4/23/2015 – After four rounds Cuba leads the field at the Men's World Team Championship. In the fourth round Cuba won 3-1 against Egypt and took the sole lead because Israel lost 1.5-2.5 against Ukraine. China won 3.5-0.5 against Armenia and Hungary narrowly defeated India 2.5-1.5. The match USA and Russia ended in a 2-2 draw - but not a peaceful one.
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World Team Chess Championship in Tsaghkadzor: Cuba leads
So far the World Team Championship has been full of surprises. The fourth round was no different. Thus Russia, though nominally clear favorite, could not win their match against the USA and had to content themselves with a bitterly fought 2-2 draw. Daniel Naroditsky won against Dmitry Jakovenko, Evgeny Tomashevsky equalized by beating Varuzhan Akobian. The two other games (Sergey Karjakin against Alexander Onischuk and Alexander Grischuk against Sam Shankland) ended in a draw.
Alexander Grischuk, Russia's first board.
Sam Shankland, first board for the US
Even more surprising was the clear 3.5-0.5 victory the Chinese scored against Armenia. Aronian drew on first board against Ding Liren, but the three other Armenians all lost their games.
Ding Liren vs Levon Aronian
Yu Yangyi
China's number one Ding Liren is currently number 12 on the live elo-list.
Bu Xiangzhi
Gabriel Sargissian from Armenia
A rare situation arose in the game between China's young talent Wei Yi and Armenian Hrant Melkumyan: After 19 moves an absolutely symmetrical middlegame was reached. Then Melkumyan went astray and Wei Yi could win.
India narrowly defeated Hungary 2.5-1.5. Indian GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi, playing with Black against Richard Rapport, scored the decisive point - in a game with a number of unusual knight maneuvres by both sides. However, only a few moves after the last knights vanished from the board Black spotted a small combination that gave him a winning position.
Richard Rapport
Ukraine against Israel
Ukraine won 2.5-1.5 against Israel and in this match the game between Alexander Moiseenko and Evgeny Postny a queenless middlegame suddenly became tactical and showed how helpless bishops sometimes can be.
In the match between Cuba and Egypt a tactical melee could be seen in the game between Lazaro Batista Bruzon against Samy Shoker from Egypt. Shoker, who was playing with Black, felt tempted to play a speculative piece sacrifice on move 20 but the Cuban kept jos calm. He won the game and helped Cuba to win the match 3-1 and to take the lead in the table.
Samy Shoker
Leinier Dominguez, Cuba's board one
Results
4.1
10
India
2½ - 1½
7
Hungary
1
GM
Harikrishna P.
2731
½ : ½
GM
Leko Peter
2713
2
GM
Sethuraman S.P.
2634
½ : ½
GM
Erdos Viktor
2612
3
GM
Sasikiran Krishnan
2654
½ : ½
GM
Almasi Zoltan
2698
4
GM
Vidit Santosh Gujrathi
2630
1 : 0
GM
Rapport Richard
2710
4.2
8
Russia
2 - 2
6
USA
1
GM
Grischuk Alexander
2794
½ : ½
GM
Shankland Samuel L
2661
2
GM
Karjakin Sergey
2757
½ : ½
GM
Onischuk Alexander
2665
3
GM
Tomashevsky Evgeny
2745
1 : 0
GM
Akobian Varuzhan
2622
4
GM
Jakovenko Dmitry
2744
0 : 1
GM
Naroditsky Daniel
2640
4.3
9
Armenia
½ - 3½
5
China
1
GM
Aronian Levon
2770
½ : ½
GM
Ding Liren
2751
2
GM
Sargissian Gabriel
2674
0 : 1
GM
Yu Yangyi
2724
3
GM
Movsesian Sergei
2665
0 : 1
GM
Bu Xiangzhi
2681
4
GM
Melkumyan Hrant
2651
0 : 1
GM
Wei Yi
2703
4.4
1
Egypt
1 - 3
4
Cuba
1
GM
Amin Bassem
2634
½ : ½
GM
Dominguez Perez Leinier
2729
2
GM
Shoker Samy
2482
0 : 1
GM
Bruzon Batista Lazaro
2691
3
IM
Ezat Mohamed
2479
0 : 1
GM
Quesada Perez Yuniesky
2629
4
IM
Farahat Ali
2389
½ : ½
GM
Ortiz Suarez Isan Reynaldo
2612
4.5
2
Israel
1½ - 2½
3
Ukraine
1
GM
Gelfand Boris
2747
½ : ½
GM
Ponomariov Ruslan
2713
2
GM
Sutovsky Emil
2628
0 : 1
GM
Ivanchuk Vassily
2731
3
GM
Rodshtein Maxim
2667
1 : 0
GM
Eljanov Pavel
2733
4
GM
Postny Evgeny
2636
0 : 1
GM
Moiseenko Alexander
2697
Replay games of the fourth round
Standings
Rank
Team
Gam.
+
=
-
MP
Pts.
1
Cuba
4
3
1
0
7
10
2
Ukraine
4
3
0
1
6
10½
3
China
4
2
2
0
6
10
4
Israel
4
2
1
1
5
9½
5
India
4
2
1
1
5
8
6
Hungary
4
1
2
1
4
8
7
Russia
4
0
2
2
2
7
8
USA
4
0
2
2
2
7
9
Armenia
4
1
0
3
2
6
10
Egypt
4
0
1
3
1
4
Pictures: Arman Karakhanyan on the the official tournament site
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Johannes FischerJohannes 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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