On Playchess: Azerbaijan beats Turkey 26:10

by Klaus Besenthal
8/11/2020 – The friendly six-round match on the Playchess server between Turkey and Azerbaijan to prepare for the Online Olympiad ended yesterday, August 10. In the Online Olympiad Azerbaijan is seeded in the "Top Division", while Turkey will start in "Division 2", and in the match the Azerbaijanis also had the better of it: they won 26:10. | Photo: Turkish Chess Federation

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On Playchess: Azerbaijan - Turkey

To properly prepare for the Online Olympiad the two teams followed the rules of the Olympiad and played with at least two women, one junior and one girl. The teams played a six matches with a time-control of 15+5 and the results from the point of view of Azerbaijan read as follows:

4½:1½
4:2
5:1
3:3
4½:1½
5:1.

A clear win for Azerbaijan: they scored 11:1 team points and 26:10 board points.

According to the official Elo-list Shakhriyar Mamedyarov is currently Azerbaijan's number two. On the FIDE world ranking list "Shak" currently has a rating of 2764 and shares place ten with Anish Giri. But both are one point behind Teimour Radjabov who has a rating of 2765.

However, in the match against Turkey Radjabov played only two games while Mamedyarov in all matches played on board one and convincingly won the six game mini-match against the Turkish Grandmaster Cemil "Dust Tornado" Can Ali Marandi 4-2.

Mamedyarov scored his first win in game three, an entertaining tactical clash.

 

Results

Round 1

Br. 1
 
  Azerbaijan		 Elo - 2
 
  Turkiye		 Elo 4½:1½
1.1 GM
 
 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar (Shak)
 2761 - GM
 
 Ali Marandi, Cemil Can (Dust Tornado)
 2553 ½ - ½
1.2 GM
 
 Radjabov, Teimour (TRadjabov)
 2758 - GM
 
 Solak, Dragan (RuznaMamuna)
 2594 1 - 0
1.3 IM
 
 Mammadzada, Gunay (Mammadzada)
 2280 - IM
 
 Atalik, Ekaterina (EkaterinaAtalik)
 2419 0 - 1
1.4 IM
 
 Mammadova, Gulnar (gul91)
 2400 - WIM
 
 Caglar, Sila (silacgir04)
 2250 1 - 0
1.5 GM
 
 Asadli, Vugar (VugarAsadli)
 2309 - IM
 
 Gokerkan, Cem Kaan (Gokerkan)
 2158 1 - 0
1.6 WGM
 
 Balajayeva, Khanim (Xanim)
 2093 - WFM
 
 Ozbay, Ece (eceozzbay)
 1539 1 - 0
 

Round 2

Br. 2
 
  Turkiye		 Elo - 1
 
  Azerbaijan		 Elo 2 : 4
1.1 GM
 
 Ali Marandi, Cemil Can (Dust Tornado)
 2553 - GM
 
 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar (Shak)
 2761 ½ - ½
1.2 GM
 
