా ర్యాంక్‌ను వర్గీకరించగా ఈ సీనియర్ క్రీడాకారిణికి 12వ స్థానం దక్కింది.
రష్యాలోని మాస్కో వేదికగా ముగిసిన బ్లిట్జ్ విభాగంలో 12.5 పాయింట్లతో అగ్రస్థానంలో నిలిచింది అదే దేశానికి చెందిన మహిళా గ్రాండ్మాస్టర్ లాగ్నో కేథరినా. ఆ తర్వాత టైటిల్ గెలుచుకుంది. పురుషుల్లో నార్వేకు చెందిన మాగ్నస్ కార్ల్సన్ విజేతగా నిలిచాడు. మరో తెలుగమ్మాయి ద్రోణవల్లి హారిక (10 పాయింట్లు) 25వ ర్యాంకు సొంతం చేసుకుంది.
పురుషుల్లో మాగ్నస్ కార్ల్సన్ హ్యాట్రిక్‌ కొట్టాడు. ఇప్పటికే ప్రపంచ క్లాసిక్‌ విజేతగా నిలిచిన అతడు.. తాజాగా ముగిసిన ర్యాపిడ్‌తో పాటు బ్లిట్జ్ టోర్నీల్లోనూ టైటిల్ కైవసం చేసుకున్నాడు. బ్లిట్జ్లో 21 రౌండ్లలో 14.5 పాయింట్లతో కార్ల్సన్ అగ్రస్థానంలో నిలిచాడు.
ర్యాపిడ్లో చరిత్ర
భారత మహిళల చెస్ నంబర్ వన్గా ఉన్న కోనేరు హంపి.. ఇటీవలే ముగిసిన ప్రపంచ టోర్నీలో తొలిసారి ప్రపంచ ర్యాపిడ్ ఛాంపియన్‌గా నిలిచింది. ప్లేఆఫ్స్‌లో చైనా గ్రాండ్మాస్టర్ లీ టింగ్‌జీని ఓడించి టైటిల్ అందుకుంది. 2015లో మహిళల ప్రపంచ చెస్ ఛాంపియన్షిప్లో కాంస్యం, ఈ ఏడాది ఫిడే మహిళల గ్రాండ్‌ప్రిలో స్వర్ణం సాధించిన హంపికి.. ఇదే తొలి ప్రపంచ టైటిల్. భారత్ తరఫున మహిళల విభాగంలోనూ మొదటి ప్రపంచ టైటిల్ సాధించి, చరిత్ర సృష్టించింది.
పెళ్లయిన రెండేళ్ల తర్వాత పునరాగమనం చేసిన చదరంగ ధ్రువతార, తెలుగమ్మాయి కోనేరు హంపి... ఈ ఏడాది అద్భుతమైన ప్రదర్శనతో రాణించింది. ఇటీవలే భారత్కు ప్రపంచ ర్యాపిడ్ చెస్ ఛాంపియన్షిప్లో స్వర్ణం అందించింది. తాజాగా బ్లిట్జ్ విభాగంలో మరో పతకం ఆశించినా, అభిమానులకు నిరాశే ఎదురైంది. ఇందులో 12వ స్థానానికే పరిమితమైంది హంపి.
రేసులో నిలబడి.. తర్వాత వెనుకబడి
బ్లిట్జ్లో 14వ రౌండ్‌ వరకు రెండో స్థానంలో కొనసాగింది హంపి. కచ్చితంగా ఏదో ఒక పతకం తెస్తుందని అంతా భావించారు. అయితే వరుసగా 15, 16, 17వ రౌండ్‌ల్లో ఓడిపోయిన ఆమె... పతక అవకాశాలను చేజార్చుకుంది. చివరికి 17 రౌండ్ల తర్వాత 10.5 పాయింట్లతో నిలిచింది. టైబ్రేక్‌ స్కోరు ఆధారంగా ర్యాంక్‌ను వర్గీకరించగా ఈ సీనియర్ క్రీడాకారిణికి 12వ స్థానం దక్కింది.
రష్యాలోని మాస్కో వేదికగా ముగిసిన బ్లిట్జ్ విభాగంలో 12.5 పాయింట్లతో అగ్రస్థానంలో నిలిచింది అదే దేశానికి చెందిన మహిళా గ్రాండ్మాస్టర్ లాగ్నో కేథరినా. ఆ తర్వాత టైటిల్ గెలుచుకుంది. పురుషుల్లో నార్వేకు చెందిన మాగ్నస్ కార్ల్సన్ విజేతగా నిలిచాడు. మరో తెలుగమ్మాయి ద్రోణవల్లి హారిక (10 పాయింట్లు) 25వ ర్యాంకు సొంతం చేసుకుంది.
