The Cuban women's team defeated Montenegro today and climbed to 27th place in the standings at the 46th Chess Olympiad, which has now completed six of its eleven rounds in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

The young women captained by Aramís Álvarez won by a score of 2.5-1.5 thanks to victories by Yerisbel Miranda and Roxángel Obregón, plus a draw by Ineymig Hernández.

The latter was used on the third board to give rest to Yaniela Forgas, the regular occupant of that position, and agreed to peace against Aleksandra Milovic, while Yerisbel defeated Alena Skvortsova and Roxángel scored her second success of the tournament against Mateja Popovic.

The only adverse result came on the first board, with Maritza Arribas suffering a loss against Alexandra Zherebtsova.

After this result, the island's players reached nine points and will enjoy the general rest day this Tuesday, installed as Latin American leaders in a standings topped by undefeated Chinese and Kazakh teams with 12 points after defeating Polish and Azerbaijani teams, respectively.

In the absolute tournament, the Cuban men signed a 2-2 draw with Chinese Taipei after four draws in matchups featuring: Jorge Roberto Elías-Adelard Bai, Dylan Berdayes-Raymond Song, Lelys Martínez-Jun-Wei Chen, and Ermes Espinosa-Yeh Yang Liu.

Now holding seven points, the Caribbean players appear in 67th place in a listing that has the host Uzbek team as the only one with a perfect record of 12 points.

This Monday they defeated the current Indian champions 2.5-1.5, thanks to Nodirbek Yakubboev's victory over Sarin Nihal on the third board, as armistices were agreed on the remaining boards.