ETCC 02: Russian Disaster

11/10/2013 – The European Team Championship has started with a surprising result in the open section: Turkey was able to defeat Russia despite the considerable rating gap in all boards. Solak took down Grischuk in a strange game while the other boards ended in a draw. As if that was not enough, Russia also lost in the women's section to Israel. Full report and analysis of the debacle.

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You might remember that there was a similar sounding event that happened only recently, the European Club Championship, but the events are certainly different as the Club Championship allows players from outside Europe to compete while the European Team Championship is a battle between different nations. The ETCC will be held in Warsaw, Poland from November 7th - November 18th. The event is a team swiss played in 11 rounds.

Open Section

The big story of today's tournament is of course Turkey's victory over Russia. Despite the fact that Turkey fields four strong grandmasters in its lineup, none of them come close to the league that the Russian team plays in. On paper it would seem easy to say Russia should have won with a comfortable lead, but instead they were in the receiving end of a nasty surprise.

Things did not start out smoothly for Russia as Ipatov easily held Svidler to a draw with Black. Andreikin also quickly drew, although his game made more sense as he was Black in this game himself. Tomashevsky was unable to create much of an advantage but had an equal game against Yilmaz. The true horror happened in board one:

[Event "19th European Teams"] [Site "Warsaw POL"] [Date "2013.11.09"] [Round "2.1"] [White "Solak, Dragan"] [Black "Grischuk, Alexander"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "B30"] [WhiteElo "2618"] [BlackElo "2785"] [Annotator "Ramirez Alvarez, Alejandro"] [PlyCount "73"] [EventDate "2013.11.08"] [WhiteTeam "TURKEY"] [BlackTeam "RUSSIA"] [WhiteTeamCountry "TUR"] [BlackTeamCountry "RUS"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 e6 4. Bxc6 bxc6 5. d3 {This way of handling the Rossolimo leads to very complex game. Black always has the pair of bishops but can never really seem to use it because of the crippled pawn structure while White must find a useful plan.} Ne7 6. h4 $5 {It's been known that this advance is not so easy to meet. Black does not want to play h5 himself and weaken g5, but then the h-pawn will be able to continue rolling down the board to create some pressure.} Qc7 {unusual to say the least. If black chooses to ignore h4 he usually simply replies with 6...d6.} 7. h5 e5 8. Nbd2 (8. h6 g6 9. Nbd2 Ng8 $5 {Actually leaves Black in a good position as the knight will reroute to f6. This opening is always full of surprises.}) 8... f6 9. Nh4 g5 $5 {Black closes the kingside by force, but in doing so he weakens some of his light squares. Nothing comes for free in grandmaster games.} 10. Nhf3 d6 11. Nf1 h6 12. Ne3 f5 13. g4 $5 {White will obtain a solid spot for his knight on g4, but every time the game opens up a little the bishops have the possibility of becoming more powerful. This also weakens f4 which Black will exploit almost instantly by castling and putting a rook on the f-file.} fxg4 14. Nh2 Bg7 15. Nexg4 O-O 16. Be3 Be6 17. Qd2 Kh8 18. O-O-O Ng8 $5 {The knight wants to go to f6 at the right time - but while there is a knight on h2 it doesn't make sense to trade, so Grischuk simply holds on to the possibility.} 19. c4 Qe7 20. Qe2 d5 $6 {I'm not a fan of this idea that Grischuk starts. The simple development of the rook seemed to give him a good game.} (20... Rab8 21. Bd2 Qf7 22. f3 $1 {And the game is still complex.}) 21. Bd2 dxc4 22. dxc4 Qf7 23. Bc3 Bxc4 {Black's won a pawn... but at what cost? His e5 is severely weakened and his structure has not gotten any better.} 24. Qe3 Rae8 25. b3 Bb5 26. Rd6 Qxh5 $2 {This is too greedy. Maybe a computer can hold the position resulting from the opening of the h-file, but why take this pawn? Grischuk's flag was falling - he is the type of player that is always in time trouble - and he didn't have the time to calculate the variations.} 27. Rg1 Qf7 28. Qxc5 Qf4+ 29. Kb2 h5 {White's not quite losing a knight yet.} 30. Rh1 Qxe4 (30... hxg4 31. Nxg4+ {is clearly suicide.}) 31. f3 Qf4 {Black's up two pawns, but this is not going to help him fix his dangerously placed king.} 32. a4 (32. Rd7 $1 { Seemed stronger.}) 32... Be2 (32... Bxa4 $1 33. bxa4 Rb8+ $1 34. Ka3 Qf7 {is not for humans to see}) 33. Rg6 Nf6 $4 {An inexplicable blunder, after this Grischuk is lost.} (33... Re7 34. Rxg7 Kxg7 35. Bxe5+ Rxe5 36. Nxe5 {is still a weird position.}) 34. Nxe5 (34. Qxa7 {won instantly, as the bishop on g7 cannot be defended.}) 34... Kh7 35. Nhg4 Bxf3 36. Rxg7+ Kxg7 37. Qxa7+ {Black cannot defend his second rank and will get checkmated. A terrible game by Grischuk.} 1-0

