Mardin (Turkey): India scored an emphatic 4-0 victory over South Africa and jumped to joint second spot after the third round of the World women’s team chess championship here.<\/p>\n
Taking it easy, mainstay Koneru Humpy was rested for tougher battles ahead while D. Harika, Tania Sachdev, Padmini Rout and Soumya Swaminathan scored fine victories to keep the team in contention for a medal in the premier team event.<\/p>\n
Chinese girls, meanwhile, continued with the demolition act and their 4-0 drubbing of the Armenians put them in sole lead with six match points.<\/p>\n
India and Russia share the second spot with five match points but the Indians are ahead at this juncture with 9.5 game points compared to Russia’s 7.5.<\/p>\n
The results: Third round: India (5 points) bt South Africa (0) 4-0 (Cecile Van Der Merwe lost to D. Harika; Tania Sachdev bt Anzels Solomons; Denise Frick lost to Padmini Rout; Soumya Swaminathan bt Lauren Van Niekerk); Armenia (2) lost to China (6) 0-4; Turkey (2) bt Ukraine (1) 2.5-1.5; Greece (1) drew with Russia (5) 2-2; Vietnam (4) bt Georgia (4) 3-1.<\/p>\n
Read more\u2026 http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-sports\/article2736678.ece<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mardin (Turkey): India scored an emphatic 4-0 victory over South Africa and jumped to joint second spot after the third round of the World women’s team chess championship here. Taking it easy, mainstay Koneru Humpy was rested for tougher battles ahead while D. Harika, Tania Sachdev, Padmini Rout and Soumya Swaminathan scored fine victories to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-from-the-newspapers"],"yoast_head":"\n