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<p><strong>Chess</strong></p><p>The Indian team scored gold at the Online Chess Olympiad under strange circumstances. It is the first time India has won gold at an Olympiad, the previous best performance was a bronze in 2014 under very different conditions.</p><p>The final between Russia and India had to be written off due to a massive internet outage on Sunday, August 31, making it impossible to connect to the host website, Chess.com. After some cogitation, the World Chess Federation president Arkady Dvorkovich awarded gold to both teams. The Russians were unhappy. They had, in technical terms, won. The Indians were unhappy because they felt robbed by the outage. Both teams took the medals, though, of course!</p><p>In this event, from quarter final onwards, the knockouts were played as best of two matches on six boards, with a single game tiebreaker, if necessary. The first match of the final had been drawn 3-3 and the peace treaty had been signed on three boards in the second match. Two of the three live games seemed headed for draws. Divya Deshmukh had a winning position in the third game. If normal service had continued, the Indians were confident that she would have won and India would have taken gold, fair and square. But web infrastructure provider Cloudflare went down, making Chess.com unreachable. The Indians lost connectivity to the site first, which meant they lost all three games. But everyone on the Indian side could prove they had live internet connections. It was Chess.com that was unreachable.</p><div class="itemcenter"><amp-iframe height="62" title="" width="320" sandbox="allow-forms allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation" allowfullscreen src="https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.dev?url=https%3A%2F%2Fakm-img-a-in.tosshub.com%2Fsites%2Findiatoday%2Fbanner%2Fpreferred-source-new.html%3Fv%3D1.014%5Cu0026native%3D1" class="mrBt15 preferred-source-banner"> </amp-iframe></div></p><p>Simply getting to the finals was an incredible saga for a 12-person team spread across locations. Players were logging in from Prague, Thrissur, Delhi, Pune, Chennai, Nagpur, Nashik, Viyayawada, Hyderabad, etc. After a debacle against Mongolia, where Vidit Gujrathi and Koneru Humpy were timed out due to disconnections, the Indians deployed a lot of technical wizardry, to ensure seamless connectivity.</p><p>The chess Olympiad is a biennial event involving several thousand pawn-pushers. The last one in September-October 2018 was held in Batumi, Georgia. It saw 336 teams from 180 countries playing in Open and Women&rsquo;s sections.</p><p>This online tournament was organised by the World Chess Federation (Fide) when it became obvious that the 2020 Olympiad would be cancelled. The Online Olympiad format is six-player matches. There was a league stage followed by knockouts involving the top eight teams. India nearly got knocked out at the league stage. The disconnections meant a draw against Mongolia while the team was coasting to easy victory. The Indians fought back with three &ldquo;must-win&rdquo; victories, beating strong teams in Germany, Georgia and, finally, upsetting world champions China.</p><p>The &ldquo;luck of the Net&rdquo; favoured India in the quarters vs Armenia. Five games in the first match had been drawn and Nihal Sarin had a small edge against his Armenian opponent when the Armenian lost connectivity. The Armenians appealed and withdrew in protest when the appeal was rejected.</p><p>The semi-final was a thriller. Poland beat India in the first match. But India broke back to win the second match, taking it to the tiebreaker. There, Humpy checkmated Monika Socko with seconds to spare in an Armageddon game (in which white gets five minutes, black gets four minutes but black gets draw-odds and is awarded the win if the game is drawn).</p><p>India&rsquo;s extra impetus came from the format. The top two boards were handled by top grandmasters including former world champion, Viswanathan Anand, top 100 players like Gujrathi (the playing captain), Pentala Harikrishna and rising star Aravindh Chithambaram. But that strength could be matched or exceeded by powerhouse teams like Russia and China.</p><p>However, two boards had to field women, and two others had to field players under 20, one of each gender. India&rsquo;s strength was on those four boards. The women&rsquo;s squad included Humpy and Harika Dronavalli—both top 10 players and grandmasters. They were backed by woman grandmaster Bhakti Kulkarni and woman international master Rameshbabu Vaishali, 19, a world age-group champion.</p><p>The junior boards featured age-group world champions and prodigies in grandmasters Nihal Sarin (16) and Praggnanandhaa (15), and women international masters Divya Deshmukh (14) and Vantika Agrawal (18). All the juniors are monstrously good fast players, with Sarin recently beating reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen at fast play. India has a huge presence in age-group chess, with 10 grandmasters who aren&rsquo;t eligible to vote and 14 players in the top 100. On the girls&rsquo; side as well, there are 13 Indians in the top 100. On those four boards, India had an edge against most teams. Indeed, Praggnanandhaa and Deshmukh generated big scores, while Humpy and Dronavalli both won when the chips were down.</p><p>The team also had phenomenal support. More than 69,000 Indians logged into Chess.com for the finals and thousands of others watched it on other websites. The Olympiad was a internet event, with stand-up comic Samay Raina and cricketer Yuzvendra Chahal, a former national U-12 chess champion, involved in webcasts that regularly drew massive audiences. The successful campaign could mean even more youngsters entering the game and a higher profile, with more sponsorship and government support.</p><div class="itgimage"><amp-img src="https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.dev?url=https%3A%2F%2Fakm-img-a-in.tosshub.com%2Findiatoday%2Fimages%2Fbodyeditor%2F202009%2FLeisure-Sep21-2_Mops-x380.jpg%3FC0PdW_Y6wgfNwlfv3L7iIlgGu7NuwlBt%3Fsize%3D750:*" alt="" height="380" width="1200" class="" layout="responsive"></amp-img>
