{"id":135998,"date":"2026-09-22T03:36:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T03:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/22\/chess-olympiad-round-6-how-nihal-sarin-blundered-his-queen-in-indias-loss\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T03:36:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T03:36:05","slug":"chess-olympiad-round-6-how-nihal-sarin-blundered-his-queen-in-indias-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/22\/chess-olympiad-round-6-how-nihal-sarin-blundered-his-queen-in-indias-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Chess Olympiad Round 6: How Nihal Sarin blundered his queen in India\u2019s loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India suffered a narrow 2.5-1.5 defeat to hosts Uzbekistan in Round 6 of the Chess Olympiad after Nihal Sarin let a winning position slip, allowing Nodirbek Yakubboev to capture his queen for free. With Praggnanandhaa, Arjun Erigaisi and D Gukesh drawing, Nihal\u2019s loss proved decisive. India\u2019s women bounced back against the United States, winning 3-1 after their previous-round defeat to Poland.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India suffered a narrow 2.5-1.5 defeat to hosts Uzbekistan in Round 6 of the Chess Olympiad after Nihal Sarin let a winning position slip, allowing Nodirbek Yakubboev to capture his queen for free. With Praggnanandhaa, Arjun Erigaisi and D Gukesh drawing, Nihal\u2019s loss proved decisive. India\u2019s women bounced back against the United States, winning 3-1&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/22\/chess-olympiad-round-6-how-nihal-sarin-blundered-his-queen-in-indias-loss\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chess Olympiad Round 6: How Nihal Sarin blundered his queen in India\u2019s loss<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":135999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}