India loses again

MUMBAI, AUG. 9. India continued its dismal performance on the third day, losing to Romania in the team World Cup of chess for visually impaired being organised by the German Chess Federation for blind at Dusseldorf, Germany, on Thursday.

The Indians repeated their yesterday's performance, losing three of the four games of the day and drawing the fourth. They thus have 1.5 points at the end of three rounds and 12 games and will be content with 7th-12th place in the tournament.

Russia, who leads the Group `A', will be playing the fourth round with the Indians on Friday while the countrymen will face Germans in their last round. The event is being organised under the aegis of International Braille Chess Association.

lThe results: Romania bt India (Swapnil Shah lost to Dacian Pribeanu; Madan Bagayatkar drew with Mihai Irimia; Shirish Patil lost to Alexandru Pirosca; Vasant Patil lost to Viorel Craciun).

- UNI

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