Three rounds, three wins for both Serbian teams. On Friday, September 18, Serbia beat Canada 2½:1½ in both sections. The routes to victory differed: two wins proved decisive in the Open match, while one win and three draws settled the Women’s match.
Both teams now have six match points. Serbia has scored 9/12 board points in the Open and 10½/12 in the Women’s section.
Open: Inđić and Predke make the difference
Aleksandar Inđić with White and Alexandr Predke with Black scored full points against Anthony Atanasov and Razvan Preotu. Those victories offset Alexey Sarana’s loss to Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux on board one. Velimir Ivić drew with Sai Krishna, preserving Serbia’s perfect match record. Bojan Maksimović rested.
All four games in board order, with White named first:
- Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux - Alexey Sarana 1-0. Game
- Aleksandar Inđić - Anthony Atanasov 1-0. Game
- Razvan Preotu - Alexandr Predke 0-1. Game
- Velimir Ivić - Sai Krishna G V ½-½. Game
Official Open results, match 15 · Full broadcast
Women: Elif Mehmed scores the decisive point
After two 4:0 victories, Canada ended Serbia’s run of individual wins, but not its team winning streak. Elif Mehmed beat Svitlana Demchenko with Black; draws by Teodora Injac, Alina Bivol and Jovana Srdanović completed the winning score. Elif maintains a perfect 3/3. Sofija Pogorelskih sat out this round.
- Maili-Jade Ouellet - Teodora Injac ½-½. Game
- Alina Bivol - Yunshan Li ½-½. Game
- Svitlana Demchenko - Elif Mehmed 0-1. Game
- Jovana Srdanović - Oksana Golubeva ½-½. Game
Official Women’s results, match 13 · Full broadcast
Our replay picks
We highlight Inđić - Atanasov, Preotu - Predke and Demchenko - Mehmed: the three Serbian wins behind two team victories. Every game link above opens the individual replay with the broadcast moves.
Round four brings China for Serbia’s Open team and Iran for the women. Find the line-ups, colours and brief introductions to the opponents in our round-four preview.