Joint holders India drew with Slovenia to high Pool B, combining Hungary and Moldova on the 2021 FIDE Online Olympiad. In the final version, India shared the respect with Russia final yr.
In the group matches, India, seeded third behind China and Russia, defeated Hungary 4–2 and secured a 5–1 victory over Moldova, who secured their spot with one spherical, whereas the ultimate spherical in opposition to Slovenia. Helped 3-3 within the draw. They have 16 factors and are in first place and stay unbeaten.
Viswanathan Anand and Harika have been rested within the match in opposition to Moldova.
In the primary spherical, India defeated Egypt 6–0, Sweden 4–2 and France 3–3, Shenzhen China 5–1, Azerbaijan 4–2 and Belarus 3.5–2.5.
The Indians scored effectively with Anand, 4 factors from three wins and two attracts from 5 matches, adopted by Vidit Gujrathi (3.5/5), P Harikrishna (2.5/4), B Adhiban (3.5/4), Ok. Hampi (3/) was ranked. 5), D Harika (1.5/3), Tania Sachdev (3.5/5), Bhakti Kulkarni (4/5), Nihal Sarin (4/4), R Pragyananand 3/5, R Vaishali (4.5/6) and Savita Shree (0.5/3).
Hungary completed second after India in Pool B with 15 factors to qualify for the quarter-finals.
India will tackle Ukraine within the quarterfinals on Monday the place Anand and Vasily Ivanchuk would be the most important attraction. The 51-year-old former world champion has the higher hand over Ivanchuk with 13 wins, together with 45 attracts.
“Oh… the whole team is excited about the knockouts. We have a good team and top-class players across all boards and we are all looking forward to it,” mentioned GM Srinath Narayanan, the non-playing captain of the Indian group.
The two-day break has given full relaxation to your entire group whereas some Chennai gamers together with Anand went to his home whereas others stayed of their lodge rooms. 27-year-old Srinath, who can be Grandmaster Nihal Sareen’s private coach, instructed indianexpress.com on Sunday, “Everyone was resting while there was a lot of preparation, including workouts and preparation for the competition.”
The quarter-finals will conclude on Wednesday with the ultimate to be held on Wednesday.
At least 1717 are competing, together with 209 GMs and 244 IMs from 155 international locations.
Indian group: GM Viswanathan Anand, Vidit Gujrathi, P Harikrishna, and B Adhiban (open class); GM Koneru Humpy and D Harika and Women General Managers Tania Sachdev and R Vaishali, Bhakti Kulkarni (Women’s Category), GM Nihal Sareen and R Pragyananand (Junior Open) and WGM R Vaishali and Women Fied Master Savita Sri (Junior Girls).
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
