With its victory this Wednesday over Kyrgyzstan, the Cuban team rose to seventh place in the classification in the Olympiad U-16 World Cup Chess held in Nakhshivan, autonomous region of Azerbaijan.
The Cuban cast took advantage of the fourth round of the tournament to prevail with a score of 2.5-1.5 points thanks to successes by Daniel Hidalgo and Greter Caballero at tables one and four, in that order, in accordance with the sports portal Hit.
The media reports that Hidalgo beat Eldiar Orozbaev with black pieces and Greter successfully moved the white figures against Edisa Bardibaeva to provide the point that was needed for the collective victory.
Before Leduard González had lost to Erzhan Zhakshylykov on the second board and José Alejandro Hernández agreed to peace on the third with Nuriddin Lunosov, adds the information.
Came back #Cuba to the route of success in the U-16 Olympiad #Chess
They beat Kyrgyzstan 2.5-1.5 and are in seventh place after four rounds. #Chess https://t.co/McKDFSqNrC pic.twitter.com/Irdi5wBiQ0— JIT Cuban Sport (@jit_digital) October 5, 2022
So far, Cuba has six units after three series won and one lost. The Caribbean representation successfully debuted 2.5-1.5 units over the host squad, repeated the dose with a score of 3-1 against the representative of Bangladesh, and then conceded their first setback against the main team of Azerbaijan by 1, 5-2.5 points.
With this performance, those led by Rodney Pérez will take on their foray into the fifth of the nine scheduled rounds, facing Turkey White’s team, who has accumulated five streaks and advances to eighth place in the rankings.
So far the tournament is led by the Turkey Red team with eight points, after defeating Azerbaijan 1 3-1. to the Turkey-Anatolia squad.
The event, which is played under the Swiss system, is attended by 34 teams from 23 countries and as an obligation each team must include at least one girl among its squad.
