The 2nd Women's World Team Chess Championship took place in Yinzhou, China,
from September 2nd to 11th 2009. The time controls were FIDE: 90 minutes for
40 moves, then 30 minutes for the rest with a 30 second increment per move.
World Women's Team Championship in Ningbo
Photographic impressions by GM Ye
Rongguang
A little entertainment at the free day dinner: the participants competed
at throwing
ping-pong balls into paper cups (in the foreground Valentina Gunina NS Nadezhda
Kosintseva)
A newspaper game: two girls put their head in the holes in the paper and start
pulling.
The unbroken side is the winner. In the picture Zhang Xiaowen beats Ju Wenjun.
Organiser Tian Hongwei (left) presents the trophy...
...which is a beautiful Chinese glass scuplture
The trophy's general structure is a chess piece – a pawn. On the top
is a golden butterfly, the butterfly being the symbol of Yinzhou, gold means
riches and plenty. The body of the trophy is colored glaze lazurite, its value
is around 10,000 Euros.
The winners, China One, with GM Ye Jiangchuan, IM Li Wenliang, Hou Yifan,
Zhao Xue, Shen Yang, Ju Wenjun, Huang Qian, GM Yu Shaoteng, and GM Yu Shaoteng
IM Nadezhda Kosintseva, 2493, Russia, 6.5/9, with a staggering
2608 performance on the second board for Russia
WIM Alisa Melekhina, 2220, America, 4.0/6, 2463 performance
IM Inna Gaponenko, Ukraine, vs Wang Yu, China Two in a key round six game
(Gabonenko won)
WIM Zhang Xiaowen, 2391, China Two 3.5/9, 2364 performance. Xiaowen
is the
Asian Women Champion and played on Board two for her team.
India's Harika kibitzes in the game Danielian vs Tan Zhongyi in round eight
(Tan won)
Nadezhda Kosintseva, best performance in this event (2608)
Her sister IM Tatiana Kosintseva, 2536, Russia, 4.5/9, 2458 performance
Oh those eyes! Tatiana in sepia
GM Zhao Xue, 2542, China One, 4.5/8, 2472 performance
WGM Shen Yang, 2453, China One, 3.0/5, 2504 performance
IM Iweta Rajlich, 2465, Poland, 4.0/9, 2423 performance
The Indian team with Eesha Karavade, Kruttika Nadig, Harika Dronavalli,
Mary Ann Gomes
IM Harika Dronavalli, 2474, India, 4.5/9 with a 2465 performance. Harika
and Eesha Karavade helped us to identify many of the players or associated persons
in this pictorial report. Many thanks to these charming young ladies.
Thanks also to WGM Zhang Jilin, rated 2290, who was in Ningbo
as an arbiter and who supplied additional information
IM Rusudan Goletiani, 2391, America, 4.0/9, 2357
Our friend IM Guil Russek of Mexico City informs us that it is wrong to call
the team (as done on the official site and in the bulletins) the "American
Team". America is not a country name and it is inconsiderate or arrogant
to use it for the United States. Other South Americans have drawn our attention
to this common semantic inaccuracy. However, in this article we will use the
official nomenclature taken from the organisers – with apologies to our
Canadian, Middle and South American friends – and especially to Maria
José of Chile, who has given us bruises for this transgression in the
past.
Rusudan always has a trademark green scarf
IM Anna Zatonskykh, 2462, America, with 2.0/7 and a 2288 performance
Anna checking out a Panasonic digital camera
IM Irina Krush, 2458, America, 4.0/8, 2471 performance. In the
picture above Irina is singing at the dinner party on the free day.
WIM Alisa Melekhina received a gold medal for the fourth board
Alisa pensive and in colour
WFM Valentina Gunina, 2437, Russia, 6.5/8, 2560
Valentina lost her second round game due to the new zero tolerance rule, having
arrived a few seconds late at her board. That was her only loss of the tournament
– she scored a brilliant 6.5 points in the next seven rounds and received
the gold medal for fifth board.
GM Maia Chiburdanidze, 2506, Georgia, 4.0/7, 2531 performance
Untitled Ju Wenjun, 2443, China One, 4.0/8, 2364 performance
WGM Nataliya Zhukova, 2457, Ukraine, 5.5/9, 2522
WIM Karina Szczepkowska-Horowska, 2321, Poland 1.5/3, 2263 performance
Karina was a reserve player on the Polish team
32: IM Elina Danielian, 2489, Armenia, 3.5/9, 2387 performance
Ranking crosstable
| Rk. |
Team |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
TB1 |
TB2 |
| 1 |
China One |
* |
2 |
1 |
3½ |
3½ |
2½ |
3 |
1 |
3 |
2 |
12 |
21.5 |
| 2 |
Russia |
2 |
* |
2 |
2½ |
2 |
2 |
1½ |
3 |
3 |
3 |
12 |
21.0 |
| 3 |
Ukraine |
3 |
2 |
* |
1 |
2½ |
2 |
2½ |
2 |
2 |
3½ |
12 |
20.5 |
| 4 |
Georgia |
½ |
1½ |
3 |
* |
1½ |
3 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
2½ |
11 |
20.0 |
| 5 |
Armenia |
½ |
2 |
1½ |
2½ |
* |
3½ |
2 |
½ |
2½ |
3½ |
10 |
18.5 |
| 6 |
Poland |
1½ |
2 |
2 |
1 |
½ |
* |
3 |
2½ |
2½ |
2½ |
10 |
17.5 |
| 7 |
India |
1 |
2½ |
1½ |
1 |
2 |
1 |
* |
3 |
2½ |
3 |
9 |
17.5 |
| 8 |
America |
3 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
3½ |
1½ |
1 |
* |
1½ |
2 |
6 |
16.5 |
| 9 |
China Two |
1 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
1½ |
1½ |
1½ |
2½ |
* |
3 |
6 |
16.0 |
| 10 |
Vietnam |
2 |
1 |
½ |
1½ |
½ |
1½ |
1 |
2 |
1 |
* |
2 |
11.0 |
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China wins World Women's Team Championship
14.09.2009 – By the skin of their teeth,
we might add, half a tiebreak point ahead of Russia, which took Silver,
and 1.5 ahead of Ukraine, which took Bronze. In the final round the
Chinese team played Vietnam, which was in last position but appeared
to be winning two games against the leaders. However, both were suddenly
agreed as drawn, which led to suspicion of match fixing. Report
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