Humpy, Vaishali beat Georgian eves

Mamallapuram, Aug 3: India’s top player Koneru Humpy and R Vaishali led the women’s ‘A’ team to a 3-1 win over a strong Georgian side in the sixth round of the 44th Chess Olympiad here on Wednesday.
In the Open section, teenaged Grandmaster D Gukesh’s splendid run continued as he notched up a sixth consecutive win, but India ‘B’ went down 1.5-2.5 to former champions Armenia.
He could not prevent the team from going down as B Adhiban and Raunak Sadhwani lost to Samvel Ter-Sahakyan and Robert Hovhannisyan respectively. Nihal Sarin drew Hrant Melkumyan.
The India ‘C’ team recorded a 3.5-0.5 win over Lithuania as S P Sethuraman, Abhijeet Gupta and Abhimanyu Puranik beat their opponents while Surya Shekhar Ganguly drew against Titas Stremavicius.
Humpy defeated Nana Dzagnidze in 42 moves, Vaishali scored a win over Lela Javakhshvilli, while D Harika and Tania Sachdev drew against Nino Batsiashvili and Salome Melia in the clash between the India ‘A’ and Georgia. (PTI)