Humpy 038; Co slip against Russia

Tania Sachdev lost on the third board from an advantageous middle game against Valentina Gunina while Soumya Swaminathan messed up a clearly drawn endgame against Natalia Pogonina to give the Russian an easy victory.

Earlier in the day Koneru Humpy had played out a draw with Tatiana Kosintseva while Nadezhda Kosintseva also split the point with D Harika on the second board.

China meanwhile continued their rampaging act and scored a 3-1 victory over Greece. World women champion Yifan Hou led from the front to give a fine victory against Yelena Dembo and Zhao Xue overpowered Ekaterini Fakhiridou to complete the rituals.

In another match,Ukraine did well to hold Georgia 2-2.