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<p><strong>Chess</strong></p><p>The Indian team scored gold at the Online Chess Olympiad under strange circumstances. It is the first time India has won gold at an Olympiad, the previous best performance was a bronze in 2014 under very different conditions.</p><p>The final between Russia and India had to be written off due to a massive internet outage on Sunday, August 31, making it impossible to connect to the host website, Chess.com. After some cogitation, the World Chess Federation president Arkady Dvorkovich awarded gold to both teams. The Russians were unhappy. They had, in technical terms, won. The Indians were unhappy because they felt robbed by the outage. Both teams took the medals, though, of course!</p><p>In this event, from quarter final onwards, the knockouts were played as best of two matches on six boards, with a single game tiebreaker, if necessary. The first match of the final had been drawn 3-3 and the peace treaty had been signed on three boards in the second match. Two of the three live games seemed headed for draws. Divya Deshmukh had a winning position in the third game. If normal service had continued, the Indians were confident that she would have won and India would have taken gold, fair and square. But web infrastructure provider Cloudflare went down, making Chess.com unreachable. The Indians lost connectivity to the site first, which meant they lost all three games. But everyone on the Indian side could prove they had live internet connections. It was Chess.com that was unreachable.</p><div class="itemcenter"><iframe scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" width="100%" height="62" awidth="320" aheight="62" amplayout="fixed" src="https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.dev?url=https%3A%2F%2Fakm-img-a-in.tosshub.com%2Fsites%2Findiatoday%2Fbanner%2Fpreferred-source-new.html%3Fv%3D1.014" class="preferred-source-banner" loading="lazy"></iframe></div><style>.preferred-source-banner{  margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom:10px;}</style></p><p>Simply getting to the finals was an incredible saga for a 12-person team spread across locations. Players were logging in from Prague, Thrissur, Delhi, Pune, Chennai, Nagpur, Nashik, Viyayawada, Hyderabad, etc. After a debacle against Mongolia, where Vidit Gujrathi and Koneru Humpy were timed out due to disconnections, the Indians deployed a lot of technical wizardry, to ensure seamless connectivity.</p><p>The chess Olympiad is a biennial event involving several thousand pawn-pushers. The last one in September-October 2018 was held in Batumi, Georgia. It saw 336 teams from 180 countries playing in Open and Women&rsquo;s sections.</p><p>This online tournament was organised by the World Chess Federation (Fide) when it became obvious that the 2020 Olympiad would be cancelled. The Online Olympiad format is six-player matches. There was a league stage followed by knockouts involving the top eight teams. India nearly got knocked out at the league stage. The disconnections meant a draw against Mongolia while the team was coasting to easy victory. The Indians fought back with three &ldquo;must-win&rdquo; victories, beating strong teams in Germany, Georgia and, finally, upsetting world champions China.</p><p>The &ldquo;luck of the Net&rdquo; favoured India in the quarters vs Armenia. Five games in the first match had been drawn and Nihal Sarin had a small edge against his Armenian opponent when the Armenian lost connectivity. The Armenians appealed and withdrew in protest when the appeal was rejected.</p><p>The semi-final was a thriller. Poland beat India in the first match. But India broke back to win the second match, taking it to the tiebreaker. There, Humpy checkmated Monika Socko with seconds to spare in an Armageddon game (in which white gets five minutes, black gets four minutes but black gets draw-odds and is awarded the win if the game is drawn).</p><p>India&rsquo;s extra impetus came from the format. The top two boards were handled by top grandmasters including former world champion, Viswanathan Anand, top 100 players like Gujrathi (the playing captain), Pentala Harikrishna and rising star Aravindh Chithambaram. But that strength could be matched or exceeded by powerhouse teams like Russia and China.</p><p>However, two boards had to field women, and two others had to field players under 20, one of each gender. India&rsquo;s strength was on those four boards. The women&rsquo;s squad included Humpy and Harika Dronavalli—both top 10 players and grandmasters. They were backed by woman grandmaster Bhakti Kulkarni and woman international master Rameshbabu Vaishali, 19, a world age-group champion.</p><p>The junior boards featured age-group world champions and prodigies in grandmasters Nihal Sarin (16) and Praggnanandhaa (15), and women international masters Divya Deshmukh (14) and Vantika Agrawal (18). All the juniors are monstrously good fast players, with Sarin recently beating reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen at fast play. India has a huge presence in age-group chess, with 10 grandmasters who aren&rsquo;t eligible to vote and 14 players in the top 100. On the girls&rsquo; side as well, there are 13 Indians in the top 100. On those four boards, India had an edge against most teams. Indeed, Praggnanandhaa and Deshmukh generated big scores, while Humpy and Dronavalli both won when the chips were down.</p><p>The team also had phenomenal support. More than 69,000 Indians logged into Chess.com for the finals and thousands of others watched it on other websites. The Olympiad was a internet event, with stand-up comic Samay Raina and cricketer Yuzvendra Chahal, a former national U-12 chess champion, involved in webcasts that regularly drew massive audiences. The successful campaign could mean even more youngsters entering the game and a higher profile, with more sponsorship and government support.</p><div class="itgimage"><div class="itgimage"><img  height="380"  title=""  width="1200"  class="" alt="" src="https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.dev?url=https%3A%2F%2Fakm-img-a-in.tosshub.com%2Findiatoday%2Fimages%2Fbodyeditor%2F202009%2FLeisure-Sep21-2_Mops-x380.jpg%3FC0PdW_Y6wgfNwlfv3L7iIlgGu7NuwlBt%3Fsize%3D750:*" loading="lazy" /></div>
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</div><div id="tab-link-wrapper-plugin"><div class="authors__container"><div class="authors__by"><div class="authlable">Published By: </div><div class="authdetaisl">Iram Ara Ibrahim</div></div><div class="published__on"><div class="authlable">Published On: </div><div class="authdetaisl">Sep 12, 2020</div></div></div><div class="sendros">--- ENDS ---</div></div>

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