8th World Team Chess Championship 2011 Ningbo, China - Round 2 report
- Monday, 18 July 2011 21:06 Waqas Ahmad pakchess.org
"Yinzhou Cup" 2011 World Team Chess championship today continues round 2 in Ningbo New Century Grand Hotel, China. The defending champion Russia team holds another 3-1 win over Hungary team, taking consective triumphs. China team 2.5-1.5 win over Ukraine, Azerbaijan 3-1 wins India team, Israel team 3-1 win over Eygpt team, and the U.S.team 2-2 draws with Armenia Team. Russian superstar Sergey Karjakin (2788) comes across prestigious gentleman player Peter Leko (2717) in round 2 competition. Wearing brown casual dress, Karjakin moves very fast, while Peter Leko in blue suit and thinking the game very hard. Two players start game as Ruy Lopez, Karjakin makes 28.g4!? to close all road, and eventually lead the game to draw. Compared with Karjakin, Ian Nepomniachtchi plays more aggressive towards "alien girl" Judit Polgar. Maybe keeping the heart to give his opponent a blow, Ian completed each step then can not wait to leave the seat and check his teammates situation. At move 32, Polgar run into time panic, has only 40 seconds on clock to finish eight moves while Ian is attacking furiously. Manage to get through 40 moves, the situation is already crack down for black. Watching Russian star Alexander Grischuck winning another game, Judit Polgar reluctantly return to her seat and signed to surrender. China team met with Olympic champion Ukraine today, and top seed player Wang Hao had some tough time toward "uncrowned king" Ivanchuk. Two players in the Sicilian Defense battle, Ivanchuk took very considerable advantage of the situation but failed to hold, and Wang Hao gradually regained the equal position.
Here is an interesting option: 50. Rg7!? (instead of the 50 Ivanchuk. Rd6) 50 ... Ke6 51. g4! (trying to weave a mat net, but after 51. Kg3 Bd5 52. Rg5 Bb3 53. Rd6+ Ke7 54. Rg7+ Bf7 55. Rxh7 Qc8 56. Rg7 h4+ ! 57. Kxh4 Qf5 58. Kg3 Qe4 59. h7 Qe1 + 60. Kg4 Qh1 White does not reach the goal) 51 ... Bd5! (the exact answer) 52. Rg5 Bb3 , and now White has to play 53. Rxh5! - after all, a good chance of winning (if 53. Rd6+ ?! Ke7 54. Rg7+, then 54 ... Bf7!, and nothing, for example, 55. g5 Qa8 56. Rf6 Qa2+ 57. Kh3 Qb3+ with a draw, since White can not play 58. Kh4?? because of 58 ... Qf3!).
Very real chances to score had been missed on his next turn Ivanchuk extension 51. b5? Instead, the option 51. Rg7+ Bf7 52. f5 b6 (the other is not visible) 53. Rxh7 bxc5 54. bxc5 Qb4 (again only one chance) 55. f6+ Kf8 56. Rh8+ Bg8 and now 57. Rd1! the inevitable h6-h7, winning an elephant - gave white on all grounds technically winning position Grandmaster Li Chao also in tough position but successfully defended to draw, while teenager Ding Liren broke the standoff and won his game at 4th broad, helping Chinese team eventually beat strong Ukraine with 2.5-1.5. After six months of preparation for just four candidates games Shakhriyar Mamedyarov seems to be enjoying his return to more normal chess with a second win, this time in just 27 moves against Surya Shekhar Ganguly. Fellow Candidate Teimour Radjabov made light work of Pentala Harikrishna whose ill-judged 29th and 30th moves caused his position to be torn apart. Azerbaijan beat India 3-1 after the other two games were drawn. Emil Sutovsky beat Ahmed Adly and Nataby beat Ezat to secure a 3-1 victory for Israel over Egypt in one would imagine one of the more politically sensitive fixtures of the event. At least the match took place unlike the one at the Olympiad 2010 where the Yemen team were pressurised into not playing. Egypt and Israel met for the first time in 27 years at the 2008 Olympiad. Levon Aronian got in a terrible mess against Gata Kamsky playing rather too boldy for the attack with black starting with 24...f5, that didn't mean that the chances he did get weren't at least a little frightening as the board turned into a mess. Kamsky could have held on to the big advantage by tucking his king away on g1 or h1 on move 38, instead he converted to a somewhat favourable ending and it turned out well for him as he had a decisive advantage by second time control. Alexander Onischuk lost his second consecutive game with black when his position disintegrated against Movsesian on the run up to first time control. Shulman vs Akopian and Sargissian against the returning Yasser Seirawan were both drawn. Final score USA - Armenia 2-2.
