Russia vs China

by Johannes Fischer
6/13/2016 – Since 2001 Russia and China play friendship chess matches against each other. The tenth of these friendship matches takes place from 11th to 15 June in Moscow. Each team consists of five players and each player of one team plays against all players from the other team. After three rounds the score in the men's event is even but in the women's event Russia leads 8.5-6.5.
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Russia vs China Friendship Match

The match is organized by the Russian Chess Federation with the support of the Volga Group, the official partner of the men's national chess team of Russia, and UES Federal Grid Company, the general sponsor of Russia’s national chess teams.

Russian National Teams

Men: Ian Nepomniachtchi, Dmitry Yakovenko, Daniil Dubov, Dmitry Andreykin and Maxim Matlakov. Coaches: Alexander Motylev and Vladimir Potkin.

Women: Valentina Gunina, Natalia Pogonina, Anastasia Bodnaruk, Alexandra Goryachkina, and Ekaterina Lagno. Coaches: Sergey Rublevsky and Alexander Ryazantsev.

Chinese National Teams

Men: Wang Yue, Yu Yangyi, Lu Shanglei, Wen Yang and Zhou Jianchao. Coach: Yu Shaoteng

Women: Tan Zhongyi, Shen Yang, Guo Qi, Ding Yixin, and Lei Tintsze. Coach: Yu Shaoten.

The matches are hard fought but from 30 games only ten (four in the men's event, six in the women's event) were decided - and in each of these ten games White won.

Ian Nepomniachtchi

Wang Yue

One of the decided games was the encounter between Lu Shanglei and Dmitry Andreikin in round two which turned into a veritable slugfest with lots of interesting tactical motifs.

 
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1.e4 c6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Nf3 Bg4 4.h3 Bxf3 5.Qxf3 Nf6 6.d3 e6 7.Bd2 Nbd7 8.g4 h6 9.h4 Qb6 10.0-0-0 Ne5 11.Qe2 d4 12.Nb1 c5
A new move that leads to sharp play. 13.f4 Nc6 13...Nexg4? 14.e5+- 14.Bh3 Nd7 15.g5 c4 16.g6 White does not accept the offered pawn but prefers to attack himself. After 16.dxc4 Nc5 17.Be1 0-0-0 Black is a pawn down but has compensation. 16...0-0-0 Offering another pawn. 17.gxf7 Nc5 18.Be1
18...c3 A safer alternative was 18...cxd3 19.cxd3 Qc7 Now the engines recommend 20.Na3 Qxf4+ 21.Kb1 Qxf7 22.Rf1 Qe8 and give White a slight plus - though here it is White who is a pawn down. 19.Nxc3!? White gives a piece to keep his structure intact. With three pawns for the piece he is definitely not worse. dxc3 20.Bxc3 Kb8 21.b3 a5 22.d4
22...Nxd4 Retreat seems to be no option for Black. However, after 22...Na6 23.Qc4 Nc7 24.Bb2 White's pawn mass looks intimidating. 23.Bxd4 Rxd4 24.Rxd4 Nxb3+ 25.cxb3 Qxd4
This was Black's idea. The opposite-colored bishops make this position extremely sharp and offer both sides chances. But objectively White should be better. 26.Kb1 Qf6 27.Qb2 Qxf4 28.Qd4 Qf3 29.Qd8+ Ka7 30.Qxa5+ Kb8 31.Qd8+ Ka7 32.Qd4+ Kb8 33.Rd1!
Bringing the rook into play to attack Black's king. 33...Bc5 33...Qxh3?? 34.Qd8+ Ka7 35.Qa5+ Kb8 36.Rd8# 34.Bg2 Qe2 35.Bf1 Qh5 36.Qd7 Rf8 37.b4! Bxb4 38.Rc1! Rxf7 39.Qd8+ Ka7 40.Qd4+ Bc5
The last move before the time-control - and a very creative one, even though it does not stop White's attack. 41.Rxc5 Rxf1+ 42.Kb2! After the tempting counter-check 42.Rc1+ Kb8 43.Rxf1 Qb5+ 44.Kc2 Qxf1 Black regains the rook and secures the draw. But after the strong text move Black has no adequate defense against White's attack. 42...Qd1 43.Ra5+ Kb8 44.Qe5+ Kc8 45.Qxe6+ Kc7 46.Rc5+ Kb8 47.Qc8+ 1–0
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Lu,S2614Andreikin,D27431–02016B11Russia-China Match Men2.1

Lu Shanglei

Dmitry Andreikin

 

