After just 4 rounds, Russia, China, and Ukraine, established themselves as front runners for the medals at the 2013 Women’s World Team Championship.
China, without their two superstars (Hou Yifan and Zhao Xue), and Russia, also without their top 2 players (Kosintseva sisters), have been in the lead right from the start. However, after a 2-2 split against each other, Ukraine is able to catch up.
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
US will win a medal, probably gold.
Why was Turkey invited to play and improve, and not Portugal?
It is common in the normal world to write which team qualified how in the championship’s introduction, yet I completely failed to see this on official website.