Text and photo: Joseph R . Castillo Argüelles. A historic performance endorsed the Cuban women's team in 39 Chess Olympiad ended today in the Russian city of Kanty-Mansiyks to settle in fourth place overall, leaving behind its performance Thessaloniki 1998 when took over eighth place.
At the same time gave a tremendous leap over the previous edition in Dresden 2008, at which time the seat is located in twenty-five. For the sake of informing them that their cumulative final was the same made by Georgia, but the latter playoff system were in the possession of the bronze medals. The Cubans won eight of the eleven groups that argued duels.
As additional lauro females is conditional on the third board best achieved by the WGM just Yaniet Marrero under its formidable performance of seven wins and a division point in the eight rounds in speaking, enforceable provision that performance corresponded to a ranking of 2511 that allowed him to relegate to second and third places, respectively, to the Georgian Salome Melia (2458) and the Latvian Ilze Berzina (2450).
is the first time in the history of these conflicts that catches a Cuban corona. I remind you that Oleiny Santiago Linares came close in Dresden 2008 by winning a silver medal at the fourth board, thanks to the sum of nine of ten possible points.
The prizes in the other boards were for Kosintseva Tatiana (RUS 1) in the first, Nadezhda Kosintseva (RUS 1) in the second, Inna Gaponenko (UCR) in the fourth and Mariya Muzychuk (UCR) among the alternates.
round bye in the many bowed to Croatia from 2.5 to 1.5 thanks to the victory in the third panel for Pineapple Sulennis WGM (2322) compared to the WIM Borka Franciskovic (2282), as well as tables on board one of the WIM Lisandra Ordaz (2359) with the WGM Valentina Gobulenko (2278), on the second board of the WIM Oleiny Linares (2338) with the WGM Mirjana Medic (2264) and the fourth board WGM Arribas Maritza with WIM Kristina Solic (2225).
The first two positions of the event went to Russian women 1 and China, in that order.
The men, meanwhile, repeated its previous location on the step at the end of twenty-three.
The final match against the United States ended 2.5 to 1.5 pro-American.
The GM Leinier Dominguez (2716), Yuniesky Quesada (2614) and Holden Hernandez (2563) on the boards first, third and fourth, in that order, were able tables to their respective opponents: GM Hikaru Nakamura (2733) , GM Alexander Onischuk (2668) GM and Robert Lee (2596).
tip the balance of the U.S. side undertook the GM Gata Kamsky (2705) murderer of his counterpart Lázaro Bruzón (2679) on the second board.
Our male cast won six matches, lost three and drawn two.
Leading were Ukraine, Russia, 1 and Israel, occupants in descending order of the outposts
winners of gold medals by panels were: 1 .- Vassily Ivanchuk (UCR), 2. - Emil Sutovsky (ISR), 3 .- Teterev Vitaly (BLR), 4 .- Sergey Karjakin (RUS 1) and entered the alternate Feller Sebastien (FRA).
