{"id":11267,"date":"2022-08-02T22:06:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T22:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1090.fide.com\/?p=11267"},"modified":"2023-10-26T06:30:51","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T06:30:51","slug":"womens-olympiad-three-teams-forge-ahead-with-10-and-9-points-each","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/womens-olympiad-three-teams-forge-ahead-with-10-and-9-points-each\/","title":{"rendered":"Women’s Olympiad: Three teams forge ahead with 10 and 9 points each"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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India A team, Georgia and Romania, lead the standings with 10 points each after the 5th round, closely followed by Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhastan on 9 points apiece. Fifteen teams are on 8 points each in the joint third place.<\/p>

India A team preserved their leading position thanks to the victory on the 4th board in the match with France:\u00a0Tania Sachdev<\/strong>\u00a0defeated\u00a0Andreea Navrotescu<\/strong>\u00a0on the white side of the Cambridge Springs QGD.<\/p>

In the remaining results, GM\u00a0Humpy Koneru<\/strong>\u00a0drew with GM\u00a0Hoang Thanh Trang<\/strong>; GM\u00a0Harika Dronavalli<\/strong>\u00a0split a point with WGM\u00a0Gara Ticia<\/strong>, and IM\u00a0Vaishali<\/strong>\u00a0drew with IM\u00a0Szidonia Lazarne Vajda<\/strong>.<\/p>

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Georgia also rallied up to the lead with 10 points after defeating a young India 2 team by a dominating 3-1 score.<\/p>

On the top board, Vantika Agarwal escaped to a\u00a0hard-fought draw against the experienced\u00a0Nana Dzagnidze<\/strong>, while\u00a0Padmini Rout<\/strong>\u00a0drew with\u00a0Nino Batsiashvili<\/strong>.<\/p>

Georgia hit with a tail:\u00a0Lela Javakhishvili\u00a0<\/strong>outplayed\u00a0Soumya Swaminathan<\/strong>\u00a0on board 3, while\u00a0Meri Arabidze<\/strong>\u00a0bested\u00a0Divya Deshmukh<\/strong>\u00a0on board 4 to seal 3-1 victory for the Caucasian team.<\/p>

Ukraine and Azerbaijan proved to be worthy opponents drawing a very exciting match.\u00a0Mariya Muzychuk put Ukraine on the scoreboard after winning against Gunayon Mammadzada on the top board, but Ulviyya Fataliyeva retaliated on board four, beating Buksa Nataliya. The games on boards two and three ended in draws.<\/p>

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Team Romania produced a minor sensation by defeating a very strong Poland 2.5 – 1.5 and jumped to the joint lead.\u00a0Mihaela Sandu<\/strong>\u00a0beat Monika Socko on board 2 and\u00a0Elena-Luminita Cosma<\/strong>\u00a0defeated\u00a0Michalina Rudzinska<\/strong>\u00a0on board 4 for Romania.\u00a0Oliwia Kiolbasa<\/strong>\u00a0snatched the sole victory for Poland on board three, but it was not enough to outweigh two losses.<\/p>

Kazakhstan and Germany defeated Cuba and Mongolia respectively by identical 3-1 score.<\/p>

The seventh board match saw a major upset as team Peru scored a win over the fancied USA.\u00a0Ann Chumpitaz beat experienced GM Irina Krush on board two while Paredes Bustamante Paula outplayed Yip Carissa on the third.<\/p>

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Hungary trounced Sweden 3.5-.5, with only the experienced grandmaster\u00a0Pia Cramling<\/strong>\u00a0scoring a half point for the team on the top board against\u00a0Hoang Thanh Trang<\/strong>.<\/p>

Complete results of Round 5 can be found at the official website for the Olympiad:<\/p>

\u00a0https:\/\/chessolympiad.fide.com\/women-results<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>

Standings after Round 5 can be found at:<\/p>

https:\/\/chessolympiad.fide.com\/women-standings<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>

Photo: Photo: Lennart Ootes, Mark Livshitz and Stev Bonhage<\/p>

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India A team, Georgia and Romania, lead the standings with 10 points each after the 5th round, closely followed by Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhastan on 9 points apiece. Fifteen teams are on 8 points each in the joint third place. India A team preserved their leading position thanks to the victory on the 4th board in the match with France:\u00a0Tania Sachdev\u00a0defeated\u00a0Andreea Navrotescu\u00a0on the white side of the Cambridge Springs QGD. In the remaining results, GM\u00a0Humpy Koneru\u00a0drew with GM\u00a0Hoang Thanh Trang; GM\u00a0Harika Dronavalli\u00a0split a point with WGM\u00a0Gara Ticia, and IM\u00a0Vaishali\u00a0drew with IM\u00a0Szidonia Lazarne Vajda. Georgia also rallied up to the lead with 10 points after defeating a young India 2 team by a dominating 3-1 score. On the top board, Vantika Agarwal escaped to a\u00a0hard-fought draw against the experienced\u00a0Nana Dzagnidze, while\u00a0Padmini Rout\u00a0drew with\u00a0Nino Batsiashvili. Georgia hit with a tail:\u00a0Lela Javakhishvili\u00a0outplayed\u00a0Soumya Swaminathan\u00a0on board 3, while\u00a0Meri Arabidze\u00a0bested\u00a0Divya Deshmukh\u00a0on board 4 to seal 3-1 victory for the Caucasian team. Ukraine and Azerbaijan proved to be worthy opponents drawing a very exciting match.\u00a0Mariya Muzychuk put Ukraine on the scoreboard after winning against Gunayon Mammadzada on the top board, but Ulviyya Fataliyeva retaliated on board four, beating Buksa Nataliya. The games on boards two and three ended in draws. Team Romania produced a minor sensation by defeating a very strong Poland 2.5 – 1.5 and jumped to the joint lead.\u00a0Mihaela Sandu\u00a0beat Monika Socko on board 2 and\u00a0Elena-Luminita Cosma\u00a0defeated\u00a0Michalina Rudzinska\u00a0on board 4 for Romania.\u00a0Oliwia Kiolbasa\u00a0snatched the sole victory for Poland on board three, but it was not enough to outweigh two losses. Kazakhstan and Germany defeated Cuba and Mongolia respectively by identical 3-1 score. The seventh board match saw a major upset as team Peru scored a win over the fancied USA.\u00a0Ann Chumpitaz beat experienced GM Irina Krush on board two while Paredes Bustamante Paula outplayed Yip Carissa on the third. Hungary trounced Sweden 3.5-.5, with only the experienced grandmaster\u00a0Pia Cramling\u00a0scoring a half point for the team on the top board against\u00a0Hoang Thanh Trang. Complete results of Round 5 can be found at the official website for the Olympiad: \u00a0https:\/\/chessolympiad.fide.com\/women-results. Standings after Round 5 can be found at: https:\/\/chessolympiad.fide.com\/women-standings. Photo: Photo: Lennart Ootes, Mark Livshitz and Stev Bonhage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[158,209],"regular":[],"sticky-post":[],"class_list":["post-11267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chess-news","tag-chess-olympiad","tag-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11267"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11272,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11267\/revisions\/11272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11267"},{"taxonomy":"regular","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regular?post=11267"},{"taxonomy":"sticky-post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sticky-post?post=11267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}