
Fotos: Veranstalter
In der gestrigen vorletzten Runde hatte
China mit Armenien einen "dicken Brocken" auf dem Weg zum Titel beiseite zu
räumen, während der einzige ernsthafte Verfolger Russland im Kampf gegen die
chinesische Frauenmannschaft Boden gut machen konnte. Vor der Runde betrug der
Vorsprung der Chinesen noch deutlich vier Punkte.

Der Tabellenführer
Tatsächlich musste China dann gegen Armenien
die erste Niederlage hinnehmen, da aber nach Brettpunkten gewertet wird, war
dies für die Gesamtwertung nicht so dramatisch. Das russische Wunschergebnis
(4:0) gegen die starken chinesischen Frauen kam jedoch nicht zustande.

Die chinesische Frauenmannschaft
Sergej Rublevsky, der vor nicht allzu langer
Zeit Garry Kasparov beim Europapokal der Vereine hat schlagen können, unterlag
gegen die 16-jährige Chinesin Shen Yang.

Shen Yang
In den Platzierungskämpfen schlug die
Ukraine Israel und liegt nun hinter Armenien auf Platz vier. USA und Kuba
trennten sich 2:2. Georgien war spielfrei.

Ausflug nach Jerusalem am Ruhetag
In einem offenen Brief hatte Loek van Wely beschriben, wie es
dazu kam, dass der amtierende Europameister Niederlande nicht an den Start gehen
konnte. Für die FIDE hat Generalsekretär Ignatius Leong dazu Stellung genommen.
Stand vor der letzten Runde:
1 China Männer 21
2 Russland 18.5
3 Armenien 16.5
4 Ukraine 15
5 USA 14
6 Israel 13
7 Georgien 12
8 Kuba 11
9 China Frauen 7
Runde 9
10. November 2005
1 China Männer - Russland
2 Kuba - Armenien
3 Georgien - Ukraine
4 Israel - USA
Runde 8
9. November 2005
Einzelergebnisse:
1 Ukraine 2.5 - 1.5 Israel
1 GM Ivanchuk, Vassily 2748 1 - 0 GM Gelfand, Boris 2717
2 GM Ponomariov, Ruslan 2704 0.5 - 0.5 GM Avrukh, Boris 2653
3 GM Volokitin, Andrei 2666 0.5 - 0.5 GM Roiz, Michael 2600
4 GM Karjakin, Sergey 2658 0.5 - 0.5 GM Erenburg, Sergey 2582
2 USA 2 - 2 Kuba
1 GM Onischuk, Alexander 2628 1 - 0 GM Bruzon, Lazaro 2677
2 GM Gulko, Boris 2589 0 - 1 GM Dominguez, Lenier 2635
3 GM Kaidanov, Gregory 2614 0.5 - 0.5 GM Nogueiras, Jesus 2547
4 GM Goldin, Alexander 2615 0.5 - 0.5 GM Arencibia, Walter 2510
3 Armenien 2.5 - 1.5 China Männer
1 GM Aronian, Levon 2724 0.5 - 0.5 GM Bu, Xiangzhi 2637
2 GM Akopian, Vladimir 2707 0.5 - 0.5 GM Zhang, Pengxiang 2613
3 GM Karen, Asrian 2645 1 - 0 GM Ni, Hua 2603
4 GM Lputian, Smbat G 2614 0.5 - 0.5 GM Zhong, Zhang 2608
4 Russland 3 - 1 China Frauen
1 GM Grischuk, Alexander 2720 1 - 0 WGM Zhao, Xue 2478
2 GM Morozevich, Alexander 2707 1 - 0 Qian, Huang 2398
3 GM Bareev, Evgeny 2675 1 - 0 Gong, Qian yun 2374
4 GM Rublevsky, Sergei 2652 0 - 1 Yang, Shen 2326
Runde 1
1. November 2005:
USA 2.5 - 1.5 Georgien
Armenien 2.0 - 2.0 Israel
Russland 3.0 - 1.0 Kuba
China Frauen 0.0 - 4.0 China Männer
Runde 2
2. November 2005
1 Kuba 3 - 1 China Frauen
2 Israel 1.5 - 2.5 Russland
3 Georgien 1 - 3 Armenien
4 Ukraine 2.5 - 1.5 USA
Runde 3
3. November 2005
1 Armenien 2.5 - 1.5 Ukraine
2 Russland 2.5 - 1.5 Georgien
3 China Frauen 1.5 - 2.5 Israel
4 China Männer 3.5 - 0.5 Kuba
Runde 4
4. November 2005
1 Israel 1.5 - 2.5 China Männer
2 Georgien 2 - 2 China Frauen
3 Ukraine 1.5 - 2.5 Russland
4 USA 2 - 2 Armenien
Runde 5
5. November 2005
1 Russland 2.5-1.5 USA
2 China Frauen 0.5-3.5 Ukraine
3 China Männer 3.5-0.5Georgien
4 Kuba 1.5-2.5 Israel
Runde 6
7. November 2005
1 Georgien 3 - 1 Kuba
2 Ukraine 1.5 - 2.5 China Männer
3 USA 4 - 0 China Frauen
4 Armenien 1.5 - 2.5 Russland
Runde 7
8. November 2005
1 Israel 1.5-2.5 Georgien
2 China Frauen 1-3 Armenien
3 Kuba 2-2 Ukraine
4 China Männer 3.5-0.5 USA
Antwort der FIDE auf Loek van Welys Offenen Brief bzgl. der
Nichtteilnahme des Europameisters Niederlande an der
Mannschaftsweltmeisterschaft.

