Chess Olympiad: India defeats Netherlands and Peru
Both Indian teams won the round with identical 3-1 score.
Playing with black pieces India s P. Harikrishna drew with Anish Giri in a 60-move game.
The third board saw B. Adhiban defeating Loek Van Wely in 66 moves while Sasikiran won against Jorden Van Foreest in 59 moves.
In a marathon game that lasted 140 moves Vidit Santhosh Gujrathi drew with Erwin L Ami on the second board.
The Indian open team captain and coach rested former World Champion V. Anand while retaining K. Sasikiran on the fourth board.
In the women s section while India suffered a surprise setback on the top board with Koneru Humpy losing to lower rated Deysi T. Corri the other three players saved the day with their wins.
Humpy had a better position till the 33rd move and the fateful move of taking her rook to the seventh rank. The move turned the tables with the Peruvian winning the Humpy s queen with a mate threat and there was no looking back for Corri.
On the second board Harika Dronavalli comfortably won against Paula Elizab Paredes Bustamante while on the third board Tania Sachdev won against Flor De Maria Zarate Oyague.
The fourth board saw Padmini Rout routing Peruvian Ann Chumpitaz in 28 moves.
(Venkatachari Jagannathan can be contacted at v.jagannathan@ians.in)
--IANS vj/nir