Thursday, November 10, 2005

Armenia Gives Chance to Russia

10.11.2005
PanARMENIAN.Net

In the 8th round of the team World Chess Championship held in Beer Sheva, Armenian team beat the championship leader, China male team, 2.5:1.5. It was the first defeat of the latter team. Thus, our team did not lose the third position and gave a chance to the Russian team to compete for the gold with the Chinese.
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To win the gold Russia has to defeat the Chinese team with a maximal score 4:0 or 3.5:0.5. Armenia will compete with the Cuban team. [...].

The tournament table for the 8th tour: 1. China (male) – 21, 2. Russia – 18.5, 3. Armenia – 16.5, 4. Ukraine – 15, 5. US – 14, 6. Israel – 13.7, 7. Georgia – 12, 8. Cuba – 11, 9. China (female) – 7.

Note: Above are excerpts from the article. The full article appears here. Clarifications and comments by me are contained in {}. Deletions are marked by [...]. The bold emphasis is mine.

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