World Team Chess Championship begins; India starts with two draws

Indian team consists of Vidit Gujarathi, Nihal Sarin, S L Naryanan, Sethuraman S P, K Sasikiran, Abhijeet Gupta and non-playing Captain Vaibhav Suri pooled along with Azerbaijan, USA, Olympiad winners Uzbekistan, Poland and host Israel. In the opening match, India held to a draw by the host Israel as all the four games ended without decisive results and in second match India split the point with Poland.

In the third and fourth matches in the group stage on Monday, India takes on Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan respectively.

Photo : FIDE/Mark Livshitz