India loses to Croatia

MUMBAI, AUG. 7. Asian representative India lost its first round match to Croatia on the opening day of the team World Cup of chess for the visually impaired at Dusseldorf (Germany) on Monday.

According to information received here today, the Indians, who are in Group A along with Romania, Russia, Croatia, Spain and Germany, salvaged half a point when their seasoned player Vasant Patil drew his match against Stjepan Jankovic after Swapnil Shah, Madan Bagayatkar and Shirish Patil lost their matches to Hinko Cajzler, Milutin Sakic and Vlatko Marendic respectively.

lThe results: (First round) Group A:Romania (2.5) bt Germany (1.5), Russia (2.5) bt Spain (1.5), Croatia (3.5) bt India (0.5).

Group B: Ukraine (3) bt Yugoslavia (1), Poland (3.5) bt Slovenia (.5), Lithuania (2) drew with Hungary (2).

-PTI.

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