Grandmaster Rameshbabu Vaishali and Vantika Agrawal put on a brilliant showing to beat Lela Javakhishvili and Bella Khotenashvili at the 45th Chess Olympiad on Wednesday, September 18. (More Sports News)
The victory also meant that the Indಞian women’s team continued to ride the momentum wave to register yet another thumping 3-1 win to extend their unbeaten run at the event.
ꦿIndian women’s side have now💛 won all their seven rounds.
On a day that saw D Harika settling for a draw with Nana Dzagnidze, Divya Deshmukh held by Nino Batsiashvili from a better position, it was Vantika, who handled her time pressure extremely well to play almost 20 moves with just about a minute on h♎er clock to win her game. 💝;
It was finally left to 🔯Vaishali to record a fine technical win to hand the women's team its seventhꦍ straight win.
The 45th Chess Olympiad's format is played in a Swiss system.&ওnbsp;
According to the rules, each round💎 sees four players from each team take on four from the other, with a spot for the reserved player who can be used as a substitute in between the rounds. 🧔;
The four games are played at🥂 the same time on four boards in replaced colours, with one game point allotte🌌d for a win and half game point for a draw.
Scores from each game are added to determine which team takes the round. If a team wins the round, they are awarded two points, regardless of tꦍhe game point margin, while a draw earns only a match point.
The Indian women took theiඣr tally to an impressive 14 points out of a possible 14 and stayed ahead of nearest rival Poland that was about to regis𝐆ter a victory over Ukraine.
(With PTI Inputs)
