India wins a historic double Bronze at 44th Chess Olympiad 2022

India clinches its highest number of individual medals

For the first time ever, India won its highest number of individual medals/board prizes in a single edition of Chess Olympiad. A total of seven individual medals were won - 2 Gold, 1 Silver and 4 Bronze. GM B Adhiban, Coach and Captain of India 1, GM FST R B Ramesh became the only two members of the Bronze medal winning Indian team in 41st Tromso 2014 Olympiad and this one, 44th Chess Olympiad. Both Uzbekistan and Ukraine became undefeated champions. Since Chess Olympiad is such a gargantuan event, there will be separate reports for board prizes, norm makers details, player interviews and reactions around the globe.

Open: Germany - India 2: 1-3

Nihal Sarin and Raunak Sadhwani scored crucial victories over Matthias Bluebaum and Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu respectively in the final round. Thus ensuring Germany's defeat against India 2 by 1-3.

Nihal - Bluebaum

Nihal capitalized on his opponent's tiny mistake of 36...Bf5. 37.Nxb5 Rd1 38.Kf2 Nd2 39.Bd3 a6 40.Bxf5 gxf5 41.Ke2 White liquidated the position into a complete winning game.

Raunak - Nisipeanu

The strong Germany no.3 GM Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu (2642) went wrong early in the middlegame. He got dominated throughout by Raunak and could not manage to make a comeback.

India 1 - USA: 2-2

Arjun Erigaisi scored the sole victory for the team against Leinier Dominguez-Perez (2754). This win earned him a Silver medal on Board no.3.

Arjun - Leinier

Arjun made a nice positional squeeze after 23.a5. He manuevered his knights beautifully to gain a decisive advantage.

Women: India 1 - USA: 1-3

Indian women suffered a painful loss against USA in the final round. Even a draw would have been enough to earn the Silver medal. However, draw reduced it to Bronze.

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