The Turkmenistan women’s national team won silver medals in rating Category B at the 46th FIDE Chess Olympiad, which concluded in Samarkand. The success of the Turkmen women’s team was determined by the results of the final, 11th round, in which they confidently defeated the Belarusian team, seeded 32nd, by a score of 3.5–0.5, The Golden age electronic newspaper reports.
This is the second consecutive Olympic medal for the women’s national team. Two years ago, at the Olympiad in Budapest, the Turkmen women won gold in Category C, thanks to which they moved up in the rankings and were promoted to the stronger Category B. The battle for first place in Group B continued right up to the finish, with Turkmenistan and Croatia both earning 14 match points. However, the gold went to the Croatian women on tiebreak criteria, while the Uzbekistan II team won the bronze medals.
In the overall women’s standings, the Turkmen team, which started as the 55th seed, finished 33rd among 190 national teams, recording six wins, two draws, and three losses. China emerged as the overall winner of the women’s competition, Kazakhstan took silver, and India won bronze.
Individually, the best result for the Turkmen women’s team was achieved by Mahri Agamyradova, who scored 7.5 points out of 10 on the fourth board, with a tournament performance rating of 2253 and a rating gain of more than 160 points. This enabled her to achieve the Woman FIDE Master (WFM) norm and her first Woman International Master (WIM) norm.
Finishing the tournament with 12 points (five wins, two draws, and four losses), the men’s team, led by captain and Honoured Coach of Turkmenistan Serdar Annaberdiyev, placed 64th among 206 participants. At the same time, Amanmuhammet Hommadov scored 6 points out of 11 and achieved his third and final International Master (IM) norm, pending official approval by FIDE.
The Uzbekistan national team won the open section of the Olympiad, India took the silver medals, and Germany won bronze.
The next, 47th FIDE Chess Olympiad, will be held in 2028 in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates.
