Thursday, August 30, 2012

At 40th World Chess Olympiad 2012, Istanbul, Turkey

Men's Round 3
(13) India bt (28) Slovenia 3-1

GM Krishnan Sasikiran (IND, 2707) dw GM Luka Lenic (SLO,2640) ½-½ (B)
GM P. Harikrishna (IND,2685) bt GM Alexander Beliavsky (SLO,2609) 1-0 (W)
GM Abhijeet Gupta (IND,2637) bt GM Matej Sebenik (SLO,2552) 1-0 (B)
GM Geetha Narayanan Gopal (IND,2550) dw GM Jure Skoberne (SLO,2552) ½-½ (W)

Women's Round 2
(6) India bt (8) Armenia 2½-1½

GM Harika Dronavalli (IND,2503) dw GM Elina Danielian (ARM,2476) ½-½ (B)
IM Eesha Karavade (IND,2371) dw IM Lilit Mkrtchian (ARM,2454) ½-½ (W)
IM Tania Sachdev (2379) bt IM Lilit Galojan (ARM,2349) 1-0 (B)
WGM Mary Ann Gomes (ARM,2396) dw WGM Maria Kursova (ARM,2338) ½-½ (W)

Sasikiran managed only draw with black but Abhijeet and Hari scored wins in their matches ... GN Gopal also hold higher rated Skoberne ... With this win we r still in top 10.

Our women side scored good win against 8th seed Armenian ... Tania Sachdev scored only important with black and Eesha Karavade hold higher rated Mkrtchian in their match ... Our women team is also remain in top 10 after three rounds.

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