The Cuban teams participating in the 44th Olympiad of Chessbased in the Indian city of Chennai, continued unbeatable this Saturday, beating their rivals on duty without much setback during the second round of the tournament.
In the Open segment, the squad made up of Grand Masters (GM) Yasser Quesada, Carlos Daniel Albornoz, Luis Ernesto Quesada and Omar Almeida Quintana, confirmed their favoritism against the Nigerian cast with a sweep. an office from the agency Latin Press (PL).
After that outcome, the Cuban team appears among the leaders of the league, in a multiple tie with eight other teams that also won in all their matches. These are the teams from Ukraine, India, Uzbekistan, Turkey, Georgia, Argentina, Montenegro and Canada.
Meanwhile, in the call for women, the Cubans beat Moldova 3.5 to 0.5, but could not complete the whiteout due to the tie on the first board between the Caribbean Lisandra Ordaz, who moved the black pieces, and the Moldovan Valentina Verbin.
In the remaining tables Yerisbel Miranda, Maritza Arribas and Yaniela Forgas did succeed against Paula-Alexandra Gitu, Svetlana Petrenko and Alina Mihailova, respectively.
Second Cuban victories in the Olympiad #Chess The men defeated Nigeria 4-0 and the girls 3.5-0.5 against Moldova. #Chess #Cuba https://t.co/PjoGG87qn7 pic.twitter.com/hSUQEyFNHU
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In this way, the girls from Cuba now appear in 14th place among 162 teams, and this Sunday they will face the team from Australia, which is in 36th place.
In the open category, for its part, Cuba will face tomorrow the powerful cast of Ukraine (average Elo of 2666), a duel with much more demand than those assumed so far by the Antilleans in the main hall of the Four Points by Sheraton convention center in the Indian city.
In other matches of this day in the section without distinction of sex, Norway had for the first time the genius Magnus Carlsen and blanked Uruguay 4-0; Spain beat Belgium 3.5-0.5; Poland 3-1 to Colombia; Azerbaijan 3-1 to the Philippines; Ukraine 4-0 to Albania; and England 3-1 to Singapore.
In addition, the hosts whited Estonia 4-0; Iran beat Ireland 2.5-1.5 and Uzbekistan beat the Faroe Islands 4-0.
Among the striking notes, he highlighted that the favorite team from the United States had a hard time again imposing its vast superiority against a smaller rival, such as Paraguay.
This time three of its well-known figures could not go beyond equality before rivals with less history, but in the end the Americans were able to come out on top thanks to the triumph of the nationalized Cuban Leinier Dominguezwho did manage to tilt the king of José F. Cubas.
