Italy Shocks Norway On Day Of Endgames, Estonian Grandmaster Faints At Board
Italy caused a surprising defeat in Norwegian’s third seed with a convincing score of 3-1 in the third round of the 44th Fide Chess Olympiad, because the Netherlands and India 2 each scored an impressive 4-0 victory against Sweden and Switzerland. India, US, Spain, Poland and Azerbaijan are among the winners who oversee the ultimate podium among a total of 20 teams with six matches. In an annoyed victory, GM Poland Radoslaw Wojtaszek was defeated by GM Temur Kuybokarov from Australia.
After around playing hours, Estonia GM melis Kanep fainted during the match and was rushed to the hospital, where the condition is currently believed to be stable.
Olympiad Chess Female Fide -44 saw 19 teams leading with six matches, including the favorite of India, Ukraine, Georgia, Poland, France, and Azerbaijan medals. The 28th seed Mongolia made a big disappointment by defeating the seventh-seeded US with an interesting 3-1 difference. What is famous among matches is the great victory of Wim Turmunkh Munkhzul over American Im Carissa Yip.
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Arena Olympiad
In addition to the actual playroom, Olympiad Chennai also hosts many activities. Many occur in the exhibition of the hall with a crowd and extraordinary busyness. There are many visitors, and there are quite special.
Open section
In dramatic development for each tournament, the fourth board player Estonia Kanep (2417), 39, fainted around the end of the playing hours and was rushed to the hospital with an ambulance. His opponent in Jamaica, Jaden Shaw (1930) respectfully agreed to a draw. At the end of the game that suddenly, the cantep with black pieces has an extra fortress and will send as troops forcibly in several movements. This is the position after 39 … kg7:
The American team’s victory over Georgia with a 3-1 margin featured two brilliant endgames. GM Levon Aronian produces creative beauty with the dominance of “non-proverbial” from the fort and a knight vs. fortress and a bishop, resembles the legendary Soviet composer of the 20th century:
When Aronian was busy doing Genrikh Kasparyan, GM Sam Shankland decided to do Tigran Petosian!
India scored an impressive 3-1 victory over Greece, the most swashbuckling victory that came to Blitzkrieg GM Harikrishna at The Black Kingside with the sacrifice of the twin bishops, which was our game that day.
Day visited the press center afterwards and produced a big smile when reminded that before the third round of Kingside attack, he had produced Endgame’s beauty in the second half. “No matter what kind of game is that – enough for me as long as I play a good chess!”
The Netherlands impressive in their 4-0 victory over another All-GM team, Sweden. GM Anish Giri, GM Jorden van Foreest, GM Benjamin Bok, and GM Max Warmerdam all scored an impressive victory, mostly with a logical playing style.
The most impressive among them is the intentional warmerdam game against GM Emanuel Berg:
Female part
Indian women show a great game to defeat experienced English teams with a difference of 3-1, such as Im R. Vaishali and Im Bhakti Kulkarni giving victory with white pieces. Strangely, Vaishali defeated his opponent in a queen and knight vs. queen and bishop endgame, the same combo as employed by her younger brother GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu on the same day!
Olympiad Chess Fide 44 and Olympiad Chess Women’s is an over-the-board team where the national chess federation competes in classic games for gold, trophies, and the strongest chess state degree in the world. This event consists of a Swiss 11 round tournament where each player from the national team plays against other players from the opposite national team. The team receives “game points” to win or draw games and “match points” to win or draw matches. The team with the most match points for each section won their champion, with the third award for the team with the most points from the two parts combined.
