Leading by 3 points going into the last match, all hopes for Russia to catch China went down the drain after their men’s team lost to China by the score of 4-1! The Russian women won the last match to make their head to head scores more respectable.
Here are the final round results:
Jakovenko, Dmitry 1/2 Wang, Hao
Wang, Yue 1-0 Timofeev, Artyom
Alekseev, Evgeny 1/2 Ni, Hua
Bu, Xiangzhi 1-0 Tomashevsky, Evgeny
Zhang, Pengxiang 1-0 Inarkiev, Ernesto
Kosintseva, Tatiana 1/2 Wang, Yu A.
Shen, Yang 1/2 Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina
Kosintseva, Nadezhda 1/2 Huang, Qian
Zhao, Xue 1/2 Tairova, Elena
Korbut, Ekaterina 1-0 Ruan, Lufei
The final match score is China 52.5-47.5 Russia.
Official website: http://russiachess.org/
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
China is now officially a super power in chess 🙂