European Team Championship Round 6

The identical happened a round previous in the women part eight draws on the two top boards of round 6 didn’t alter the top of the standing of the European Team contest in Novi Sad. The Russian ladies take over the lead from Georgia.

Perhaps it’s the hard agenda of nine rounds without a rest day, maybe other forces play a role. Fact is that in three matches of the top match Azerbaijan-Russia a fast draw was decided, just concerning when Tomashevsky-Mamedyarov looked very draws too. However, soon that match turned into a very attractive pawn ending which needs to be analyzed by endgame experts; in the ending it was a draw as well.

Four extra draws in Ukraine-Georgia kept the peak of the standings intact; Pantsulaia-Volokitin was hyper-sharp and fortunately in many other matches lots of thrilling games were played as well. What regarding Aronian-Shirov, where Black get three passed pawns in go back for a white bishop. At a few point one side just had to give a continuous somewhere, but what a huge fight. On the minor boards Armenia determined the match next to Spain in their favor 3-1.

Even lacking Magnus Carlsen, Norway’s panel one currently has the highest rating presentation in the competition Jon Ludvig Hammer scored 5/6 which is good for a 2873 stage of play. Today pairings contain the clashes Azerbaijan-Armenia, Russia-Georgia and Czech Republic-Ukraine. In the women part Georgia was apprehended 2-2 by Azerbaijan mostly thanks to Shakhriyar’s oldest sister Zeinab Mamedjarova, who beat Nana Dzagnidze on panel one.