పురుషుల్లో మాగ్నస్ కార్ల్సన్ హ్యాట్రిక్‌ కొట్టాడు. ఇప్పటికే ప్రపంచ క్లాసిక్‌ విజేతగా నిలిచిన అతడు.. తాజాగా ముగిసిన ర్యాపిడ్‌తో పాటు బ్లిట్జ్ టోర్నీల్లోనూ టైటిల్ కైవసం చేసుకున్నాడు. బ్లిట్జ్లో 21 రౌండ్లలో 14.5 పాయింట్లతో కార్ల్సన్ అగ్రస్థానంలో నిలిచాడు.
ర్యాపిడ్లో చరిత్ర
భారత మహిళల చెస్ నంబర్ వన్గా ఉన్న కోనేరు హంపి.. ఇటీవలే ముగిసిన ప్రపంచ టోర్నీలో తొలిసారి ప్రపంచ ర్యాపిడ్ ఛాంపియన్‌గా నిలిచింది. ప్లేఆఫ్స్‌లో చైనా గ్రాండ్మాస్టర్ లీ టింగ్‌జీని ఓడించి టైటిల్ అందుకుంది. 2015లో మహిళల ప్రపంచ చెస్ ఛాంపియన్షిప్లో కాంస్యం, ఈ ఏడాది ఫిడే మహిళల గ్రాండ్‌ప్రిలో స్వర్ణం సాధించిన హంపికి.. ఇదే తొలి ప్రపంచ టైటిల్. భారత్ తరఫున మహిళల విభాగంలోనూ మొదటి ప్రపంచ టైటిల్ సాధించి, చరిత్ర సృష్టించింది.
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLY
SHOTLIST:
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Mediterranean Sea north of Libya - 8 September 2019
1. 50 migrants on blue rubber boat before being rescued
2. European Union monitoring plane flying over
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Mediterranean Sea north of Libya - 18 September 2019
3. Ocean Viking humanitarian ship rescuers lifting child from rubber boat
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Mediterranean Sea north of Libya - 8 September 2019
4. Rescued migrants being taken to safety aboard Ocean Viking
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Mediterranean Sea north of Libya - 23 September 2019
5. Various of migrants observing map of Europe
6. Migrants gathered at stern
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Mediterranean Sea north of Libya - 20 September 2019
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Awudi Baluduzzi, 27, from Ghana:
"At that time I didn't have money, so they started beating me every day, asking me to call my parents for the money. They started beating me all over my body. They beat me beat me, I called my mother, my mother put 1,500 Ghanaian cedi (approximately 240 euros, 270 US dollars) for them. Even that 1,500, already they've beaten me, see my hand, see my hand is broken."
8. Baluduzzi showing how his captors broke his hand
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Mediterranean Sea north of Libya - 19 September 2019
9. Mid of Orobosa Bright, 37, from Nigeria showing his scars UPSOUND (English) "They beat me, look at my leg, this is from Osama (Al-Nasr detention centre)."
10. Close of Bright showing damage to his teeth UPSOUND (English) "My teeth, can I show you? ……They broke it."
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Orobosa Bright, 37, from Nigeria:
"After they took the money they beat hell from me. It is only God in heaven that said I would not die in Libya."
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Mediterranean Sea north of Libya - 23 September 2019
12. Various of migrant who does not want his identity revealed out of fear for his safety, drawing and describing al-Nasr Martyrs detention centre in Zawiya
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Mediterranean Sea north of Libya - 20 September 2019
13. Wide of migrants eating
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Mediterranean Sea north of Libya - 14 September 2019
14. Various of Amidou Djibroula, 26, from Cameroon
15. SOUNDBITE (French) Amidou Djibroula, 26, from Cameroon:
"They came to get us in prison, saying it was work but when we got there we realized it was weapons, but you are forced to do it."
16. Close of Djibroula
17. SOUNDBITE (French) Amidou Djibroula, 26, from Cameroon:
"When I say they (al-Nasr militia) are complicit with the coast guard it is true, I'm not lying, it is true. Because he has boats, when his brothers sends boats to sea you'll only get a few meters out and Osama sends his own boats to intercept you at sea, and once they catch you, the same materials (engine) are used again by him or by his brothers."
