MAMALLAPURAM: The No. 2 seeds Ukraine did a favour to the top seed Indian women's team at the Chess Olympiad on Tuesday. They could only draw their fifth-round match against Azerbaijan 2-2 and helped India narrow the leaderboard with six more Swiss League rounds remaining.
The 8-team overnight lead is now reduced to just three teams with Georgia and Romania giving company to India on 10 match-points. The situation in the Open section is even more remarkable with only two leaders: India B and Armenia.
