2017 World Teams 16-27 June

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Re: 2017 World Teams 16-27 June

Post by LawrenceCooper » Mon Jun 26, 2017 10:32 am

Tim Harding wrote:The Li Chao-Bartel game has gone a couple of moves further. Yu Yangyi (who is to move at #15 for at least 10 minutes) was looking at their board wondering whether to vary or not.
Yu has decided that his king rook belongs on d1 or at least prefers to break the symmetry. 1-1 in the match so China have two whites to get the required 1.5.

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Re: 2017 World Teams 16-27 June

Post by LawrenceCooper » Mon Jun 26, 2017 11:58 am

LawrenceCooper wrote:
Tim Harding wrote:The Li Chao-Bartel game has gone a couple of moves further. Yu Yangyi (who is to move at #15 for at least 10 minutes) was looking at their board wondering whether to vary or not.
Yu has decided that his king rook belongs on d1 or at least prefers to break the symmetry. 1-1 in the match so China have two whites to get the required 1.5.
China win board 4 and so take the gold medal.

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Re: 2017 World Teams 16-27 June

Post by Tim Harding » Mon Jun 26, 2017 1:57 pm

Russia whitewash USA. Svidler says he rested again because Nepo' is so strong with White.
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Re: 2017 World Teams 16-27 June

Post by LawrenceCooper » Mon Jun 26, 2017 2:10 pm

Russia women beat Ukraine to confirm gold. Ukraine slip from second to fifth as China, Georgia and India (in that order) overtake them.

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Re: 2017 World Teams 16-27 June

Post by Matt Mackenzie » Mon Jun 26, 2017 4:03 pm

LawrenceCooper wrote: Zhukova also commented on Kateryna Lagno's leaving:

"Getting rid of the parasites is always painless. Well, love cannot be forced. If she doesn't want to play for Ukraine, why do we need such people? We didn't communicate at the Olympiad, she avoided it. Cleansing is always for the better."
She really is one of the most charming personalities in the chess world, isn't she?
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Re: 2017 World Teams 16-27 June

Post by Kevin Thurlow » Wed Jun 28, 2017 11:28 am

"England, 9th on tiebreak, didn't make it."

Malcolm Pein wrote in the Sunday Telegraph on 25th June,

"A few weeks ago I was contacted by FIDE, who asked me if England would like to make up the numbers at the World Team Championships, which have just concluded at Khanty-Mansiysk. In our heyday, in 1985 and 1989, England took the bronze medals behind the Soviet Union.

I declined the invitation, as some of the team were not too keen to make the trek to Siberia. Also, because most of the world's leading players were going to be engaged in the Grand Tour in Paris, which concludes today, it seemed unlikely that the event would be worthy of the name."

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