Indian Grandmaster Harika Dronavalli has started her campaign in style at the Master's Tournament of the Abu Dhabi International Chess Festival in Abu Dhabi. Playing with white pieces, World No. 9 Harika beat compatriot Mithil Ajgaonkar in a game that lasted three and a half hours. Harika will take on the third seed Rauf Mamedov from Azerbaijan in her second-round encounter. The Abu Dhabi International Chess Festival will offer an impressive prize purse of 36,100 US Dollars to the top-10 players competing in the Master's category. The winner of the tournament will bag an amount of 13,000 US Dollars, while the second placed player will pocket 7,500 Dollars. The player who finishes Third will get 5,500 US Dollars. There will also be impressive cash prizes for the best women's player and best player under 2400 ELO points category.