Belarus-France and Ukraine-Croatia went basically as expected, with the higher rated team edging out a win. Greece surprised England and took a victory with wins by Papaionnou and Kotronias over McShane and Howell. There are still many teams with 2/2 and tomorrow we will continue to have very exciting games in the top boards, of which Russia will not be part of.

Caruana face Navara, who took him down in the European Club Cup,
but wasn't able to extract revenge. The game ended in a draw.

Swiercz won his game against Khenkin.
The Poland-Germany match featured four white wins so the match was drawn

Solak was certainly today's hero!

A girl, but she always plays in the open section.
Judit Polgar's victory saved her team as Hungary drew 2-2 against Georgia.

Russia lost, but it was hardly because of this man. Andreikin drew solidly with black today.

Bo. 18 TURKEY Rtg - 1 RUSSIA Rtg 2½:1½
1.1 GM SOLAK, Dragan 2618 - GM GRISCHUK, Alexander 2785 1 - 0
1.2 GM IPATOV, Alexander 2630 - GM SVIDLER, Peter 2752 ½ - ½
1.3 GM ESEN, Baris 2565 - GM ANDREIKIN, Dmitry 2710 ½ - ½
1.4 GM YILMAZ, Mustafa 2577 - GM TOMASHEVSKY, Evgeny 2722 ½ - ½
Bo. 17 BELARUS Rtg - 3 FRANCE Rtg 1½:2½
2.1 GM ZHIGALKO, Sergei 2694 - GM BACROT, Etienne 2749 ½ - ½
2.2 GM ZHIGALKO, Andrey 2619 - GM VACHIER-LAGRAVE, Maxime 2742 ½ - ½
2.3 GM KOVALEV, Vladislav 2583 - GM EDOUARD, Romain 2653 0 - 1
2.4 GM STUPAK, Kirill 2494 - GM TKACHIEV, Vladislav 2637 ½ - ½
Bo. 4 UKRAINE Rtg - 16 CROATIA Rtg 2½:1½
3.1 GM ARESHCHENKO, Alexander 2720 - GM SARIC, Ivan 2628 1 - 0
3.2 GM VOLOKITIN, Andrei 2682 - GM STEVIC, Hrvoje 2611 1 - 0
3.3 GM EFIMENKO, Zahar 2657 - GM PALAC, Mladen 2571 ½ - ½
3.4 GM FEDORCHUK, Sergey A. 2666 - GM KOZUL, Zdenko 2597 0 - 1
Bo. 15 GREECE Rtg - 5 ENGLAND Rtg 3 : 1
4.1 GM BANIKAS, Hristos 2633 - GM ADAMS, Michael 2752 ½ - ½
4.2 GM PAPAIOANNOU, Ioannis 2639 - GM MCSHANE, Luke J 2696 1 - 0
4.3 GM MASTROVASILIS, Dimitrios 2589 - GM JONES, Gawain C B 2648 ½ - ½
4.4 GM KOTRONIAS, Vasilios 2564 - GM HOWELL, David W L 2644 1 - 0
Bo. 14 GEORGIA Rtg - 7 HUNGARY Rtg 2 : 2
5.1 GM JOBAVA, Baadur 2695 - GM ERDOS, Viktor 2658 1 - 0
