Sagar drew with FM Oo Zaw of Myanmar while GM Niaz suffered a shock defeat against IM Nguyen Duc Hoa of Vietnam in the 5th round of men’s individual of 4th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games held on Tuesday in Incheon in South Korea. After the day’s 5th round matches,
Niaz and Sagar earned 2.5 points each.Earlier in the day’s 4th round games, Niaz beat Akhras Khaled of Syria while Sagar lost to GM Filippov Anon of Uzbekistan.
In the women’s individual chess event, Bangladesh eves provided some encouraging result as Shamima Akter Liza beat WIM Alzarooni Khuloud Eisa Mohamed of UAE while WFM Sharmin Sultana Shirin defeated WIM SD Ranasinghe of Sri Lanka in the 5th round match and both have secured three points each.
Earlier, in the day’s 4th round, Liza lost to former World woman champion GM Zhu Chen of Qatar and Shirin drew with Khamboo Mona Lisa.
-With New Age input
