Another Cuban triumph was enjoyed this Monday, with a score of 3-1 over Bangladesh, during the second round of the World Under-16 Chess Olympiad in Nakhshivan 2022, in Azerbaijan.
Successes by Daniel Hidalgo and José Alejandro Hernández on boards one and three, in that order, made the difference after Leduard González’s defeat at the second table. Then came the good performance of Greter Caballero to sentence the match.
“Greter was huge. She led the game in an impressive way and we are all very happy”, commented coach Rodney Pérez regarding the Cuban’s match against Haque Md. Sajidul, defined in 48 moves of a Rook System from the Pawn Queen opening.
The leader of the female ranking of the category on the Island took advantage of the exposed position of the enemy king in the center of the board to sacrifice the exchange (rook for knight) and achieve a winning endgame with a majority of pawns on the right wing of the board.
Hidalgo’s victory was over Ferdousi Jannatul, the woman included by rule in the Asian team, while José Alejandro beat Sakline Mostafa and Leduard lost at the hands of Reja Neer Manon.
“The important thing here is to win the matches. At these ages the level is even, even the boys sometimes have a strength greater than that reflected by their accumulated Elo”, assured Rodney, who directs a cast for the first time in this type of contest.
In the main duel of the day there was a 2-2 draw between the team Turkey-Anatolia and Iran, Uzbekistan 1 defeated Azerbaijan 1 2.5-1.5 and Mexico could barely get half a unit against the strong Indian team.
Precisely the Indians have the best tiebreaker among the seven casts with perfect performance in the first two rounds. Cuba appears in that lot, since the individual sum of its points is 6.5.
The event brings together 34 teams from 23 countries and is played in nine rounds by the Swiss System until October 10.
(Taken from JIT)