"VAN" (Sports Desk - Chennai, India - 03.08.2022) :: India 1 team, Georgia and Romania lead the points table with 10 points each end of the 4th round closely followed by Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhastan on 9 points apiece.
15 teams are on 8 points each in the joint third place.
The India A team continued to lead the points table fuelled by a victory on the 4th board when Tania Sachdev Defeated Andreea Navrotescu in a Cambridge springs QGD from the white side.
In the remaining results GM Koneru, Humpy drew with GM Hoang, Thanh Trang.
GM Harika, Dronavalli drew with WGM Ticia Gara, and IM Vaishali drew IM Lazarne Vajda, Szidonia.
India won the tie 2.5-1.5 against France.
Georgia also rallied up to the lead with 10 points after defeating a young India 2 team with a dominating 3-1 score.
Javakhishvili Lela outplayed Soumya Swaminathan on board 3, while Meri Arabidze defeated Divya Deshmukh on board 4 to give the match 3-1 in favor of Georgia.
On top board, Vantika Agarwal scored a hard-fought draw against the experienced Dzagnidze Nana in a losing position while Padmini Rout drew with Batsiashvili Nino.
Javakhishvili Lela and Meri Arabidze scored over Soumya Swaminathan and Divya Deshmukh respectively, in this important round 5 tie-ups.
Ukraine and Azerbaijan shared the honours scoring two points each.
Muzychuk Mariya scored against Mammadzada Gunayon on the top board but the lead was neutralized when Fataliyeva Ulviyya defeated Buksa Nataliya on the 4th board.
Tables 2 and 3 ended in draws.
On the fourth table, Romania defeated Poland 2.5 - 1.5 and leap to the joint lead.
Sandu Mihaela beat Socko Monika on board 2 and Cosma Elena-Luminita defeated Rudzinska Michalina on board 4 for Romania.
Kiolbasa Oliwia scored the sole victory for Poland on board 3.
The top board encounter between Kashlinskaya Alina and Bulmaga Irina ended in a draw.
On boards 5 and 6 Kazakhstan and Germany defeated Cuba and Mongolia with identical 3-1 margins.
Abdumalik Zhansaya and Nakhbayeva Guliskhan scored the wins for Kazakhstan on boards 1 and 4, while the two middle boards ended in draws.
For Germany, the victories came from the last 2 boards.
On board 3 Wagner Dinara defeated Mungunzul Bat-Erdene, and on the 4th board, Schneider Jana got the better of Munkhzul Davaakhuu.
On the top board Paehtz Elisabeth signed the peace treaty with Enkhtuul Altan-Ulzii and Heinemann Josefine drew with Munkhzul Turmunkh on the 2nd board.
The seventh board encounter saw the team from Peru scoring a win over the fancied USA.
Chumpitaz Ann upset experienced Grandmaster Irina Krush on board 2 while Paredes Bustamante Paula Elizab outplayed Yip Carissa on the third.
The top and the last board matchups ended in draws.
Hungary trounced Sweden 3.5-.5 with only the experienced grandmaster Pia Cramling able to score the only half point for the team on the top board against Hoang Thanh Trang.
CR ~ FIDE
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