Aryan Joshi and Darpan Inani win Individual Bronze at IBCA Olympiad 2021
Aryan Joshi and Darpan Inani have secured individual Bronze medal on Board no.1 and Board no.3 respectively at 16th IBCA Chess Olympiad for the Blind and Visually Impaired 2021. Darpan scored the highest for Team India as he made 6.5/9. Aryan was the second-highest scorer for the team 4.5/9. K Marimuthu and Milind Samant scored 2.5/8 and 2.5/4 each respectively. Soundarya Pradhan had a tough event as he scored only 1.5/6. India secured eight place. Russia won the Gold by winning all their matches 18.0/18, Poland and Serbia scored 14.0/18 each. They secured Silver and Bronze respectively according to the tie-breaks. Photo: Chess in Greece
India secures eighth place
India starting out as the 14th seed, finished at eighth place 9.0/18. This is a great result for Team India. Congratulations to the entire team of Darpan, Aryan, Soundarya, Marimuthu, Milind and coach FM FT Niranjan Navalgund.
The tournament took place at Rhodes in Greece from 17th to 26th October 2021. Time control was 120 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 60 minutes for each player for the rest of the game, max. 6 hours.
Final Team Standings
| Rk. | SNo | Team | Games | + | = | - | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 | TB4 | |
| 1 | 1 | Russia | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 284,0 | 29,5 | 0 | |
| 2 | 2 | Poland | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 226,5 | 26,0 | 0 | |
| 3 | 5 | Serbia | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 212,5 | 24,0 | 0 | |
| 4 | 7 | Germany | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 154,5 | 19,5 | 0 | |
| 5 | 10 | Romania | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 132,5 | 18,5 | 0 | |
| 6 | 3 | Ukraine | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 237,0 | 22,5 | 0 | |
| 7 | 6 | Spain | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 149,0 | 20,0 | 0 | |
| 8 | 14 | India | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 167,5 | 17,5 | 0 | |
| 9 | 4 | Hungary | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 165,0 | 19,0 | 0 | |
| 10 | 18 | Bulgaria | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 136,0 | 18,0 | 0 |
Individual standings on Board no.1
| Rk. | Name | Rtg | FED | Team | TB1 | TB2 | ||
| 1 | FM | Dimic Pavle | 2334 | SRB | Serbia | 2415 | 9 | |
| 2 | GM | Tazbir Marcin | 2516 | POL | Poland | 2412 | 8 | |
| 3 | Aryan B Joshi | 1842 | IND | India | 2258 | 9 |
Individual standings on Board no.3
| Rk. | Name | Rtg | FED | Team | TB1 | TB2 | ||
| 1 | FM | Babarykin Stanislav | 2357 | RUS | Russia | 2393 | 9 | |
| 2 | Kolpakov Vladyslav | 2248 | UKR | Ukraine | 2270 | 9 | ||
| 3 | Darpan Inani | 2112 | IND | India | 2131 | 9 |