Chengdu R7: Couldn't keep up!

The city of Chengdu in China is hosting the Women's World Chess Team Championship from April 18th to 28. The organizers are 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 Seven

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Solid! A draw by Bela against the highest rated player in the tournament

Wow, was this an important match - and did Georgia come through! They increased their lead with a huge victory over India - a team that was a favorite to win this tournament before the first round but has disappointed greatly. The big win came in the form of Arabidze's win against Padmini Rout. A incredibly complicated Grunfeld finished abruptly when White's d-pawn queened in the middlegame with decisive effect.

Georgia with a huge win over India

Lilit Galojan from Armenia

A nice draw for the US-players, who were out-rated on almost every board. They had problems in a few games, but pulled through and held the draw in all of them.

Tatev Abrahamyan was definitely worse, but she defended well and held the draw

The higher rated Muzychuk: Anna

A tough match. The ratings indicated that Ukraine was the very slight favorite, but China needed to win to keep their chances of a gold medal alive. That did not come close to happening after Mariya Muzychuk's victory over Tan Zhongyi. Lei Tingjie struck back for the Chinese team and the match ended with a 2-2 draw.

Ding Yixin turned turned 24 today!

Gumlira Dauletova from Kazakhstan

Valentina Gunina converted a position that simply looked like a disaster

On paper this looks like a disaster. Russia was hoping to keep up the pressure on Georgia by winning against a Kazakhstan team that is not as strong as some of the top teams. In reality, Russia can count their blessings. Yes, Kosteniuk was winning against Saduakassova and ended up losing, but Abdumalik had a crushing position against Gunina and lost and Davletbayeva also had the win in hand against Girya but could not convert. The 2-2 split was about as good as it got for Russia.

"Sorry, you did what?!"

First move made in Gunina vs. Abdumalik

Wafa Shrook with more surprises and more losses for Egypt.

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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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