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🏆 World Team Chess Championship (Women) (2017)

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Ju Wenjun, Zhao Xue, Aleksandra Goryachkina, Nana Dzagnidze, Alexandra Kosteniuk, Kateryna Alexandrovna Lagno, Valentina Gunina, Tingjie Lei, Dronavalli Harika, Anna Vitalyevna Zatonskih, Bela Khotenashvili, Tan Zhongyi, Nino Batsiashvili, Monika (Bobrowska) Socko, Olga Girya, Anna Ushenina, Lela Javakhishvili, Natalia Zhukova, Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi, Salome Melia, Inna Gaponenko, Qi Guo, Padmini Rout, Jolanta Zawadzka, Tania Sachdev, Gunay Mammadzada, Le Thao Nguyen Pham, Thi Kim Phung Vo, Eesha Karavade, Joanna Majdan-Gajewska, Karina Szczepkowska-Horowska, Nataliya Buksa, Hoang Thi Bao Tram, Iulija Osmak, Klaudia Kulon, Gulnar Mammadova, Sabina-Francesca Foisor, Zeinab Mamedjarova, Ulviyya Hasil Fataliyeva, Katerina Nemcova, Jennifer R Yu, Khanim Balajayeva, Thi Mai Hung Nguyen, Akshita Gorti, Phuong Hanh Luong, Khaled Mona, Shrook Wafa, Ayah Moaataz, Eman Elansary, Tasneem Ehab

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World Team Chess Championship (Women) (2017)

The 11th Women's World Team Chess Championship took place in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia 17th to 26th June 2017. Crosstable: http://chess-results.com/tnr289299...., and

                  01  02  03  04  05  06  07  08  09  10   MP  Pts
 1 RUSSIA         *   3   2½  3   3   3½  2   3   2   3½   16  25½ 
 2 CHINA          1   *   3½  2   2   3   3   2½  2   3    13  22 
 3 GEORGIA        1½   ½  *   2   2½  2   3   3   3   4    12  21½ 
 4 INDIA          1   2   2   *   1½  2½  2½  2½  3   3    12  20 
 5 UKRAINE        1   2   1½  2½  *   2   2½  3   2½  2½   12  19½ 
 6 POLAND          ½  1   2   1½  2   *   2   2½  3½  3½    9  18½ 
 7 UNITED STATES  2   1   1   1½  1½  2   *   2   2   3½    6  16½ 
 8 VIETNAM        1   1½  1   1½  1   1½  2   *   2½  4     5  16 
 9 AZERBAIJAN     2   2   1   1   1½   ½  2   1½  *   4     5  15½ 
10 EGYPT           ½  1   0   1   1½   ½  ½   0   0   *     0   5
Russia won with 16 match points (MP). Official site: http://ugra2017.fide.com/. Teams & players: http://ugra2017.fide.com/teams-wome....

Previous edition: Women's World Team Championship (2015). Next: World Team Chess Championship (Women) (2019). See also World Team Chess Championship (2017).

