{"id":309,"date":"2021-09-14T18:45:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T13:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=149304"},"modified":"2021-09-14T18:45:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T13:15:52","slug":"india-to-face-the-usa-in-fide-online-chess-olympiad-in-the-first-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/other-sports\/india-to-face-the-usa-in-fide-online-chess-olympiad-in-the-first-semi-final\/","title":{"rendered":"India to face the USA in Fide Online Chess Olympiad in the first semi-final\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The joint champions Indian are set to the USA in the first semi-final of the Fide Online Chess Olympiad that is scheduled to take place Wednesday from 9 PM onwards. The second semi-final will include the Russians who are the joint title holders along with India last year as they prepare to face China.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It's India vs USA and China vs Russia in tomorrow's semifinals of the Online Chess Olympiad. Your prediction for the final? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ChessOlympiad?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ChessOlympiad<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nEj1uvrWZG\">pic.twitter.com\/nEj1uvrWZG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 International Chess Federation (@FIDE_chess) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIDE_chess\/status\/1437481433350672388?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 13, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of our players are professionals and are used to playing at night. At the moment we don\u2019t really expect it (playing late in the night) will be a major factor for the match,\u201d said the non-playing captain of the team Srinath Narayanan as reported by The Indian Express.<\/p>\n<p>P Harikrishna of team India will be logging into the semi-finals from Prague, Czech Republic while D Harika and Koneru Humpy will be playing from their homes in Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam respectively.<\/p>\n<p>In the quarter-final round between India and Ukraine, the two top board matches, the first between Grand Master (GM) Viswanathan Anand and GM Vassily Ivanchuk, the second was between GM P Harikrishna and GM Kirill Shevchenko ended in an overall draw. Furthermore, draws were witnessed in the women\u2019s category as well with WGM R Vaishali and FM Mariia Berdnyk and between GM Humpy Koneru and IM Iulija Osmak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first semi-final will see India take on the USA along while Russia will set to face China in the second semi-final match.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":23449,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2588,1087,2260],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-sports","tag-all-india-chess-federation","tag-chess","tag-viswanathan-anand"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}