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Live games of India from the Olympiad

by ChessBase India - 12/09/2016

At the 42nd Chess Olympiad Indian open team consisting of Harikrishna, Vidit Gujrathi, B.Adhiban, S.P. Sethuraman and Murali Karthikeyan start as the 11th seeds. In the women's section the Indian team of Harika, Padmini Rout, Soumya Swaminathan, Tania Sachdev and Pratyusha Bodda are the fifth seeds. On this page you can follow the games of these players live along with powerful features like livebook, engine analysis, PGN download, sharing games to social media etc. The games begin everyday at 4.30 p.m. IST.

Open Section

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Women Section

Olympiad schedule 

Date Time Event, function
1 September 18:30/20:30 Arrival, Opening, Captains meeting
2 September 10:00/15:00 Arbiters meeting/Round 1
3 September 15:00 Round 2
4 September 15:00 Round 3
5 September 15:00 Round 4
6 September 15:00/22:00 Round 5/Bermuda Party
7 September   Day Off
8 September 15:00 Round 6
9 September 15:00 Round 7
10 September 15:00 Round 8
11 September 15:00 Round 9
12 September 15:00 Round 10
13 September 11:00/19:30 Round 11/Closing Ceremony
14 September All day Departure day

It is an 11 round event that begins from the 1st of September. The first round is on 2nd and we have a rest day on 7th of September. The time difference between Baku and India is just 1.30 hours and hence, the games will begin at an ideal 16.30 hours IST.