 page 1 of 8; games 1-25 of 180  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. A Zatonskih vs A Ushenina  ½-½702017World Team Chess Championship (Women)D14 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Exchange Variation
2. S Wafa vs Hoang Thi Bao Tram  0-1382017World Team Chess Championship (Women)B17 Caro-Kann, Steinitz Variation
3. Thi Kim Phung Vo vs Ayah Moaataz  1-0492017World Team Chess Championship (Women)D30 Queen's Gambit Declined
4. E Elansary vs Thi Mai Hung Nguyen  0-1252017World Team Chess Championship (Women)D00 Queen's Pawn Game
5. Phuong Hanh Luong vs Tasneem Ehab  1-0352017World Team Chess Championship (Women)A49 King's Indian, Fianchetto without c4
6. Kosteniuk vs Ju Wenjun 1-01042017World Team Chess Championship (Women)C77 Ruy Lopez
7. Tan Zhongyi vs Lagno 0-1472017World Team Chess Championship (Women)E81 King's Indian, Samisch
8. V Gunina vs Zhao Xue 1-0472017World Team Chess Championship (Women)B03 Alekhine's Defense
9. Tingjie Lei vs O Girya  1-0442017World Team Chess Championship (Women)B12 Caro-Kann Defense
10. U Fataliyeva vs J Majdan-Gajewska  0-1522017World Team Chess Championship (Women)B67 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack, 7...a6 Defense, 8...Bd7
11. K Kulon vs G Mammadova  1-0582017World Team Chess Championship (Women)A25 English
12. G Mammadzada vs K Szczepkowska-Horowska  ½-½532017World Team Chess Championship (Women)C91 Ruy Lopez, Closed
13. N Zhukova vs S Foisor  ½-½462017World Team Chess Championship (Women)D35 Queen's Gambit Declined
14. K Nemcova vs I Gaponenko  ½-½472017World Team Chess Championship (Women)A45 Queen's Pawn Game
15. I Osmak vs Jennifer Yu  1-0422017World Team Chess Championship (Women)D02 Queen's Pawn Game
16. D Harika vs N Dzagnidze  1-0722017World Team Chess Championship (Women)B90 Sicilian, Najdorf
17. L Javakhishvili vs E Karavade  ½-½482017World Team Chess Championship (Women)D45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
18. P Rout vs B Khotenashvili  ½-½522017World Team Chess Championship (Women)B12 Caro-Kann Defense
19. N Batsiashvili vs S Vijayalakshmi  1-0662017World Team Chess Championship (Women)D02 Queen's Pawn Game
20. M Socko vs Z Mamedjarova  1-0642017World Team Chess Championship (Women)C42 Petrov Defense
21. Tasneem Ehab vs U Fataliyeva  0-1572017World Team Chess Championship (Women)D02 Queen's Pawn Game
22. N Dzagnidze vs M Socko  1-0432017World Team Chess Championship (Women)A15 English
23. J Zawadzka vs B Khotenashvili  0-1442017World Team Chess Championship (Women)C47 Four Knights
24. N Batsiashvili vs K Kulon 0-1452017World Team Chess Championship (Women)E81 King's Indian, Samisch
25. J Majdan-Gajewska vs S Melia  1-0662017World Team Chess Championship (Women)B25 Sicilian, Closed
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Jun-19-17  nok: <CG has made the effort to correct an obvious (?) blunder: no Women's games?>

The games of the women who play the main event can be found here: World Team Chess Championship (2017). This seems to be a segregated side event.

Jun-20-17  Bruce Graham: Women? I sent in a correction - ignored.
Jun-20-17
Premium Chessgames Member		  whiteshark: CB R2 report: http://en.chessbase.com/post/fide-w...
Jun-20-17  Octavia: <segregated> sounds kind of sad. But as long as there aren't 50% in the top 100 it's fair to give women a chance to improve together!

Have you ever noticed how chess can attract women to look after aspiring kids (mainly boys), look after the catering, field arbiters etc? But when you count how many play chess that's not so good!

Jun-20-17
Premium Chessgames Member		  keypusher: < Octavia: <segregated> sounds kind of sad. But as long as there aren't 50% in the top 100 it's fair to give women a chance to improve together! Have you ever noticed how chess can attract women to look after aspiring kids (mainly boys), look after the catering, field arbiters etc? But when you count how many play chess that's not so good!>

Yes, I hate it when people do what they like, rather than what I like.

Jun-21-17  stst: In today's Tan v Gunay, the final position looks all White, but a closer look simplifies to K+N v K, and this is quite a dead end leading to stalemate, or, the sole K just wander around. Hence 1/2 each.... What a ??
Jun-21-17
Premium Chessgames Member		  whiteshark: R4: The women’s competition saw another success for <India>, as they overcame the team of <Poland>, rated identically. While this places them in third place, they are still a margin away from the two leaders <Russia and Ukraine.> <China> faltered once again, and were unable to overcome <Azerbaijan.>

http://en.chessbase.com/post/fide-w...

Jun-21-17
Premium Chessgames Member		  alexmagnus: But the existence of women's competitions is one of the reasons why there are so few women in the top 100! There is no motivation to improve upon reaching the "female top", as male top is far, far away. And male second/third tier gets less money than female top.
Jun-21-17
Premium Chessgames Member		  alexmagnus: As for "mainly boys", that's wrong. As I already pointed out numerous times, best pre-teen girls in chess are not worse than best boys the same age. Only after reaching the teenage years they start to drift apart.
Jun-21-17  nok: In my experience, people do what they're used to, more than what they like.
Jun-21-17
Premium Chessgames Member		  keypusher: <alexmagnus: But the existence of women's competitions is one of the reasons why there are so few women in the top 100! There is no motivation to improve upon reaching the "female top", as male top is far, far away. And male second/third tier gets less money than female top.>

I doubt that's any more true in chess than it is tennis. The presence of female-only prizes probably gets a somewhat greater number of women to compete in chess than otherwise would, but the financial rewards of chess are quite meager, for men and women both! You learn the game, and you are either one of those few who get infected by the virus, as Tal put it, or you are one of the great majority who don't. And if your infection is strong, you spend as much time and effort on chess as your your life allows -- sometimes more. Financial incentives have very little impact.

