Samarkand R6 (open): Uzbekistan beat India to take the sole lead

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Trending topics Uzbekistan lead on home soil, China and Armenia a match point behind

Uzbekistan reached the day of rest as the sole leaders of the Chess Olympiad after beating protecting champs India 2 1/2– 1 1/2 in among the most awaited matches of the competition.

The encounter united the winners of the last 2 Olympiads, in addition to 2 incredibly young groups. Uzbekistan’s earliest agents, Nodirbek Yakubboev and Shamsiddin Vokhidov, are both 24, while 4 of India’s 5 gamers are aged in between 20 and 23. Vidit Gujrathi, at 31, is the only “veteran” in the Indian team.

There was little to separate the groups for the majority of the match. 3 of the 4 video games stayed well balanced throughout and ended drawn, leaving the board-three encounter in between Nodirbek Yakubboev and Nihal Sarin to choose the outcome.

The critical clash in between Uzbekistan and India will start, with Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu on the leading board|Picture: Michal Walusza

Yakubboev capitalises on late mistake

Nihal, playing black, had in fact emerged from the middlegame with the more appealing position. Yakubboev had actually dedicated himself to maximizing his effort on the kingside versus the weakened black queen, however while brief on time he stopped working to discover the most precise extensions.

That permitted Nihal to take control of. The Indian then started playing rapidly, obviously attempting to keep the pressure on his challenger’s clock, and initially slipped up with 36 … Kxg5? and after that messed up with 37 … Nf5?At that minute he still had 29 minutes staying, compared to just 3 for Yakubboev.

White can now play the powerful 38. Ne6+ Rxe6 39. gxh4+with a found attack versus the queen on c7 (with the black knight on d6, this would not have actually been possible).

The resulting position left Yakubboev with a queen versus a rook and bishop in an employment opportunity, and the benefit showed simple to transform.

The win took Yakubboev to 4 1/2/ 5, making him Uzbekistan’s leading private scorer.

Given That Uzbekistan, India and Germany had actually gone into the round on 10/10 match points, and Germany were consequently beat by China, the hosts now stand alone on a best 12/12 heading into Tuesday’s day of rest.

Nihal Sarin can not think what has actually simply taken place|Image: Michal Walusza/ FIDE

The guy of the hour-Nodirbek Yakubboev|Image: Michal Walusza/ FIDE

China and Armenia keep up

China and Armenia both started the round one point behind the leaders and made the most of the direct clashes above them to move into joint 2nd on 11/12.

China beat Germany 3– 1, with Ding Liren beating Vincent Keymer and Xu Xiangyu beating Alexander Donchenko.

Ding transformed a somewhat remarkable endgame with rooks and opposite-coloured bishops, slowly increasing the pressure till Keymer might no longer hold the position.

Keymer would have kept great illustration opportunities with 34 … Rh7 here, as eliminating the white pawn on the h-file will extremely obstruct Ding’s course to triumph. Rather, his 34 … Rb7?! ended up being a bit passive.

Denting continued to make development and quickly discovered himself in an entirely winning position. On the last relocation before reaching the time control, he played the accurate 40. f5 to break through on the kingside.

40 … Bd7 41. h5! followed, and Keymer needed to resign the video game 10 relocations later on.

Xu’s win was more tactical in nature. From a Petroff Defence, he reached a middlegame in which his bishop set showed too effective versus Donchenko’s 2 knights as soon as the position started to streamline.

Vincent Keymer resigns the video game versus previous world champ Ding Liren, who has actually up until now scored 4 1/2/ 6 for China on board one|Picture: Michal Walusza/ FIDE

Armenia had a narrower course to success, edging Iran 2 1/2– 1 1/2. Gabriel Sargissian scored the only definitive point, beating Reza Mahdavi with black on board 4 after the Iranian gamer’s pieces ended up being overextended and lost coordination in the middlegame.

35 … Ne7 is the only relocation that keeps Black’s big benefit in this unconventional position. Sargissian played it rapidly and quickly disintegrated White’s lightweight assembly of penetrated pieces. By relocation 40, it was Black’s passer on the d-file which ended up being the lead character in the position.

Sargissian, who had little problem maximizing his benefit from here on, is now Armenia’s leading scorer with 4 1/2/ 5.

Significantly, Uzbekistan, China and Armenia – the 3 groups presently inhabiting the leading locations – have yet to lose a single specific video game after 6 rounds.

Gabriel Sargissian|Image: Michal Walusza/ FIDE

Eleven groups form the chasing group

Behind the frontrunners sits a big group of 11 groups on 10/12 match points. India and Germany dropped into that pack after their beats on Monday. They are signed up with by 4 other members of the initial leading 10 -the United States, the Netherlands, Azerbaijan and France – along with England, Türkiye, Greece, Bulgaria and Uzbekistan 2.

