
The city of Astana in Kazakhstan is hosting the Women's World Chess Team Championship
from March 2nd to 12 in the Duman
Hotel in Astana. Ten best
teams in the world are participating: China, Russia, Ukraine, USA, India,
France, Turkey, Georgia, Rumania and Kazakhstan. Each team consists of five
players, with four playing in each of the nine rounds of this round robin tournament.
Time control is 90 minutes per 40 moves and thirty minutes until the end of
the game plus 30 seconds increment per move.
Round 7 March 10 at 15:00 |
Turkey
|
1½-2½
|
India |
China
|
3-1
|
Kazakhstan |
France
|
2-2
|
Romania |
Georgia
|
1-3
|
Ukraine |
USA
|
2½-1½
|
Russia |
|
Round 8 March 11 at 15:00 |
India
|
1½-2½
|
Russia |
Ukraine
|
2½-1½
|
USA |
Romania
|
1-3
|
Georgia |
Kazakhstan
|
2½-1½
|
France |
Turkey
|
0-4
|
China |
|
Round seven

The Ukrainian team showed very stable play and won the fourth match in a row.
They outplayed the Georgian team with 3:1 score. The World Champion Anna Ushenina
(picture above) defeated Bela Khotenashvili to gain her 5th victory in the championship.
In a sharp position the game Khurtsidze-Muzychuk the Georgian player made a
crucial mistake and let Maria Muzychuk win the game and bring the victory to
her team.

China outplayed the team of Kazakhstan with 3:1 score, winning two games on
the bottom boards. Guliskhan Nakhbaeva, who has shown a great 2553 performance,
made a draw against the leader of the Chinese team Ju Wenjun.

France could have tried to play for more than draw in the match against Romania.
Sophie Millet (above) on board one created a very dangerous attack on the opponent’s
king but didn’t find the winning continuation and let Cristina Adela Foisor
escape. As a result, all the games finished peacefully.

