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This event is being organized by the Armenian Chess Federation and will take place from April 18 (arrival) to 29 (departure) in Tsakhkadzor, Armenia. The federations that will participate are Armenia, China, Cuba, Egypt, Israel, Hungary, India, Russia, Ukraine, USA. The championship will be held as a round-robin tournament, i.e. each team will play a match against each of the other nine teams. The time control for the event is 90 minutes for 40 moves +30 minutes for the rest, with 30 seconds added to each move, starting from move one. The teams are made up of four players plus one reserve (and the captain).
The Azerbaijani team has chosen not to go to Armenia and is being replaced with the Israeli team.
The Americans will not be fielding Nakamura, nor So, nor Kamsky. ChessBase gives the makeup of the team as Shankland, Onischuk, Naroditsky, Akobian, Lenderman and Donaldson. The Russian and Ukrainian teams will be headed by Alexander Grischuk and Vassily Ivanchuk, respectively. For other teams see:
On chess24.com John Donaldson speaks out on the American team not having the strongest players on it:
“Gata (Kamsky) repeatedly announced the past two years that when he turned 40 he would retire from the US team. He turned 40 in 2014 and Tromso was his last event.
Onischuk, Robson and Shankland are all rated within twenty points of Gata and the latter two are moving up fast. The US may end up seeded ninth out of ten teams in Armenia, but every player is over 2600. We have several rapidly improving players and good team chemistry.”
Armenia
N Title Name Rating
1 GM Aronian Levon 2770
2 GM Sargissian Gabriel 2666
3 GM Movsesian Sergei 2662
4 GM Akopian Vladimir 2656
5 GM Melkumyan Hrant 2651
China
N Title Name Rating
1 GM Bu Xiangzhi 2681
2 GM Ding Liren 2751
3 GM Yu Yangyi 2724
4 GM Wei Yi 2703
5 IM Wang Chen 2531
Cuba
N Title Name Rating
1 GM Dominguez Perez 2729
2 GM Bruzon Batista 2691
3 GM Quesada Perez Y. 2629
4 GM Ortiz Suarez I. 2612
5 GM Gonzalez Y. 2557
Egypt
N Title Name Rating
1 GM Amin Bassem 2634
2 GM Adly Ahmed 2595
3 GM Shoker Samy 2482
4 IM Elsherief M. 2479
5 IM Farahat Ali 2389
Hungary
N Title Name Rating
1 GM Leko Peter 2713
2 GM Balogh Csaba 2651
3 GM Erdos Viktor 2612
4 GM Almasi Zoltan 2698
5 GM Rapport Richard 2710
India
N Title Name Rating
1 GM Sethuraman S.P. 2634
2 GM Harikrishna Pentala 2731
3 GM Vidit Santosh G. 2630
4 GM Sasikiran Krishnan 2654
5 GM Deep Sengupta 2576
Israel
N Title Name Rating
1 GM Gelfand Boris 2747
2 GM Rodshtein Maxim 2667
3 GM Smirin Ilia 2652
4 GM Sutovsky Emil 2628
5 GM Postny Evgeni 2636
Russia
N Title Name Rating
1 GM Grischuk Alexander 2794
2 GM Karjakin Sergey 2757
3 GM Tomashevsky Evgeny 2745
4 GM Jakovenko Dmitry 2744
5 GM Vitiugov Nikita 2736
Ukraine
N Title Name Rating
1 GM Ivanchuk Vassily 2731
2 GM Ponomarev Ruslan 2714
3 GM Eljanov Pavel 2733
4 GM Moiseenko Alex 2697
5 GM Kryvoruchko Yuri 2686
USA
N Title Name Rating
1 GM Shankland Samuel 2661
2 GM Onischuk Alexander 2665
3 GM Naroditsky Daniel 2640
4 GM Akobian Varuzhan 2622
5 GM Lenderman Aleksandr 2617
An interesting kibitz on chessbomb - Brutal statements from the father of Rapport. Says his son doesn't work and just happy to make enough money to get by. He has faced that Rapport will likely never be top tier.
I couldn’t get on the Official Site this morning. The game Ding Liren – Shankland was pivotal but the score as shown on chessbomb is incomplete.
Later: I now have it from the Official Site:
World Team Chess Championship 2015
Round 1, April 19, 2015
Ding, Liren – Shankland, Samuel
D37 QGD, Hastings Variation
One of my main reasons for following this tournament was to see what form Vassily Ivanchuk is in. Well, he is playing second board (to Ponomariov) and today’s game lasted 13 moves… I suppose that tells all.
World Team Championship 2015
Round 2, April 20, 2015
Ivanchuk, Vassily - Sargissian, Gabriel
D31 QGD, Charousek (Petrosian) Variation
India 5
China 4.5
Israel 4.5
Cuba 4.5
Hungary 4
Armenia 4
Ukraine 4
USA 3.5
Egypt 3
Russia 3
The matchups for Round Three are:
Israel-India, Ukraine-Egypt, Cuba-Armenia, China-Russia and USA-Hungary. Will Russia pull themselves out of the cellar against China? Will Cuba continue winning in the match against Armenia? Will Ivanchuk finally play a game with his former energy? Tune in tomorrow.
Last edited by Wayne Komer; Wednesday, 22nd April, 2015, 02:50 PM.
I suppose we are all familiar with the sports cliché in which a team has to win and the coach tells the youngest guy to go in and win one for the Gipper. I imagine that Russia is getting pretty desperate, not having won a match yet, and Vitiugov was told to go in and win against Wei Yi for Putin. The result was a 130-move game of R+B vs R. Unfortunately, China’s coach told Bu to go in and win one for Xi Jinping and we have a 149-mover ending with Q+P vs Q.
I also give an Ivanchuk game from the match against Egypt to lighten the mood a bit.
WTCC 2015
Round 3, April 21, 2015
Vitiugov, Nikita – Wei Yi
D72 Neo-Grunfeld, 5. cxd5, Main Line
Russia was extremely lucky to escape with their first point today against China. Bu's position was totally winning after Jakovenko's 45th move, plus 4.79, but Bu's back-to-back 'red' moves the next 2 moves effectively let Jakovenko off the hook.
If you look at the pairings and results for each round on the Official Site, you will see that the chap who was entering them thought it would be easier to give one country four Whites and his opponent four Blacks, rather than alternating them:
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