Turkmen teams have achieved further victories at the 45th World Chess Olympiad, which is ongoing in Budapest, Hungary.
In the 7th round, the women's team of Turkmenistan (73rd seed), with an average rating of 1956 points, in a tough fight with a score of 2.5:1.5 defeated the experienced Cubans (average rating - 2215), seeded under the 29th number, consisting of three international grandmasters and one international master. And our men's team (73rd seed; average rating - 2332) beat the team of Jamaica (seeded number - 105; average rating - 2161) - 3:1.
The decisive winning point for the women's team was brought by 17-year-old Leyla Shohradova, who won on the third board against the female grandmaster Yaniela Forgas Moreno (rating 2203), and the games on the other three boards ended in a draw.
Now our girls with 10 points out of 14 possible occupy 25th place in the overall standings, maintaining the leadership in Group «C». In the next, 8th round, the Turkmen chess players will play with the Swiss team, which is in 16th place (21st seed; average rating - 2282), led by the former world champion Alexandra Kostenyuk, who emigrated from Russia, who in the individual standings on the 1st board after 7 rounds with 5.5 points out of 6 takes 2nd place, demonstrating an actual rating level (rating performance) of 2643.
Turkmen chess player Enesh Arazmedova is also on the list of leaders in the individual standings on the 5th reserve board, occupying 5th place among 169 participants after 7 rounds with a performance rating of 2418. And in terms of the total number of points brought to the Turkmen team, Leyla Shohradova is in the lead (5 points in 6 games), whose rating rose by 103 points and reached 1976 («live rating»).
International Grandmaster Meylis Annaberdiyev (board 2) and 18-year-old Amanmuhammet Hommadov (board 3) made a significant contribution to the victory of our men's team over the Jamaican team, winning their games. And International Master Saparmyrat Atabayev (board 1) and Vepaly Halyniyazov, who played on board 4, tied with their opponents. The current champion of the country, Allayar Shirliyev, who is playing on board 4 at the 2024 Olympiad, had a rest in the 7th round.
After 7 rounds, Turkmen chess players are in 75th place among 188 teams. In the 8th round, our guys will meet the Icelandic team, which is in 59th place (seed number - 46; average rating - 2483), for which international grandmasters play on the first three boards at the 2024 Olympiad, and an international master on the 4th.
In the overall standings in both the men's and women's categories, the Indian team is leading, having not lost a single point yet.
The Chess Olympiad in the capital of Hungary will last until 22nd of September.
