India’s chess prodigies, together with D Gukesh, Nihal Sarin, and R Praggnanandhaa, have propelled the boys’s staff to second place, whereas the ladies’s staff holds third, holding medal hopes alive on the forty sixth Chess Olympiad.
IMAGE: R Praggnanandhaa throughout his match in opposition to Uzbekistan’s Jakhongir Vakhidov. {Photograph}: Rafal Oleksiewicz/FIDE
Key Factors
- Indian males’s staff secured a decisive 3.5-0.5 victory over Uzbekistan-2 within the tenth spherical, putting them in sole second place.
- The Indian girls’s staff drew 2-2 with leaders China, sustaining their third-place standing and medal aspirations.
- D Gukesh, Nihal Sarin, and R Praggnanandhaa have been instrumental within the males’s staff’s success with particular person wins.
- B Savitha Shri delivered a vital victory for the ladies’s staff, marking her eighth win within the occasion.
- Uzbekistan-1 leads the open part with 18 factors, whereas China holds the highest spot within the girls’s part, additionally with 18 factors.
World champion D Gukesh, GMs Nihal Sarin and R Praggnanandhaa once more confirmed the way in which because the Indian males scored a complete 3.5-0.5 victory over Uzbekistan-2 within the tenth and penultimate spherical of the forty sixth Chess Olympiad now in progress at Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on Saturday.
B Savitha Shri ensured the Indian girls survived after some anxious moments earlier than settling for a 2-2 draw with leaders China to maintain their hopes alive.
This was Savitha Shri’s eighth victory within the occasion, coming on the expense of Zhai Mo. She has a staggering 8.5 factors from her 9 video games.
Males’s Workforce Place And Medal Prospects
In the meantime within the Open part Uzbekistan-1 continued to stay forward on 18 factors following one other complete victory over Armenia.
The Uzbeks additionally scored a 3.5-0.5 victory; they presently look invincible.
Indian males, on 17, are in sole second spot and well-placed to win the silver medal.
Nonetheless, to repeat their gold medal-winning efficiency from the final Olympiad, they should win handsomely and in addition hope for Uzbekistan to lose their match.
Ladies’s Workforce Efficiency And Standings
Within the girls’s part, the Chinese language additionally took their tally to 18 factors and stay a full level forward of Kazakhstan, who moved to sole second spot after beating France 2.5-1.5.
The Indian eves are within the third place on 16 factors.
Key Particular person Contributions
Nihal Sarin was the primary to attain a victory within the match in opposition to Uzbekistan-2. The Indian grabbed a few pawns early along with his black items to drive issues in opposition to Mukhammadzokhid Suyarov.
GM Gukesh was the following to step in and Ortik Nigmatov was no match, whereas Arjun in the meantime drew on the second board.
Praggnanandhaa lastly scored over Jakhongir Vakhidov to finish the victory.
Open outcomes: Uzbekistan-1 (18) beat Armenia (15) 3.5-0.5; India (17) beat Uzbekistan-2 (15) 3.5-0.5 (R Praggnanandhaa beat Jakhongir Vakhidov; Arjun Erigaisi drew with Abdimalik Abdisalimov; Mukhammadzokhid Suyarov misplaced to Nihal Sarin; Ortik NIgmatov misplaced to D Gukesh).
Ladies outcomes: China (18) drew with India (16) 2-2; (Koneru Humpy drew with Zhu Jiner; Divya Deshmukh drew with Track Yuxin; Vantika Agrawal misplaced to Lu Miaoyi; B Savitha Shri beat Zhai Mo; Kazakhstan (17 beat France 2.5-1.5; Mongolia (15) misplaced to Poland (16) 1-3; Vietnam (16) beat Indonesia (14) 2.5-1.5).
