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    Home / News / Sports News / FIDE Online Chess Olympiad: India-Russia declared joint winners
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    FIDE Online Chess Olympiad: India-Russia declared joint winners

    FIDE Online Chess Olympiad: India-Russia declared joint winners

    By Rajdeep Saha
    Aug 30, 2020
    08:38 pm

    What's the story

    India and Russia were declared as the joint winners of the 2020 FIDE Online Chess Olympiad.

    Internet disconnection and server malfunction marred the final leading to India provisionally losing 1.5-4.5 to Russia in the second round and subsequently the entire match on Sunday.

    The Indian team formally appealed against the internet outage as FIDE's review committee decided to award both teams the title.

    Issues

    Internet issues mar the final on Sunday

    On board five and six both India's Nihal Sarin and Divya Deshmukh's games saw disconnection which saw the nation drop points.

    Meanwhile on board 3, Koneru Humpy also faced some internet issues as she lost some time due to the same.

    After India's appeal, FIDE's review committee investigated the issue and came to the conclusion that both teams should be joint winners.

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    Deadlock

    First round: 3-3 deadlock between India and Russia

    After the first round, both India and Russia had remained on equal footing after all the games of the first round in the final ended in draws.

    The first round ended in a 3-3 deadlock.

    Russia started as slight favourites over India with their average rating of 12 players (2,519) higher than India's 2,419.

    However, the opening round was an evenly-matched contest.

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    Results

    Here's how match 1 unfolded between India and Russia

    Match 1: India 3-3 Russia

    (W) Vidit Gujrathi 0.5-0.5 Ian Nepomniachtchi

    (B) P Harikrishna 0.5-0.5 Vladislav Artemiev

    (W) Koneru Humpy 0.5-0.5 Kateryna Lagno

    (B) Harika Dronavalli 0.5-0.5 Alexandra Kosteniuk

    (W) R Praggnanandhaa 0.5- 0.5 Alexey Sarana

    (B) Divya Deshmukh 0.5-0.5 Polina Shuvalova

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    Do you know?

    Internet issues had bothered the tourney earlier

    Incidentally, India's quarters victory against Armenia had also been dogged by similar complaints of a server crash. Armenian players had lodged an appeal saying they had lost internet connection but the appeal had been turned down. India then beat Poland in the semis.

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    Twitter Post

    India and Russia are co-champions

    🇷🇺 Russia and India 🇮🇳 are co-champions of the first-ever FIDE Online #ChessOlympiad.

    Tournament's website: https://t.co/bIcj0hRMek#chess #IndianChess #шахматы pic.twitter.com/gP4sULP2kr

    — International Chess Federation (@FIDE_chess) August 30, 2020
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