The United States beat Norway thanks to Hans Niemann’s triumph, while Azerbaijan beat Argentina with Aydin Suleymanli scoring the definitive point. England and France drew a hard-fought match, while Türkiye and Greece made more comfy development versus Switzerland and Indonesia respectively.

Bulgaria and Uzbekistan 2 were the 2 sides to join this group by scoring upset wins, as they beat Ukraine and Spain, respectively.

France v. England included wins for Marc ‘Andria Maurizzi over Gawain Maroroa Jones and for Michael Adams over Etienne Bacrot|Picture: Michal Walusza/ FIDE

Hans Niemann took advantage of a late mistake by Norway’s Frode Urkedal, and hence recovered from his round-five loss in the Americans’ match versus Germany – group captain John Donaldson congratules the 23-year-old on his accomplishment|Picture: Michal Walusza/ FIDE

Out of all the gamers in this group, Turkish prodigy Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus sticks out, as he has actually up until now scored 4 1/2/ 5 points versus strong opposition, with a 2924 competition efficiency score which extremely leaves him in 18^th location in the live scores list

On Monday, Erdogmus originated from behind to beat Switzerland’s Sebastian Bogner.

Black is much better here, and would keep the benefit with 51 … Nxe4. Bogner failed with 51 … Qb7??which remains in truth losing. Erdogmus, with less than a minute on the clock, discovered the refutation: 52. Rh8 (threatening to catch on h6) Rg5 53. Qd6 Qd7 54. Qf8

The significant pieces have actually penetrated Black’s kingisde with definitive impact! After 54 … Nh7 55. Qg8+ Kf6 56. Qxh7 there is no conserving Black’s position.

Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus|Picture: Michal Walusza/ FIDE

Israel surrender in the middle of Yom Kippur conflict

The Netherlands, on the other hand, got a 4– 0 success over Israel after the Israeli group surrendered all 4 boards due to the fact that of Yom Kippur, whose observance this year ranged from sundown on Sunday till after sunset on Monday.

Israel had actually currently played their round-five match versus Singapore on Sunday at an earlier time and in a various setting. For round 6, the Israeli delegation proposed playing the Netherlands either later Monday night or on Tuesday’s day of rest.

The Netherlands decreased those options and were granted the match success.

The Israeli Chess Federation later on released a letter from FIDE validating that changes to the group’s schedule had actually been gone over in order to accommodate Yom Kippur. The federation is thinking about more actions over the matter, arguing that it had actually anticipated plans to be made that would prevent a sporting drawback.

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Standings after round 6

Rk. SNo FED Group Group Games + = – TB1 TB2 TB3 TB4 1 3 UZB Uzbekistan A 6 6 0 0 12 141 19,5 46 2 4 CHN China A 6 5 1 0 11 138 18,5 48 3 10 ARM Armenia A 6 5 1 0 11 108 17 43 4 9 FRA France A 6 4 2 0 10 116,5 17,5 44 5 6 NED Netherlands A 6 5 0 1 10 114,5 16 45 6 14 TUR Turkiye A 6 5 0 1 10 114 17,5 44 7 2 IND India A 6 5 0 1 10 113 16 45 8 19 GRE Greece A 6 5 0 1 10 111 18 40 9 5 GER Germany A 6 5 0 1 10 108 16 47 10 11 ENG England A 6 4 2 0 10 106 16,5 43 11 28 BUL Bulgaria A 6 5 0 1 10 105,5 16,5 43 12 7 AZE Azerbaijan A 6 4 2 0 10 104 16,5 42 13 30 UZB Uzbekistan 2 A 6 5 0 1 10 99 16 40 14 1 U.S.A. United States of America A 6 5 0 1 10 99 16 38 15 18 IRI Iran A 6 4 1 1 9 116 18 43 16 23 ROU Romania A 6 3 3 0 9 114 17,5 43 17 20 CZE Czech Republic A 6 4 1 1 9 104,5 16,5 43 18 16 POL Poland A 6 4 1 1 9 101 17 41 19 38 SVK Slovakia A 6 4 1 1 9 100 17,5 38 20 39 BLR Belarus A 6 4 1 1 9 97 17,5 37 21 15 SRB Serbia A 6 4 1 1 9 97 15 44 22 27 AUT Austria A 6 4 1 1 9 96 16 40 23 37 LTU Lithuania A 6 4 1 1 9 95 17 39 24 36 SWE Sweden A 6 4 1 1 9 95 16,5 40 25 65 TKM Turkmenistan B 6 4 1 1 9 93 18 36 26 35 KAZ Kazakhstan A 6 4 1 1 9 92,5 17 38 27 32 AUS Australia A 6 4 1 1 9 76,5 15 36 28 8 HUN Hungary A 6 4 1 1 9 70,5 12 42 29 57 PHI Philippines B 6 4 0 2 8 102 18 40 30 13 ESP Spain A 6 4 0 2 8 101 16 43

… 205 groups

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