5.2 GM MCHEDLISHVILI, Mikheil 2631 - GM BALOGH, Csaba 2630 ½ - ½
5.3 GM GAGUNASHVILI, Merab 2556 - GM ALMASI, Zoltan 2710 ½ - ½
5.4 GM PANTSULAIA, Levan 2595 - GM POLGAR, Judit 2689 0 - 1
Bo. 13 ITALY Rtg - 9 CZECH REPUBLIC Rtg 1 : 3
6.1 GM CARUANA, Fabiano 2782 - GM NAVARA, David 2705 ½ - ½
6.2 GM BRUNELLO, Sabino 2615 - GM LAZNICKA, Viktor 2677 0 - 1
6.3 GM VOCATURO, Daniele 2577 - GM HRACEK, Zbynek 2638 0 - 1
6.4 GM GODENA, Michele 2501 - GM STOCEK, Jiri 2543 ½ - ½
Bo. 10 GERMANY Rtg - 12 POLAND Rtg 2 : 2
7.1 GM NAIDITSCH, Arkadij 2727 - GM SOCKO, Bartosz 2661 1 - 0
7.2 GM KHENKIN, Igor 2612 - GM SWIERCZ, Dariusz 2627 0 - 1
7.3 GM BARAMIDZE, David 2614 - GM GAJEWSKI, Grzegorz 2634 1 - 0
7.4 GM FRIDMAN, Daniel 2600 - GM BARTEL, Mateusz 2626 0 - 1
Bo. 27 AUSTRIA Rtg - 19 ROMANIA Rtg 2 : 2
8.1 GM RAGGER, Markus 2672 - GM LUPULESCU, Constantin 2630 ½ - ½
8.2 GM SHENGELIA, David 2543 - GM JIANU, Vlad-Cristian 2565 ½ - ½
8.3 IM KREISL, Robert 2410 - GM PARLIGRAS, Mircea-Emilian 2576 ½ - ½
8.4 IM DIERMAIR, Andreas 2459 - GM NEVEDNICHY, Vladislav 2590 ½ - ½
Bo. 2 ARMENIA Rtg - 30 MONTENEGRO Rtg 2½:1½
9.1 GM ARONIAN, Levon 2801 - GM DJUKIC, Nikola 2543 1 - 0
9.2 GM MOVSESIAN, Sergei 2700 - GM BLAGOJEVIC, Dragisa 2524 ½ - ½
9.3 GM SARGISSIAN, Gabriel 2676 - GM DRASKO, Milan 2447 ½ - ½
9.4 GM PETROSIAN, Tigran L. 2660 - GM KOSIC, Dragan 2504 ½ - ½
Bo. 6 AZERBAIJAN Rtg - 21 BULGARIA Rtg 2½:1½
10.1 GM MAMEDYAROV, Shakhriyar 2757 - GM TOPALOV, Veselin 2774 0 - 1
10.2 GM SAFARLI, Eltaj 2653 - GM RUSEV, Krasimir 2539 ½ - ½
10.3 GM MAMEDOV, Rauf 2647 - GM PETKOV, Vladimir 2570 1 - 0
10.4 GM GUSEINOV, Gadir 2607 - IM ARNAUDOV, G. Petar 2448 1 - 0
Bo. 25 SWEDEN Rtg - 11 SPAIN Rtg 1½:2½
11.1 GM GRANDELIUS, Nils 2557 - GM VALLEJO PONS, Francisco 2705 ½ - ½
11.2 GM TIKKANEN, Hans 2544 - GM SALGADO LOPEZ, Ivan 2610 ½ - ½
11.3 GM BERG, Emanuel 2547 - GM ILLESCAS CORDOBA, Miguel 2614 ½ - ½
11.4 GM CARLSSON, Pontus 2499 - GM KORNEEV, Oleg 2637 0 - 1
Bo. 8 NETHERLANDS Rtg - 38 WALES Rtg 4 : 0
12.1 GM GIRI, Anish 2732 - IM JONES, Richard S. 2435 1 - 0
12.2 GM SOKOLOV, Ivan 2625 - FM VARLEY, Peter 2251 1 - 0