The Romanian team, with IM Adela Cristina Foisor,
WGM Irina Bulmaga,
WGM Carmen Voicu-Jagodzinsky and WGM Luminita Elena Cosma (seated)
The fifth member of the Romanian team, WGM
Alina L'Ami,
had the day off and shot the photos from this round
The USA team gathered all their strength and managed to outplay Russia 2.5-1.5.
Alexandra Kosteniuk was defeated by Irina Krush and Olga Girya, who had shown
a perfect result before the seventh round, unexpectedly lost to Victorija Ni.
The victory of Natalija Pogonina over Sabina Foisor could not save the match.
Turkish team had good chances to make a draw today, but the Indians were luckier.
Kubra Ozturk and Cemhan Kardelen had winning positions and it seemed Turkey
could keep the balance. But Cemhan didn’t play precisely and let her opponent
Rout Padmini make a draw with perpetual check. Turkey once again lost 1½-2½.
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1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nf3 Bg7 4.g3 0-0 5.Bg2 d6 6.0-0 Nbd7 7.Nc3 e5 8.e4 exd4 9.Nxd4 Re8 10.h3 a6 11.Re1 Rb8 12.a4 a5 13.Ndb5 Nc5 14.Bf4 Nh5 15.Be3 Bd7 16.Qc2 Bc6 17.Rad1 Bxb5 18.cxb5 Qc8 19.g4 Nf6 20.Bxc5 dxc5 21.e5 Nd7 22.f4 Nf8 23.Ne4 Ne6 24.Qf2 b6 25.f5 Bxe5 26.fxe6 Rxe6 27.Kh1 h6 28.Nc3 Qf8 29.Bd5 Bd4 30.Qg2 Rxe1+ 31.Rxe1 Re8 32.Rxe8 Qxe8 33.Qe4 Qxe4+ 34.Bxe4 Kg7 35.Kg2 Kf6 36.Bd5 Ke7 37.Kf3 f5 38.Bc4 fxg4+ 39.Kxg4 Kd6 40.Bf7 g5 41.Kf5 c6 42.Be8 Ke7 43.Bxc6 c4 44.Bd5 Kd6 45.Bxc4 Kc5 46.Be2 Kb4 47.Bd1 Kc4 48.Kg6 Be3 49.Ne4 Kd3 50.Nd6 Bf4 51.Nf7 Kd2 52.Bg4 Kc2 53.Nxh6 Kb3 54.Bd1+ Kxb2 55.Nf7 Kc1 56.Bg4 Kc2 57.Nxg5 Bg3 58.Ne4 Be1 59.Kg5 Kd3 60.Nf6 Bd2+ 61.Kf5 Be1 62.Ke5 Bc3+ 63.Ke6 1–0
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Ozturk,K | 2252 | Mohota,N | 2325 | 1–0 | 2013 | E68 | FIDE Women's World Teams | 7.1 |
Padmini,R | 2316 | Cemhan,K | 2025 | ½–½ | 2013 | C70 | FIDE Women's World Teams | 7.2 |
Sop,S | 2028 | Gomes,M | 2387 | 0–1 | 2013 | B51 | FIDE Women's World Teams | 7.3 |
Soumya,S | 2283 | Kaya,E | 1995 | 1–0 | 2013 | C70 | FIDE Women's World Teams | 7.4 |
Ju,W | 2505 | Nakhbayeva,G | 2344 | ½–½ | 2013 | A28 | FIDE Women's World Teams | 7.1 |
Dauletova,G | 2265 | Huang,Q | 2476 | ½–½ | 2013 | B01 | FIDE Women's World Teams | 7.2 |
Tan,Z | 2471 | Saduakassova,D | 2353 | 1–0 | 2013 | E21 | FIDE Women's World Teams | 7.3 |
Abdumalik,Z | 2187 | Guo,Q | 2435 | 0–1 | 2013 | B15 | FIDE Women's World Teams | 7.4 |
Milliet,S | 2401 | Foisor,C | 2401 | ½–½ | 2013 | B01 | FIDE Women's World Teams | 7.1 |
Bulmaga,I | 2354 | Maisuradze,N | 2330 | ½–½ | 2013 | B32 | FIDE Women's World Teams | 7.2 |
Collas,S | 2282 | Cosma,E | 2336 | ½–½ | 2013 | D02 | FIDE Women's World Teams | 7.3 |
Voicu-Jagodzinsky,C | 2281 | Benmesbah,N | 2266 | ½–½ | 2013 | B45 | FIDE Women's World Teams | 7.4 |
Dzagnidze,N | 2554 | Lagno,K | 2547 | ½–½ | 2013 | D85 | FIDE Women's World Teams | 7.1 |
Ushenina,A | 2477 | Khotenashvili,B | 2499 | 1–0 | 2013 | D31 | FIDE Women's World Teams | 7.2 |
Khurtsidze,N | 2437 | Muzychuk,M | 2479 | 0–1 | 2013 | D94 | FIDE Women's World Teams | 7.3 |
Zhukova,N | 2471 | Melia,S | 2419 | ½–½ | 2013 | E54 | FIDE Women's World Teams | 7.4 |
Zatonskih,A | 2474 | Gunina,V | 2505 | ½–½ | 2013 | D11 | FIDE Women's World Teams | 7.1 |
Kosteniuk,A | 2495 | Krush,I | 2448 | 0–1 | 2013 | B66 | FIDE Women's World Teams | 7.2 |
Foisor,S | 2323 | Pogonina,N | 2475 | 0–1 | 2013 | E46 | FIDE Women's World Teams | 7.3 |
Girya,O | 2440 | Ni,V | 2263 | 0–1 | 2013 | E46 | FIDE Women's World Teams | 7.4 |
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Round eight

Women's World Champion Anna Ushenina lost her first game in this tournament,
against Irina Krush (above), but Ukraine still was stronger in the match against
the USA. Nataliya Zhukova and Katerina Lahno defeated their opponents and Maria
Muzychuk made a draw to secure the team's victory.

Kazakhstan outplayed France with 2.5-1.5 score and moved to seventh place.
WGM Guliskhan Nakhbaeva (above), who has shown a great result on the first board,
defeated IM Sophie Milliet. The talented player from Kazakhstan has already
secured an IM norm.
China crushed Turkey with 4:0 score. Georgia won against Romania 3:1. Nana
Dzagnidze was defeated by Irina Bulmaga but all other Georgian girls managed
to win.

