World Youth U16 Olympiad 2022 R8: India strikes back against Kyrgyzstan

by Shahid Ahmed - 10/10/2022

India bounced back strong to whitewash Kyrgyzstan in the penultimate round of FIDE World Youth Under-16 Olympiad 2022. GM Pranav Venkatesh, IM Pranesh M, FM Harshad S and Tanisha S Boramanikar - all four won their respective games. Turkiye-Red also registered a 4-0 victory over Uzbekistan-2 to win the Gold with a round to spare. They will face India in the final round. The champion team makes one change on the fourth board while India continues with their same line up. Currently India is in tied third place with Azerbaijan-1 at 11/16. A win in the last round will increase their medal chances, whereas a draw might also turn out to be enough since India has a good tie-break score. Round 9 starts today at 10 a.m. local time, 11:30 a.m. IST. Photo: WYCO 2022 Nakhchivan ig

Turkiye-Red wins Gold with a round to spare, set to face India in the final round

India needed a strong comeback after their second setback of the event in the seventh round. That is exactly what they achieved. A dominating victory over Kyrgyzstan. Now the momentum needs to be carried in the last round against Turkiye-Red who also did a whitewash in the previous round to clinch the Gold. The final round clash on the top is going to be an exciting one.

Kyrgyszstan en route their 0-4 loss against India | Photo: WYCO 2022 Nakhchivan ig

FIDE World Youth Chess Olympiad 2022 Official logo | Photo: Official site

Kyrgyzstan - India: 0-4

GM Pranav Venkatesh (2530), IM Pranesh M (2442), FM Harshad S (2228) and Tanisha S Boramanikar (1808), all four of them won their respective games convincingly.

Kyrgyzstan - India: 0-4

Replay Kyrgzystan - India games

GM Pranav Venkatesh has scored a fantastic 7/8 on the top board so far | Photo: WYCO 2022 Nakhchivan ig

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 8 results

No.	SNo	Team	Team	Pts.	MP	Res.	:	Res.	MP	Pts.	Team	Team	SNo
1	5	TUR-1	Turkiye-Red	21	14	4	:	0	10	18	Uzbekistan-2	UZB	18
2	2	UZB-1	Uzbekistan-1	19	11	2½	:	1½	10	16	Kazakhstan	KAZ	6
3	1	IRI	Iran	16	9	1½	:	2½	9	15½	Azerbaijan-1	AZE	4
4	12	KGZ	Kyrgyzstan	18	9	0	:	4	9	19	India	IND	3
5	8	CUB	Cuba	14	8	3	:	1	9	14½	Moldova	MDA	14
6	9	TUR-3	Turkiye-Anatolia	14½	8	2½	:	1½	8	15½	Azerbaijan-4	AZE	23
7	17	GEO-1	Georgia-1	18	8	3	:	1	8	15	Bangladesh	BAN	15
8	7	TUR-2	Turkiye-White	15	7	2	:	2	7	17	Mongolia	MGL	13
9	10	AZE-2	Azerbaijan-2	14½	7	3½	:	½	7	12	England	ENG	22
10	11	MEX	Mexico	15	7	2	:	2	7	13	South Africa-1	RSA	24

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Round 9 pairings

No.	SNo	Team	Team	Pts.	MP	Res.	:	Res.	MP	Pts.	Team	Team	SNo
1	3	IND	India	23	11		:		16	25	Turkiye-Red	TUR	5
2	8	CUB	Cuba	17	10		:		13	21½	Uzbekistan-1	UZB	2
3	4	AZE-1	Azerbaijan-1	18	11		:		10	17	Turkiye-Anatolia	TUR	9
4	6	KAZ	Kazakhstan	17½	10		:		10	21	Georgia-1	GEO	17
5	18	UZB-2	Uzbekistan-2	18	10		:		9	18	Azerbaijan-2	AZE	10
6	1	IRI	Iran	17½	9		:		9	18	Kyrgyzstan	KGZ	12
7	14	MDA	Moldova	15½	9		:		8	17	Turkiye-White	TUR	7
8	21	CAN	Canada	17	8		:		8	17	Mexico	MEX	11
9	13	MGL	Mongolia	19	8		:		8	16½	Latvia	LAT	16
10	15	BAN	Bangladesh	16	8		:		8	15	South Africa-1	RSA	24

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Links

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