World Chess: India loses to Georgia

India went down 1.5-2.5 to Georgia in the seventh round of the women’s world team chess championship at Chengdu, China, on Sunday. India has six points and is placed sixth.

Georgia is top of the table with 13 points, followed by Russia (11), China (nine) and Ukraine (eight), with two rounds remaining.

Padmini Rout’s loss to Meri Arabidze, rated 72 points below, proved costly for India. Koneru Humpy, Dronavalli Harika and Soumya Swaminathan drew their games with Bela Khotenashvili, Lela Javakhishvili and Melia Salome.

The results:

Seventh round: Georgia bt India 2.5-1.5; Armeina drew with United States 2-2; China drew with Ukraine 2-2; Russia drew with Kazakshstan 2-2; Egypt lost to Poland 1-3.