44th Chess Olympiad 2022 R5: Gukesh and Adhiban keep India 2 at the top

India 2 and Armenia are Perfect 10

Azerbaijan lost to Cuba 1.5-2.5 when GM Rauf Mamedov and GM Vasif Durarbayli went down against GM Carlos Daniel Albornoz Cabrera and GM Luis Ernesto Quesada Perez. Uzbekistan and Netherlands whitewashed Slovakia and Canada respectively, something which is not so common in the fifth round at the top boards. India 3 bounced back after a loss to beat Chile 2.5-1.5, while India 3 Women were held to a draw by Brazil 2-2. Poland and USA lost to Romania and Peru 1.5-2.5 respectively.

Open: India 1 - Romania: 2.5-1.5

GM Arjun Erigaisi (2689) scored the sole victory for the team against GM Mircea-Emilian Parligras (2576). The win helped India 1 beat Romania. GM Harikrishna, GM Vidit and GM Narayanan drew their respective games.

Arjun - Parligras

39...b5 allows White to bring the king into the action 40.Ke4 Nd5 41.Bh3 Nxc3+ 42.Kf5 Nd4+ 43.Kxg5+ and it's over for Black.

Spain - India 2: 1.5-2.5

GM D Gukesh (2684) and GM B Adhiban (2598) scored the wins for India 2. GM Praggnanandhaa (2648) suffered his first loss of the event. GM Nihal Sarin (2651) drew with GM David Anton Guijarro (2667).

Shirov - Gukesh

White had to play the counter-intuitive 28.fxe5 dxe5 29.Rf1 to keep things in balance. 29.f5 actually locked things up for White. Black created passed pawns in the center which were absolutely menacing.

This win moved Gukesh to India #3 and World #27 with a live rating of 2714.1

Adhiban - Iturrizaga

What Black should not do here is exchange the bishops at c6 as that helps White. That is exactly what he did 38...Bxc6 39.dxc6 the pawn reached one step closer to the promotion square. 39...Ne6 40.Qe5 Nc7 41.Qxc7 Qxe3+ 42.Kh2 Qe8 43.Qd6 Qc8 44.Bxf6 gxf6 45.Qd7 Black resigned.

Chile - India 3: 1.5-2.5

GM Sethuraman S P (2623) and GM Abhimanyu Puranik (2612) scored wins for the team. GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly (2608) drew his game. GM Karthikeyan Murali (2613) suffered his first loss of the event.

Women: India 1 - Hungary: 2.5-1.5

IM Vaishali R (2442) was completely winning against IM Anastasia Savina (2377). However, she missed her opportunity and Savina escaped with a draw. IM Tania Sachdev (2399) defeated WIM Andreea Navrotescu (2373) comfortably to register India's fifth win of the event.

India 2 - Georgia: 1-3

WGM Vantika Agrawal (2371) and IM Padmini Rout (2374) survived completely lost positions against GM Nana Dzagnidze (2531) and GM Nino Batsiashvili (2466). It did not prove to be enough as IM Soumya Swaminathan (2335) and WGM Divya Deshmukh (2319) lost their games.

India 3 - Brazil: 2-2

WGM Nandhidhaa P V (2312) scored the sole full point for the team. IM Eesha Karavade (2339) and WGM Pratyusha Bodda (2310) drew their respective games, although Pratyusha missed a winning combination.

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