World Team CC: Russia loses two in a row

by Johannes Fischer
4/21/2015 – After losing against Ukraine in the first round of the World Team Championship Russia also lost its second match - against Cuba - and now trails the table. Egypt hold Israel to a draw, Ukraine lost against Armenia, India and China drew against the USA and Hungary. India now leads, followed by China, Israel, and Cuba. But all in all the round was peaceful.
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World Team Championship in Tsaghkadzor: 
India leads, Russia is last

The World Team Championship started with a big surprise: after two rounds Russia is last. After losing in the first round against Ukraine, the Russians also lost against Cuba. Leinier Dominguez scored the decisive point by winning against Alexander Grischuk, showing that knight and queen often work better together than bishop and queen. All other games of the match were drawn.

 
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1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 d5 3.e3 c6 4.Bd3 Bg4 5.Ne2 Nbd7 6.f3 Bh5 7.Nbc3 e5 8.Qd2 Be7 9.Ng3 Bg6 10.Nf5 Bxf5 11.Bxf5 0-0 12.0-0 Re8 13.Rae1 Qc7 14.Kh1 Bd6 15.Ne2 g6 16.Bh3 exd4 17.exd4 Nh5 18.g3 Ng7 19.b3 Ne6 20.Be3 Nf6 21.c4 b6 22.Bg1 Re7 23.Bg2 Rae8 24.f4 a5 25.Nc3 Bb4 26.a3 Bxc3 27.Qxc3 Ng7 28.cxd5 Nxd5 29.Qc1 Rxe1 30.Rxe1 Rxe1 31.Qxe1 Qd6 32.Qe5 Qxa3 33.Bxd5 cxd5 34.Qxd5 h5 35.Qc4 Nf5 36.d5 Nd6 37.Qc6 Qxb3 38.Bxb6 Qd1+ 39.Kg2 Qe2+ 40.Kg1 Qe1+ 41.Kg2 Qe2+ 42.Kg1 Nc4 43.Bxa5 Qe3+ 44.Kf1 Qe4 45.Kf2 Ne3 46.h3 h4 47.gxh4 Qxf4+ 48.Ke2 Qe4 49.Kf2 Nxd5 50.Bd2 Qxh4+ 51.Kg2 Qe4+ 52.Kf2 Kg7 53.Qc1 Qd3 54.Kg2 Kg8 55.Qe1 Nf6 56.Qe3 Qd5+ 57.Kg1 Ne4 58.Bc3 Kh7 59.Be1 Qf5 60.Kg2 Qd5 61.Kg1 g5 62.Qf3 Qe6 63.Kg2 Kg6 64.Qd3 Qc6 65.Qf3 f5 66.Kg1 Qc5+ 67.Kg2 Qc2+ 68.Kg1 Qc5+ 69.Kg2 Qc6 70.Kg1 Qc2 71.Qe3 Qd1 72.Kg2 Qc2+ 73.Kg1 f4 74.Qb6+ Kf5 75.Qa5+ Ke6 76.Qb6+ Kd5 77.Qd8+ Ke5 78.Qh8+ Kd5 79.Qd8+ Ke5 80.Qh8+ Nf6 81.Qb8+ Ke4 82.Qb4+ Kf3 83.Qa3+ Ke2 84.Bb4 Ne4 85.Kg2 Kd1+ 86.Kh1 Nf2+ 87.Kg1 Ke2 88.Qa6+ Nd3 89.Qe6+ Kd1 90.Qg4+ Qe2 91.Be7 Ne5 92.Qxe2+ Kxe2 93.h4 f3 94.Bc5 Nd3 0–1
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Grischuk,A2794Dominguez Perez,L27290–12015A4510th World Teams 20152.1

 

Leinier Dominguez

Alexander Grischuk

The three draws in the match Cuba-Russia were typical and the drawing percentage in the second round was rather high. Only four games of 20 had a decisive result.

Ponomariov conceding defeat against Aronian

GM Boris Gelfand, Israel's board one (left), drew with Egyptian GM Amin Bassem

And Egypt's board two, Samy Shoker (2482), won a sharp tactical battle against Emil Sutovsky (2628)

USA versus India

Pavel Eljanov

 

Results of the second round

2.1 10 India 2 - 2 6 USA
1 GM Harikrishna P. 2731 ½ : ½ GM Shankland Samuel L 2661
2 GM Sethuraman S.P. 2634 ½ : ½ GM Onischuk Alexander 2665
3 GM Sasikiran Krishnan 2654 ½ : ½ GM Akobian Varuzhan 2622
4 GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi 2630 ½ : ½ GM Naroditsky Daniel 2640

 

2.2 7 Hungary 2 - 2 5 China
1 GM Leko Peter 2713 ½ : ½ GM Ding Liren 2751
2 GM Erdos Viktor 2612 ½ : ½ GM Yu Yangyi 2724
3 GM Rapport Richard 2710 ½ : ½ GM Bu Xiangzhi 2681
4 GM Balogh Csaba 2651 ½ : ½ GM Wei Yi 2703

