Chess criterion queried as Botswana crash out

Friday, August 14, 2020

Reigning national chess champion, Candidate Master (CM), Thuso Mosutha has questioned the criterion for selecting the team that crashed out of the World Online Olympiad on Sunday.

The team was knocked out in the first round, leaving Mosutha, who has been in good form, to query its selection process. Mosutha complained that the team was hand picked.

"Some of us were extremely displeased by that and they did so before we played the championship and they tried to defend that by saying the event was at short notice to them while other countries decided to select players through play-offs online still," he said.

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Chess criterion queried as Botswana crash out

Reigning national chess champion, Candidate Master (CM), Thuso Mosutha has questioned the criterion for selecting the team that crashed out of the World Online Olympiad on Sunday.

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