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Mediterranean Sea north of Libya - 16 September 2019
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18. Empty rubber boat missing engine after an interception, likely the engine will be reused by smugglers
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Mediterranean Sea north of Libya - 8 September 2019
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19. Close of radars monitoring area for boats
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20. Various of Ocean Viking rescuers in control room looking into binoculars at sunrise
21. Waves at sunrise
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Mediterranean Sea north of Libya - 22 September 2019
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22. Various of Christian migrants praying at sunrise
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Mediterranean Sea north of Libya - 3 September 2019
23. Close of wave crashing
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Ben Gardane, Tunisia - 23 September 2019
24. Close of Tunisian flag
25. Wide of road sign
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Ben Gardane, Tunisia - 23 September 2019
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26. Various of Sudanese migrant Abdullah
27. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdullah, no last name for fear of retaliation, from Sudan:
"We talked to him (captor) and asked him, why did you let us out and then arrest us?"
SEA-EYE HANDOUT - AP CLIENTS ONLY
ARCHIVE: Mediterranean Sea north of Libya - 26 October 2019
28. Men from the so-called "Zuwara Coastal Security" in speedboat with a machine gun mounted on top and Libyan flag, men signaling to crew on board the Sea-Eye ship Alan Kurdi
29. Migrants packed in dinghy wearing life vests distributed by Sea-Eye and migrants in life-jackets swimming to Alan Kurdi rescue boat as Libyan boat with gun stands nearby
30. Wide of migrant boat and Libyan boat, UPSOUND of gunshot
31. Rescuer on Alan Kurdi UPSOUND (English) "They just shot in the air, but I think they are serious now."
32. Alan Kurdi rescue dinghies (on the right) as Libyan ship moves close to the boat with migrants, person in the water
33. Migrants in life jackets jumping in the water from the Libyan boat as it's speeding, then one migrant swims towards Alan Kurdi
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Brussels - 21 November 2019
34. Wide of European Parliament
35. SOUNDBITE (English) Maciej Popowski, the deputy director-general for EU enlargement policy:
"We are very worried by the ongoing violations of human rights and inhumane conditions of migrants and refugees in Libya, in particular those 4,400 of them kept in the detention centers."
36. Wide of Parliament
37. SOUNDBITE (English) Clare Daly, member of the European Parliament:
"It is the EU's aerial assets which spot boats in distress, have contacted the Libyan coast guard allowing militias to intercept these people return them into slavery and trafficking, and we talk about concern for human rights and it is an absolutel double-speak and hypocrisy and I'm getting frankly sick of it at these meetings because we hear an awful lot about it. We are the ones culpable in this."
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Mediterranean Sea north of Libya - 22 September 2019
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38. Various of migrants sleeping in orange "survival bags"
39. Various of Muslim migrants praying at sunrise
STORYLINE:
When the European Union started funneling millions of euros into Libya to slow the tide of migrants crossing the Mediterranean, the money came with promises to improve detention centres notorious for abuse and human trafficking.
That hasn't happened.
Instead, the misery of migrants in Libya has spawned a thriving and highly lucrative web of businesses funded in part by the EU and enabled by the United Nations, an Associated Press investigation has found.
The EU has sent more than 327.9 million euros to Libya largely funneled through UN agencies.
The AP found in a country without a functioning government, huge sums of European money have been diverted to intertwined networks of militiamen, traffickers and coast guard members who exploit migrants.
In some cases, this was done with the knowledge of UN officials.
The militias torture, extort and otherwise abuse migrants for ransoms in detention centres under the nose of the UN, often in compounds which receive millions in European money, the AP investigation showed.
Many migrants also simply disappear from detention centres, and are sold to traffickers or to other centres.
An AP journalist embedded on a European humanitarian ship sailing the Mediterranean for nearly three weeks spoke to dozens of migrants who were abused in Libya.
Awudi Baluduzzi left Ghana in 2015 looking for work to support his family.
After reaching Libya he was kidnapped and sold to several traffickers who either extorted him or used him in unpaid labour.
They demanded he pay a ransom in exchange for his freedom.
"They started beating me every day, asking me to call my parents for the money," recalled the 27-year-old man.
His mother sent his captors the equivalent of 270 US dollars, but by then, his hand had been shattered by his captors.
After a few months working informal construction jobs he paid smugglers 1,800 dinars and gave in his Samsung smartphone in exchange for a spot on a precarious rubber boat with a faulty engine to Europe.
Luckily his boat would not be intercepted and returned to a detention centre in Libya.
Instead he was rescued by the Ocean Viking, a ship operated jointly by SOS Méditerranée and Médecins Sans Frontières, also known as Doctors Without Borders.
About 5,000 migrants in Libya are crowded into between 16 and 23 detention centres at any given time, depending on who is counting and when.