12.3 GM L'AMI, Erwin 2648 -   JAMESON, David 2147 1 - 0
12.4 GM SMEETS, Jan 2620 -   PLEASANTS, Allan J 2027 1 - 0
Bo. 20 SERBIA Rtg - 37 SCOTLAND Rtg 2 : 2
13.1 GM IVANISEVIC, Ivan 2619 - FM MORRISON, Graham 2351 ½ - ½
13.2 GM PERUNOVIC, Milos 2613 - IM MUIR, Andrew J 2312 1 - 0
13.3 GM BOGOSAVLJEVIC, Boban 2549 - FM TATE, Alan 2299 0 - 1
13.4 IM INDJIC, Aleksandar 2534 -   GRANT, Jonathan I M 2257 ½ - ½
Bo. 22 SLOVENIA Rtg - 36 NORWAY Rtg 3 : 1
14.1 GM LENIC, Luka 2637 - FM TARI, Aryan 2420 ½ - ½
14.2 GM SKOBERNE, Jure 2573 -   HAUGE, Lars Oskar 2301 1 - 0
14.3 GM BORISEK, Jure 2555 - FM HOLM, Kristian Stuvik 2281 1 - 0
14.4 GM TRATAR, Marko 2494 -   SALOMON, Johan 2246 ½ - ½
Bo. 35 FYROM Rtg - 23 POLAND FUTURES Rtg ½ :3½
15.1 IM PANCEVSKI, Filip 2478 - GM DUDA, Jan-Krzysztof 2542 0 - 1
15.2 GM BOGDANOVSKI, Vlatko 2459 - GM DRAGUN, Kamil 2543 0 - 1
15.3 IM KIZOV, Atanas 2413 - GM TOMCZAK, Jacek 2581 ½ - ½
15.4 GM STANOJOSKI, Zvonko 2417 - GM PIORUN, Kacper 2555 0 - 1
Bo. 24 POLAND GOLDIES Rtg - 34 LITHUANIA Rtg 2½:1½
16.1 GM TAZBIR, Marcin 2555 - GM ZAGORSKIS, Darius 2480 ½ - ½
16.2 GM HEBERLA, Bartlomiej 2556 - IM BEINORAS, Mindaugas 2389 ½ - ½
16.3 GM BULSKI, Krzysztof 2538 -   LAURUSAS, Tomas 2409 1 - 0
16.4 GM GDANSKI, Jacek 2518 - FM VEDRICKAS, Tautvydas 2305 ½ - ½
Bo. 26 DENMARK Rtg - 33 BELGIUM Rtg 2½:1½
17.1 IM GLUD, Jakob Vang 2526 - IM MICHIELS, Bart 2506 0 - 1
17.2 GM PALO, Davor 2553 - IM RINGOIR, Tanguy 2514 ½ - ½
17.3 GM RASMUSSEN, Allan Stig 2486 - IM DOCX, Stefan 2488 1 - 0
17.4 IM ANDERSEN, Mads 2499 - IM SOORS, Stef 2404 1 - 0
Bo. 28 ICELAND Rtg - 32 FINLAND Rtg 2 : 2
18.1 GM STEINGRIMSSON, Hedinn 2543 - GM NYBACK, Tomi 2586 0 - 1
18.2 GM STEFANSSON, Hannes 2539 - IM SIPILA, Vilka 2463 1 - 0
18.3 IM GRETARSSON, Hjorvar Steinn 2511 - IM AGOPOV, Mikael 2435 ½ - ½
18.4 GM DANIELSEN, Henrik 2502 - FM EBELING, Daniel 2365 ½ - ½
Bo. 31 SWITZERLAND Rtg - 29 ISRAEL Rtg 1 : 3
19.1 GM PELLETIER, Yannick 2575 - GM NABATY, Tamir 2580 1 - 0
19.2 IM KURMANN, Oliver 2424 - GM POPILSKI, Gil 2483 0 - 1
19.3 FM GEORGIADIS, Nico 2423 - GM BARON, Tal 2487 0 - 1
19.4 IM FORSTER, Richard 2452 - IM BORUCHOVSKY, Avital 2472 0 - 1

