China beats Russia

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The Chinese Chess Federation hosted the match that took
place from 14. to 20. July in Yinzhou, a precinct of Ningbo.

The line-up of the Russian team

Men: Peter Svidler, Nikita Vitiugov, Maxim Matlakov, Vladimir Fedoseev, and Daniil Dubov
Women: Valentina Gunina, Olga Girya, Aleksandra Goryachkina, Natalia Pogonina, and Alina Kashlinskaya

The line-up of the Chinese team

Men: Yu Yangyi, Wei Yi, Bu Xiangzhi, Lu Shanglei, and Wang Chen
Women: Tan Zhongyi, Shen Yang, Huang Qian, Lei Tingjie, Ding Yixin

Men

After three rounds the Chinese were leading 9-6. In the second half of the match the Russian fared better and managed to draw the matches in round four and five 2.5-2.5. But this was of course not enough to catch up and thus China won the match 14-11. The best individual players were Bu Xianghzi and Maxim Matlakov, who both finished with 4.0/5.

Round 4

Bd.	Nr.		Name	Elo	Pt.	Result	Pt.		Name	Elo	Nr.
1	6	GM	Svidler Peter	2740	2	½ - ½	2	GM	Lu Shanglei	2595	4
2	3	GM	Bu Xiangzhi	2695	2	1 - 0	1	GM	Vitiugov Nikita	2734	7
3	8	GM	Matlakov Maxim	2691	2	1 - 0	1½	IM	Wang Chen	2521	5
4	9	GM	Fedoseev Vladimir	2664	½	1 - 0	1½	GM	Yu Yangyi	2736	1
5	2	GM	Wei Yi	2724	2	1 - 0	½	GM	Dubov Daniil	2661	10

Round 5

Bd.	Nr.		Name	Elo	Pt.	Result	Pt.		Name	Elo	Nr.
1	5	IM	Wang Chen	2521	1½	½ - ½	2½	GM	Svidler Peter	2740	6
2	4	GM	Lu Shanglei	2595	2½	½ - ½	1	GM	Vitiugov Nikita	2734	7
3	8	GM	Matlakov Maxim	2691	3	1 - 0	3	GM	Wei Yi	2724	2
4	3	GM	Bu Xiangzhi	2695	3	1 - 0	1½	GM	Fedoseev Vladimir	2664	9
5	10	GM	Dubov Daniil	2661	½	½ - ½	1½	GM	Yu Yangyi	2736	1

Bu Xiangzhi

Maxim Matlakov

Games

Women

The Russian women at first seemed to do better than the Russian men and after three rounds led 8-7. But then they lost rounds four and five surprisingly clearly with 1-4 which gave the Chinese women a clear 15-10 victory. Top scorer of the Chinese team was Shen Yang with 4.0/5, in the Russian team only Alina Kashlinskaya reached 50%

Round 4

Bd.	Nr.		Name	Elo	Pt.	Result	Pkt.		Name	Elo	Nr.
1	1	WGM	Tan Zhongyi	2488	2	1 - 0	2	WGM	Pogonina Natalija	2465	9
2	8	WGM	Goryachkina Aleksandra	2486	1½	0 - 1	2	IM	Shen Yang	2465	2
3	3	WGM	Huang Qian	2457	½	1 - 0	2	IM	Kashlinskaya Alina	2432	10
4	4	WGM	Lei Tingjie	2450	2	½ - ½	1½	GM	Gunina Valentina	2548	6
5	7	WGM	Girya Olga	2486	1	½ - ½	½	WGM	Ding Yixin	2439	5

Round 5

Bd.	Nr.		Name	Elo	Pt.	Result	Pt.		Name	Elo	Nr.
1	10	IM	Kashlinskaya Alina	2432	2	½ - ½	3	WGM	Tan Zhongyi	2488	1
2	9	WGM	Pogonina Natalija	2465	2	0 - 1	3	IM	Shen Yang	2465	2
3	3	WGM	Huang Qian	2457	1½	½ - ½	1½	WGM	Girya Olga	2486	7
4	8	WGM	Goryachkina Aleksandra	2486	1½	0 - 1	2½	WGM	Lei Tingjie	2450	4
5	5	WGM	Ding Yixin	2439	1	1 - 0	2	GM	Gunina Valentina	2548	6