The Russian women tied China while the Russian men defeated China by a margin of 2 points in the 6th match to close the gap to just 3 points. Here are today’s results:
Round 6 (August 26, 2007)
Kosintseva, Tatiana – Zhao Xue 1/2
Kosintseva, Nadezhda – Wang Yu A 1/2
Shen Yang – Korbut, Ekaterina 1/2
Huang Qian – Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina 0-1
Ruan Lufei – Tairova, Elena 1-0
Wang Yue – Jakovenko, Dmitry 1/2
Tomashevsky, Evgeny – Ni Hua 1/2
Bu Xiangzhi – Timofeev, Artyom 1/2
Inarkiev, Ernesto – Wang Hao 1-0
Alekseev, Evgeny – Zhang Pengxiang 1-0
Team score after 6 matches:
China 31.5 – Russia 28.5
Here is the official website: http://russiachess.org/
Here are the individual performance of both teams:
Russia
1 Alekseev, Evgeny g RUS 2689 5.0 2937
2 Inarkiev, Ernesto g RUS 2663 4.5 2852
3 Korbut, Ekaterina wg RUS 2445 3.0 2434
4 Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina m RUS 2454 3.0 2429
5 Kosintseva, Tatiana m RUS 2502 2.5 2387
6 Timofeev, Artyom g RUS 2650 2.5 2613
7 Jakovenko, Dmitry g RUS 2735 2.5 2614
8 Kosintseva, Nadezhda m RUS 2475 2.0 2300
9 Tomashevsky, Evgeny g RUS 2654 2.0 2544
10 Tairova, Elena wg RUS 2410 1.5 2240
China
1 Zhao Xue wg CHN 2500 4.5 2657
2 Shen Yang wg CHN 2439 4.0 2580
3 Ruan Lufei CHN 2433 4.0 2574
4 Wang Hao g CHN 2624 3.0 2675
5 Bu Xiangzhi g CHN 2685 3.0 2673
6 Wang Yue g CHN 2696 3.0 2687
7 Wang Yu A wg CHN 2384 3.0 2460
8 Huang Qian wm CHN 2410 2.5 2399
9 Ni Hua g CHN 2681 2.5 2617
10 Zhang Pengxiang g CHN 2649 2.0 2555
Go Russia! Russia still rulez!