The Fifth China vs Russia Chess Match is taking place from September 18-27 2008, in Ningpo, China. The name, also given as Ningbo, tanslates to literally to "Tranquil" (宁 Ning) "Waves" (bō 波). The city with a population of over two million is located in northeastern Zhejiang province, facing the East China Sea. You can browse around the area in the following Google Maps window:
Wikipedia tells us that Ningbo is one of China's oldest cities, with a history dating back to 4800 B.C. the Hemudu culture. It was known as a trade city on the silk road and the major ports for foreign trade. In 1940 Piero Scaruffi reports Japan bombed Ningbo with fleas carrying the bubonic plague.
The metropolitan area of the city covers an area of over 9000 square kilometres
The famous Zhenhai Bridge in Ningpo
Tower on Zhaobao Mountain
The city at dusk
The China vs Russia match consists of standard (90 min + 30 sec), rapid (25' + 10") and blitz (3' + 2") games. In the first five games the Russian men were soundly defeated by their Chinese counterparts, but the Russian women fought back to reduce the distance between the two. This is now just two points.
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Total: 14.5 |
Total: 10.5 |
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Total: 11.5 |
Total: 13.5 |
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| Chinese total: 26.0 | Russian total: 24.0 |
| Round 1 – September 18, 2008 | ||
Wang Hao |
1-0 |
Jakovenko, Dmitry |
Tomashevsky, Evgeny |
½-½ |
Ni Hua |
Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina |
½-½ |
Xu Yuhua |
Li Chao2 |
1-0 |
Alekseev, Evgeny |
Pogonina, Natalija |
1-0 |
Ruan Lufei |
Wang Yue |
½-½ |
Inarkiev, Ernesto |
Korbut, Ekaterina |
0-1 |
Shen Yang |
Huang Qian |
½-½ |
Kosintseva, Nadezhda |
Zhao Xue |
½-½ |
Kosintseva, Tatiana |
Svidler, Peter |
½-½ |
Bu Xiangzhi |
| Round 2 – September 19, 2008 | ||
Shen Yang |
1-0 |
Pogonina, Natalija |
Ni Hua |
1-0 |
Svidler, Peter |
Kosintseva, Nadezhda |
1-0 |
Zhao Xue |
Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina |
1-0 |
Huang Qian |
Jakovenko, Dmitry |
1-0 |
Bu Xiangzhi |
Li Chao2 |
0-1 |
Tomashevsky, Evgeny |
Xu Yuhua |
0-1 |
Korbut, Ekaterina |
Alekseev, Evgeny |
½-½ |
Wang Yue |
Inarkiev, Ernesto |
0-1 |
Wang Hao |
Ruan Lufei |
½-½ |
Kosintseva, Tatiana |
| Round 3 – September 20, 2008 | ||
Shen Yang |
½-½ |
Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina |
Tomashevsky, Evgeny |
½-½ |
Wang Hao |
Ni Hua |
½-½ |
Jakovenko, Dmitry |
Kosintseva, Nadezhda |
½-½ |
Ruan Lufei |
Inarkiev, Ernesto |
½-½ |
Li Chao2 |
Zhao Xue |
½-½ |
Korbut, Ekaterina |
Svidler, Peter |
½-½ |
Wang Yue |
Kosintseva, Tatiana |
0-1 |
Xu Yuhua |
Bu Xiangzhi |
½-½ |
Alekseev, Evgeny |
Huang Qian |
0-1 |
Pogonina, Natalija |
| Round 4 – September 21, 2008 | ||
Wang Hao |
½-½ |
Svidler, Peter |
Wang Yue |
1-0 |
Tomashevsky, Evgeny |
Pogonina, Natalija |
½-½ |
Zhao Xue |
Alekseev, Evgeny |
1-0 |
Ni Hua |
Ruan Lufei |
1-0 |
Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina |
Korbut, Ekaterina |
½-½ |
Huang Qian |
Xu Yuhua |
½-½ |
Kosintseva, Nadezhda |
Bu Xiangzhi |
1-0 |
Inarkiev, Ernesto |
Jakovenko, Dmitry |
0-1 |
Li Chao2 |
Kosintseva, Tatiana |
0-1 |
Shen Yang |
| Round 5 – September 22, 2008 | ||
Shen Yang |
½-½ |
Kosintseva, Nadezhda |
Wang Yue |
½-½ |
Jakovenko, Dmitry |
Li Chao2 |
½-½ |
Svidler, Peter |
Korbut, Ekaterina |
1-0 |
Ruan Lufei |
Tomashevsky, Evgeny |
½-½ |
Bu Xiangzhi |
Alekseev, Evgeny |
½-½ |
Wang Hao |
Xu Yuhua |
½-½ |
Pogonina, Natalija |
Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina |
½-½ |
Zhao Xue |
Inarkiev, Ernesto |
½-½ |
Ni Hua |
Huang Qian |
0-1 |
Kosintseva, Tatiana |
Wang Hao, 2691 vs Dmitry Jakovenko, 2709 in round one. Wang won this game
and has scored 3.5/5 so far, with a sterling 2844 performance.
WGM Natalija Pogonina, 2469, with 3.0/5 and a 2547 performance