Singapore, 3 November 2005
Dear ChessBase
I write concerning the
recently published
views of GM Loek van Wely on the World Team Championship 2005 through your
website.
May I refer your readers to
FIDE’s website for the Regulations concerning the World Chess Team
Championship. These Regulations have been in force since 1989 with only one
major amendment in 2003 which I shall refer to later.
For the 2003-2005 Cycle, these are the qualified teams:
|
4 Continental Champions |
Africa |
Egypt |
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Americas |
Cuba |
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Asia |
China |
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Europe |
Russia (2nd Israel; 3rd Georgia) |
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3 Highest-placed men’s teams in the
Olympiad |
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1st Ukraine |
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2nd Russia |
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3rd Armenia |
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1 Organising Federation |
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Israel |
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1 Invited by Organizer (in consultation
with FIDE) |
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United States |
As Russia had qualified from the designated Continental Championship 2003, in
accordance to Regulation 1.6.2 above, its place is passed on to 2nd-placed
Israel. Since Israel is already qualified as organizing federation; its place is
passed on to 3rd-placed Georgia.
In the Halkidiki FIDE Congress in 2003, the FIDE Executive Board approved the
winners of the Women’s Olympiad as a qualified team. This place went to China,
winner of the 2004 Women’s Olympiad.
The Organising Federation (Israel) has the prerogative to choose the 10th
team and this went to the United States.
Egypt could not participate and the substitute, Zambia, withdrew rather late.
Henceforth, Africa gave notification to give up its place. At the Presidential
Board in San Luis, the decision was taken to invite the next highest-placed team
in the Olympiad – and if this team is unable to take up the offer, the 2005
edition of the World Team Championship shall be played with only 9 teams. I
should add at this juncture that when the decision was taken, nobody in the
meeting knew which was the team to be invited! The decision was indeed
transparent and objective!!
Prior to the meeting of the Presidential Board, the Organising Federation
contacted the European Continental President for a nomination. Rightly,
Continental President Boris Kutin declined politely because the Regulations did
not permit him to nominate the replacement. Instead, the Organisers contacted
the Dutch Chess Federation directly. Fortunately the Dutch Chess Federation
declined otherwise FIDE would be faced with a problem. Unfortunately, India
declined due to short notice.
I
wish to take this opportunity to also draw attention to the Continental
Championships. Prior to 1995, Asia was the only Continent with a Continental
Team Championship held once every two years. The two Asian Continental Champions
would play a Match to decide the qualifier. Ironically, in the FIDE Congress in
Moscow 1994, to my disappointment, Asia changed its cycle to once every two
years and meanwhile Europe on the contrary moved to once every two years!
With Best Wishes,
Ignatius Leong
General Secretary