Two Thirds of Asian Cities Team Championship Played in Khanty-Mansiysk

Surgut retains leadership.

The sixth round of the Asian Cities Chess Team Championship has been completed at the Ugra Chess Academy.

The leader of the race, team Surgut, beat Penang (Malaysia) with a clean score.

At the second table, the Tehran men's team defeated Tula with a score of 3:1. Only Sina Movahed stumbled, losing to Daniil Manelyuk as Black on the first table.

The match between Moscow and Tehran (women) ended in a draw. In the Russian team, Dmitry Kirillov and Mikhail Kuznetsov scored victories; in the Iranian team, Melika Mohammadi and Anahita Zahedifar distinguished themselves.

Dmitry Kirillov spoke a little about his game: “The game developed very easily. I did not expect 1...e5 and the Petrov Defence as a whole. But it appeared on the board, I played according to old analyses that I didn’t even fully remember. But nevertheless, I very quickly succeeded in improving the position, and won pretty much without effort."

The Colombo team (Sri Lanka) won with a minimal score against Baghdad (Iraq). The decisive victory was the one scored by international master Ranindu Liyanage on the third board. The athlete noted that the game was not easy.

“I got an advantage in the opening, but he defended very well. I only managed to win in the endgame. At that point, the score in the match was 1.5:1.5, and that helped us win.”

The Khanty-Mansiysk team beat Pavlodar (Kazakhstan) with a score of 2.5:1.5. Bogdan Perchinsky and Dinis Sattarov brought success to their team.

Sukhbaatar (Mongolia) defeated Al Quds (Palestine) 2.5:1.5, and Muscat (Oman) won against Charikot (Nepal) with the same result.
 
Al Mahra team (Yemen) had a “bye”.

Round 7 pairings:

Surgut – Khanty-Mansiysk
Tehran (men) – Tehran (women)
Colombo – Moscow 
Penang – Tula 
Muscat – Sukbaatar 
Al Mahra – Baghdad 
Al Quds – Charikot
Pavlodar – “bye” 

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