Tuesday, September 04, 2012

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

Men's Round 7
(13) India dw (29) Argentina 2-2

GM Krishnan Sasikiran (IND,2707) dw GM Fernando Peralta (ARG,2606) ½-½ (B)
GM Pentala Harikrishna (IND,2685) dw GM Diego Flores (ARG,2589) ½-½ (W)
GM Parimarjan Negi (IND,2664) l GM Ruben Felgaer (ARG,2570) 0-1 (B)
GM Abhijeet Gupta (IND,2637) bt GM Sandro Mareco (ARG,2589) 1-0 (W)

Women's Round 7
(6) India bt (49) Estonia 3-1

GM Harika Dronavalli (IND,2503) bt WIM Monika Tsiganova (EST,2164) 1-0 (B)
IM Tania Sachdev (IND,2379) bt WIM Tatjana Fomina (EST,2189) 1-0 (W)
WGM Mary Ann Gomes (IND,2396) bt WIM Triin Narva (EST,2028) 1-0 (B)
WGM Swaminathan Soumya (IND,2271) l WIM Regina Narva (EST,2042) 0-1 (W)

Very bad result for Indian men ... Our highly rated Sasi and Hari managed only draw against lowly rated Argentine in just 31 and 32 moves respectively in top two boards ... Negi lost playing with black against GM Ruben Felgaer in 36 moves ... Abhijeet saved a day for India after scoring hard fought win after 69 moves ... This was fouth draw in a row for Indian men ... Now they r on 14th position.

Other hand our women team missed chance of scoring all four wins ... Our all players from top three boards scored convincing win but surprisingly young Soumya lost against more than 200 points lower rated Estonian player in 44 moves ... Harika won on top boars in 41 moves ... Tania and Mary scored win in less moves ... Tania won it in 33 moves and Mary won it in 35 moves ... With this win Indian women moved to 8th position.

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