European Team Championship - Round 9 - Russia wins twice

by André Schulz
11/2/2019 – The Ukrainian team was unable to fend off the Russians as they regained 1st place in the final round at the European Teams in Batumi. Russia led the Women's tournament from start to finish and thus took double-gold. Games and live commentary of Round 9.

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Round 9

The European Team Championships runs from October 24th to November 2nd with an open and a women's competition. In the Open tournament 40 federations are represented, while 32 teams are signed on to the Women's tournament.

Players receive 90 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes to the end of the game, plus 30 seconds per move starting from move one.

Report on Round 8

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1.d4 3.9 Nf6 9.9 2.c4 9 e6 8 3.Nf3 14 Bb4+ 20 4.Nbd2 3:49 b6 56 5.e3 31 Bb7 1:16 6.Bd3 1:24 0-0 5:16 7.0-0 2:21 d5 1:52 8.a3 2:56 Be7 5:21 9.cxd5 8:42 exd5 3:27 10.b4 3:33 Bd6 1:18 11.Bb2 5:24 Nbd7 1:43 12.Ne5 3:45 Qe7 2:04 13.Ndf3 4:00 a6 7:30 14.Qc2 3:23 Ne4 1:34 15.Rac1 3:44 Rae8 15:38 16.Qe2 12:51 Nb8 5:05 17.Bc2 59 f6 6:41 18.Ba4 3:29 b5 56 19.Bb3 27 Kh8 2:48 But not 19...fxe5 20.dxe5 Bxb4 20...Rxf3? 21.exd6 Rxf2 22.Rxf2+- 21.axb4± 20.Nd3 53 c6 46 21.Nc5 4:13 Bc8 34 22.Nd2 3:43 Nxd2 4:52 23.Qxd2 9 Nd7= 5:18 24.Nxd7 6:51 Bxd7 10 25.Rce1 16 Bf5 4:30 26.Rc1 1:21 Rc8 41 27.Rc3 2:09 Bb8 2:15 28.Bc2 3:05 Qd6 2:03 29.f4 41 Bxc2 1:31 30.Qxc2 1:40 f5 3 31.Rf3 8:16 Rf6 1:57 32.Rh3 41 h6 3:07 33.Bc1 2:25 Qd7 2:37 34.Bd2 32 Bd6 1:06 35.Be1 1:08 Bf8 58 36.Rf3 52 Ra8 3:02 37.Rd3 1:10 Re6 2:25 38.Rb3 3:23 Rg6 3:58 39.Kf1 51 Re8 19 40.h3 1:01 Re4 24 41.Rc3 35 Kg8 1:51 42.Rg3 31 Rf6 25 43.h4 40 Qe8 55 44.Bf2 40 Ree6 1:19 45.Rh3 30 h5 1:00 46.Be1 1:09 