{"id":115835,"date":"2011-07-25T10:52:38","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T05:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=115835"},"modified":"2011-07-25T10:52:38","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T05:52:38","slug":"armenia-close-to-victory-in-world-chess-team-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/07\/25\/armenia-close-to-victory-in-world-chess-team-championship.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenia Close to Victory in World Chess Team Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Yinzhou Cup 2011 World Chess Team Championship, taking place in Ningbo, China, Jul. 15 to 27. continued with Round 7 on Jul. 24. The Chinese team beat the Russian team, 2.5-1.5. As Russia was defeated, the Armenian team&#8217;s triumph over Hungary allowed them to keep their place at the top of the standings, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/ningbo2011.fide.com\/\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">championship&#8217;s official website<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Armenian champion title was almost secured by a difference of three points. For the other three games, the United States won 2.5-1.5 over Azerbaijan, India won 2.5-1.5 over Egypt, Israel\u00a0drew 2-2 with Ukraine.<br \/>\nThe battle between the Chinese and Russian teams caught most spectators&#8217; attention. Chinese board 2 player Wang Yue and board 3 Li Chao drew with old opponents Grischuk and Nepomniachtchi, Chinese board 1 player Wang Hao had some critical moments toward Russian superstar Sergey Karyakin. The opening was not quite well for Wang Hao and he couldn&#8217;t gain any advantage. Even worse, his h line pawn went too far and got caught by Karjakin. However, the Russian superstar couldn&#8217;t find an optimal attack strategy in time, panicked and missed several opportunities, then finally made the most deadly mistake&#8230; Ba6? Wang Hao grabbed the only chance to win, moved his queen to f7 to crash black&#8217;s defense immediately. The last game was from Chinese young talented player Yu YangYi, who held a tenacious defense toward Peter Svidler&#8217;s attack and sealed the tough victory for the Chinese team, to end the unbelievable 0-7 history in previous Olympic and World Cups.<\/p>\n<p>Leading the rank table, the Armenian team continued their hot-streak, had another victory over Hungary with the contribution of Sergei Movsesian. Unstoppable Armenia extended its score advantage to three points, followed by China, Ukraine, Russia and Hungary.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yinzhou Cup 2011 World Chess Team Championship, taking place in Ningbo, China, Jul. 15 to 27. continued with&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":115794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10641,30186,30185,30184],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}