Aid intended for migrants helps support the al-Nasr Martyrs detention centre, named for the militia that controls it, in the western coastal town of Zawiya.
Men and women rescued by the Ocean Viking told AP about their time in Zawiya.
They recalled being cut, shot and whipped with electrified hoses and hit with wooden boards.
They also heard the screams of others emerging from the cell blocks off-limits to UN aid workers.
Orobosa Bright of Nigeria endured three stints in Zawiya for a total of 11 months after being intercepted at sea.
Bright was even placed in solitary confinement once, after militiamen found money he was hiding in his pants.
"After they took the money they beat hell from me," said Bright.
"It is only God in heaven that said I would not die in Libya."
Beyond the direct abuse of migrants, the militia network also profits by siphoning off money from EU funds sent for their food and security.
Bright says he saw food shipments being split, leaving only half of it for the prisoners.
Many of the goods end up on Libya's black market as well, Libyan officials and international aid workers say.
The same militias conspire with some members of Libyan coast guard units.
The coast guard gets training and equipment from Europe to keep migrants away from its shores.
But coast guard members return some migrants to the detention centres under deals with militias, the AP found, and receive bribes to let others pass en route to Europe.
"When his brothers send boats to sea you'll only get a few metres out and Osama sends his own boats to intercept you at sea," said Amidou Djibroula, a Cameroonian who spent five weeks in various parts of the Zawiya, referring to one of the detention centre guards known as Osama.
Djibroula says he was also forced to work for free and even taken at night to the desert to dig out weapons buried underground.
After the tasks were completed, he and the other migrants who had been chosen for the job were returned to the detention centre.
"You are forced to do it," he said.
The story of Abdullah, a Sudanese man who made two attempts to flee Libya, shows just how lucrative the cycle of trafficking and interception really is.
All told, the group of 47 in his first crossing from Tripoli over a year ago had paid a uniformed Libyan 127,000 US dollars for the chance to leave their detention centre and cross in two boats.
They were then intercepted in a coast guard boat by the same uniformed Libyan, shaken down for their cell phones and more money, and tossed back into detention.
"We talked to him and asked him, 'why did you let us out and then arrest us?'" said Abdullah, who asked that only his first name be used because he was afraid of retaliation.
They were then beaten.
Abdullah ended up in the al-Nasr Martyrs detention centre in Zawiya and later scraped together another ransom payment and crossing fee.
Last July, he and 18 others paid 48,000 US dollars in total for a boat with a malfunctioning engine that sputtered to a stop within hours.
After a few days stuck at sea off the Libyan coast under a sweltering sun, they threw a dead man overboard and waited for their own lives to end.
Instead, they were rescued on their ninth day at sea by Tunisian fishermen, who took them back to Tunisia.
In another sea rescue in October migrants barely made it onto a German NGO boat.
Armed men belonging to the so-called "Zuwara Coastal Security" arrived on scene interrupting the rescue and threatened the Alan Kurdi ship as it tried to pull 90 migrants from the water.
"They just shot in the air," said one of the rescuers as one of the men fired a machine gun from a white speedboat. "I think they are serious now."
The migrants could have paid 90,000 US dollars in future ransoms if they had been caught and returned to Libya.
In the end, all were rescued and disembarked safely in Europe.
The incident highlighted the lengths that armed groups are willing to go to catch migrants.
Despite their roles in the operation of the detention system in Libya, both the EU and the UN say they want the centres closed.
In a statement to the AP, the EU said that under international law, it is not responsible for what goes on inside the centres.
"Libyan authorities have to provide the detained refugees and migrants with adequate and quality food while ensuring that conditions in detention centres uphold international agreed standards," the statement said.
The UN says it is doing its best in a place where staff on the ground operate in dangerous conditions on limited information.
"We are very worried by the on-going violations of human rights and inhumane conditions of migrants and refugees in Libya, in particular those 4,400 of those kept in the detention centre," Maciej Popowski, the deputy director-general for EU enlargement policy, told the bloc's lawmakers in late November.
He was speaking during a debate on the situation of migrants in Libya following the recent deterioration of stability in the country currently engulfed in a civil war.
Critics of the EU say funding, training and cooperation with the Libyan coast guard to stop migrants from reaching Europe is ill-conceived from the beginning.
Irish EU member of parliament Clare Daly refuted Popowski's claims in Brussels.
"It is the EU's aerial assets which spot boats in distress, have contacted the Libyan coast guard allowing militias to intercept these people, return them into slavery and trafficking and we talk about concern for human rights," Daly told a mainly empty room of lawmakers.
"We are the ones culpable in this!" she exclaimed.
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