Grandmaster R Vaishali and Vantika Agrawal came up with splendid efforts to down Lela Javakhishvili and Bella Khotenashvili, respectively, as India women continued their unbeaten run with a 3-1 victory over Georgia at the 45th Chess Olympiad here on Wednesday.
India women have now won all their seven rounds.
On a day that saw D Harika settling for a draw with Nana Dzagnidze, Divya Deshmukh held by Nino Batsiashvili from a better position, it was Vantika who handled her time pressure extremely well to play almost 20 moves with just about a minute on her clock to win her game.
It was finally left to Vaishali to record a fine technical win to hand the women’s team its seventh straight win.
In the open section, Indian men drew on the last three boards. Speculation was rife about a possible clash between Gukesh and Ding Liren – the two contestants in the next World Championship – but the Chinese think-tank decided to rest the reigning world champion.
