Having won the 3rd match and pulling within 2 points of China, the UK team will try to maintain the momentum for the 4th match. They are trailing China by 2 points.
Round 4 – Friday September 7th
GM Adams, Michael 2724 – 2649 Zhang, Pengxiang GM
WGM Hou, Yifan 2523 – 2683 Short, Nigel GM
GM Rowson, Jonathan 2599 – 2626 Wang, Hao GM 1/2
GM Pert, Nicholas 2536 – 2696 Wang, Yue GM
GM Bu, Xiangzhi 2685 – 2526 Jones, Gawain GM
GM Ni, Hua 2681 – 2519 Howell, David GM
IM Houska, Jovanka 2401 – 2439 Shen, Yang WGM
IM Arakhamia-Grant, Keti 2418 – 2278 Ding, Yixin WFM
Here are the LIVE games.
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
UK will pull a big upset and defeat China soundly. You hear it here first 🙂
China beat UK 6:2!!!
China 5 : UK 3
Hou 1/2 : Short 1/2 !!
Another 5-3… there is no other score here!!! 🙂
And the youngest girl managed a fine draw against the oldest player and former British nº 1…
…a hooray to Yifan, man!!! 😀