Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Chess News
At 40th World Chess Olympiad 2012, Istanbul, Turkey

Men's Round 1
(90) Wales l (13) India 0-4

IM Richard Jones (WAL,2393) l GM Pentala Harikrishna (IND,2685) 0-1
Tim Kett (WAL,2237) l GM Parimarjan Negi (IND,2664) 0-1
Richard Dineley (WAL,2259) l GM Abhijeet Gupta (IND,2637) 0-1
CM Iolo Jones (WAL,2243) l GM Geetha Narayanan Gopal (IND,2650) 0-1

Women's Round 1
(68) [Former Yugoslav Republic of] FYR Macedonia l (6) India 0-4

Bojana Bejatovic (MKD,1978) l GM Harika Dronavalli (IND,2503) 0-1
Monika Stojkovska (MKD,1939) l IM Eesha Sanjay Karavade (IND,2371) 0-1
Dragana Nikolovska (MKD,1828) l IM Tania Sachdev (IND,2379) 0-1
Simona Lakinska (MKD,1655) l WGM Swaminathan Soumya (IND,2271) 0-1

Our both teams started with expected , 0-4, dominating win against lowly rated opponents ... In the second round our men's team is facing young Turkish side, Turkey 2016 and women's side is facing Australia.

Table Tennis News

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