WGM Padmini Rout, chess prodigy from Orissa,
India,
won the World Under-14 girl's championship in 2008.
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1.Nf3 d5 2.c4 c6 3.g3 Bg4 4.Bg2 e6 5.cxd5 Bxf3 6.Bxf3 cxd5 7.0-0 Nf6 8.Nc3 Nc6 9.d3 Bc5 10.Bf4 0-0 11.Rc1 Qe7 12.a3 h6 13.Na4 Bd6 14.Bxd6 Qxd6 15.Nc5 Nd4 16.e3 Nxf3+ 17.Qxf3 b6 18.Nb3 Rac8 19.Nd4 Qd7 20.Qf4 Rfe8 21.Qe5 Qa4 22.Qd6 Qa6 23.Nc6 Kh7 24.Rc3 Qb7 25.Rfc1 e5 26.Qb4 d4 27.R3c2 dxe3 28.fxe3 Re6 29.Qa4 Qd7 30.d4 exd4 31.exd4 a6 32.b3 b5 33.Qxa6 Rcxc6 34.Rxc6 Qxd4+ 35.Kh1 Re2 0–1
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Karavade,E | 2387 | Gunina,V | 2505 | 0–1 | 2013 | A09 | FIDE Women's World Teams | 8.1 |
Pogonina,N | 2475 | Padmini,R | 2316 | ½–½ | 2013 | B92 | FIDE Women's World Teams | 8.2 |
Gomes,M | 2387 | Galliamova,A | 2459 | 1–0 | 2013 | A07 | FIDE Women's World Teams | 8.3 |
Girya,O | 2440 | Soumya,S | 2283 | 1–0 | 2013 | D94 | FIDE Women's World Teams | 8.4 |
Lagno,K | 2547 | Zatonskih,A | 2474 | 1–0 | 2013 | C43 | FIDE Women's World Teams | 8.1 |
Krush,I | 2448 | Ushenina,A | 2477 | 1–0 | 2013 | A07 | FIDE Women's World Teams | 8.2 |
Muzychuk,M | 2479 | Foisor,S | 2323 | ½–½ | 2013 | C18 | FIDE Women's World Teams | 8.3 |
Ni,V | 2263 | Zhukova,N | 2471 | 0–1 | 2013 | A67 | FIDE Women's World Teams | 8.4 |
Bulmaga,I | 2354 | Dzagnidze,N | 2554 | 1–0 | 2013 | B47 | FIDE Women's World Teams | 8.1 |
Khotenashvili,B | 2499 | Cosma,E | 2336 | 1–0 | 2013 | A07 | FIDE Women's World Teams | 8.2 |
L'Ami,A | 2353 | Khurtsidze,N | 2437 | 0–1 | 2013 | E32 | FIDE Women's World Teams | 8.3 |
Melia,S | 2419 | Voicu-Jagodzinsky,C | 2281 | 1–0 | 2013 | B42 | FIDE Women's World Teams | 8.4 |
Nakhbayeva,G | 2344 | Milliet,S | 2401 | 1–0 | 2013 | D07 | FIDE Women's World Teams | 8.1 |
Maisuradze,N | 2330 | Dauletova,G | 2265 | 0–1 | 2013 | E11 | FIDE Women's World Teams | 8.2 |
Saduakassova,D | 2353 | Safranska,A | 2328 | ½–½ | 2013 | D07 | FIDE Women's World Teams | 8.3 |
Benmesbah,N | 2266 | Davletbayeva,M | 2272 | 1–0 | 2013 | C50 | FIDE Women's World Teams | 8.4 |
Yildiz,B | 2341 | Ju,W | 2505 | 0–1 | 2013 | B51 | FIDE Women's World Teams | 8.1 |
Huang,Q | 2476 | Ozturk,K | 2252 | 1–0 | 2013 | D20 | FIDE Women's World Teams | 8.2 |
Sop,S | 2028 | Tan,Z | 2471 | 0–1 | 2013 | B09 | FIDE Women's World Teams | 8.3 |
Guo,Q | 2435 | Kaya,E | 1995 | 1–0 | 2013 | D21 | FIDE Women's World Teams | 8.4 |
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Sandings after eight rounds
Rank
|
Team |
1
|
2
|
3
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4
|
5
|
6
|
7
|
8
|
9
|
10
|
MP
|
Pts.
|
1
|
Ukraine |
*
|
3
|
|
3
|
3
|
2½
|
2½
|
2
