Round 6 report, 8th World Team Chess Championship 2011 Ningbo, China

Saturday, 23 July 2011 19:22 Waqas Ahmad

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Armenia extended their lead to two points after 6 rounds of the 8th World Team Championship in Ningbo, China. Levon Aronian's win against Pentala Harikrishna was the only decisive game in Armenia's victory against India. Russia against Ukraine saw all games drawn and the US drew with Hungary on the back of a fine win by Yasser Seirawan over birthday girl Judit Polgar, Zoltan Almasi leveled the scored. Armenia extended their lead to two points as their closest rivals drew whilst they beat India 2.5-1.5. Levon Aronian played one of the games of the round when his aggression paid off against Pentala Harikrishna's Lasker Defence to the Queen's Gambit. He launched a kingside attack with an early g4 and even when the queens came off maintained a bind which he turned very quickly into a decisive advantage. The remaining games were drawn.

Aronian beats Harikrishna

Russia and Ukraine drew 2-2, the games Karjakin-Ivanchuk, Eljanov-Grischuk, Nepomnichtchi-Efimenko and Moiseenko-Vitiugov were mostly hard fought but there don't seem to have been any clear cut missed chances.

Grischuk Alexander drew with Eljanov Pavel

Israel drew 2-2 with Azerbaijan. Emil Sutovsky lost the exchange for a pawn against Teimour Radjabov in a Sicilian and then allowed a mating attack in trying to avoid the exchange of queens. Evgeny Postny leveled the score with a win against Rauf Mamedov in a very lively Czech Benoni where black seemed to have the more threatening position at one stage but eventually white took over the initiative. Tamir Nabaty scored another key result for Israel drawing a very lively struggle with black against Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. Vugar Gashimov went down to King vs King against Ilya Smirin.

Radjabov beats Sutovsky Emil

The USA drew 2-2 with Hungary. Kamsky-Leko and Balough-Hess were both drawn without many dramas. Zoltan Almasi won a level heavy piece ending he never should have against Yuri Shulman. Yasser Seirawan crushed Judit Polgar who had to throw in a rook sacrifice to stave off immediate disaster but not the loss. All this on her birthday.

Yasser Seirawan ... American had acted "not a man" and beat the birthday girl.

Egypt are far and away the lowest rated team, and whilst this is good experience for their players it must be tiring for them that round after round their opponents seek to maximise their score. China won 3.5-0.5 with Samy Shoker getting the only draw against Li Chao.

Egypt Vs. China (0.5-3.5)

Today marks 35 years of Chess Queen Judith Polgar. These days, the strongest chess player stands on the third board for the national team of Hungary (not women) in the team championship of the world, and does it very well.To this day, she has had three wins, one draw and one defeat. But today, after the fire blew out the Judith on the cake (see this is a fire, rather than candles) ...

It was Polgars 35th birthday and the organisers produced a cake

In 1991, the year Judit Polgar broke Bobby Fischer's record by becoming the youngest grand master at that moment in history. And from 1989 to this day holds the first position by rating among women. However, in women's tournaments Judith almost never performed. In her biography can be found victory over world champions Boris Spassky, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik, Viswanathan Anand, not to mention other players. Kasparov played with Judith nearly two dozen official parties, but managed to gain the upper hand only once - in Moscow in 2002, the year of the match, "the Russian national team - the team the rest of the world."

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Judit Polgar congratulated on her birthday

Results round 6 on 2011/07/23 at 15:00
Bo.	10	Russia	Rtg	-	8	Ukraine	Rtg	2 : 2
1.1	GM	Karjakin Sergey	2788	-	GM	Ivanchuk Vassily	2768	½ - ½
1.2	GM	Grischuk Alexander	2746	-	GM	Eljanov Pavel	2697	½ - ½
1.3	GM	Nepomniachtchi Ian	2711	-	GM	Efimenko Zahar	2706	½ - ½
1.4	GM	Vitiugov Nikita	2733	-	GM	Moiseenko Alexander	2715	½ - ½
Bo.	9	Israel	Rtg	-	7	Azerbaijan	Rtg	2 : 2
2.1	GM	Sutovsky Emil	2700	-	GM	Radjabov Teimur	2744	0 - 1
2.2	GM	Smirin Ilya	2676	-	GM	Gashimov Vugar	2760	½ - ½
2.3	GM	Postny Evgeny	2618	-	GM	Mamedov Rauf	2679	1 - 0
2.4	GM	Nabaty Tamir	2584	-	GM	Mamedyarov Shakhriyar	2765	½ - ½
Bo.	1	USA	Rtg	-	6	Hungary	Rtg	2 : 2
3.1	GM	Kamsky Gata	2741	-	GM	Leko Peter	2717	½ - ½
3.2	GM	Shulman Yuri	2617	-	GM	Almasi Zoltan	2726	0 - 1
3.3	GM	Seirawan Yasser	2635	-	GM	Polgar Judit	2699	1 - 0
3.4	GM	Hess Robert	2609	-	GM	Balogh Csaba	2643	½ - ½
Bo.	2	Armenia	Rtg	-	5	India	Rtg	2½:1½
4.1	GM	Aronian Levon	2805	-	GM	Harikrishna Pentala	2669	1 - 0
4.2	GM	Movsesian Sergei	2700	-	GM	Sasikiran Krishnan	2681	½ - ½
4.3	GM	Akopian Vladimir	2667	-	GM	Ganguly Surya Shekhar	2627	½ - ½
4.4	GM	Sargissian Gabriel	2663	-	GM	Negi Parimarjan	2642	½ - ½
Bo.	3	Egypt	Rtg	-	4	China	Rtg	½ :3½
5.1	GM	Adly Ahmed	2631	-	GM	Wang Hao	2718	0 - 1
5.2	GM	Amin Bassem	2609	-	GM	Wang Yue	2709	0 - 1
5.3	IM	Shoker Samy	2475	-	GM	Li Chao B	2669	½ - ½
5.4	IM	Ezat Mohamed	2430	-	GM	Ding Liren	2654	0 - 1

Rank Table after round 6

Rk	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	TB1	TB2
1	Armenia	*	2		2½			2	3½	2½	3½	10	16.0
2	Russia	2	*	3		2	1	3			3	8	14.0
3	Hungary		1	*		2½	2½	2	3½	2		8	13.5
4	China	1½			*	2½	2	3½	1½		3½	7	14.5
5	Ukraine		2	1½	1½	*	2½			2½	2½	7	12.5
6	Azerbaijan		3	1½	2	1½	*		2	3		6	13.0
7	USA	2	1	2	½			*		3	3½	6	12.0
8	Israel	½		½	2½		2		*	1½	3	5	10.0
9	India	1½		2		1½	1	1	2½	*		3	9.5
10	Egypt	½	1		½	1½		½	1		*	0	5.0

Karjakin drew with Ivanchuk

Ivanchuk drew with Karjakin

Mamedyarov drew with Tamir

Kamsky drew with Leko