Chengdu R6: Georgia, Russia keep winning

The city of Chengdu in China is hosting the Women's World Chess Team Championship from April 18th to 28. The organizers are the Chinese Chess Association, FIDE World Chess Federation, with the support of Board and Card Administrative Center of General Administration of Sport of China and Chengdu Municipal Government.

The best teams of the world will participate in the coming championship, among which the previous event's Women’s World Team Champion, the three highest-placed teams in the FIDE Olympiad prior to the event, the four Continental Champions, a team from the organizing federation, a team to be nominated by FIDE President. The ten countries are: China, Russia, Ukraine, USA, India, Poland, Armenia, Georgia, Egypt and Kazakhstan. Every team consists of five players and the team-winner will be determined in a round-robin event after 9 rounds. Time control is 90 minutes per 40 moves and thirty minutes until the end of the game plus 30 seconds increment per move.

This year's participants are Kazakhstan, India, China, USA, Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Poland and Egypt.

Round Six

India did what India had to do.

Definitely no questions asked. The only game that was questionable was Kosteniuk-Zawadzka, in which the Polish player had an almost winning advantage, but she misplayed it badly and ended up losing against a strong attack.

Poland had no chance...

... against team Russia.

A big blow for the Chinese team. They were favorite on every single board and not one of them managed to win. They are still in third place, but this is not what they were looking for.

Some inspiration: looking at the pandas once more

Four draws is an unusual result, and a bad one for China today

Natalia Zhukova drew Lilit Galojan

Gaponenko came huge for Ukraine here in this narrow victory. She was able to beat Kursova who played quite strangely with a quick and unnecessary g4 advance in an otherwise normal structure.

Maria Kursova lost to Inna Gaponenko in the decisive game of the match

Georgia was simply the stronger team, outplaying America on their black boards. Khotenashvili keeps leading her team towards victory.

A little pre-game chat

No problem for Georgia, who keeps their lead with only three rounds left

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Standings

Matches won give two points, draws one point and losses zero points.

Schedule

Round 1 - April 19, 15:00 Beijing

Round 2 - April 20, 15:00 Beijing

Round 3 - April 21, 15:00 Beijing

Round 4 - April 22, 15:00 Beijing

Round 5 - April 23, 15:00 Beijing

Round 6 - April 25, 15:00 Beijing

Round 7 - April 26, 15:00 Beijing

Round 8 - April 27, 15:00 Beijing

Round 9 - April 28, 11:00 Beijing

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