HAVANA, Cuba, Apr 20 (acn) Cuba tied Hungary at 2 points in its debut at the Chess World Team Championship, under ways in Tsakhkadzor, Armenia, attended by 10 countries.
Cuba's only win was achieved by Yuniesky Quesada (2,629 ELO points) who defeated on the third board Richard Rapport (2,710).
Meanwhile, Hungarian Csaba Balogh (2651) beat the Caribbean Isam Ortiz (2612) in outcome that tied the match because draws prevailed in the first two boards.
As published in www.chess-results.com, Leinier Domínguez (2,729) signed peace with Peter Leko (2713) and Lazaro Bruzón (2691) did the same in the second board against Zoltan Almasi (2 698).
With this result both teams now appear in mid of the standings which is led by India that beat 3-1 Egypt, because the scoring system is similar to that applied in the World Olympiad: two points per win and one per draw.
Israel, Ukraine and China reached wins 2.5-1.5 at the expense of Armenia, Russia and the United States respectively.
Today Cubans face Russia, defending champion, and will take black pieces on boards one and three.
Today's other matches will be India-USA, Hungary-China, Ukraine-Armenia and Egypt versus Israel.
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