Nihal blunders and loses as India go down to Uzbekistan in Olympiad
Bengaluru, Sept. 22 -- Nihal Sarin sat there, tormented. Captain Srinath Narayanan caught a peek at the board. It was the only game that was still being played in the high-stakes Round 6 India vs Uzbekistan Fide Chess Olympiad face-off in Samarkand on Monday. Games on the other three boards - Nodirbek Abdusattorov vs R Praggnanandhaa, Javokhir Sindarov vs Arjun Erigaisi and Shamsiddin Vokhidov vs Gukesh - had ended in draws. Everything hinged on the fate of the game between Nodirbek Yakkubboev and Nihal.
Nihal - who had been the team's saviour in Round 2 - had 30 minutes and a promising position with Black when he blitzed out his moves and blundered his queen. Instead of retreating his king, Nihal played 36...Kxg5?, bringing it into the lin...
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