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India Gets Silver In Classical Chess
By Arvind Aaron
Second seed India won the silver medal in the 2nd Asian Indoor Games
Classical Chess Team event at Macau on October 30.
Top seed China beat India 3-1 to win five matches and draw Vietnam and
take the first place and gold medal. With four wins, one draw and a defeat
to China, India took the second place or silver medal. Vietnam took the
bronze.
In the encounter against China, Humpy defeated the world women's champion
Xu Yuhua with white while Sasikiran, Ganguly and Harika lost to higher
rated opponents.
India beat Jordan 3.5-0.5, Philippines 3.5-0.5, Indonesia 3.5-0.5, lost
1-3 to China, beat Qatar 3-1 and drew Vietnam 2-2.
All Indian players with the exception of Harika underperformed. Our
scorers: Sasikiran 3.5/6, Ganguly 3.5/6, Humpy 4.5/6, Harika 5/6.
Final placings: 1 China, 2 India, 3 Vietnam, 4 Malaysia, 5 Kazakhstan, 6
Indonesia, 7 Philippines, 8 Mongolia, 9 Iran, 10 Iraq...21 teams.
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