After the Russian ladies’s staff claimed the title on the World Group Championship, Russian Chess Federation (RCF) Govt Director Alexander Tkachev boasted that the “Russian chess faculty is the strongest on this planet”. The staff was allowed to take part in FIDE’s World Group Championship as neutrals underneath the FIDE flag.
For the report, the Indian ladies’s staff has misplaced to Kazakhstan within the quarter-finals. Not one of the 4 Indian ladies who’re grandmasters — Koneru Humpy, Harika Dronavalli, Vaishali Rameshbabu and Divya Deshmukh — have been a part of the Indian ladies’s staff. The Indian staff was represented by IM Padmini Rout, WGM Nandhidhaa PV, WIM Velpula Sarayu, IM Savitha Shri B and WGM Srija Seshadri.
Russia — represented by gamers like Aleksandra Goryachkina, Kateryna Lagno, Polina Shuvalova, Leya Garifullina and Anna Shukhman — beat Azerbaijan within the closing to say the gold medal. In the meantime, a powerful China staff, led by Hou Yifan, had claimed bronze. For the Russian staff, there have been additionally particular person medals for Polina Shuvalova (gold on board three), Leya Garifullina (silver on board 4), and Anna Shukhman (gold on board 5).
India’s Padmini Rout claimed a person bronze on high board as did Savitha Shri B on the fourth board for Group India.
“It’s been confirmed as soon as once more: if we’re allowed anyplace, we all the time take first place. I’d say it is a shared victory. The women have many followers everywhere in the world, not simply in Russia, and I’m certain many are glad in regards to the return of our staff,” Tkachev was quoted as saying by Russian media organisation TASS. “We haven’t misplaced a single match, which proves that the Russian chess faculty is at present the strongest on this planet. And it doesn’t matter what obstacles they throw in our means, it doesn’t matter what interviews they offer admitting they’ll do all the things to deprive Russians of chess, nothing will work. The women have proven how you can resolve all points on the chessboard, not behind the scenes.”
The World Group Championship is a staff’s championship just like the Olympiad. It’s held each two years. The Russian ladies’s staff had additionally claimed the title in 2021. However in 2023, they’d missed out on competing on account of FIDE barring groups from Russia after the invasion of Ukraine.
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