Mallorca: Thanks to a resurgent Abhijit Kunte and Surya Shekhar Ganguly, the Indian men cruised to a 3-1 victory over Philippines in the third round of the 36th Chess Olympiad in Mallorca at Gran Casino.

The Ukrainians look like men with a mission and in the third round too they continued with their demolition act to score 4-0 victory over Czech Republic. Incidentally this was Ukraine's third such victory on the trot in the event and they are now sole leaders with a cent percent score.

Indian men took their tally to 9 points after beating Philippines. It turned out to be a good day for Kunte who scored a valuable point with black pieces for his team against International Master Emmanuel Senador.

Playing the Berlin defence Abhijit was pleasantly surprised as his opponent went for the closed set up and duly punished a rather sluggish attack later in the middle game.

Seeing that complexities did not work much in his favour, Senador went for the queen and minor piece endgame with one pawn less but found Abhijit's technical handling perfect too. The game lasted 46 moves.

"I am pleased with the way I played today after a forgettable performance in the first round game," said Abhijit adding, "I think he could have done better than going for the endgame." Speaking about the team performance so far the former British Champion asserted that it was alright thus far.