9th IBCA World Team R1: India beats North Macedonia
Team India made a good start at the 9th IBCA World Team Chess Championship for the Blind and Visually Impaired 2022. They won the first round of the Group stage, 2.5-1.5 against home team North Macedonia. Soundarya Kumar Pradhan and Swapanil Shah scored victories, Marimuthu K drew and Kishan Gangolli suffered a loss. India will face Italy in the second round. The board order remains the same as Somender B L is rested. Top two teams in each group - Yellow and Red will advance to the Semifinals. Round 2 starts today at 3 p.m. local time (6:30 p.m. IST). Photo: AICFB
Soundarya and Swapanil score
The top 16 teams of the world are taking part in the 9th IBCA World Team Chess Championship for the Blind and Visually Impaired 2022. India started as the eighth seed in the Red group of the Group stage. Top two finishers of the round-robin group stage will advance to the Semifinals.
L to R: Swapanil Shah, Dr. Charudatta Jadhav, President of AICFB, Soundarya Kumar Pradhan, Marimuthu K, Kishan Gangolli and Somender B L.
India - North Macedonia: 2.5-1.5
Soundarya Kumar Pradhan (1782) and Swapanil Shah (1652) scored wins against Zarko Selkovski (MKD, 1967) and K Sande Atanasov (MKD, 1853) respectively. K Marimuthu (1626) drew with Zoran Kostadinoski (MKD, 1913). Kishan Gangolli (2092) suffered a loss against Mile Capanov (MKD, 1951).
India will face the fifth seeded Italy in Round 2. The board order remains unchanged as Somender B L is rested.
The round-robin group stage will take place from 28th June to 4th July 2022. Every day a single round game is played with a time control of 2 hours each from 3 p.m. local time (6:30 p.m. IST).
Group Red standings after Round 1
| Rk. | SNo | Team | Games | + | = | - | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 | TB4 | TB5 | |
| 1 | 1 | Serbia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3,5 | 0 | 0 | 8,0 | |
| 2 | 2 | Spain | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3,0 | 0 | 0 | 8,5 | |
| 3 | 4 | Germany | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2,5 | 0 | 0 | 6,0 | |
| 8 | India | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2,5 | 0 | 0 | 6,0 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Israel | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1,5 | 0 | 0 | 4,0 | |
| 6 | North Macedonia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1,5 | 0 | 0 | 4,0 | ||
| 7 | 5 | Italy | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1,0 | 0 | 0 | 1,5 | |
| 8 | 7 | Croatia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0,5 | 0 | 0 | 2,0 |
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Soundarya wins Gold, Silver for Kishan and Swapnil at 9th IBCA World Team Championship
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