"VAN" (Sports Desk - 08.08.2023) :: The big celebration of scholastic chess - the FIDE World Schools Team Championship 2023 - has ended. Istanbul ENKA High School (Turkey) in the U18 section and Velammal MHS Mogappair (India) in the U12 were unstoppable! Both winning teams won all eight matches and deservingly claimed gold medals.
Lviv Academic Gymnasium takes home the trophy for second place in the U12 tournament. Solely trailing the leaders going into the last day of the competition, the Ukrainian squad finished solidly with a match win and a draw.
The match points (2 for a win, 1 for a draw, and 0 for a loss) determined the winners. If the match points were equal, the Olympiad-Sonneborn-Berger tiebreak came into play. It added the scores of each defeated team and half the scores of each drawn team, excluding the lowest result. Five teams tied for third, but the tiebreak favoured National Physics & Mathematics School from Kazakhstan.
The tiebreak also decided the silver and bronze in the under-18 category. The local team, Republican School of Physics and Mathematics (Kazakhstan), and Velammal Vidyalaya Alapakkam, Chennai (India), had 12 points each, but the tiebreaks gave the edge to the former.
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