Asian Team Championship Final

Asian Team Chess Championship 2009 held in Kolkata concluded this afternoon. Round 7 sees India A has another perfect score against lower rated Srilanka. Iran fight a rather hard team, India B but get a wins to secured their third position. Meanwhile Vietnam is in second position after they only need to play another lower rated Nepal. Indonesia team get a consolidation win over Yemen and stands in fourth position. Singapore must satifsy with 3.5-0.5 score against Bangladesh. The first board GM Wu Shaobin take a half point while all the rest Singaporeans failed to get another point. Terry Chua fight the last game with R vs R+P endgame against GM Murshed Niaz. The following are round 7 result for Men section:

Bo. 9 SRILANKA - 1 INDIA A 0 : 4
1.1 Hapuarachchi H L M 2019 - GM Sasikiran Krishnan 2664 0 - 1
1.2 Edirisinghe Dulan 2137 - GM Ganguly Surya Shekhar 2654 0 - 1
1.3 Kalugampitiya R S 2135 - GM Negi Parimarjan 2620 0 - 1
1.4 Wijesuriya G Luxman 2089 - GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J 2518 0 - 1
Bo. 3 IRAN - 4 INDIA B 3 : 1
2.1 GM Ghaem Maghami Ehsan 2603 - IM Adhiban B 2486 1 - 0
2.2 GM Moradiabadi Elshan 2560 - IM Satyapragyan Swayangsu 2480 ½ - ½
2.3 GM Mahjoob Morteza 2510 - IM Sengupta Deep 2488 1 - 0
2.4 IM Toufighi Homayoon 2454 - IM Himanshu Sharma 2469 ½ - ½
Bo. 2 VIETNAM - 10 NEPAL 4 : 0
3.1 GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son 2616 - Karmacharya P, Man 2015 1 - 0
3.2 GM Bui Vinh 2488 - Pandey Sajan 0 1 - 0
3.3 GM Dao Thien Hai 2524 - Shrestha Rajendra Prasad 1982 1 - 0
3.4 GM Nguyen Anh Dung 2447 - Shrestha Sujendra Prasad 2084 1 - 0
Bo. 6 BANGLADESH - 7 SINGAPORE 3½: ½
4.1 GM Rahman Ziaur 2545 - GM Wu Shaobin 2454 ½ - ½
4.2 GM Murshed Niaz 2409 - FM Chua Zheng Yuan Terry 2256 1 - 0
4.3 FM Moh. Abdul Malek 2290 - FM Lo Kin Mun Dominic 2174 1 - 0
4.4 Ahmed Mahtabuddin 2171 - Tan Weiliang 2168 1 - 0
Bo. 8 YEMEN - 5 INDONESIA ½ :3½
5.1 Abdullah Sonbul 0 - IM Purnama Tirta Chandra 2417 0 - 1
5.2 FM Fouad Mofleh 2199 - FM Novita Anjas 2340 0 - 1
5.3 FM Faraj Yahya 2280 - Kaisar Jenius Hakiki 2227 0 - 1
5.4 Al-Aqrabi Saleh 2201 - CM Farid Firman Syah 2249 ½ - ½

So the final standing represented very much to their seeding prediction but Indonesia manages to gets in fourth place while seed as no.5 and Srilanka in 8th position while expected to be in 9th. Final position:

1. (1) INDIA A................ 14 156,0 101,5
2. (2) VIETNAM............ 11 145,0 102,5
3. (3) IRAN..................... 11 103,0 94,5
4. (5) INDONESIA .........8 65,0 91,5
5. (4) INDIA B ................ 8 57,0 87,5
6. (6) BANGLADESH..... 8 56,0 84,0
7. (7) SINGAPORE......... 4 42,0 102,0
8. (9) SRILANKA ........... 3 12,0 96,5
9. (8) YEMEN................. 2 18,0 85,0
10. (10) NEPAL ...............1 12,5 87,0

Top Five Boys by point:
Name-Rating-Country-Points/Games-Percentage-Board
1. GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son 2616 VIE 6,0/7 85,7% 1
2. GM Sasikiran Krishnan 2664 INDIA A 5,5/6 91,7% 1
3. GM Negi Parimarjan 2620 INDIA A 5,5/6 91,7% 3
4. GM Ganguly Surya Shekhar 2654 IND A 5,0/6 83,3% 2
5. GM Bui Vinh 2488 VIE 5,0/6 83,3% 2

Women
Meanwhile Vietnam girls finished strongly in first place. Second place is India A who take a bye turn, since the number of girl teams is an odd 9 teams. Iran played a strong round to defeat nearest rival India B with 3-1.

A bit tragic for Indonesia but strong finish for Singapore as the later defeated their neighbour by 2.5-1.5. In this match, WGM Irene K. Sukandar gets a winning endgame in active Knight versus Black's Bishop who operated by WFM Jeslin Tay. But in another board the young Baiq Vina Lestari lost in time in unresolved position against WFM Liu Yang. WFM Dewi Citra lost to WFM Victoria Chan and Chelsie Monica Sihite drew to Christabel Neo.

WFM Liu Yang - Baiq Vina Lestari 1-0
34..Bd4+ final position, Black lost on time
computer give White a plus sign

Final position for Women section :
1. (3) VIETNAM ..................13 129,5 95,5
2. (1) INDIA A .....................10 120,5 83,0
3. (4) IRAN .......................... 9 118,5 80,5
4. (2) INDIA B ..................... 9 89,0 94,0
5. (6) SINGAPORE .............. 8 74,5 83,0
6. (7) BANGLADESH .......... 6 42,0 74,5
7. (5) INDONESIA................ 4 58,0 85,5
8. (8) SRILANKA .................. 3 12,0 80,5
9. (9) NEPAL ......................... 1 0,0 86,0

Against their seed prediction Vietnam is the big winner here. Singapore also finished strong while Indonesia and India B must satisfy to be two ranks lower than their seed.

Top Five Girls by point:
Name-Rating-Country-Points/Games-Percentage-Board
1. WGM Nguyen Thi Thanh An 2334 VIE 5,5/6 91,7% 2
2. WIM Pham Le Thao Nguyen 2295 VIE 5,5/7 78,6% 1
3. WGM Pourkashiyan Atousa 2306 IRAN 5,0/6 83,3% 1
4. IM Harika Dronavalli 2467 INDIA A 4,5/5 90,0% 1
5. IM Tania Sachdev 2399 INDIA A 4,5/5 90,0% 2


Men’s
1st Board : Gold Le Quang Liem (Vietnam)
2nd board : Gold: K Sasikiran (India)
3rd board : Gold: Surya Sekhar Ganguly (India)
4th Board : Gold : Parimarjan Negi (India )
5th board : Gold Nguyen Anh Dung (Vietnam )
Women’s
1st board Gold : D Harika (India )
2nd board Gold : Pardar Shadi (Iran )
3rd board Gold: Nguyen Thi Thanh An (Vietnam )
4th Board Gold : Nguyen Thi Mai Hung (Vietnam )
5th Board Gold: Hoang Thi Nhu Y (Vietnam )

Full result from chess result. Indonesian report at Potret Catur and Singapore report here.