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  Armenia wins 8th world team chess championship 2011 

  Tuesday, 26 July 2011 13:37  Waqas Ahmad   pakchess.org

   

Armenia won the 8th World Team Championship in Ningbo China. The drawn match in the last 9th round of the World Team Chess Championship with the Ukrainian team was sufficient for Armenia to win gold medals. In 9 rounds, Armenian team scored 5 victories and tied 4 matches, and thus earning 14 team and 22,5 personal points, became unconquerable for rivals.They were a point clear of China who in turn were a point clear of Ukraine. Russia lost to India in the final round and finished outside the medals. Before this Championship, Armenian chess team won bronze medal three times: in 1997 in Lucerne, Switzerland, in 2001 in Yerevan and in 2005 in Beer Sheva, Israel.

Congratulations to the Armenian team, the only one who did not suffer a loss.

Armenia 2-2 Ukraine

Armenia and Ukraine drew 2-2 in the final round of the 8th World Team Championship. The games seem to have all been agreed drawn at the same time as part of a package deal arranged by the captains. In my view this traditional practice of agreeing results as part of team orders should have long been banned. Sofia rules are in order. Communication with outsiders, in this case captains, is just plain wrong. The Ivanchuk-Aronian final position was very sharp but balanced. Movsesian-Eljanov and Efimenko-Akopian were drawish. Armenia needed just a draw for the title and Ukraine at least stood a chance of bronze with a draw, especially with Russia messing things up. So the fact that Sarigissian was much better against Moiseenko was probably why the deal went ahead.

India 2.5-1.5 Russia

The Russians in Ningbo had to drink the cup of frustration to the bottom. Alexander Grischuk only on the first board confidently beat Pentala Harikrishna. In the third Peter Svidler played a risky way to protect Pirc-Ufimtsev a Modern Defence, but run over by a brilliant attack an opponent, Grandmaster Ganguly, and quickly replaced. On the fourth board Nikita Vitiugov failed to implement a positional advantage, Parimaryan Negi came to a peaceful outcome. The last match ended on the second board, where Ian Nepomniachtchi got into a bad endgame against Krishnan Sasikiran. India won the match with a score of 2.5-1.5.  The Russian team is the best financed side, has Evgeny Bareev as captain and even arrived a week early to acclimatise so their result can be accounted a total failure, as was the overall performance of their Ukrainian recruit Sergey Karjakin with 2/6.

Azerbaijan 2.5-1.5 Egypt

It is a shame Egypt didn't manage to get on the scoresheet as they fought gamely throughout in spite of being vastly outrated on each board in all of the matches. Here they were rewarded with a win for Samy Shoker who ground down World Championship Candidate Shakhriyar Mamedyarov in an ending. Shoker scored a very creditable 4/9 in the event. Mohamed Ezat picked up another good draw against Gadir Guseinov. Teimour Radjabov beat Ahmed Adly (he had a really tough time on top board) and Gashimov beat Bassem Amin. Azerbaijan's result, along with that of Russia can be counted as the most disappointing for them in the event.

China 2.5-1.5 Hungary

The Chinese team did what they could to put pressure on Armenia. It is my interpretation of the tie-breaks that if Armenia had lost by any score then China would have taken the title. They beat Hungary 2.5-1.5 with Wang Hao drawing with the ever solid Peter Leko, and Yu Yangyi going down in an entertainingly wild struggle. However Wang Yue, top scorer in the whole event defeated Zoltan Almasi (again decent position wrecked on the run up to first time control) and Judit Polgar too went astray in this phase to lose to Li Chao B.

USA 2.5-1.5 Israel

USA completed a reasonably successful event with a 2.5-1.5 victory over Israel to finish 6th. Israel just collapsed towards the end after a reasonable start. Sutovsky-Kamsky, Onischuk-Roiz and Smirin-Seirawan were all drawn. Robert Hess took his score to 3.5/6 with a win against Evgeny Postny.