g6 36 47.Rf3 41 Bg7 26 48.Bf2 1:44 Rf7 19 49.a4 45 Bf8 31 50.Rb3 21 bxa4 42 51.Rb1 4 a3 42 52.Qa4 58 Qb8 2 53.Qxa3 13 Qb5+ 16 54.Kg1 4 Rb7 11 55.Ra1 8 Rb6 1:17 56.Be1 9 Qc4 45 57.Qa5 45 Qb5 7 58.Qa3 17 Re8 43 59.Rf2 22 Qc4 37 60.Rc1 27 Qb5 1 61.Rfc2 30 Re6 31 62.Kf2 45 Rb8 17 63.Ra1 36 Rb6 24 64.Qc3 48 Rb8 39 65.Ra5 33 Qb6 6 66.Qa3 50 Ra8 1:21 67.Ra2 6 Qd8 28 68.g3 30 Qe7 41 69.Qd3 33 Re8 35 70.Bd2 1 Rb8 32 71.Rxa6 9 Qb7 30 72.Ra7 34 Qb5 21 73.Qxb5 9 Rxb5 8 74.Rc7 23 Be7 50 75.Ra6 34 Kf7 10 76.Ke2 29 Rb8 58 77.Kd3 13 Rb5 32 78.Kc2 11 Rb8 18 79.Kb2 1:40 Rb5 30 80.Ka3 24 Rb8 44 81.Rcxc6 46 Rxc6 6 82.Rxc6 4 Ra8+ 5 83.Kb2 5 Rb8 54 84.Kb3 40 Rb7 40 85.Ra6 28 Rb8 43 86.Ra5 45 Ke6 23 87.b5 52 Bd8 38 88.Ra6+ 6 Kf7 24 89.Ka4 1:12 Rc8 27 90.Rd6 1:20 Ra8+ 38 91.Kb3 5 Be7 15 92.Ra6 10 Rb8 25 93.Ka4 19 Rc8 16 94.Rc6 7 Ra8+ 23 95.Ba5 7 1–0
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Mohammad Fahad,R2431Rahman,S21139.21063484
Manon,R2431Liyanage,R24029.11063483
Hamid,R1882Wadifa,A20539.11063496
Gunawardhana,D2121Palliyage,S17769.21063499
Liyanage,P1993Thilakarathne,G23519.31063485
Mendis,I1620Sanudula,K20529.31063500
Rathnayake,R1826Wijesuriya,G18849.41063501
Nanayakkara,S1700Zia,T23239.41063486
Wijerathna,V2117Weerasekara,D19709.51063487
Muhammed,S2107Amarathunga,K20109.61063488
Zia,T2323Manon,R24318.1987062
Liyanage,R2402Mafaaz Khalid21318.3987066
Gunasekara,K1911Palliyage,S17768.4987081
Flores,D2551Mareco,S25916.11035844
Galaviz Medina,S2501Cuenca Jimenez,J24796.21035845
Oro,F2427Rodriguez Vila,A24296.31035846
Nakamura,H2802Dominguez Perez,L27412.11015068
Caruana,F2783Aronian,L27482.11015069
Yip,C2408Abrahamyan,T23102.11015090
Lee,A2386Krush,I23782.11015092
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Commentary by Valeriane Gaprindashvili & Keti Tsatsalashvili

