At his own request, he is already in Havana, where he was received at the José Martí International Airport by Dr. Pablo Castillo Díaz, director of the Institute of Sports Medicine, who welcomed him on behalf of the Cuban sports movement and people.

Speaking to Jit, Castillo recalled that Veitía fell ill during a family visit to Spain. There he was treated. Based on the health situation presented, the Inder collaborated with his return to the country and will guarantee his medical care together with the Ministry of Health. He will be treated at the Hermanos Ameijeiras Hospital.

Ihosvany Veitía, son of the emblematic coach, accompanied him from Alicante to Havana. He emphasized that his father has a happy smile since he learned of his return to the homeland.

“My dad is proud of his Cubanness. I want to thank all the efforts made by Inder, the Cuban government and its consulate in Spain, for the rapid processing of everything and for the support they have given us to have him here”, he stressed.

Upon his arrival, Professor Veitía received the affection and admiration of the Inder officials and the workers of the capital’s air terminal.

(With information from Jit)

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)