Surgut Team Wins Asian Cities Chess Team Championship
Tehran is second, while Tula is third.
The of Asian Cities Chess Team Championship finished in Khanty-Mansiysk.
The final 9th round was dramatic. In the match between the teams of Surgut and Pavlodar (Kazakhstan), Aleksei Pridorozhni confidently defeated Adil Tkachyov on the third table, but the positions of his teammates Ivan Bocharov and Nikolai Kabanov looked dangerous, and on the first board the game Iljiushenok – Malygin was relatively equal.
In the meanwhile, the men's team of Tehran (Iran) defeated Sukhbaatar (Mongolia) with a clean score and would have taken first place – if the Surgut team lost.
Eventually, Ilia Iljiushenok drew with Vladislav Malygin, Nikolai Kabanov achieved a draw in his game with Arystan Dosmukhambetov, so Ivan Bocharov’s loss to Asman Bayantas could no longer affect the outcome of the tournament.
A draw in the match with Pavlodar allowed Surgut to take clear first place in the tournament, with 17 match points. Tehran came second with 16 points.
The teams of Tula and Colombo scored 12 points each. In the final round, the Russians defeated Al Quds (Palestine) with a score of 4:0, and the Sri Lanka chess players beat the Tehran women's team with a minimal score.
A greater number of board points (23 versus 18) secured the third place for the Tula team.
Other results of the final round:
Moscow – Muscat (Oman) 3.5:0.5
Charikot (Nepal) – Penang (Malaysia) 0.5:3.5
Al Mahra (Yemen) – Khanty-Mansiysk 0.5:3.5
The team from Baghdad (Iraq) had a ‘bye’.
Final ranking of the teams:
1. Surgut - 17 match points (29.5 board points), 2. Tehran (men) - 16 (31), 3. Tula - 12 (23), 4. Colombo - 12 (18), 5. Moscow - 11 (21.5), 6. Tehran (women) - 9 (18.5), 7. Khanty-Mansiysk - 9 (18), 8. Penang - 9 (16), 9. Pavlodar - 8 (19), 10 Baghdad - 8 (16.5), 11. Sukhbaatar - 8 (16), 12. Al Quds - 5 (12.5), 13. Muscat - 4 (10.5), 14. Charikot - 4 (10.5), 15. Al Mahra - 3 (9.5).
The best results on the boards were shown by: 1st board – Ilia Iljiushenok (Surgut), 2nd board – Ivan Bocharov (Surgut), 3rd board – Masoud Mosadeghpour (Tehran, men), 4th board – Abtin Atakhan (Tehran, men), 5th board – Seyed Kian Poormosavi (Tehran, men).
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