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1st FIDE Olympiad for PwD 2023 R3: India stuns Israel 3-1

by Shahid Ahmed - 02/02/2023

India continues its great momentum at FIDE Olympiad for People with Disabilities 2023. Team India defeated the second seeded Israel convincingly 3-1. IM Shashikant Kutwal and Kishan Gangolli defeated their much higher rated opponents, GM Yehuda Gruenfeld and FM Alexey Streltsov respectively. Naveen Kumar A also scored a crucial victory against WFM Aleksandra Aleksandrova. Darpan Inani suffered the sole loss. There are three teams at a 100% score of 6/6 - India, Philippines and Poland. India will be up against the third seeded Hungary in Round 4 which starts today at 3 p.m. local time, 7:30 p.m. IST. Photo: FIDE / Mark Livshitz

Convincing victories

Poland, India and Philippines - all three teams registered convincing victories in the third round to be in a three-way lead. Philippines and Poland will clash against each other in the fourth round while Hungary will take on India.

India defeated the rating favorite Israel 3-1 | Photo: FIDE/Mark Livshitz

1st Chess Olympiad for People with Disabilities 2023 Official logo | Photo: Official site

India - Israel: 3-1

IM Shashikant Kutwal (2182), Kishan Gangolli (2059) and Naveen Kumar A (2014) won against GM Yehuda Gruenfeld (2414), FM Alexey Streltsov (2317) and WFM Aleksandra Aleksandrova (1701) respectively. Darpan Inani (2016) suffered sole loss against IM Andrei Gurbanov (2275).

India - Israel: 3-1

IM Shashikant Kutwal - GM Yehuda Gruenfeld: 1-0 | Photo: FIDE/Mark Livshitz

Photo Gallery

Ceremonial first move of the third round | Photo: FIDE/Mark Livshitz

Various braille chess boards | Photo: FIDE/Mark Livshitz

The tournament hall at Crowne Plaza Belgrade in Serbia | Photo: FIDE/Mark Livshitz

Replay Round 3 games

Schedule

Everyday round starts at 7:30 p.m. IST from 30th January to 3rd February 2023. The final round on 4th February starts 3:30 p.m. IST. The time control is 40 moves in 90 minutes, plus 30 minutes, plus 30 seconds per move from move 1

Round 3 results

No.SNo TeamTeamPts.MPRes.:Res.MPPts.TeamTeam SNo
11
POLPoland4:½47FIDEFID
9
210
INDIndia743:14IsraelISR
2
318
SRBSerbia 264½:46PhilippinesPHI
6
413
ICCDICCD531:324HungaryHUN
3
55
CUBCuba423:125RomaniaROU
12
615
VENVenezuela2½:2IPCAIPCA
7
78
SRBSerbia 123:124MontenegroMNE
19
811
CZECzech Republic42½:24BangladeshBAN
16
920
UZBUzbekistan2:13GermanyGER
14
1021
KAZKazakhstan31½:13TurkeyTUR
17
1124
KGZKyrgyzstan1:1ZimbabweZIM
26
124
CROCroatia04:001PanamaPAN
23
1325
KENKenya10½:0½ZambiaZAM
22

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Standings after Round 3

Rk.SNoFED TeamTeamGames  +   =   -  TB1  TB2  TB3  TB4  TB5 
110IND
IndiaIND33006102415,547,5
26PHI
PhilippinesPHI330069,5281755
31POL
PolandPOL330069242059,8
47IPCA
IPCAIPCA3201481617,541,5
52ISR
IsraelISR320147,52021,547,8
69FID
FIDEFID320147,5152041,5
716BAN
BangladeshBAN320147,5111225,3
83HUN
HungaryHUN320147132045
95CUB
CubaCUB320147122143
108SRB
Serbia 1SRB320146,5142041,3

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Round 4 pairings

No.SNo TeamTeamPts.MPRes.:Res.MPPts.TeamTeam SNo
16
PHIPhilippines6:69PolandPOL
1
23
HUNHungary74:610IndiaIND
10
32
ISRIsrael4:4FIDEFID
9
416
BANBangladesh4:47CubaCUB
5
57
IPCAIPCA84:4Serbia 2SRB
18
68
SRBSerbia 14:46UzbekistanUZB
20
717
TURTurkey3:36ICCDICCD
13
824
KGZKyrgyzstan63:2CroatiaCRO
4
915
VENVenezuela52:2Czech RepublicCZE
11
1012
ROURomania62:25MontenegroMNE
19
1122
ZAMZambia42:1GermanyGER
14
1226
ZIMZimbabwe41:1KazakhstanKAZ
21
1323
PANPanama10:0KenyaKEN
25

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Links

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Tournament Regulations