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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 since have been 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.

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.

India 2.5-1.5 Russia

Russia had a good chance of a medal going into the final round but went down to a surprise loss to India. Peter Svidler lost to Surya Shekar Ganguly on the black side of a Modern Defence, this was a sharp way to play for a win but things can go very wrong for black with the slightest inaccuracy which is what seems to have happened here. Grischuk won a nice game for Russia against Pentala Harikrishna but Ian Nepomniachtchi went astray in trying to exploit a tiny advantage against Krishnan Sasikiran and Nikita Vitiugov couldn't make anything of an advantage against Parimarjan Negi. 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.

USA 2.5-1.5 Isreal

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.

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.

Player's Performances

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 2/7 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.

8th World Teams Ningbo CHN Sun 17th Jul 2011 - Wed 27th Jul 2011 Final Individual Performances
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

Final Standings

8th World Teams Ningbo CHN Sun 17th Jul 2011 - Wed 27th Jul 2011 Final Round 9 Standings:
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

8th World Teams Ningbo CHN Sun 17th Jul 2011 - Wed 27th Jul 2011
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

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