World team chess championship R3: Azerbaijan bt Russia, China bt USA
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2011
Judit Polgar drawing with Zahar Efimenko of Ukraine for her team Hungary in Round 4.
The latest chess news from the World Team Chess Championship, after Round 4, in Ningbo, China, is that Armenia leads with six points while there are four teams - Azerbaijan, China, Russia and Hungary - at five points each. Defending champions Russia were leading till they lost their fourth round match to Azerbaijan. There are two teams at four points each - Ukraine and Israel. India, USA are at 3 while Egypt is still to open their account.
Round four saw Grischuk and Svidler losing to Gashimov and Guseinov on the top board for Russia, Ivanchuk losing to Leko, Sutovsky losing to Harikrishna, Onishchuk, Shulman and Seirawan losing to Wang Yue, Li Chao B and Yu Yangyi, Movsesian beating Adly Ahmed, Akopian beating Amin Bassem, Hovhannisyan beating Ezat Mohamed.
Here are some nice games from Round 4. Enjoy.
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World team chess championship R3: Defending champions Russia lead
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2011
 The latest chess news from the World Chess Team Championship 2011 is that in the third round Armenia held Russia to a draw (Aronian beating Sergey Karjakin and Gabriel Sargissian losing to Peter Svidler), Egypt losing to USA (Onischuk, Seirawan andHess posting wins), China losing to Israel (Ding Liren losing to Tamir Nabaty), India losing to Ukraine (G.N. Gopal losing to Moiseenko) and Hungary beating Azerbaijan (Judit Polgar beating Mamedov). Here are the standings after three rounds: Russia 5, Armenia, Ukraine, Israel 4, Azerbaijan, USA, China, Hungary 3, India 1, Egypt 0
You can access the official website at this link. Meanwhile, here are some nice games from Round 3. Enjoy.
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World team chess championship: Defending champions Russia lead after 2 rounds
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2011
 These are opening-ceremony photos from the world team chess championship that has begun in Ningbo, China with exciting chess. The Championship is taking place from July 15-26 in the 5-star New Century Grand Hotel in the seaside city. The teams include China, defending champion Russia, Israel, Hungary, Azerbaijan, india, USA, Egypt, Armenia.
Each team includes 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 30. The event is a round-robin nine rounds with time control of 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 30 minutes to finish the game with 30 seconds increment starting from move 1. Friday July 22 is a rest day. You can check the round-wise results for individual performances at www.chess-results.com.
The standings after Round 2 are as follows:
1. Russia 4 2. Armenia, Azerbaijan, China 3 3. Ukraine, Israel 2 4. India, Hungary, USA 1 5. Egypt 0
Here are some interesting games from the two rounds. Enjoy.
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3 super chess events with top GMs of the world beginning soon
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2011
There are three major chess events coming up this July. These include the Biel, the World Team and Dortmund events. You could catch our regular updates here onwww.chessblog.com and plenty of live coverage at www.chessdom.com. Here are the links:  - WTCC 2011 - World team chess championship starts July 17 in Ningbo, China. Plenty of top-rated players there including Grischuk, Sasikiran, Radjabov, Wang Yue, etc.
- Biel Chess 2011 - The 44th Biel Chess Festival begins on July 18 with the main event being the Accentus Grandmaster Tournament with six players taking part in the round-robin event. These are Carlsen, Vachier-Lagrave, Shirov, Caruana, Morozevich and Pelletier.
- Dortmund Chess 2011 - has its first round on July 21 and it is a double round robin event with Kramnik, Nakamura, Giri, Ponomariov, Liem and Meier.
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World team chess championship 2011 preview
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2011
Here is the latest chess news about the World Team Chess Championship 2011 that is all set to begin this week. We have a very nice preview of the event from www.chessdom.com.
The event will be held in Ningbo China from July 15-27 and includes teams from China, Russia, Ukraine, Israel, Hungary, Azerbaijan, India, USA, Egypt and Armenia. You can watch the daily broadcast of games at this link and video reports at www.chessdom.com.
Each team comprises four main players for the boards and one reserve player apart from a coach or non-playing captain. The July Fide rating list will be used and some top players at the event would include Karjakin, Sasikiran, Negi, Radjabov, Ivanchuk etc. You can read further at this link.
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