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1.Nf3 Nf6 2.g3 c5 3.Bg2 Nc6 4.0-0 g6 5.b3 Bg7 6.Bb2 d5 7.Ne5 Nxe5 8.Bxe5 d4 9.e3 0-0 10.exd4 cxd4 11.c4 dxc3 12.dxc3 Qa5 13.Qe1 Bf5 14.c4 Qa6 15.Qc1 Be4 16.Bxe4 Nxe4 17.Bxg7 Kxg7 18.Nc3 Nxc3 19.Qxc3+ Qf6 20.Qe3 Rfd8 21.Rad1 b6 22.b4 Rxd1 23.Rxd1 a5 24.a3 axb4 25.axb4 Ra4 26.Rb1 h5 27.h4 Qc6 28.Rc1 Qf6 29.Qb3 Ra7 30.c5 bxc5 31.bxc5 Rc7 32.Qd5 Qc6 33.Qe5+ Kh7 34.Qf4 Kg7 35.Qd4+ Qf6 36.Qd5 Qc6 37.Qd4+ Qf6 38.Qd5 Qc6 39.Qd4+ ½–½
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WhiteEloWBlackEloBResYearECOEventRnd
Yu,Y2737Andreikin,D2743½–½2016A05Russia-China Match Men1.1
Wang,Y2728Nepomniachtchi,I2719½–½2016A34Russia-China Match Men1.2
Jakovenko,D2710Zhou,J26171–02016D20Russia-China Match Men1.3
Matlakov,M2691Lu,S2614½–½2016E04Russia-China Match Men1.4
Dubov,D2666Wen,Y2611½–½2016A21Russia-China Match Men1.5
Lu,S2614Andreikin,D27431–02016B11Russia-China Match Men2.1
Nepomniachtchi,I2719Yu,Y2737½–½2016C53Russia-China Match Men2.2
Wen,Y2611Jakovenko,D2710½–½2016D02Russia-China Match Men2.3
Zhou,J2617Matlakov,M2691½–½2016A17Russia-China Match Men2.4
Dubov,D2666Wang,Y2728½–½2016A11Russia-China Match Men2.5
Andreikin,D2743Wen,Y2611½–½2016D02Russia-China Match Men3.1
Nepomniachtchi,I2719Lu,S26141–02016B90Russia-China Match Men3.2
Yu,Y2737Jakovenko,D2710½–½2016A08Russia-China Match Men3.3
Wang,Y2728Matlakov,M2691½–½2016D39Russia-China Match Men3.4
Zhou,J2617Dubov,D26661–02016D45Russia-China Match Men3.5

 

The Chinese coach Yu Shaoteng

Women

Ekaterina Lagno

Aleksandra Goryachkina

Vlalentina Gunina (left, with Black) before her game against Tan Zhongyi

Ding Yixin

Guo Qi

Valentina Gunina

Natalia Pogonina

Anastasia Bodnaruk

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1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Qb6 5.Nb3 Nf6 6.Nc3 e6 7.a3 a6 8.Bf4 Ne7 9.Bd3 Ng6 10.Be3 Qc7 11.0-0 h5 12.g3 b5 13.f4 Bb7 14.Qe2 Be7 15.h3 h4 16.g4 b4 17.axb4 Bxb4 18.Ra4 Bxc3 19.Rc4 Qb8 20.bxc3 0-0 21.Na5 d5 22.Rb4 dxe4 23.Bc4 Qc7 24.Nxb7 a5 25.Rb5 e5 26.g5 exf4 27.Bc5 Nd7 28.Bxf8 f3 29.Bd6 fxe2 30.Bxc7 exf1Q+ 31.Kxf1 a4 32.Nd6 Nge5 33.Ba2 Ra7 34.Rb7 Rxb7 35.Nxb7 Kh7 36.Nd6 Nc5 37.Nxf7 Nf3 38.Bd6 Nb7 39.Bb4 Kg6 40.Bd5 1–0
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WhiteEloWBlackEloBResYearECOEventRnd
Lagno,K2524Tan,Z25091–02016B32Russia-China Match Women1.1
Gunina,V2518Lei,T24871–02016D11Russia-China Match Women1.2
Shen,Y2472Goryachkina,A2486½–½2016D12Russia-China Match Women1.3
Guo,Q2447Pogonina,N2482½–½2016D37Russia-China Match Women1.4
Ding,Y2419Bodnaruk,A24791–02016B90Russia-China Match Women1.5
Lagno,K2524Guo,Q24471–02016B11Russia-China Match Women2.1
Tan,Z2509Gunina,V2518½–½2016E53Russia-China Match Women2.2
Goryachkina,A2486Ding,Y2419½–½2016E11Russia-China Match Women2.3
Pogonina,N2482Shen,Y2472½–½2016D10Russia-China Match Women2.4
Lei,T2487Bodnaruk,A24791–02016A62Russia-China Match Women2.5
Ding,Y2419Lagno,K2524½–½2016C47Russia-China Match Women3.1
Guo,Q2447Gunina,V2518½–½2016E16Russia-China Match Women3.2
Goryachkina,A2486Tan,Z2509½–½2016E00Russia-China Match Women3.3
Pogonina,N2482Lei,T24871–02016D45Russia-China Match Women3.4
Bodnaruk,A2479Shen,Y2472½–½2016C78Russia-China Match Women3.5

 

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Johannes Fischer was born in 1963 in Hamburg and studied English and German literature in Frankfurt. He now lives as a writer and translator in Nürnberg. He is a FIDE-Master and regularly writes for KARL, a German chess magazine focusing on the links between culture and chess. On his own blog he regularly publishes notes on "Film, Literature and Chess".

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