World Team 06: Dutch defeat Ukraine

The World Chess Team Championship is currently being held in Antalya, Turkey. The tournament runs from November 26th to December 5th. The tournament is a round robin tournament between the best countries in the world who are sending their top participants. The event will have zero tolerance rules, no draw offers for the first 30 moves and will be played under the standard team tournament system with two points given to a match winner, one for a draw and zero the the loser of a match. Tiebreaks will be decided by board points. The time control is the FIDE 90 minutes for 40 moves and an additional 30 minutes at move 40 with thirty second increment throughout the game.

Commemorative... plates?

Round six

Today was a great round for the excitement of the event as the super-leaders of Ukraine have been dismantled by a resilient Dutch team that keeps getting win after win. Now Ukraine still leads but it is only half a match point ahead of Russia and one ahead of China and the Netherlands.

The Netherlands: (back) Tiviakov, Chuchelov (coach), L'Ami, Sokolov. (sitting) Giri, Van Wely

Korobov has given Ukraine many reasons to smile in this tournament, including
some absolutely clutch victories, but today he lost to Van Wely and was the
tipping point of the round

Sokolov survived a clearly worse position against
Kryvoruchko, and at the end he was even trying to win

Azerbaijan fell prety America as Guseinov could not recover from the shock factor of one of Robson's moves:

Nakamura tried to win for what seemed like forever but it was to no avail,
while the other games were also draws. USA now has 6.0/12 points

Who said it doesn't pay off to be a chess player?

In another shocker of the day Germany was able to convincingly beat Armenia, no questions asked, with a 3-1 margin. Having their highest rated player on board four was beneficial to Germany as Naiditsch took out Akopian in what can only be described as a completely bizarre anti-Berlin Spanish.

Fridman (pictured above) absolutely crushed Movsesian with black in a positional game. A final tactical finesse put the nail in the coffin for Armenia who surprisingly only has 50% of the points, tied with Germany and USA.

In a more expected result China was able to beat Egypt, though they did incur on a loss on their third board as Amin Bassem beat Wang Yue.

Ding Liren is China's third rated player (behind Wang Hao
and Wang Yue) and is scoring a nice 2800 performance
this event

Shoker started with a surprise win on round one but has
only scored half a point since. That is still good enough for
a solid 2520 performance though.

Last but not least Russia showed great class in beating Turkey. Simply look at Kramnik's win today:

With this win Kramnik is back at 50% after he lost to Nakamura in round two

Arbiter Anastasiya Soryakina hard at work...

...and not hard at work.

Results

Standings

Teams receive two points for a match win, one for a draw and zero for a loss

Replay today's games

Photos by Anastasiya Karlovich

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