National Teams Championship Rd.2-6: PSPB dominates

Odisha: The Petroleum Sports Promotion Board (PSPB) is dominating in both Open and Women categories in 2018 National Teams Chess Championship, which is being held at KIIT University, Bhubaneshwar. In the open section, PSPB stamped their dominance by amassing 6 match points in a row. One point behind the leader is Airport Authority of India (AAI) and Life Insurance Corporation (LIC).

GM Surya Shekar Ganguly (PSPB) scored a important victory over GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J. (Railways-A) in the sixth match.

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In the earlier match, GM Adhiban Baskaran (PSPB) defeated GM Laxman R.R (Railways-B) in a 32 move battle.

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Team pairings

Team Women

Team PSPB is leading in the women’s category with 4.0/4 match points. Notably, in the second match, host team Odisha-KIIT held higher rated Air India to a draw.

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Team pairings

Photos by I.A Gopakumar Sudhakaran