1st FIDE Olympiad for PwD 2023 R3: India stuns Israel 3-1

by Shahid Ahmed - 02/02/2023

India continues its great momentum at FIDE Olympiad for People with Disabilities 2023. Team India defeated the second seeded Israel convincingly 3-1. IM Shashikant Kutwal and Kishan Gangolli defeated their much higher rated opponents, GM Yehuda Gruenfeld and FM Alexey Streltsov respectively. Naveen Kumar A also scored a crucial victory against WFM Aleksandra Aleksandrova. Darpan Inani suffered the sole loss. There are three teams at a 100% score of 6/6 - India, Philippines and Poland. India will be up against the third seeded Hungary in Round 4 which starts today at 3 p.m. local time, 7:30 p.m. IST. Photo: FIDE / Mark Livshitz

Convincing victories

Poland, India and Philippines - all three teams registered convincing victories in the third round to be in a three-way lead. Philippines and Poland will clash against each other in the fourth round while Hungary will take on India.

India defeated the rating favorite Israel 3-1 | Photo: FIDE/Mark Livshitz

1st Chess Olympiad for People with Disabilities 2023 Official logo | Photo: Official site

India - Israel: 3-1

IM Shashikant Kutwal (2182), Kishan Gangolli (2059) and Naveen Kumar A (2014) won against GM Yehuda Gruenfeld (2414), FM Alexey Streltsov (2317) and WFM Aleksandra Aleksandrova (1701) respectively. Darpan Inani (2016) suffered sole loss against IM Andrei Gurbanov (2275).

India - Israel: 3-1

IM Shashikant Kutwal - GM Yehuda Gruenfeld: 1-0 | Photo: FIDE/Mark Livshitz

Photo Gallery

Ceremonial first move of the third round | Photo: FIDE/Mark Livshitz

Various braille chess boards | Photo: FIDE/Mark Livshitz

The tournament hall at Crowne Plaza Belgrade in Serbia | Photo: FIDE/Mark Livshitz

Replay Round 3 games

Schedule

Everyday round starts at 7:30 p.m. IST from 30th January to 3rd February 2023. The final round on 4th February starts 3:30 p.m. IST. The time control is 40 moves in 90 minutes, plus 30 minutes, plus 30 seconds per move from move 1

Round 3 results

No.	SNo	Team	Team	Pts.	MP	Res.	:	Res.	MP	Pts.	Team	Team	SNo
1	1	POL	Poland	5½	4	3½	:	½	4	7	FIDE	FID	9
2	10	IND	India	7	4	3	:	1	4	6½	Israel	ISR	2
3	18	SRB	Serbia 2	6	4	½	:	3½	4	6	Philippines	PHI	6
4	13	ICCD	ICCD	5	3	1	:	3	2	4	Hungary	HUN	3
5	5	CUB	Cuba	4	2	3	:	1	2	5	Romania	ROU	12
6	15	VEN	Venezuela	4½	2	½	:	3½	2	4½	IPCA	IPCA	7
7	8	SRB	Serbia 1	3½	2	3	:	1	2	4	Montenegro	MNE	19
8	11	CZE	Czech Republic	4	2	½	:	3½	2	4	Bangladesh	BAN	16
9	20	UZB	Uzbekistan	3½	2	2½	:	1½	1	3	Germany	GER	14
10	21	KAZ	Kazakhstan	3	1	½	:	3½	1	3	Turkey	TUR	17
11	24	KGZ	Kyrgyzstan	3½	1	2½	:	1½	1	2½	Zimbabwe	ZIM	26
12	4	CRO	Croatia	2½	0	4	:	0	0	1	Panama	PAN	23
13	25	KEN	Kenya	1	0	½	:	3½	0	½	Zambia	ZAM	22

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Standings after Round 3

Rk.	SNo	FED	Team	Team	Games	+	=	-	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5
1	10	IND	India	IND	3	3	0	0	6	10	24	15,5	47,5
2	6	PHI	Philippines	PHI	3	3	0	0	6	9,5	28	17	55
3	1	POL	Poland	POL	3	3	0	0	6	9	24	20	59,8
4	7	IPCA	IPCA	IPCA	3	2	0	1	4	8	16	17,5	41,5
5	2	ISR	Israel	ISR	3	2	0	1	4	7,5	20	21,5	47,8
6	9	FID	FIDE	FID	3	2	0	1	4	7,5	15	20	41,5
7	16	BAN	Bangladesh	BAN	3	2	0	1	4	7,5	11	12	25,3
8	3	HUN	Hungary	HUN	3	2	0	1	4	7	13	20	45
9	5	CUB	Cuba	CUB	3	2	0	1	4	7	12	21	43
10	8	SRB	Serbia 1	SRB	3	2	0	1	4	6,5	14	20	41,3

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Round 4 pairings

No.	SNo	Team	Team	Pts.	MP	Res.	:	Res.	MP	Pts.	Team	Team	SNo
1	6	PHI	Philippines	9½	6		:		6	9	Poland	POL	1
2	3	HUN	Hungary	7	4		:		6	10	India	IND	10
3	2	ISR	Israel	7½	4		:		4	7½	FIDE	FID	9
4	16	BAN	Bangladesh	7½	4		:		4	7	Cuba	CUB	5
5	7	IPCA	IPCA	8	4		:		4	6½	Serbia 2	SRB	18
6	8	SRB	Serbia 1	6½	4		:		4	6	Uzbekistan	UZB	20
7	17	TUR	Turkey	6½	3		:		3	6	ICCD	ICCD	13
8	24	KGZ	Kyrgyzstan	6	3		:		2	6½	Croatia	CRO	4
9	15	VEN	Venezuela	5	2		:		2	4½	Czech Republic	CZE	11
10	12	ROU	Romania	6	2		:		2	5	Montenegro	MNE	19
11	22	ZAM	Zambia	4	2		:		1	4½	Germany	GER	14
12	26	ZIM	Zimbabwe	4	1		:		1	3½	Kazakhstan	KAZ	21
13	23	PAN	Panama	1	0		:		0	1½	Kenya	KEN	25

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Links

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