Turkey scored its first win today by knocking out the (no Gelfand) Israeli team. The final two matches, Russia vs. Armenia and Egypt vs. India will be decided by a pair of R+B vs. R endgame.
Update Malakhov held to give Russia a tie while Abdel Razik Khaled lost which gave India a match win.
| Round 7 on 2010/01/11 at 15:00 | |||||||
| 7.1 | 4 | RUSSIA | 2 – 2 |
10 | ARMENIA | ||
| 1 | GM | Grischuk Alexander | 2736 | 1/2 |
GM | Aronian Levon | 2781 |
| 2 | GM | Morozevich Alexander | 2732 | 0:1 | GM | Akopian Vladimir | 2678 |
| 3 | GM | Tomashevsky Evgeny | 2705 | 1:0 | GM | Sargissian Gabriel | 2680 |
| 4 | GM | Malakhov Vladimir | 2716 | 1/2 |
GM | Pashikian Arman | 2647 |
| 7.2 | 5 | EGYPT | 1.5 – 2.5 |
3 | INDIA | ||
| 1 | GM | Adly Ahmed | 2591 | 1/2 |
GM | Sasikiran Krishnan | 2653 |
| 2 | GM | Amin Bassem | 2544 | 1/2 |
GM | Harikrishna P | 2672 |
| 3 | IM | Abdel Razik Khaled | 2468 | 0:1 | GM | Geetha Narayanan Gopal | 2584 |
| 4 | IM | Sarwat Walaa | 2386 | 1/2 |
IM | Adhiban B | 2511 |
| 7.3 | 6 | ISRAEL | 1.5 – 2.5 |
2 | TURKIYE | ||
| 1 | GM | Smirin Ilia | 2668 | 1:0 | IM | Erdogdu Mert | 2513 |
| 2 | GM | Sutovsky Emil | 2657 | 0:1 | IM | Yilmaz Mustafa | 2478 |
| 3 | GM | Postny Evgeny | 2648 | 1/2 |
IM | Can Emre | 2442 |
| 4 | GM | Rodshtein Maxim | 2622 | 0:1 | IM | Esen Baris | 2513 |
| 7.4 | 7 | BRAZIL | 0.5 – 3.5 | 1 | AZERBAIJAN | ||
| 1 | GM | Vescovi Giovanni | 2660 | 0:1 | GM | Radjabov Teimour | 2733 |
| 2 | GM | Fier Alexandr | 2601 | 1/2 |
GM | Guseinov Gadir | 2614 |
| 3 | GM | Milos Gilberto | 2618 | 0:1 | GM | Mamedyarov Shakhriyar | 2741 |
| 4 | GM | Diamant Andre | 2497 | 0:1 | GM | Mamedov Rauf | 2640 |
| 7.5 | 8 | GREECE | 1.5 – 2.5 | 9 | UNITED STATES | ||
| 1 | GM | Kotronias Vasilios | 2599 | 0:1 | GM | Nakamura Hikaru | 2708 |
| 2 | GM | Papaioannou Ioannis | 2625 | 1/2 |
GM | Onischuk Alexander | 2670 |
| 3 | GM | Banikas Hristos | 2608 | 1/2 |
GM | Shulman Yuri | 2624 |
| 4 | GM | Halkias Stelios | 2566 | 1/2 |
GM | Akobian Varuzhan | 2628 |
Official website: http://wtcc2009.tsf.org.tr
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Go Russia!
U.S. winning, Armenia has Russia busted,seem we starting to get lucky over here Susan.
Naka got lucky, that’s for sure! 🙂
Now they have to play armenia and aserbeidschan. good bye, us-team 😉
Wow, Nakamura is in incredible form. Hope he can conserve it and play in similar fashion in Wijk!
By the way, with Wijk starting next weekend will Naka leave the US team prior to the final (ninth) round and give Hess, Robson a chance to play or contend until the very end?!
Beelze
Nakamura is on fire!
5.5 from 6 games on Board 1
Wow nice game by Akobian!
Turkey defeated Israel?! What the h#!$ is going on here? Wow.
WOW! Turkey defeated the TOP GUYS!