ARMENIA MADE A DRAW WITH RUSSIA AT WORLD TEAM CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP
PanARMENIAN.Net
12.01.2010 13:00 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenia made a 2:2 draw with Russia in the 7th
round of the World Team Chess Championship in Bursa, Turkey.
The results of the round:
Levon Aronian – Grischuk, Alexander – 0,5-0,5
Vladimir Akopian – Alexander Morozevich – 1-0
Gabriel Sargsyan – Eugene Tomaszewski – 0-1
Arman Pashikyan – Vladimir Malakhov – 0,5-0,5
Currently, the U.S. are leading with 12 (18) points; Russia dropped
to the second position with 11 (17.5). Armenian grandmasters after
3 victories, 2 draws and 2 defeats are the fifth with 8 (15) points.
In the 8th round Armenia will play vs. U.S.
The World Team Chess Championship was established in 1985 and is
being held in four year cycles. It was first planned that the event be
played in Lucerne for keeps, but recently this idea has been dropped.
Due to instability of the results produced by the Swiss system
adopted at the Olympiads the World Team Championship was scheduled
to be an invitational round robin event. Only ten teams qualify;
the invitation rules varied over decades evolving to the following
contemporary formula: the host team, three top teams from recent
Olympiad, four continental champions, winners of Women’s Olympiad
and one invited team.
At the Championship, Armenian National Team won bronze in 1997,
2001 and 2005.