 
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1.d4 3.9 Nf6 9.9 2.c4 9 e6 8 3.Nf3 14 Bb4+ 20 4.Nbd2 3:49 b6 56 5.e3 31 Bb7 1:16 6.Bd3 1:24 0-0 5:16 7.0-0 2:21 d5 1:52 8.a3 2:56 Be7 5:21 9.cxd5 8:42 exd5 3:27 10.b4 3:33 Bd6 1:18 11.Bb2 5:24 Nbd7 1:43 12.Ne5 3:45 Qe7 2:04 13.Ndf3 4:00 a6 7:30 14.Qc2 3:23 Ne4 1:34 15.Rac1 3:44 Rae8 15:38 16.Qe2 12:51 Nb8 5:05 17.Bc2 59 f6 6:41 18.Ba4 3:29 b5 56 19.Bb3 27 Kh8 2:48 But not 19...fxe5 20.dxe5 Bxb4 20...Rxf3? 21.exd6 Rxf2 22.Rxf2+- 21.axb4± 20.Nd3 53 c6 46 21.Nc5 4:13 Bc8 34 22.Nd2 3:43 Nxd2 4:52 23.Qxd2 9 Nd7= 5:18 24.Nxd7 6:51 Bxd7 10 25.Rce1 16 Bf5 4:30 26.Rc1 1:21 Rc8 41 27.Rc3 2:09 Bb8 2:15 28.Bc2 3:05 Qd6 2:03 29.f4 41 Bxc2 1:31 30.Qxc2 1:40 f5 3 31.Rf3 8:16 Rf6 1:57 32.Rh3 41 h6 3:07 33.Bc1 2:25 Qd7 2:37 34.Bd2 32 Bd6 1:06 35.Be1 1:08 Bf8 58 36.Rf3 52 Ra8 3:02 37.Rd3 1:10 Re6 2:25 38.Rb3 3:23 Rg6 3:58 39.Kf1 51 Re8 19 40.h3 1:01 Re4 24 41.Rc3 35 Kg8 1:51 42.Rg3 31 Rf6 25 43.h4 40 Qe8 55 44.Bf2 40 Ree6 1:19 45.Rh3 30 h5 1:00 46.Be1 1:09 g6 36 47.Rf3 41 Bg7 26 48.Bf2 1:44 Rf7 19 49.a4 45 Bf8 31 50.Rb3 21 bxa4 42 51.Rb1 4 a3 42 52.Qa4 58 Qb8 2 53.Qxa3 13 Qb5+ 16 54.Kg1 4 Rb7 11 55.Ra1 8 Rb6 1:17 56.Be1 9 Qc4 45 57.Qa5 45 Qb5 7 58.Qa3 17 Re8 43 59.Rf2 22 Qc4 37 60.Rc1 27 Qb5 1 61.Rfc2 30 Re6 31 62.Kf2 45 Rb8 17 63.Ra1 36 Rb6 24 64.Qc3 48 Rb8 39 65.Ra5 33 Qb6 6 66.Qa3 50 Ra8 1:21 67.Ra2 6 Qd8 28 68.g3 30 Qe7 41 69.Qd3 33 Re8 35 70.Bd2 1 Rb8 32 71.Rxa6 9 Qb7 30 72.Ra7 34 Qb5 21 73.Qxb5 9 Rxb5 8 74.Rc7 23 Be7 50 75.Ra6 34 Kf7 10 76.Ke2 29 Rb8 58 77.Kd3 13 Rb5 32 78.Kc2 11 Rb8 18 79.Kb2 1:40 Rb5 30 80.Ka3 24 Rb8 44 81.Rcxc6 46 Rxc6 6 82.Rxc6 4 Ra8+ 5 83.Kb2 5 Rb8 54 84.Kb3 40 Rb7 40 85.Ra6 28 Rb8 43 86.Ra5 45 Ke6 23 87.b5 52 Bd8 38 88.Ra6+ 6 Kf7 24 89.Ka4 1:12 Rc8 27 90.Rd6 1:20 Ra8+ 38 91.Kb3 5 Be7 15 92.Ra6 10 Rb8 25 93.Ka4 19 Rc8 16 94.Rc6 7 Ra8+ 23 95.Ba5 7 1–0
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Mohammad Fahad,R2431Rahman,S21139.21063484
Manon,R2431Liyanage,R24029.11063483
Hamid,R1882Wadifa,A20539.11063496
Gunawardhana,D2121Palliyage,S17769.21063499
Liyanage,P1993Thilakarathne,G23519.31063485
Mendis,I1620Sanudula,K20529.31063500
Rathnayake,R1826Wijesuriya,G18849.41063501
Nanayakkara,S1700Zia,T23239.41063486
Wijerathna,V2117Weerasekara,D19709.51063487
Muhammed,S2107Amarathunga,K20109.61063488
Zia,T2323Manon,R24318.1987062
Liyanage,R2402Mafaaz Khalid21318.3987066
Gunasekara,K1911Palliyage,S17768.4987081
Flores,D2551Mareco,S25916.11035844
Galaviz Medina,S2501Cuenca Jimenez,J24796.21035845
Oro,F2427Rodriguez Vila,A24296.31035846
Nakamura,H2802Dominguez Perez,L27412.11015068
Caruana,F2783Aronian,L27482.11015069
Yip,C2408Abrahamyan,T23102.11015090
Lee,A2386Krush,I23782.11015092
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Final standings (top 10)

