India At Chess Olympiad, Round 7: Indian Women Continue Dominant Run With Seven Wins On Trot

The victory also meant that the Indian women’s team continued to ride the momentum wave to register yet another thumping 3-1 win to extend their unbeaten run at the event. 

Indian women’s side have now won all their seven rounds. 

On a day that saw D Harika settling for a draw with Nana Dzagnidze, Divya Deshmukh held by Nino Batsiashvili from a better position, it was Vantika, who handled her time pressure extremely well to play almost 20 moves with just about a minute on her clock to win her game. 

It was finally left to Vaishali to record a fine technical win to hand the women's team its seventh straight win.

The 45th Chess Olympiad's format is played in a Swiss system. 

According to the rules, each round sees four players from each team take on four from the other, with a spot for the reserved player who can be used as a substitute in between the rounds. 

The four games are played at the same time on four boards in replaced colours, with one game point allotted for a win and half game point for a draw.

Scores from each game are added to determine which team takes the round. If a team wins the round, they are awarded two points, regardless of the game point margin, while a draw earns only a match point.

The Indian women took their tally to an impressive 14 points out of a possible 14 and stayed ahead of nearest rival Poland that was about to register a victory over Ukraine.

(With PTI Inputs)