Standings after 8 rounds:
Chinese Men
1 Wang Hao g CHN 2624 4.5 2712
2 Wang Yue g CHN 2696 4.0 2684
3 Bu Xiangzhi g CHN 2685 3.5 2640
4 Ni Hua g CHN 2681 3.5 2637
5 Zhang Pengxiang g CHN 2649 3.0 2586
18.5
Chinese Women
1 Ruan Lufei CHN 2433 5.5 2597
2 Zhao Xue wg CHN 2500 4.5 2507
3 Huang Qian wm CHN 2410 4.5 2492
4 Shen Yang wg CHN 2439 4.0 2463
5 Wang Yu A wg CHN 2384 4.0 2452
22.5
Total team score: 41.0
Russia Men
1 Alekseev, Evgeny g RUS 2689 6.0 2863
2 Inarkiev, Ernesto g RUS 2663 5.0 2762
3 Jakovenko, Dmitry g RUS 2735 4.5 2717
4 Timofeev, Artyom g RUS 2650 3.0 2574
5 Tomashevsky, Evgeny g RUS 2654 3.0 2574
21.5
Russia Women
1 Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina m RUS 2454 4.5 2481
2 Kosintseva, Nadezhda m RUS 2475 4.0 2436
3 Kosintseva, Tatiana m RUS 2502 3.5 2399
4 Korbut, Ekaterina wg RUS 2445 3.5 2381
5 Tairova, Elena wg RUS 2410 2.0 2231
17.5
Total team score: 39.0
Official website: http://russiachess.org/
Russia will win it. Don’t worry.
What a difference between now and the days when it Russia versus the Rest of the World!
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Hmm.
Jack – this is some very good training for the russian junior grandmasters.
As for “versus rest of the world” –
try Kramnik + Svidler + Morozevich + Grischuk + Rublevsky on for size.
Oh, by the way it was USSR versus the rest by then.
So how about these five:
Kramnik
Ivanchuk
Aronian
Svidler
Rajabov
The rest of the world will look like it does not know how to play chess lol