Replay open games of round 2

Women's Section

As if Russia's defeat in the open section wasn't bad enough, somehow their women's team went down in flames. In this case it was Pogonina that lost with white against Klinova and none of her teammates was able to secure a victory. Israel is considerably lower rated than Russia and yet this didn't prevent them from taking an amazing victory.

Georgia and Poland won 3-1, while Armenia had no issues dealing with a Belgian team that was just too low rated. France squeaked a win against Greece while the Netherlands took out their frustrations from yesterday's round by beating Croatia 4-0.

Deimante Daulyte was Lithuania's sole win today, but it wasn't enough as her team lost to Poland 3, 2.5-1.5

Bulgaria has a strong first board - Stefanova is a strong grandmaster -
but the rest of the team was not a match for Georgia

Joanna Worek leads Poland 3 which took down Lithuania.

Socko is the highest rated Polish woman and she helped her win in a 3-1 victory over Spain

Iceland's first board surprisingly took out Hungary's, but the other three boards,
including Anna Rudolf on fourth, were in favor to Hungary

Russia will watch the top boards from afar. Here is Valentina Gunina drawing her game today.

Bo. 15   Israel Rtg - 2   Russia Rtg 2½:1½
1.1 WIM Efroimski, Marsel 2313 - GM Gunina, Valentina 2509 ½ - ½
1.2 IM Klinova, Masha 2291 - WGM Pogonina, Natalija 2499 1 - 0
1.3 WIM Vasiliev, Olga 2282 - WGM Girya, Olga 2447 ½ - ½
1.4 WIM Shvayger, Yuliya 2294 - WGM Goryachkina, Aleksandra 2438 ½ - ½
Bo. 3   Georgia Rtg - 11   Bulgaria Rtg 3 : 1
2.1 GM Dzagnidze, Nana 2556 - GM Stefanova, Antoaneta 2494 ½ - ½
2.2 WGM Arabidze, Meri 2374 - WIM Raeva, Elitsa 2361 1 - 0
2.3 IM Khotenashvili, Bela 2524 - WGM Videnova, Iva 2272 1 - 0
2.4 IM Javakhishvili, Lela 2423 - WGM Voiska, Margarita 2298 ½ - ½
Bo. 9   Spain Rtg - 4   Poland Rtg 1 : 3
3.1 IM Alexandrova, Olga 2427 - GM Socko, Monika 2431 ½ - ½
3.2 IM Vega Gutierrez, Sabrina 2385 - WGM Zawadzka, Jolanta 2383 0 - 1
3.3 IM Matnadze, Ana 2373 - IM Rajlich, Iweta 2404 ½ - ½
3.4 WIM Nicolas Zapata, Irene 2241 - WGM Szczepkowska, Karina 2382 0 - 1
Bo. 30   Belgium Rtg - 6   Armenia Rtg ½ :3½
4.1 IM Zozulia, Anna 2334 - IM Mkrtchian, Lilit 2447 ½ - ½
4.2   Goossens, Hanne 2069 - IM Galojan, Lilit 2301 0 - 1
4.3   Barbier, Wiebke 1945 - WGM Kursova, Maria 2339 0 - 1
4.4   Dierckens, Sarah 1872 - WIM Hairapetian, Anna 2221 0 - 1
Bo. 7   France Rtg - 21   Greece Rtg 2½:1½
5.1 GM Sebag, Marie 2510 - WGM Botsari, Anna-Maria 2338 1 - 0
5.2 IM Milliet, Sophie 2383 - WGM Makropoulou, Marina 2234 1 - 0
5.3 WGM Maisuradze, Nino 2302 - WIM Fakhiridou, Ekaterini 2168 ½ - ½
5.4 WIM Benmesbah, Natacha 2248 -   Tsolakidou, Stavroula 2117 0 - 1
Bo. 12   Serbia Rtg - 10   Romania Rtg 2 : 2
6.1 IM Bojkovic, Natasa 2405 - WGM Bulmaga, Irina 2399 1 - 0
6.2 WGM Manakova, Maria 2324 - WGM L'ami, Alina 2361 ½ - ½
6.3 WGM Vojinovic, Jovana 2352 - IM Foisor, Cristina-Adela 2347 0 - 1
6.4 WIM Rakic, Marija 2291 - WGM Cosma, Elena-Luminita 2326 ½ - ½
