Wednesday, August 29, 2012

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

Men's Round 2
(13) India bt (72) Turkey 2016 3-1

GM Krishnan Sasikiran (IND,2707) bt IM Burak Firat (TUR16,2423) 1-0 (W)
GM Parimarjan Negi (IND,2664) dw FM Cemil Can Ali Marandi (TUR16,2362) ½-½ (B)
GM Abhijeet Gupta (IND,2637) bt FM Vahap Sanal (TUR16,2387) 1-0 (W)
GM Geetha Narayanan Gopal (IND,2550) dw FM Muhammed Batuhan Dastan (TUR16,2317) ½-½ (B)

Women's Round 2
(6) India bt (50) Australia 3½-½

IM Eesha Karavade (IND,2371) bt WIM Arianne Caoili (AUS,2204) 1-0 (W)
IM Tania Sachdev (IND,2379) bt Sally Yu (AUS,1990) 1-0 (B)
WGM Mary Ann Gomes (IND,2396) bt IM Duc Hoa Nguyen (AUS,2505) 1-0 (W)
WGM Swaminathan Soumya (IND,2271) dw Biljana Novakovic-Dekic (AUS,2104) ½-½ (B)

Our both teams loses unnecessary 1 and ½ point respectively against lowly rated Turkey 2016 men's team and Australia women's team ... We need to avoid such slip-up to finish inside top 10.

Table Tennis News

At $70K ITTF Challenge Plus Oman Open 2020 , Muscat, Oman [R32] Harmeet Desai (IND,87) bt Jeremy Hazin (CAN,164) 4-0 (12-10, 11-8, 11-4,...