 

 

Final Ranking crosstable after round 9

Rk.	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	Armenia	*	2½	2	2	2½	2	2	2½	3½	3½	14	22.5	0
2	China	1½	*	2½	2½	2½	3½	2	3	1½	3½	13	22.5	0
3	Ukraine	2	1½	*	2	1½	2½	2½	2½	2½	2½	12	19.5	0
4	Russia	2	1½	2	*	3	3	1	1½	4	3	10	21.0	0
5	Hungary	1½	1½	2½	1	*	2	2½	2	3½	3	10	19.5	0
6	USA	2	½	1½	1	2	*	2½	3	2½	3½	10	18.5	0
7	Azerbaijan	2	2	1½	3	1½	1½	*	3	2	2½	9	19.0	0
8	India	1½	1	1½	2½	2	1	1	*	2½	2½	7	15.5	0
9	Israel	½	2½	1½	0	½	1½	2	1½	*	3	5	13.0	0
10	Egypt	½	½	1½	1	1	½	1½	1½	1	*	0	9.0	0

Annotation:
Tie Break1: Matchpoints (2 for wins, 1 for Draws, 0 for Losses)
Tie Break2: points (game-points)
Tie Break3: The results of the teams in then same point group according to Matchpoints

Results round 9 on 2011/07/26 at 10:00
Bo.	5	India	Rtg	-	10	Russia	Rtg	2½:1½
1.1	GM	Harikrishna Pentala	2669	-	GM	Grischuk Alexander	2746	0 - 1
1.2	GM	Sasikiran Krishnan	2681	-	GM	Nepomniachtchi Ian	2711	1 - 0
1.3	GM	Ganguly Surya Shekhar	2627	-	GM	Svidler Peter	2739	1 - 0
1.4	GM	Negi Parimarjan	2642	-	GM	Vitiugov Nikita	2733	½ - ½
Bo.	6	Hungary	Rtg	-	4	China	Rtg	1½:2½
2.1	GM	Leko Peter	2717	-	GM	Wang Hao	2718	½ - ½
2.2	GM	Almasi Zoltan	2726	-	GM	Wang Yue	2709	0 - 1
2.3	GM	Polgar Judit	2699	-	GM	Li Chao B	2669	0 - 1
2.4	GM	Balogh Csaba	2643	-	GM	Yu Yangyi	2672	1 - 0
Bo.	7	Azerbaijan	Rtg	-	3	Egypt	Rtg	2½:1½
3.1	GM	Radjabov Teimur	2744	-	GM	Adly Ahmed	2631	1 - 0
3.2	GM	Gashimov Vugar	2760	-	GM	Amin Bassem	2609	1 - 0
3.3	GM	Mamedyarov Shakhriyar	2765	-	IM	Shoker Samy	2475	0 - 1
3.4	GM	Guseinov Gadir	2625	-	IM	Ezat Mohamed	2430	½ - ½
Bo.	8	Ukraine	Rtg	-	2	Armenia	Rtg	2 : 2
4.1	GM	Ivanchuk Vassily	2768	-	GM	Aronian Levon	2805	½ - ½
4.2	GM	Eljanov Pavel	2697	-	GM	Movsesian Sergei	2700	½ - ½
4.3	GM	Efimenko Zahar	2706	-	GM	Akopian Vladimir	2667	½ - ½
4.4	GM	Moiseenko Alexander	2715	-	GM	Sargissian Gabriel	2663	½ - ½
Bo.	9	Israel	Rtg	-	1	USA	Rtg	1½:2½
5.1	GM	Sutovsky Emil	2700	-	GM	Kamsky Gata	2741	½ - ½
5.2	GM	Roiz Michael	2669	-	GM	Onischuk Alexander	2675	½ - ½
5.3	GM	Smirin Ilya	2676	-	GM	Seirawan Yasser	2635	½ - ½
5.4	GM	Postny Evgeny	2618	-	GM	Hess Robert	2609	0 - 1

    Top scorer with 7/9 Wang Yue   

Wang Yue had the best score in the event with 7/9 on board 2. Although Wang Hao's 6/9 as top performer on board 1 was probably almost as good. Gata Kamsky was second best and Teimour Radjabov 3rd. Peter Leko scored the same with a very solid return (all 5.5/9). Levon Aronian scored a respectable 5/8. Sergey Karjakin's 2/6 was a disaster. Ian Nepomniachtchi and Vladimir Akopian scored 6/9 on board 3, Polgar made 5/9. Alexander Moiseenko 6/8 was the top scorer on board 4. Yasser Seirawan's 4.5/7 was very respectible indeed and is promising for the future of the US Olympiad team who could probably do with his experience.

