India misplaced 1-3 to Spain within the tie-break after the two-round bronze medal play-off led to a tie on the FIDE World Team chess Championship right here on Saturday.
In each the rounds, the groups performed out 2-2 attracts. But Jaime Santos Latasa and David Anton Guijarro defeated Vidit Santosh Gujrathi and Nihal Sarin respectively within the blitz tie-break to present Spain the benefit.
S L Narayanan drew with Alexei Shirov and Abhijeet Gupta held Miguel Santos Ruiz within the different video games. This gave Spain victory by a 3-1 margin early on Saturday.
In the primary spherical, Gujrathi, enjoying with black, drew Santos Latasa whereas Sarin signed peace with Guijarro within the final sport of that match. The two different video games Narayanan vs Daniil Yuffa and Gupta towards Santos Ruiz too led to attracts.
The sample was repeated within the second spherical too as video games on all of the 4 boards involving the identical gamers led to attracts.
Spain took the tie-break for a 4-2 victory and win its first-ever medal in a crew competitors.
Meanwhile, China beat Uzbekistan 4-0, profitable the 2 rounds by an identical 2.5-1.5 scoreline.
