World Youth U16 Olympiad 2022 R2: Mexico loses to India 0.5-3.5
Team India won against Mexico convincingly in the second round of World Youth Under-16 Olympiad 2022. GM Pranav Venkatesh, IM Pranesh M and Tanisha S Boramanikar won their respective games. FM Harshad S drew his first game at the event against Santiago Zacarias Rodriguez who did not make any mistakes. The top seed of the tournament Turkiye-Anatolia were held to a draw by Iran. India will face Kazakhstan in the third round. There are two changes - Mrittika Mallick and Rohit S will be replacing Tanisha and Harshad respectively. Round 3 starts today at 3 p.m. local time, 4:30 p.m. IST. Photo: wyco2022nakhchivan ig
Top two seeds already show jitters
The top board of Turkiye-Anatolia, FM Adar Tarhan went down against Iranian IM Daneshvar Bardiya. However, their third board evened out the loss. Second and fourth board ending in a draw means Turkiye-Anatolia drew with Iran 2-2. Uzbekistan-1 defeated Azerbaijan-2 by a minimum margin of 2.5-1.5.
Mexico - India: 0.5-3.5
GM Pranav Venkatesh (2530), IM Pranesh M (2442) and Tanisha S Boramanikar (1808) won their respective games against Miguel Angel Montes Orozco (2051), CM Atlas Adomaitis Galaviz Medina (2131) and Paula Sofia Hernandez Diaz (1759). FM Harshad S (2228) drew with Santiago Zacarias Rodriguez (2123).
Miguel - Pranav
36...Nc4 is a very nice move. The b4-knight actually cannot be moved as 37.Nd3 runs into Ne3+ and 37.Nc2 is met with e5 having the same idea of Ne3. 37.a3 means Qxa3, 37.bxc4 has Qxb4 as a fitting reply. White resigned after 37...e5.
Replay Mexico vs India games
Schedule
Everyday round starts at 3 p.m. local time, 4:30 p.m. IST from 2nd to 9th October 2022. The final round on 10th October starts 10 a.m. local time, 11:30 a.m. IST.
Round 2 results
No. | SNo | Team | Team | Pts. | MP | Res. | : | Res. | MP | Pts. | Team | Team | SNo | ||
1 | 9 | TUR-3 | Turkiye-Anatolia | 3 | 2 | 2 | : | 2 | 2 | 3½ | Iran | IRI | 1 | ||
2 | 2 | UZB-1 | Uzbekistan-1 | 4 | 2 | 2½ | : | 1½ | 2 | 3½ | Azerbaijan-2 | AZE | 10 | ||
3 | 11 | MEX | Mexico | 4 | 2 | ½ | : | 3½ | 2 | 4 | India | IND | 3 | ||
4 | 4 | AZE-1 | Azerbaijan-1 | 2½ | 2 | 3 | : | 1 | 2 | 3½ | Kyrgyzstan | KGZ | 12 | ||
5 | 13 | MGL | Mongolia | 4 | 2 | 1 | : | 3 | 2 | 3 | Turkiye-Red | TUR | 5 | ||
6 | 6 | KAZ | Kazakhstan | 3 | 2 | 3½ | : | ½ | 2 | 2½ | Moldova | MDA | 14 | ||
7 | 8 | CUB | Cuba | 2½ | 2 | 3 | : | 1 | 2 | 3 | Bangladesh | BAN | 15 | ||
8 | 16 | LAT | Latvia | 4 | 2 | 0 | : | 4 | 1 | 2 | Turkiye-White | TUR | 7 | ||
9 | 24 | RSA-1 | South Africa-1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | : | 4 | 2 | 4 | Georgia-1 | GEO | 17 | ||
10 | 18 | UZB-2 | Uzbekistan-2 | ½ | 0 | 4 | : | 0 | 0 | ½ | Azerbaijan-3 | AZE | 27 |
Round 3 pairings
No. | SNo | Team | Team | Pts. | MP | Res. | : | Res. | MP | Pts. | Team | Team | SNo | ||
1 | 5 | TUR-1 | Turkiye-Red | 6 | 4 | : | 4 | 6½ | Uzbekistan-1 | UZB | 2 | ||||
2 | 3 | IND | India | 7½ | 4 | : | 4 | 6½ | Kazakhstan | KAZ | 6 | ||||
3 | 8 | CUB | Cuba | 5½ | 4 | : | 4 | 5½ | Azerbaijan-1 | AZE | 4 | ||||
4 | 17 | GEO-1 | Georgia-1 | 8 | 4 | : | 3 | 5½ | Iran | IRI | 1 | ||||
5 | 7 | TUR-2 | Turkiye-White | 6 | 3 | : | 3 | 5 | Turkiye-Anatolia | TUR | 9 | ||||
6 | 10 | AZE-2 | Azerbaijan-2 | 5 | 2 | : | 2 | 4 | Latvia | LAT | 16 | ||||
7 | 18 | UZB-2 | Uzbekistan-2 | 4½ | 2 | : | 2 | 4½ | Mexico | MEX | 11 | ||||
8 | 12 | KGZ | Kyrgyzstan | 4½ | 2 | : | 2 | 2½ | Panama | PAN | 20 | ||||
9 | 23 | AZE-4 | Azerbaijan-4 | 4½ | 2 | : | 2 | 5 | Mongolia | MGL | 13 | ||||
10 | 14 | MDA | Moldova | 3 | 2 | : | 2 | 5 | Azerbaijan-Nakhchivan | AZE | 25 |