An excellent day for India

It was an excellent day for India. 4 wins and a draw out of six groups. And many issues went our means simply once we wanted them to. So, in some unspecified time in the future, what regarded like a traditional place between Shirov and Gukesh, all of a sudden began to show in Gukesh’s favour. His queenside was barely open, however he received a powerful pawn-mass within the centre. So, I used to be fairly hopeful there.

Adhiban was nursing a small benefit. I wasn’t certain it will truly turn out to be one thing. However that additionally went our means.

Unexpectedly Praggnanandhaa misplaced a place which he defended extraordinarily effectively and possibly shouldn’t have misplaced. One thing should have occurred in time-pressure. We might nonetheless win that match. Then India 1 didn’t appear to be producing a decisive outcome, however because it turned out, Mircia-Emilian Parligras received into hassle in opposition to Arjun. I feel he appeared to be doing effectively earlier. So one thing should have gone incorrect.

And completely India 1 will get a win, in order that’s two. Sethuraman and Abhimanyu (Puranik) managed to win. And that meant we might afford a defeat in Murali Karthikeyan’s sport. It’s a pity as a result of he’s making an attempt very laborious. However right now was simply not his day. And so every one among our males’s groups received their match.

Within the girls’s part, India 1 clinched it, because of Tania. Vaishali had a wonderful, even nerve-wracking encounter, the place in impact, she blundered a rook. However fortunately, precisely the place white rooks had been, she was in a position to get to attract regardless of being a rook down and an change (bishop for rook) down by with the ability to push her pawns. That was, you already know, fairly scary until you noticed the suitable variations. Humpy and Harika had stable performances.

India 2, sadly, simply by no means received going in opposition to Georgia. And that was fairly a convincing win for them. India 3 drew with Brazil after Pratyusha misplaced to Juliana Sayumi Terao. Peru did beat the US… so the US girls’s staff is having a few robust days.

Within the different matches within the Open part, the US had a outcome just like us in opposition to Israel, the place Dominguez received the match for them after the primary three boards ended as attracts. England misplaced to Armenia whereas France and Poland drew.

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August 02, 2022