 Solak, Dragan (RuznaMamuna)
 2594 - GM
 
 Radjabov, Teimour (TRadjabov)
 2758 ½ - ½
1.3 IM
 
 Atalik, Ekaterina (EkaterinaAtalik)
 2419 - IM
 
 Mammadzada, Gunay (Mammadzada)
 2280 0 - 1
1.4 WIM
 
 Caglar, Sila (silacgir04)
 2250 - IM
 
 Mammadova, Gulnar (gul91)
 2400 ½ - ½
1.5 IM
 
 Gokerkan, Cem Kaan (Gokerkan)
 2158 - GM
 
 Asadli, Vugar (VugarAsadli)
 2309 ½ - ½
1.6 WFM
 
 Ozbay, Ece (eceozzbay)
 1539 - WGM
 
 Balajayeva, Khanim (Xanim)
 2093 0 - 1
 

Round 3

Br. 1
 
  Azerbaijan		 Elo - 2
 
  Turkiye		 Elo 5 : 1
1.1 GM
 
 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar (Shak)
 2761 - GM
 
 Ali Marandi, Cemil Can (Dust Tornado)
 2553 1 - 0
1.2 GM
 
 Guseinov, Gadir (GGuseinov)
 2692 - GM
 
 Solak, Dragan (RuznaMamuna)
 2594 ½ - ½
1.3 IM
 
 Mammadzada, Gunay (Mammadzada)
 2280 - IM
 
 Atalik, Ekaterina (EkaterinaAtalik)
 2419 1 - 0
1.4 IM
 
 Mammadova, Gulnar (gul91)
 2400 - WIM
 
 Caglar, Sila (silacgir04)
 2250 1 - 0
1.5 IM
 
 Suleymanli, Aydin (SuleymanliAydin1)
 2202 - IM
 
 Ozen, Deniz (NormLife)
 2121 ½ - ½
1.6 WFM
 
 Beydullayeva, Govhar (gb_23)
 1924 - WFM
 
 Ozbay, Ece (eceozzbay)
 1539 1 - 0
  
 

Round 4

Br. 2
 
  Turkiye		 Elo - 1
 
  Azerbaijan		 Elo 3 : 3
1.1 GM
 
 Ali Marandi, Cemil Can (Dust Tornado)
 2553 - GM
 
 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar (Shak)
 2761 0 - 1
1.2 GM
 
 Solak, Dragan (RuznaMamuna)
 2594 - GM
 
 Guseinov, Gadir (GGuseinov)
 2692 1 - 0
1.3 IM
 
 Atalik, Ekaterina (EkaterinaAtalik)
 2419 - IM
 
 Mammadzada, Gunay (Mammadzada)
 2280 ½ - ½
1.4 WIM
 
 Caglar, Sila (silacgir04)
 2250 - IM
 
 Mammadova, Gulnar (gul91)
 2400 ½ - ½
1.5 IM
 
 Ozen, Deniz (NormLife)
 2121 - IM
 
 Suleymanli, Aydin (SuleymanliAydin1)
 2202 ½ - ½
1.6 WFM
 
 Ozbay, Ece (eceozzbay)
 1539 - WFM
 
 Beydullayeva, Govhar (gb_23)
 1924 ½ - ½
  
 

Round 5

Br. 1
 
  Azerbaijan		 Elo - 2
 
  Turkiye		 Elo 4½:1½
1.1 GM
 
 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar (Shak)
 2761 - GM
 
 Ali Marandi, Cemil Can (Dust Tornado)
 2553 ½ - ½
1.2 GM
 
 Mamedov, Rauf (muisback)
 2691 - GM
 
 Solak, Dragan (RuznaMamuna)
 2594 ½ - ½
1.3 IM
 
 Mammadzada, Gunay (Mammadzada)
 2280 - IM
 
 Atalik, Ekaterina (EkaterinaAtalik)
 2419 1 - 0
1.4 IM
 
 Mammadova, Gulnar (gul91)
 2400 - WIM
 
 Caglar, Sila (silacgir04)
 2250 ½ - ½
1.5 GM
 
 Asadli, Vugar (VugarAsadli)
 2309 - IM
 
 Ozen, Deniz (NormLife)
 2121 1 - 0
1.6 WGM
 
 Balajayeva, Khanim (Xanim)
 2093 - WFM
 
 Ozbay, Ece (eceozzbay)
 1539 1 - 0
  
 

Round 6

Br. 2
 
  Turkiye		 Elo - 1
 
  Azerbaijan		 Elo 1 : 5
1.1 GM
 
 Ali Marandi, Cemil Can (Dust Tornado)
 2553 - GM
 
 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar (Shak)
 2761 ½ - ½
1.2 GM
 
 Solak, Dragan (RuznaMamuna)
 2594 - GM
 
 Mamedov, Rauf (muisback)
 2691 0 - 1
1.3 IM
 
 Atalik, Ekaterina (EkaterinaAtalik)
 2419 - IM
 
 Mammadzada, Gunay (Mammadzada)
 2280 ½ - ½
1.4 WIM
 
 Caglar, Sila (silacgir04)
 2250 - IM
 
 Mammadova, Gulnar (gul91)
 2400 0 - 1
1.5 IM
 
 Ozen, Deniz (NormLife)
 2121 - GM
 
 Asadli, Vugar (VugarAsadli)
 2309 0 - 1
1.6 WFM
 
 Ozbay, Ece (eceozzbay)
 1539 - WGM
 
 Balajayeva, Khanim (Xanim)
 2093 0 - 1
 

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Klaus Besenthal is computer scientist, has followed and still follows the chess scene avidly since 1972 and since then has also regularly played in tournaments.

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