chess Olympiad 2022: Know the Indian women who made chess history
by Susan Ninansports Writer
In just noon, the Chess of Indian women the team went from the almost certainty of a gold medal in the chess of chess to the dismay of a bronze.
They still made history, as the first female team Indian to win a medal in an Olympiad. Koneru Humpy, Harika Dronavalli, Tania Sachdev, R Vaishali and Bhakti Kulkarni, a delicious mixture of groundbreaking of Moolos and young young prodigies, were the main seeds in the women's section. He helped neither Russia nor China participated in the Olympiad.
The Indians were at a gold distance with a touch of gold for most of their campaign, and in a single place of advantage in the final round, before From a loss of 1-3 to the USA. Tania and Bhakti shook their lower board games while Humpy and Vaishali clung to the draws. Tania, undefeated with eight points from 10 games to the last round, fought to reach an agreement with a last day inexplicably terrible. She lost with the Carissa Yip of the United States, and was obviously destroyed.
"I think it is really difficult to understand the severity of winning the first medal for the Olympiaad," Tania said shortly after, dejected eyes, fighting emotions. "More than anything else, I think it was about the way the tournament progressed, we were leading. We are now dealing with having lost gold instead of winning bronze."
Image source, Lennart Ootesimage Tectificet, Ukraine and Georgia won the gold and silver medals, respectivelymust be a unique and confusing sensation. A first historical medal that also serves as a memory of a lost opportunity. India did not lose their games against the teams that ended in front of them in the final classification, namely Ukraine and Georgia. It was one of the reasons why a gold seemed likely.
But for a short time, even bronze was in doubt. After the final round games ended on Tuesday, with gold and silver in the Women's Section going to Ukraine and Georgia, respectively, the fortunes of India's medals hung in balance. Some manic mathematics were needed in the tiebreaker to decide whether the bronze medal went to India or the United States. The numbers favored the Indians and the Americans had to make peace with a fourth place.
Humpy and Harika, the two grandparents on the Indian side, were theoretically the best qualified players of the team. Harika balanced his advanced stage of pregnancy with the rigors of the prolonged classic games, and played seven draws in a row. She sat in the last two games, but appeared with the rest of the team to answer the press questions about her performance.
Most of these women have been silently crushed the stereotypes for years. Humpy broke the record of the Hungarian legend Judit Polgar by becoming a great teacher at age 15: she was the first Indian player to win the GM title. She went through a complicated pregnancy, but returned shortly after childbirth to become a rapid world champion in 2019.
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