India secures eighth place
India starting out as the 14th seed, finished at eighth place 9.0/18. This is a great result for Team India. Congratulations to the entire team of Darpan, Aryan, Soundarya, Marimuthu, Milind and coach FM FT Niranjan Navalgund.
Bronze on Board no.1 - Aryan Joshi, performed at 2258 | Photo: Chess in Greece
Aryan scored 4.5/9 and gained 67.2 Elo rating points
Bronze on Board no.3 - Darpan Inani, performed at 2131 | Photo: Chess in Greece
Darpan scored 6.5/9 and gained 25.4 Elo rating points
Team India in action | Photo: Chess in Greece
The tournament took place at Rhodes in Greece from 17th to 26th October 2021. Time control was 120 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 60 minutes for each player for the rest of the game, max. 6 hours.
Final Team Standings
| Rk. | SNo | Team | Games | + | = | - | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 | TB4 | |
| 1 | 1 | Russia | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 284,0 | 29,5 | 0 | |
| 2 | 2 | Poland | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 226,5 | 26,0 | 0 | |
| 3 | 5 | Serbia | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 212,5 | 24,0 | 0 | |
| 4 | 7 | Germany | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 154,5 | 19,5 | 0 | |
| 5 | 10 | Romania | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 132,5 | 18,5 | 0 | |
| 6 | 3 | Ukraine | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 237,0 | 22,5 | 0 | |
| 7 | 6 | Spain | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 149,0 | 20,0 | 0 | |
| 8 | 14 | India | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 167,5 | 17,5 | 0 | |
| 9 | 4 | Hungary | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 165,0 | 19,0 | 0 | |
| 10 | 18 | Bulgaria | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 136,0 | 18,0 | 0 |
Individual standings on Board no.1
| Rk. | Name | Rtg | FED | Team | TB1 | TB2 | ||
| 1 | FM | Dimic Pavle | 2334 | SRB | Serbia | 2415 | 9 | |
| 2 | GM | Tazbir Marcin | 2516 | POL | Poland | 2412 | 8 | |
| 3 | Aryan B Joshi | 1842 | IND | India | 2258 | 9 |
Individual standings on Board no.3
| Rk. | Name | Rtg | FED | Team | TB1 | TB2 | ||
| 1 | FM | Babarykin Stanislav | 2357 | RUS | Russia | 2393 | 9 | |
| 2 | Kolpakov Vladyslav | 2248 | UKR | Ukraine | 2270 | 9 | ||
| 3 | Darpan Inani | 2112 | IND | India | 2131 | 9 |
