: Chess: India finish fifth in Online Nations Cup after defeats against China and Russia #IndiaNEWS India continued their poor show losing to title contenders China and Russia by an identical margin

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Chess: India finish fifth in Online Nations Cup after defeats against China and Russia #IndiaNEWS
India continued their poor show losing to title contenders China and Russia by an identical margin of 1.5-2.5 in the ninth and 10th round respectively to finish fifth after the round-robin phase of Fide-Chess.com Online Nations Cup on Saturday.USA will meet China in Sunday’s Superfinal after they beat the top seeds 2.5-1.5 in the final round later in the day.Europe, which had to beat Rest of the World in the last round to have any chance of advancing to the summit clash, was held to a 2-2 draw to bow out.In the final round encounter against Russia, India’s Vidit Gujrathi was beaten by Vladislav Artemiev, while B Adhiban was tamed by Dmitry Andreikin.P Harikrishna held Sergey Karjakin to a draw, while Rapid world champion Koneru Humpy scored a win over Olga Girya to reduce the margin of defeat and finish with two victories and no losses.China topped the league table with 17 match points and 25.5 board points followed by USA (13 MPs, 22 BPs).Europe took the third spot (13 MPs, 21.5 BPs) followed by Russia (8 MPs, 19 BPs) and India (5 MPs, 17.5 BPs), while Rest of the World languished at the bottom with 4 MPs and 14.5 BPs.Earlier in the ninth round, with former...Read more

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