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World Youth U16 Olympiad 2022 R8: India strikes back against Kyrgyzstan

by Shahid Ahmed - 10/10/2022

India bounced back strong to whitewash Kyrgyzstan in the penultimate round of FIDE World Youth Under-16 Olympiad 2022. GM Pranav Venkatesh, IM Pranesh M, FM Harshad S and Tanisha S Boramanikar - all four won their respective games. Turkiye-Red also registered a 4-0 victory over Uzbekistan-2 to win the Gold with a round to spare. They will face India in the final round. The champion team makes one change on the fourth board while India continues with their same line up. Currently India is in tied third place with Azerbaijan-1 at 11/16. A win in the last round will increase their medal chances, whereas a draw might also turn out to be enough since India has a good tie-break score. Round 9 starts today at 10 a.m. local time, 11:30 a.m. IST. Photo: WYCO 2022 Nakhchivan ig

Turkiye-Red wins Gold with a round to spare, set to face India in the final round

India needed a strong comeback after their second setback of the event in the seventh round. That is exactly what they achieved. A dominating victory over Kyrgyzstan. Now the momentum needs to be carried in the last round against Turkiye-Red who also did a whitewash in the previous round to clinch the Gold. The final round clash on the top is going to be an exciting one.

Kyrgyszstan en route their 0-4 loss against India | Photo: WYCO 2022 Nakhchivan ig

FIDE World Youth Chess Olympiad 2022 Official logo | Photo: Official site

Kyrgyzstan - India: 0-4

GM Pranav Venkatesh (2530), IM Pranesh M (2442), FM Harshad S (2228) and Tanisha S Boramanikar (1808), all four of them won their respective games convincingly.

Kyrgyzstan - India: 0-4

Replay Kyrgzystan - India games

GM Pranav Venkatesh has scored a fantastic 7/8 on the top board so far | Photo: WYCO 2022 Nakhchivan ig

Schedule

Everyday round starts at 3 p.m. local time, 4:30 p.m. IST from 2nd to 9th October 2022. The final round on 10th October starts 10 a.m. local time, 11:30 a.m. IST.

Round 8 results

No.SNo TeamTeamPts.MPRes.:Res.MPPts.TeamTeam SNo
15
TUR-1Turkiye-Red21144:01018Uzbekistan-2UZB
18
22
UZB-1Uzbekistan-11911:1016KazakhstanKAZ
6
31
IRIIran169:915½Azerbaijan-1AZE
4
412
KGZKyrgyzstan1890:4919IndiaIND
3
58
CUBCuba1483:1914½MoldovaMDA
14
69
TUR-3Turkiye-Anatolia14½8:815½Azerbaijan-4AZE
23
717
GEO-1Georgia-11883:1815BangladeshBAN
15
87
TUR-2Turkiye-White1572:2717MongoliaMGL
13
910
AZE-2Azerbaijan-214½7:½712EnglandENG
22
1011
MEXMexico1572:2713South Africa-1RSA
24

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Round 9 pairings

No.SNo TeamTeamPts.MPRes.:Res.MPPts.TeamTeam SNo
13
INDIndia2311:1625Turkiye-RedTUR
5
28
CUBCuba1710:1321½Uzbekistan-1UZB
2
34
AZE-1Azerbaijan-11811:1017Turkiye-AnatoliaTUR
9
46
KAZKazakhstan17½10:1021Georgia-1GEO
17
518
UZB-2Uzbekistan-21810:918Azerbaijan-2AZE
10
61
IRIIran17½9:918KyrgyzstanKGZ
12
714
MDAMoldova15½9:817Turkiye-WhiteTUR
7
821
CANCanada178:817MexicoMEX
11
913
MGLMongolia198:816½LatviaLAT
16
1015
BANBangladesh168:815South Africa-1RSA
24

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Links

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