World Women's Team Chess Championship-2011: Part III |
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by Natalia Pogonina for her Chess.com Tuesday column The final part of the report about the Womens World Team Chess Championship features the last three rounds. Those are especially important in terms of the tournaments results. Usually by that point everyone is tired, and the cost of making a mistake is huge, as there is no time to make up for it.
1. China 12/12 2. India 9/12 3-4. Russia and Georgia - 8 5-6. Ukraine and Vietnam - 6, etc.
Our team defeated Turkey with the same score, but the victory was hard-fought. For example, in my game I was close to lost at some point. However, in the end I came on top with a nice tactical shot delivered while having just 30 seconds left on the clock: Armenia lost to Ukraine 1.5-2.5. India beat Greece 2.5-1.5, while RSA succumbed 0-4 against Vietnam. China was still unbeatable. Could Ukraine and India stop them in the final rounds? In the 8th round Ukraine recovered from the initial failures and became the #1 newsmaker by overcoming China. Natalia Zhukova emerged as the hero of the day: Another important match was fought between Georgia and India. India was still in contention for gold at that point, but Georgia won the match 3-1 to ruin their opponents dreams. Therefore, China became the champion with a round to go. They had too many individual points for us to catch up with them. Now the plot was in the distribution of the other medals.
1. China 14/16 2. Russia 12/16 3. India 11/16 4-5. Ukraine and Georgia 10/16 Other teams were out of contention.
Meanwhile, Georgia prevailed over Turkey: Georgia won 3-1 and got bronze. Ukraine failed to beat Vietnam and ended up with no medals, just like India. Greece earned another 4 board points against RSA.
1. China 16/18 2. Russia 13/18 3. Georgia 12/18 4-5. India and Ukraine 11/18 6-7. Armenia and Vietnam 9/18 8. Greece 5/18 9. Turkey 4/18 10. RSA 0/18 China got gold We were tired and somewhat disappointed after winning the silver medals Georgia - bronze medalist
With my teammates, Valya Gunina and Sasha Kosteniuk
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