|
4
|
2½
|
15
|
22½
|
2
|
China |
1
|
*
|
2
|
3
|
|
3½
|
3
|
3
|
3½
|
4
|
13
|
23
|
3
|
Russia |
|
2
|
*
|
2
|
2½
|
1½
|
3
|
3½
|
3½
|
4
|
12
|
22
|
4
|
Georgia |
1
|
1
|
2
|
*
|
2
|
3½
|
|
3
|
3½
|
3
|
10
|
19
|
5
|
India |
1
|
|
1½
|
2
|
*
|
2
|
3
|
2
|
2½
|
2½
|
9
|
16½
|
6
|
USA |
1½
|
½
|
2½
|
½
|
2
|
*
|
2
|
|
2
|
2½
|
7
|
13½
|
7
|
Kazakhstan |
1½
|
1
|
1
|
|
1
|
2
|
*
|
2
|
2½
|
3
|
6
|
14
|
8
|
Romania |
2
|
1
|
½
|
1
|
2
|
|
2
|
*
|
2
|
2
|
5
|
12½
|
9
|
France |
0
|
½
|
½
|
½
|
1½
|
2
|
1½
|
2
|
*
|
|
2
|
8½
|
10
|
Turkey |
1½
|
0
|
0
|
1
|
1½
|
1½
|
1
|
2
|
|
*
|
1
|
8½
|
Ukraine has already secured at least the silver medal, and only needs not to
lose against the Russian team in the final round to win the championship. On
the other hand Russian team is also fighting for the place on the pedestal.
So this is going to be the match to watch in the final round. The Chinese girls
play India, and a victory would give them chances to win Gold. Georgia needs
to outplay Kazakhstan to keep chances for the bronze medal. The crucial battles
for the medals will begin Tuesday, March 12, at 11 a.m. local time – two
hours earlier than the previous rounds.
Report and photos provided by Anastasiya Karlovich
Schedule and results
Round 1 March 03 at 15:00 |
Ukraine
|
3-1
|
India |
Romania
|
½-3½
|
Russia |
Kazakhstan
|
2-2
|
USA |
Turkey
|
1-3
|
Georgia |
China
|
3½-½
|
France |
|
Round 2 March 04 at 15:00 |
India
|
2½-1½
|
France |
Georgia
|
1-3
|
China |
USA
|
2½-1½
|
Turkey |
Russia
|
3-1
|
Kazakhstan |
Ukraine
|
2-2
|
Romania |
|
Round 3 March 05 at 15:00 |
Romania
|
2-2
|
India |
Kazakhstan
|
1½-2½
|
Ukraine |
Turkey
|
0-4
|
Russia |
China
|
3½-½
|
USA |
France
|
½-3½
|
Georgia |
|
Round 4 March 06 at 15:00 |
India
|
2-2
|
Georgia |
USA
|
2-2
|
France |
Russia
|
2-2
|
China |
Ukraine
|
2½-1½
|
Turkey |
Romania
|
2-2
|
Kazakhstan |
|
Round 5 March 07 at 15:00 |
Kazakhstan
|
1-3
|
India |
Turkey
|
2-2
|
Romania |
China
|
1-3
|
Ukraine |
France
|
½-3½
|
Russia |
Georgia
|
3½-½
|
USA |
|
2013/03/08 – free day
|
Round 6 March 09 at 15:00 |
India
|
2-2
|
USA |
Russia
|
2-2
|
Georgia |
Ukraine
|
4-0
|
France |
Romania
|
1-3
|
China |
Kazakhstan
|
3-1
|
Turkey |
|
Round 7 March 10 at 15:00 |
Turkey
|
1½-2½
|
India |
China
|
3-1
|
Kazakhstan |
France
|
2-2
|
Romania |
Georgia
|
1-3
|
Ukraine |
USA
|
2½-1½
|
Russia |
|
Round 8 March 11 at 15:00 |
India
|
1½-2½
|
Russia |
Ukraine
|
2½-1½
|
USA |
Romania
|
1-3
|
Georgia |
Kazakhstan
|
2½-1½
|
France |
Turkey
|
0-4
|
China |
|
Round 9 March 12 at 11:00 |
China
|
-
|
India |
France
|
-
|
Turkey |
Georgia
|
-
|
Kazakhstan |
USA
|
-
|
Romania |
Russia
|
-
|
Ukraine |
|