New Delhi:
The Indian chess players hailed supreme over their English counterparts in the eighth round of the World Chess Olympiad on Saturday at Baku, Azerbaijan. The Indians defeated their British rivals with the scoreline reading 2.5, 1.5. Chennai Grandmaster SP Sethuraman registred a victory over GM Nigel D Short while the other three games ended in a draw.
Playing with white, Sethuraman went in for the Scotch opening and by the sixth move both the players brought their queens into play. A couple of moves later Sethuraman's board position improved and on move 19 he castled on his queen side and opened his attack from the King side while Short brought his attack on black's King in the queen side. However the Indian maintained his superior board position to force Short to resign in 41 moves. The remaining three games ended in a draw.