Even in a relatively rich sport like tennis, hardly anybody gets into it for the money.

Jun-21-17
Premium Chessgames Member		  keypusher: < alexmagnus: As for "mainly boys", that's wrong. As I already pointed out numerous times, best pre-teen girls in chess are not worse than best boys the same age. >

Are you saying there is an equal number of prepubescent girls and boys playing chess?

Jun-21-17  nok: <if your infection is strong, you spend as much time and effort on chess as your your life allows -- sometimes more. Financial incentives have very little impact.>

That's an idealistic view; I've seen many do the extra mile of work to get the FM title so they wouldn't pay entry fees.

Jun-21-17
Premium Chessgames Member		  keypusher: <nok: <if your infection is strong, you spend as much time and effort on chess as your your life allows -- sometimes more. Financial incentives have very little impact.> That's an idealistic view; I've seen many do the extra mile of work to get the FM title so they wouldn't pay entry fees.>

I think you and I define <idealistic> differently. Putting that aside, if you are right -- and I'm sure you're more plugged in to current competitive chess than I am -- (i) the phenomenon you describe affects existing chess players, rather than making new ones (ii) it would promote, rather than retard, female participation in competitive chess, because with a separate, lower standard, they could obtain an exemption more easily than men.

Jun-21-17  nok: Your points seem contradictory. If unequal rewards don't make new chess players, they can't increase female participation. They just set an expectation level.
Jun-21-17
Premium Chessgames Member		  keypusher: <nok: Your points seem contradictory. If unequal rewards don't make new chess players, they can't increase female participation. They just set an expectation level.>

Yeah, I don't think unequal rewards really affect participation levels. For the second point, I should have said, <To the extent there is any effect...>

Jun-22-17  dangerhump: Anyone know why Nazi, Tatev and Irina are missing from US team?
Jun-22-17
Premium Chessgames Member		  alexmagnus: <Are you saying there is an equal number of prepubescent girls and boys playing chess?>

Fewer, but with an equal top. Chess is a choice - and while boys choose it even if they are bad at it, girls are more likely to choose it if they are good at it. As for the top being equal, just look at the competitions at the respective age groups.

Jun-22-17
Premium Chessgames Member		  keypusher: < alexmagnus: <Are you saying there is an equal number of prepubescent girls and boys playing chess?> Fewer, but with an equal top. >

I've seen that claimed, but since so many claims of that sort turn out to be nonsense, I assume it isn't true.

Even if it is true -- at one time Judit Polgar had the distinction of being the highest-rated 12-year-old of all time. For all I know she still holds the record. But at higher ages the boys take all the top spots. Isn't it likely that Kasparov, Kramnik et al. just matured later, as boys are wont to do?

<Chess is a choice - and while boys choose it even if they are bad at it, girls are more likely to choose it if they are good at it. As for the top being equal, just look at the competitions at the respective age groups.>

Data?

Also, if boys are more likely to choose chess, and girls are less likely, why don't we respect their choices? Chess isn't law, or medicine, or business. It isn't a path to wealth, power, or prestige. Why do we care who plays it?

Jun-22-17
Premium Chessgames Member		  alexmagnus: Well, you brought an example of Polgar as one example of such "data" of pre-teen girls who are very good. Some other examples: Lagno (third best 13-year-old ever according to Chessmetrics), Humpy, Hou (when Hou became GM, she was the youngest one of the moment). Goryachkina (remember - when she was 14, many criticized her for playing in Girls U18 and not Boys U14, though she had medal chances in both).

Well, you can actually take most of the women's top list and look where they were at their 13th birthday. Most you will find surprisingly high given where they landed as adults.

In Germany U10 and U12 national championships are played without separation of genders (the prizes are separated, but they play in the same tournament), and it occured already many times that those were won by girls.

Jun-22-17
Premium Chessgames Member		  alexmagnus: <Lagno (third best 13-year-old ever according to Chessmetrics),>

Fifth best, sorry. Though I remember her being third or fourth - maybe Carlsen was included later than I saw that list. Number 1 is Polgar by the way

http://chessmetrics.com/cm/CM2/Sing...

Jun-22-17
Premium Chessgames Member		  alexmagnus: By the way, of 88 players on that Chessmetrics list at least 9 were girls. At least because I may have overlooked someone.
Jun-24-17  paavoh: The intellectual level of discussion seems better in this forum than in the Men's section ;-)
Jun-26-17  siamesedream: Congratulations to medalists.
Jul-04-17  sonia91: Russia won this event for the first time. Silver goes to China, bronze to 2015 winners Georgia.

https://chess24.com/en/read/news/fl...

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