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Asian Online Team Chess: Indian men 4th jaga te ase

Agencies, 16 October: India toh ekta jet aro tuita draws para fourth jaga te nemide kushi namanishe. Etu toh Friday din Asian Online Nations (Regions) Cup Team Championship for men te six rounds bechide thakise. Top-seeded Indians kon three rounds bechide sixth te thakise, Kazakhstan team logode 2-2 draw thakise. 

India-Kazakhstan match te, talented 16-sal Nihal Sarin aro experienced K Sasikiran para Rustam Khusnutdiov aro Denis Makhnev ke jeta thakise. B Adhiban aro captain Surya Shekhar Ganguly tai khan laga games lost howa thakise.

Sasikiran toh India nemide top performer thakise. Tai khan sob six matches toh jetishe etiya tak aro Ganguly para jarta jet toh five games laga para kamiyaab korise.

Six rounds kothom howa bechide, India toh nine match points (tuita points match jeta nemide aro ekta draw nemide) te ase. Team para be etiya tak tinta matches jetishe aro tinta draw korise. Desh laga top tuita player former world champion Viswanathan Anand aro Vidit Gujrathi toh squad te part nai.

Indonesia para points share kora bechide, Indians toh gara para korai aha thakise aro Jordan ke 3.5-0.5 para jetishe aro Sarin, captain Ganguly aro Sasikiran logode jeta post korise. Sameer Mansour toh B Adhiban logode draw hoise aro Indian hatibole thaka bachaishe.

Indonesia kelaaf match te, Adhiban toh top board te Yoseph Theolifus Taher kelaaf draw hoise aro Sarin aro Susanto Megaranto para honours share korishe. Sasikiran para India laga ekta jet post kora thakise, etu toh Muhammad Agus Kurniawan kelaaf kamiyaab bechide. Aro S P Sethuraman toh Novendra Priasmoro kelaaf te harishe. Etu nemide team toh 2-2 results te thakise.

Iran para field te 11 match points logode lead korise aro Australia aro Kazakhstan toh 10 match points each para second aro third jaga te ase.