Pranav Venkatesh Golden at World Youth U16 Olympiad 2022, Bronze for Tanisha Boramanikar

by Shahid Ahmed - 11/10/2022

India suffered a 1-3 loss to Turkiye-Red in the final round of FIDE World Youth Under-16 Olympiad 2022. Turkiye-Red had already won Gold after the eighth round. They suffered a total of three individual losses in the entire tournament. One of them was in the last round by FM Eray Kilic against GM Pranav Venkatesh. Pranav scored an impressive 8/9 to win an individual Gold medal. He also won the Magnus Academy Challenge on the previous day. It is certainly not easy to balance two tournaments, which has a completely different format and time control. Pranav did it handsomely as he did fantastic in both events. Reigning National Sub-Junior Girls champion, Tanisha S Boramanikar claimed an individual Bronze medal on Board no.6. Photo: WYCO 2022 Nakhchivan ig

India finishes fifth

The Gold medal winner Turkiye-Red finished the event with a perfect 18/18. Uzbekistan-1 won the Silver 15/18 and Azerbaijan-1 got the Bronze 13/18.

Individual Gold on Board no.1 - GM Pranav Venkatesh | Photo: WYCO 2022 Nakhchivan ig

Individual Bronze on Board no.6 - Tanisha S Boramanikar 4.5/6

Coach GM FST Tejas Bakre flanked by the medal winners - GM Pranav Venkatesh (Gold) and Tanisha S Boramanikar (right)

FIDE World Youth Chess Olympiad 2022 Official logo | Photo: Official site

India - Turkiye-Red: 1-3

GM Pranav Venkatesh (2530) scored the sole win for the team in the final round. IM Pranesh M (2442), FM Harshad S (2228) and Tanisha S Boramanikar (1808) all three lost their respective games.

Pranav - Eray

Position after 42.g6

Pranav played bravely. He moved his king towards safety when required 32.Kd2. After a few moves when there was a phantom attack on the king 40...e3+ 41.Kxe3 it did not shy away. After 42.g6, Black's position started falling apart and he resigned in the next few moves.

India - Turkiye-Red: 1-3

Individual performances of India overall

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Schedule

Everyday round starts at 3 p.m. local time, 4:30 p.m. IST from 2nd to 9th October 2022. The final round on 10th October starts 10 a.m. local time, 11:30 a.m. IST.

Round 9 results

No.	SNo	Team	Team	Pts.	MP	Res.	:	Res.	MP	Pts.	Team	Team	SNo
1	3	IND	India	23	11	1	:	3	16	25	Turkiye-Red	TUR	5
2	8	CUB	Cuba	17	10	1	:	3	13	21½	Uzbekistan-1	UZB	2
3	4	AZE-1	Azerbaijan-1	18	11	2½	:	1½	10	17	Turkiye-Anatolia	TUR	9
4	6	KAZ	Kazakhstan	17½	10	3½	:	½	10	21	Georgia-1	GEO	17
5	18	UZB-2	Uzbekistan-2	18	10	2	:	2	9	18	Azerbaijan-2	AZE	10
6	1	IRI	Iran	17½	9	3½	:	½	9	18	Kyrgyzstan	KGZ	12
7	14	MDA	Moldova	15½	9	1	:	3	8	17	Turkiye-White	TUR	7
8	21	CAN	Canada	17	8	2½	:	1½	8	17	Mexico	MEX	11
9	13	MGL	Mongolia	19	8	2½	:	1½	8	16½	Latvia	LAT	16
10	15	BAN	Bangladesh	16	8	1½	:	2½	8	15	South Africa-1	RSA	24

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Final standings

Rk.	SNo	FED	Team	Team	Games	+	=	-	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4
1	5	TUR	Turkiye-Red	TUR-1	9	9	0	0	18	288,5	28	93
2	2	UZB	Uzbekistan-1	UZB-1	9	7	1	1	15	230,5	24,5	94
3	4	AZE	Azerbaijan-1	AZE-1	9	6	1	2	13	198,5	20,5	96
4	6	KAZ	Kazakhstan	KAZ	9	6	0	3	12	197,5	21	98
5	3	IND	India	IND	9	5	1	3	11	213	24	94
6	1	IRI	Iran	IRI	9	4	3	2	11	199	21	95
7	18	UZB	Uzbekistan-2	UZB-2	9	5	1	3	11	156	20	86
8	13	MGL	Mongolia	MGL	9	4	2	3	10	169,5	21,5	84
9	17	GEO	Georgia-1	GEO-1	9	4	2	3	10	169	21,5	84
10	10	AZE	Azerbaijan-2	AZE-2	9	4	2	3	10	167	20	79

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Final standings on Board no.1

Rk.		Name	Rtg	FED	Team	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	IM	Pranav V	2530	IND	India	2615	9	8
2	FM	Kilic Eray	2428	TUR	Turkiye-Red	2477	9	6,5
3	IM	Madaminov Mukhiddin	2441	UZB	Uzbekistan-1	2404	9	6

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Final standings on Board no.6

Rk.		Name	Rtg	FED	Team	TB1	TB2	TB3
1		Abdinova Narmin	1810	AZE	Azerbaijan-1	2181	8	7
2	WFM	Omonova Umida	2078	UZB	Uzbekistan-1	2002	9	5,5
3		Boramanikar Tanisha S	1808	IND	India	1969	6	4,5