{"id":56633,"date":"2019-03-07T10:30:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T10:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=56633"},"modified":"2019-03-07T10:30:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T10:30:39","slug":"indian-men-draw-with-iran-at-world-team-chess-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/indian-men-draw-with-iran-at-world-team-chess-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian men draw with Iran at World Team Chess Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Grandmaster B Adhiban continued his heroics on the top board \nto down world junior champion Parham Maghsoodloo before India settled \nfor a 2-2 draw with Iran at the World Team Chess Championship here.<\/strong>

Idani\n Pouya turned out to be the saviour for Iran as he defeated the \nexperienced Krishnan Sasikiran on the second board while Surya Shekhar \nGanguly and S P Sethuraman played out draws with Amin Tabatabae and \nFirouza Alireza on the third and fourth board.

The draws meant \nthat the Indian men took their tally up to three points out of a \npossible four to be in fourth position in the standings with seven \nrounds still to come in the premier biennial team event of the world.

The\n day belonged to the United States who defeated defending champions \nChina 2.5-1.5. While none of the top American players are here it was a \nhuge team effort that saw them winning on the fourth board where \nAlexander Lenderman scored over Ni Hua in a fine effort.

While \nRussia scored a regulation 3-1 victory over Egypt, England made merry at\n the expense of Azerbaijan to be in lead alongside USA and Russia on \nfour points.

Even as Michael Admas lost on the top board against \nArkadij Naiditsch, England came back strongly as Luke McShane beat Rauf \nMamedov on the second board while Gawain Jones scored over Eltaz Safarli\n to ensure the English team\u2019s supremacy.

In the women\u2019s section being organised simultaneously, India were held 2-2 by the local stars from Kazakhstan.

Bhakti\n Kulkarni kept things under control against Gulmira Dauletova to secure \nan important full point in a close encounter. Eesha Karavade played out a\n draw on the top board with Zhansaya Abdumalik while on the second, \nSoumya Swaminathan did her bit, drawing with Dinara Saduakassova.

On\n the third board however, Padmini Rout failed to find her form for the \nsecond day running, as she was beaten by Bibisa Assaubayeva.

The Indian women took their tally to two points from as many matches following their draw with Georgia in the first round match.

The\n Russian women scored an important 3.5-0.5 victory over Armenia to share\n the lead on four points along with China, who had an easy 2.5-1.5 win \nover Georgia.

Ukraine defeated Egypt 4-0 to reach three points \nwhile the United States had another good run, defeating Hungary 3-1 to \nshare the third spot.

The Indian women currently are in fifth spot alongside Armenia.

Results\n round 2 open: India (3) drew with Iran (1) 2-2 (B Adhiban beat Parham \nMaghsoodloo; Idani Pouya beat Krishnan Sasikiran; Surya Shekhar Ganguly \ndrew with Amin Tabatabae; Alireza Firouza drew with S P Sethuraman); \nSweden (0) lost to Kazakhstan (2) 1-3; Azerbaijan (0) lost to England \n(4) 1.5-2.5; Russia (4) beat Egypt (0) 3-1; USA (3) beat China (2) \n2.5-1.5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Grandmaster B Adhiban continued his heroics on the top board to down world junior champion Parham Maghsoodloo before India settled for a 2-2 draw with Iran at the World Team Chess Championship here. Idani Pouya turned out to be the saviour for Iran as he defeated the experienced Krishnan Sasikiran on the second board while […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56635,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56633\/revisions\/56635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}