| Results Round 2 on 2011/07/18 at 15:00 | ||||||||
| Bo. | 10 | Russia | Rtg | - | 6 | Hungary | Rtg | 3 : 1 |
| 1/1 | GM | Karjakin Sergey | 2788 | - | GM | Leko Peter | 2717 | ½ - ½ |
| 1/2 | GM | Grischuk Alexander | 2746 | - | GM | Almasi Zoltan | 2726 | 1 - 0 |
| 1/3 | GM | Nepomniachtchi Ian | 2711 | - | GM | Polgar Judit | 2699 | 1 - 0 |
| 1/4 | GM | Vitiugov Nikita | 2733 | - | GM | Balogh Csaba | 2643 | ½ - ½ |
| Bo. | 7 | Azerbaijan | Rtg | - | 5 | India | Rtg | 3 : 1 |
| 2/1 | GM | Radjabov Teimur | 2744 | - | GM | Harikrishna Pentala | 2669 | 1 - 0 |
| 2/2 | GM | Gashimov Vugar | 2760 | - | GM | Sasikiran Krishnan | 2681 | ½ - ½ |
| 2/3 | GM | Mamedyarov Shakhriyar | 2765 | - | GM | Ganguly Surya Shekhar | 2627 | 1 - 0 |
| 2/4 | GM | Guseinov Gadir | 2625 | - | GM | Negi Parimarjan | 2642 | ½ - ½ |
| Bo. | 8 | Ukraine | Rtg | - | 4 | China | Rtg | 1½:2½ |
| 3/1 | GM | Ivanchuk Vassily | 2768 | - | GM | Wang Hao | 2718 | ½ - ½ |
| 3/2 | GM | Eljanov Pavel | 2697 | - | GM | Wang Yue | 2709 | ½ - ½ |
| 3/3 | GM | Efimenko Zahar | 2706 | - | GM | Li Chao B | 2669 | ½ - ½ |
| 3/4 | GM | Areshchenko Alexander | 2682 | - | GM | Ding Liren | 2654 | 0 - 1 |
| Bo. | 9 | Israel | Rtg | - | 3 | Egypt | Rtg | 3 : 1 |
| 4/1 | GM | Sutovsky Emil | 2700 | - | GM | Adly Ahmed | 2631 | 1 - 0 |
| 4/2 | GM | Smirin Ilya | 2676 | - | GM | Amin Bassem | 2609 | ½ - ½ |
| 4/3 | GM | Postny Evgeny | 2618 | - | IM | Shoker Samy | 2475 | ½ - ½ |
| 4/4 | GM | Nabaty Tamir | 2584 | - | IM | Ezat Mohamed | 2430 | 1 - 0 |
| Bo. | 1 | USA | Rtg | - | 2 | Armenia | Rtg | 2 : 2 |
| 5/1 | GM | Kamsky Gata | 2741 | - | GM | Aronian Levon | 2805 | 1 - 0 |
| 5/2 | GM | Onischuk Alexander | 2675 | - | GM | Movsesian Sergei | 2700 | 0 - 1 |
| 5/3 | GM | Shulman Yuri | 2617 | - | GM | Akopian Vladimir | 2667 | ½ - ½ |
| 5/4 | GM | Seirawan Yasser | 2635 | - | GM | Sargissian Gabriel | 2663 | ½ - ½ |
Rank Table after round 2
| Rk. | SNo | Team | Games | + | = | - | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 |
| 1 | 10 | Russia | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 0 |
| 2 | 2 | Armenia | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5.5 | 0 |
| 3 | 7 | Azerbaijan | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 |
| 4 | 4 | China | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4.5 | 0 |
| 5 | 8 | Ukraine | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 6 | 9 | Israel | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3.5 | 0 |
| 7 | 5 | India | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 8 | 6 | Hungary | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 9 | 1 | USA | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 10 | 3 | Egypt | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2.5 | 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 | |||||||||