Rk. Team Team
1 Russia RUS
2 Ukraine UKR
3 England ENG
4 Armenia ARM
5 Croatia CRO
6 Azerbaijan AZE
7 Spain ESP
8 Germany GER
9 France FRA
10 Czech Republic CZE

Open standings after Round 9

Rk. Team Team
1 Russia RUS
2 Georgia GEO
3 Azerbaijan AZE
4 Ukraine UKR
5 Netherlands NED
6 Romania ROU
7 Armenia ARM
8 Turkey TUR
9 Georgia 2 GEO
10 Hungary HUN

Women's standings after Round 9

The host is the Georgian Chess Federation and the tournament is staged at the Sheraton Hotel in Batumi — the same venue that hosted FIDE officials during the 2018 General Assembly.

Sheraton Batumi

The Sheraton Hotel in Batumi | Photo: Marriott

Although the Russian team will start without their top four active players — Ian Nepomniachtchi, Sergey Karjakin, Alexander Grischuk and Vladislav Artemiev are missing — they still occupy the top spot in the team ranking list, with an average of 2722 Elo. Azerbaijan follows in second place ahead of England, Poland and Armenia.

Top teams (Open)

No.   Team Team Rtg Avg Captain
1
 
 RUS Russia 2722 Motylev Alexander
2
 
 AZE Azerbaijan 2708 Safarli Eltaj
3
 
 ENG England 2690 Pein Malcolm
4
 
 POL Poland 2688 Socko Bartosz
5
 
 ARM Armenia 2676 Petrosian Arshak
6
 
 ESP Spain 2663 Magem Badals Jordi
7
 
 NED Netherlands 2656 Gustafsson Jan
8
 
 UKR Ukraine 2646 Sulypa Oleksandr
9
 
 HUN Hungary 2638  
10
 
 GER Germany 2641 Rogozenco Dorian
11
 
 ISR Israel 2635 David Glaz Ilana
12
 
 CZE Czech Republic 2633 Hracek Zbynek
13
 
 FRA France 2624 Nataf Igor-Alexandre
14
 
 GEO Georgia 2616 Jojua Davit
15
 
 CRO Croatia 2614 Kozul Zdenko
16
 
 ROU Romania 2598 Berescu Alin-Mile
17
 
 GRE Greece 2592 Kapnisis Spyridon
18
 
 TUR Turkey 2593 Kanmazalp, Ogulcan
19
 
 SWE Sweden 2578 Bellon Lopez Juan Manuel
20
 
 SLO Slovenia 2579 Mikac Matjaz

...40 Teams

Russian women

The Russian women's team (left): Lagno, Girya, Goryachkina

The Russian team is also leading in the women's tournament and features World Championship challenger Aleksandra Goryachkina. Other stars, Alexandra Kosteniuk and Natalia Pogonina, are absent. Georgia and the Ukraine follow in team rank, but Ukraine will play without the Muzychuk sisters.

The German women's national team plays for the first time in many, many years without Elisabeth Paehtz and without her is currently ranked 18th in the seedling list, with Sarah Hoolt on board one.

Top teams (Women)

No.   Team Team Rtg Avg Captain
1
 
 RUS Russia 2529 Rublevsky Sergei
2
 
 GEO Georgia 2451 Ubilava Elizbar
3
 
 UKR Ukraine 2419 Brodsky Michail
4
 
 POL Poland 2397 Heberla Bartlomiej
5
 
 AZE Azerbaijan 2383 Sideifzade Fikret
6
 
 FRA France 2369 Cornette Matthieu
7
 
 HUN Hungary 2364 Papp Gabor
8
 
 ROU Romania 2347 Nanu Costica-Ciprian
9
 
 GEO Georgia 2 2344 Lomineishvili Maia
10
 
 TUR Turkey 2340 Mikhalchishin Adrian
11
 
 ITA Italy 2334 Garcia Palermo Carlos
12
 
 ESP Spain 2334 Martinez Martin David
13
 
 ARM Armenia 2327 Andriasian Zaven
14
 
 NED Netherlands 2306 Bosch Jeroen
15
 
 SRB Serbia 2300 Chelushkina Irina
16
 
 SVK Slovakia 2294 Stohl Igor
17
 
 ISR Israel 2288 Greenfeld Alon
18
 
 CZE Czech Republic 2277 Haba Petr
19
 
 GER Germany 2272 Naumann Alexander
20
 
 GRE Greece 2266 Sandalakis Angelos

...32 Teams

The tournaments are played over nine rounds according to Swiss system. The first round will take place on Thursday, October 24th, with the last round on Saturday, November 2nd. The 29th of October is a rest day. All rounds start at 11:00 AM UTC (15:00 local time (13:00 CEST, 7:00 AM EDT), and one hour earlier for the last round.

Translation from German: Macauley Peterson

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