Lot of positives from players' performance:Chess coach

: Indian teams narrowly missed out on a podium finish in the Open event and women's section in the recent World Team Chess Championship at Khanty Manisyk in Russia, but coach R B Ramesh feels there are a lot of positives to be taken from the players' performance.

A narrow loss against Russia put paid to India's medal hopes in the open section but Ramesh said it was a good finish after having started with two losses in the tournament.

While the men's team secured 11 points to finish fourth, the women (with 12 points) also ended up fourth, the same as in the previous edition.

"Considering that we started with two losses, it was a great comeback by our team. We defeated many top teams like the USA, Ukraine and Belarus and almost defeated Russia, the top-seed. Overall, a satisfactory performance by the men and women squads. We came close to winning medals in both sections, but faltered in the very end," he told

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