Bo. 13   Poland III Rtg - 16   Lithuania Rtg 2½:1½
7.1 WIM Worek, Joanna 2336 - GM Cmilyte, Viktorija 2506 ½ - ½
7.2 IM Dworakowska, Joanna 2326 - WGM Daulyte, Deimante 2336 0 - 1
7.3 WGM Bartel, Marta 2308 - WIM Zaksaite, Salomeja 2200 1 - 0
7.4 WGM Toma, Katarzyna 2282 -   Batkovskyte, Dominyka 2111 1 - 0
Bo. 1   Ukraine Rtg - 24   Belarus Rtg 3½: ½
8.1 GM Lagno, Kateryna 2542 - WGM Ziaziulkina, Nastassia 2350 1 - 0
8.2 GM Ushenina, Anna 2492 - FM Stetsko, Lanita 2226 1 - 0
8.3 GM Zhukova, Natalia 2466 -   Revo, Tatiana 2075 1 - 0
8.4 IM Gaponenko, Inna 2402 -   Nevioselaya, Maria 2074 ½ - ½
Bo. 32   Iceland Rtg - 8   Hungary Rtg 1 : 3
9.1 WGM Ptacnikova, Lenka 2238 - GM Hoang, Thanh Trang 2511 1 - 0
9.2   Thorsteinsdottir, Hallgerdur 1951 - WGM Gara, Ticia 2350 0 - 1
9.3   Finnbogadottir, Tinna 1882 - WGM Papp, Petra 2300 0 - 1
9.4   Kristinardottir, Elsa Maria 1819 - WGM Rudolf, Anna 2281 0 - 1
Bo. 5   Germany Rtg - 26   Switzerland Rtg 3 : 1
10.1 IM Paehtz, Elisabeth 2449 - WIM Heinatz, Dr. Gundula 2169 1 - 0
10.2 WGM Schleining, Zoya 2379 - WFM Stoeri, Laura 2102 0 - 1
10.3 IM Kachiani-Gersinska, Ketino 2365 - WFM De Seroux, Camille 2066 1 - 0
10.4 WGM Michna, Marta 2357 -   Thuerig, Catherine 1997 1 - 0
Bo. 22   Croatia Rtg - 14   Netherlands Rtg 0 : 4
11.1 WIM Franciskovic, Borka 2263 - WIM Schut, Lisa 2333 0 - 1
11.2 WIM Jelica, Mara 2252 - GM Peng, Zhaoqin 2378 0 - 1
11.3 WIM Saric, Kristina 2250 - IM Lanchava, Tea 2289 0 - 1
11.4 WIM Berke, Ana 2139 - WIM Haast, Anne 2262 0 - 1
Bo. 20   Italy Rtg - 17   Azerbaijan Rtg 1½:2½
12.1 IM Sedina, Elena 2302 - WGM Mammadova, Gulnar 2354 ½ - ½
12.2 IM Zimina, Olga 2338 - WGM Mamedjarova, Zeinab 2236 0 - 1
12.3 WIM Brunello, Marina 2248 - WGM Mamedjarova, Turkan 2250 1 - 0
12.4 WFM Messina, Roberta 2064 - WIM Umudova, Nargiz 2253 0 - 1
Bo. 18   Czech Republic Rtg - 19   Austria Rtg 1½:2½
13.1 WGM Kulovana, Eva 2263 - IM Moser, Eva 2434 0 - 1
13.2 WIM Havlikova, Kristyna 2237 - WFM Newrkla, Katharina 2173 ½ - ½
13.3 WIM Olsarova, Tereza 2248 - WFM Exler, Veronika 2147 0 - 1
13.4 WIM Sikorova, Olga 2278 - WCM Schnegg, Anna-Lena 2076 1 - 0
Bo. 25   Poland Futures Rtg - 23   England Rtg 4 : 0
14.1 WIM Kulon, Klaudia 2276 - WFM Chevannes, Sabrina L 2200 1 - 0
14.2 WIM Iwanow, Anna 2206 - WGM Corke, Anya S 2276 1 - 0
14.3 WFM Wisniowska, Klaudia 2153 - WFM Grigoryan, Meri 2039 1 - 0
14.4 WCM Wozniak, Mariola 2069 - WFM Bhatia, Kanwal K 2039 1 - 0
Bo. 31   Finland Rtg - 27   Slovenia Rtg 2 : 2
15.1 WIM Tuominen, Tanja 2105 - WGM Srebrnic, Ana 2198 0 - 1
15.2 WFM Savola, Laura 2076 - WGM Kaps, Darja 2221 1 - 0
15.3 WFM Puuska, Heini 1982 - WFM Novak, Ksenija 2082 1 - 0
15.4 WCM Nazarova, Anastasia 1727 -   Unuk, Laura 1991 0 - 1
Bo. 28   Turkey Rtg - 29   Norway Rtg 4 : 0
16.1 WGM Yildiz, Betul Cemre 2291 - WGM Dolzhikova, Olga 2198 1 - 0
16.2 WGM Ozturk, Kubra 2281 - WIM Sahl, Sheila Barth 2233 1 - 0
16.3 WCM Cemhan, Kardelen 1993 -   Machlik, Monika 1936 1 - 0
16.4   Kaplan, Ebru 1882 -   Reppen, Ellisiv 2008 1 - 0

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