 

2.3 8 Russia 1½ - 2½ 4 Cuba
1 GM Grischuk Alexander 2794 0 : 1 GM Dominguez Perez Leinier 2729
2 GM Karjakin Sergey 2757 ½ : ½ GM Bruzon Batista Lazaro 2691
3 GM Tomashevsky Evgeny 2745 ½ : ½ GM Quesada Perez Yuniesky 2629
4 GM Vitiugov Nikita 2736 ½ : ½ GM Gonzalez Vidal Yuri 2557

 

2.4 9 Armenia 2½ - 1½ 3 Ukraine
1 GM Aronian Levon 2770 1 : 0 GM Ponomariov Ruslan 2713
2 GM Sargissian Gabriel 2674 ½ : ½ GM Ivanchuk Vassily 2731
3 GM Movsesian Sergei 2665 ½ : ½ GM Eljanov Pavel 2733
4 GM Melkumyan Hrant 2651 ½ : ½ GM Moiseenko Alexander 2697

 

2.5 1 Egypt 2 - 2 2 Israel
1 GM Amin Bassem 2634 ½ : ½ GM Gelfand Boris 2747
2 GM Shoker Samy 2482 1 : 0 GM Sutovsky Emil 2628
3 IM Ezat Mohamed 2479 ½ : ½ GM Smirin Ilia 2652
4 GM Adly Ahmed 2595 0 : 1 GM Rodshtein Maxim 2667

 

 

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1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.Nf3 e6 5.Be2 Ne7 6.0-0 c5 7.c4 dxc4 8.Na3 Nbc6 9.Nxc4 Nd5 10.a3 h6 11.Be3 Nxe3 12.fxe3 a6 13.Rc1 b5 14.Nd6+ Bxd6 15.exd6 Qxd6 16.Rxc5 0-0 17.Bd3 Ne7 18.b4 a5 19.Bxb5 axb4 20.axb4 Ra2 21.Bc4 Rb2 22.Qa4 Qb8 23.b5 Qa8 24.Qa1 Rc2 25.Rc1 Be4 26.Ne1 Qxa1 27.Rxa1 Rb2 28.Ra3 Nf5 29.Rb3 Rxb3 30.Bxb3 Rb8 31.Bc2 ½–½
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Leko,P2713Ding,L2755½–½2015B1210th World Teams 20152.1
Yu,Y2724Erdos,V2613½–½2015C6510th World Teams 20152.2
Rapport,R2709Bu,X2681½–½2015D0010th World Teams 20152.3
Wei,Y2706Balogh,C2655½–½2015C6510th World Teams 20152.4
Aronian,L2770Ponomariov,R27131–02015A1310th World Teams 20152.1
Ivanchuk,V2731Sargissian,G2668½–½2015D3110th World Teams 20152.2
Movsesian,S2665Eljanov,P2727½–½2015C8410th World Teams 20152.3
Moiseenko,A2693Melkumyan,H2676½–½2015D3710th World Teams 20152.4
Harikrishna,P2729Shankland,S2661½–½2015B9010th World Teams 20152.1
Onischuk,A2665Sethuraman,S2623½–½2015D4510th World Teams 20152.2
Sasikiran,K2682Akobian,V2622½–½2015D3010th World Teams 20152.3
Naroditsky,D2633Vidit,S2625½–½2015E5510th World Teams 20152.4
Amin,B2634Gelfand,B2747½–½2015B3010th World Teams 20152.1
Sutovsky,E2623Shoker,S24660–12015B0610th World Teams 20152.2
Ezat,M2479Smirin,I2644½–½2015A4110th World Teams 20152.3
Rodshtein,M2654Adly,A25891–02015D4310th World Teams 20152.4
Grischuk,A2794Dominguez Perez,L27290–12015A4510th World Teams 20152.1
Bruzon Batista,L2691Karjakin,S2757½–½2015E0010th World Teams 20152.2
Tomashevsky,E2745Quesada Perez,Y2637½–½2015E1110th World Teams 20152.3
Gonzalez Vidal,Y2557Vitiugov,N2739½–½2015B4810th World Teams 20152.4

 

Standings

Rank Team Gam. + = - MP Pts.
1 India 2 1 1 0 3 5
2 China 2 1 1 0 3 4½
3 Israel 2 1 1 0 3 4½
4 Cuba 2 1 1 0 3 4½
5 Hungary 2 0 2 0 2 4
6 Armenia 2 1 0 1 2 4
7 Ukraine 2 1 0 1 2 4
8 USA 2 0 1 1 1 3½
9 Egypt 2 0 1 1 1 3
10 Russia 2 0 0 2 0 3

 

The arbiters

 

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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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