Spectacular 4th round World Team Championship

General info
The World Team Championship takes place July 15-26 in Ningbo, China. China, Ukraine, Israel, Hungary, Azerbaijan, India, USA, Egypt and Armenia play. Each team consists of five players, one reserve and one coach/captain. The zero tolerance rule for appearing at the board is in effect, as well as a rule against draws before move thirty. The championship is a round-robin of nine rounds. The time control is 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 30 minutes to finish the game with 30 seconds increment starting from move 1. There is one rest day, on Friday, July 22nd. More info here.Rounds 4
Russia's loss against Azerbaijan isn't that much of a surprise since the two teams don't differ much rating wise. On top board Radjabov repeated his 3...f5 Ruy Lopez and improved upon Nisipeanu's play against Karjakin last month in Romania. The Azerbaijani had repaired his pet variation and drew without problems.On second board Vugar Gashimov played an excellent game and scored an important board point against Candidates finalist Alexander Grischuk.Gashimov-Grischuk Ningbo, 2011


Vugar Gashimov played strongly in the 4th round




The Ukraine-Hungary match with Ivanchuk-Leko on board 1

In USA-China Kamsky scored the only half point against Wang Hao
Games rounds 4
Game viewer by ChessTempoBo. | 10 | Russia | Rtg | - | 7 | Azerbaijan | Rtg | 1 : 3 |
1.1 | GM | Karjakin Sergey | 2788 | - | GM | Radjabov Teimur | 2744 | ½ - ½ |
1.2 | GM | Grischuk Alexander | 2746 | - | GM | Gashimov Vugar | 2760 | 0 - 1 |
1.3 | GM | Nepomniachtchi Ian | 2711 | - | GM | Mamedyarov Shakhriyar | 2765 | ½ - ½ |
1.4 | GM | Svidler Peter | 2739 | - | GM | Guseinov Gadir | 2625 | 0 - 1 |
Bo. | 8 | Ukraine | Rtg | - | 6 | Hungary | Rtg | 1½:2½ |
2.1 | GM | Ivanchuk Vassily | 2768 | - | GM | Leko Peter | 2717 | 0 - 1 |
2.2 | GM | Eljanov Pavel | 2697 | - | GM | Almasi Zoltan | 2726 | ½ - ½ |
2.3 | GM | Efimenko Zahar | 2706 | - | GM | Polgar Judit | 2699 | ½ - ½ |
2.4 | GM | Moiseenko Alexander | 2715 | - | GM | Balogh Csaba | 2643 | ½ - ½ |
Bo. | 9 | Israel | Rtg | - | 5 | India | Rtg | 1½:2½ |
3.1 | GM | Sutovsky Emil | 2700 | - | GM | Harikrishna Pentala | 2669 | 0 - 1 |
3.2 | GM | Roiz Michael | 2669 | - | GM | Sasikiran Krishnan | 2681 | ½ - ½ |
3.3 | GM | Smirin Ilya | 2676 | - | GM | Ganguly Surya Shekhar | 2627 | ½ - ½ |
3.4 | GM | Nabaty Tamir | 2584 | - | GM | Gopal G.N. | 2576 | ½ - ½ |
Bo. | 1 | USA | Rtg | - | 4 | China | Rtg | ½ :3½ |
4.1 | GM | Kamsky Gata | 2741 | - | GM | Wang Hao | 2718 | ½ - ½ |
4.2 | GM | Onischuk Alexander | 2675 | - | GM | Wang Yue | 2709 | 0 - 1 |
4.3 | GM | Shulman Yuri | 2617 | - | GM | Li Chao B | 2669 | 0 - 1 |
4.4 | GM | Seirawan Yasser | 2635 | - | GM | Yu Yangyi | 2672 | 0 - 1 |
Bo. | 2 | Armenia | Rtg | - | 3 | Egypt | Rtg | 3½: ½ |
5.1 | GM | Movsesian Sergei | 2700 | - | GM | Adly Ahmed | 2631 | 1 - 0 |
5.2 | GM | Akopian Vladimir | 2667 | - | GM | Amin Bassem | 2609 | 1 - 0 |
5.3 | GM | Sargissian Gabriel | 2663 | - | IM | Shoker Samy | 2475 | ½ - ½ |
5.4 | GM | Hovhannisyan Robert | 2556 | - | IM | Ezat Mohamed | 2430 | 1 - 0 |
Rk. | SNo | Team | Matches | + | = | - | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 |
1 | 2 | Armenia | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 11.0 | 0 |
2 | 7 | Azerbaijan | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 9.5 | 1 |
3 | 4 | China | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 9.5 | 1 |
4 | 10 | Russia | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 9.0 | 0 |
5 | 6 | Hungary | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8.0 | 0 |
6 | 8 | Ukraine | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 8.0 | 0 |
7 | 9 | Israel | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7.5 | 0 |
8 | 5 | India | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7.0 | 0 |
9 | 1 | USA | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7.0 | 0 |
10 | 3 | Egypt | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3.5 | 0 |
Photos © WGM Gu Xiaobing, more here
Links
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