India starts on a high note at Batumi Olympiad

Indian Team is supported by Ramco GroupTeam India had a rousing start in round 1 of the 43rd Olympiad 2018 Open & Women at Batumi, Georgia. With Viswanathan Anand being rested, the men’s team in the Open group eclipsed 3.5-0.5 win over El Salvador, Women’s team made a clean sweep 4-0 victory over their counterparts from New Zealand.

While the first three registered easy wins, Sasikiran was held to a draw in 52 moves on the last board by Carlos Burgos Figueroa, thereby denying India a perfect score.

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Bo.	5	India (IND)	Rtg	–	94	El Salvador (ESA)	Rtg	3½: ½
4.1	GM	Harikrishna, Pentala	2743	–	IM	Giron, Jorge Ernesto	2303	1 – 0
4.2	GM	Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi	2711	–	FM	Chavez, Ricardo Ernesto	2244	1 – 0
4.3	GM	Adhiban, B.	2668	–	FM	Arias, Daniel	2274	1 – 0
4.4	GM	Sasikiran, Krishnan	2672	–	IM	Burgos Figueroa, Carlos E.	2222	½ – ½

In the second round, India’s opponent will be Austria.

GM Koneru Humpy defeated New Zealand’s Helen Milligan in 36 moves with black and International Masters Eesha Karavade and Padmini Rout quickly made it 3-0 for the team.

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Playing on the second board, IM Tania Sachdev was in trouble in the middle game but she kept her nerves to fight back and turned things around in the endgame despite being a pawn down to win in 67 moves to take the team to a joint top spot with 55 others.

Bo.	78	New Zealand (NZL)	Rtg	–	5	India (IND)	Rtg	0 : 4
5.1	CM	Milligan, Helen	1942	–	GM	Koneru, Humpy	2557	0 – 1
5.2	WCM	Punsalan, Vyanla M	1932	–	IM	Tania, Sachdev	2400	0 – 1
5.3	WFM	Zhang, Jasmine Haomo	1899	–	IM	Karavade, Eesha	2374	0 – 1
5.4	WCM	Qin, Nicole Shu Yu	1790	–	IM	Padmini, Rout	2338	0 – 1

The Indian women’s team will now face Venezuela in the second round.

Team pairings – Open

Round 2 on 2018/09/25 at 16:30 IST
No.	SNo		Team	Team	Pts.	MP	Res.	:	Res.	MP	Pts.	Team	Team		SNo
1	65		GEO3	Georgia 3	4	2		:		2	4	United States of America	USA		1
2	2		RUS	Russia	4	2		:		2	4	Ireland	IRL		66
3	67		URU	Uruguay	4	2		:		2	4	France	FRA		7
4	10		ISR	Israel	4	2		:		2	4	Costa Rica	CRC		68
5	69		INA	Indonesia	4	2		:		2	4	Poland	POL		11
6	70		SCO	Scotland	4	2		:		2	4	Netherlands	NED		13
7	71		TJK	Tajikistan	4	2		:		2	4	Czech Republic	CZE		15
8	16		GER	Germany	4	2		:		2	4	Myanmar	MYA		72
9	18		CRO	Croatia	4	2		:		2	4	Monaco	MNC		73
10	74		JOR	Jordan	4	2		:		2	4	Peru	PER		19
11	20		ARG	Argentina	4	2		:		2	4	Mexico	MEX		75
12	79		SGP	Singapore	4	2		:		2	4	Romania	ROU		21
13	22		TUR	Turkey	4	2		:		2	4	Kosovo	KOS		80
14	81		LUX	Luxembourg	4	2		:		2	4	Iran	IRI		23
15	24		ESP	Spain	4	2		:		2	4	Dominican Republic	DOM		82
16	83		KGZ	Kyrgyzstan	4	2		:		2	4	Greece	GRE		25
17	26		SLO	Slovenia	4	2		:		2	4	South Africa	RSA		84
18	86		IRQ	Iraq	4	2		:		2	4	Vietnam	VIE		27
19	87		AND	Andorra	4	2		:		2	4	Brazil	BRA		29
20	32		SWE	Sweden	4	2		:		2	4	Tunisia	TUN		88
21	34		ITA	Italy	4	2		:		2	3½	Azerbaijan	AZE		4
22	5		IND	India	3½	2		:		2	4	Austria	AUT		35
23	36		UZB	Uzbekistan	4	2		:		2	3½	Ukraine	UKR		6
24	8		ARM	Armenia	3½	2		:		2	4	Kazakhstan	KAZ		37
25	38		NOR	Norway	4	2		:		2	3½	Georgia 1	GEO1		14

Team pairings – Women

Round 2 on 2018/09/25 at 16:30 IST
No.	SNo		Team	Team	Pts.	MP	Res.	:	Res.	MP	Pts.	Team	Team		SNo
1	54		TKM	Turkmenistan	4	2		:		2	4	Ukraine	UKR		2
2	5		IND	India	4	2		:		2	4	Venezuela	VEN		55
3	9		GER	Germany	4	2		:		2	4	Georgia 3	GEO3		56
4	11		AZE	Azerbaijan	4	2		:		2	4	Belgium	BEL		57
5	13		HUN	Hungary	4	2		:		2	4	FYROM	MKD		58
6	59		SWE	Sweden	4	2		:		2	4	Georgia 2	GEO2		14
7	15		ESP	Spain	4	2		:		2	4	Bangladesh	BAN		60
8	62		ISL	Iceland	4	2		:		2	4	Netherlands	NED		16
9	17		MGL	Mongolia	4	2		:		2	4	Bosnia & Herzegovina	BIH		63
10	19		VIE	Vietnam	4	2		:		2	4	ICCD	ICCD		64

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