 

Players Final Ranking after 9 Rounds

No.		Name	Rtg	Team	Pts.	Games	%	Bo.
1	GM	Wang Yue	2709	China	7.0	9	77.8	2
2	GM	Moiseenko Alexander	2715	Ukraine	6.0	8	75.0	3
3	GM	Wang Hao	2718	China	6.0	9	66.7	1
4	GM	Movsesian Sergei	2700	Armenia	6.0	9	66.7	1
5	GM	Nepomniachtchi Ian	2711	Russia	6.0	9	66.7	2
6	GM	Akopian Vladimir	2667	Armenia	6.0	9	66.7	2
7	GM	Grischuk Alexander	2746	Russia	5.5	8	68.8	1
8	GM	Kamsky Gata	2741	USA	5.5	9	61.1	1
9	GM	Radjabov Teimur	2744	Azerbaijan	5.5	9	61.1	1
10	GM	Leko Peter	2717	Hungary	5.5	9	61.1	1
11	GM	Aronian Levon	2805	Armenia	5.0	8	62.5	1
12	GM	Li Chao B	2669	China	5.0	8	62.5	3
13	GM	Balogh Csaba	2643	Hungary	5.0	8	62.5	4
14	GM	Ivanchuk Vassily	2768	Ukraine	5.0	9	55.6	1
15	GM	Gashimov Vugar	2760	Azerbaijan	5.0	9	55.6	2
16	GM	Polgar Judit	2699	Hungary	5.0	9	55.6	3
17	GM	Mamedyarov Shakhriyar	2765	Azerbaijan	5.0	9	55.6	3
18	GM	Seirawan Yasser	2635	USA	4.5	7	64.3	3
19	GM	Sasikiran Krishnan	2681	India	4.5	9	50.0	2
20	GM	Sargissian Gabriel	2663	Armenia	4.5	9	50.0	3
21	GM	Vitiugov Nikita	2733	Russia	4.0	6	66.7	4
22	GM	Efimenko Zahar	2706	Ukraine	4.0	8	50.0	2
23	GM	Ganguly Surya Shekhar	2627	India	4.0	8	50.0	3
24	IM	Shoker Samy	2475	Egypt	4.0	9	44.4	3
25	GM	Hess Robert	2609	USA	3.5	6	58.3	4
26	GM	Svidler Peter	2739	Russia	3.5	7	50.0	3
27	GM	Onischuk Alexander	2675	USA	3.5	8	43.8	2
28	GM	Nabaty Tamir	2584	Israel	3.5	8	43.8	4
29	GM	Harikrishna Pentala	2669	India	3.5	9	38.9	1
30	GM	Almasi Zoltan	2726	Hungary	3.5	9	38.9	2
31	GM	Roiz Michael	2669	Israel	3.0	7	42.9	1
32	GM	Eljanov Pavel	2697	Ukraine	3.0	7	42.9	2
33	GM	Smirin Ilya	2676	Israel	3.0	7	42.9	2
34	GM	Ding Liren	2654	China	2.5	4	62.5	4
35	GM	Negi Parimarjan	2642	India	2.5	6	41.7	3
36	IM	Ezat Mohamed	2430	Egypt	2.5	7	35.7	4
37	GM	Guseinov Gadir	2625	Azerbaijan	2.0	4	50.0	4
38	GM	Karjakin Sergey	2788	Russia	2.0	6	33.3	1
39	GM	Yu Yangyi	2672	China	2.0	6	33.3	3
40	GM	Sutovsky Emil	2700	Israel	2.0	7	28.6	1
41	GM	Areshchenko Alexander	2682	Ukraine	1.5	4	37.5	4
42	GM	Mamedov Rauf	2679	Azerbaijan	1.5	5	30.0	3
43	GM	Shulman Yuri	2617	USA	1.5	6	25.0	2
44	GM	Postny Evgeny	2618	Israel	1.5	7	21.4	3
45	GM	Amin Bassem	2609	Egypt	1.5	9	16.7	1
46	GM	Hovhannisyan Robert	2556	Armenia	1.0	1	100.0	4
47	GM	Gopal G.N.	2576	India	1.0	4	25.0	4
48	GM	Erdos Viktor	2613	Hungary	0.5	1	50.0	4
49	GM	El Gindy Essam	2510	Egypt	0.5	4	12.5	2
50	GM	Adly Ahmed	2631	Egypt	0.5	7	7.1	1

Annotation: forfeit points are ignored

Source: Mark Crowther, TWIC

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