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

Men's Round 5
(13) India dw (11) England 2-2

GM Krishnan Sasikiran (IND,2707) dw GM Michael Adams (ENG,2722) ½-½ (W)
GM Pentala Harikrishna (IND,2685) dw GM Gawain Jones (ENG,2653) ½-½ (B)
GM Parimarjan Negi (IND,2664) dw GM Nigel Short (ENG,2698) ½-½ (W)
GM Abhijeet Gupta (IND,2637) dw GM Nicholas Pert (ENG,2555) ½-½ (B)

Women's Round 5
(6) India l (1) China ½-3½

GM Harika Dronavalli (IND,2503) dw GM Yifan Hou (CHN,2599) ½-½ (B)
IM Eesha Sanjay Karavade (IND,2371) l GM Xue Zhao (CHN,2549) 0-1 (W)
IM Tania Sachdev (IND,2379) l WGM Wenjun Ju (CHN,2528) 0-1 (B)
WGM Mary Ann Gomes (IND,2396) l WGM Qian Huang (CHN,2449) 0-1 (W)

Indian men managed to hold higher rated British team ... On the first board Sasi hold higher Elo rated Michael Adams after 31 moves ... Hari and Abhijeet also managed draw against their respective opponents ... Parimarjan Negi also hold highly experienced Nigel Short in entertaining match.

But our women had disappointing one-sided loss against higher rated and top-seed Chinese team ... Only Harika managed draw against world champion Yifan Hou.