Surgut Wins 8th Match at Asian Cities Team Championship

The final round is ahead.

The penultimate eighth round of the Asian Cities Chess Team Championship is completed in Khanty-Mansiysk.

The Surgut team defeated Sukhbaatar with a score of 4:0 thus winning an eighth match in a row.

Surgut captain Ilia Iljiushenok shared his impressions of his performance in the rounds played: “In terms of points, everything is excellent, but there are mistakes in games, so there is room for improvement. We had a key match in the third round with the team of Tehran (Iran), and after that the opponents are clearly weaker, so we are all gaining points. But despite this, fatigue growing, and matches are becoming more and more difficult.”

The Tehran men's team defeated Khanty-Mansiysk with a score of 3.5:0.5. Bogdan Perchinsky managed to draw with tournament rating favorite Bardiya Daneshvar.

With the same score, the Tula squad beat Colombo (Sri Lanka) and has promoted to the third place.

The women's team of Tehran crushed Baghdad (Iraq) with a score of 3:1, Moscow smashed Charikot (Nepal) with a clean score, Pavlodar (Kazakhstan) was stronger than Muscat (Oman) 4:0, and chess players from Al Quds (Palestine) defeated the athletes from Al Mahra (Yemen) 3:1.

The team of Penang (Malaysia) had a ‘bye’.

Before the last round, the Surgut team retains the lead with 16 match points scored. Tehran is 2 points behind. The teams of Tula (19 board points) and Colombo (15.5 board points) have 10 points each.

Round 9 pairings:

Surgut – Pavlodar 
Tehran (men) - Sukhbaatar
Colombo – Tehran (women)
Tula – Al Quds
Moscow – Muscat 
Charikot – Penang 
Al Mahra – Khanty-Mansiysk
Baghdad – ‘bye’

The final 9th round will begin at 11:00 a.m. local time (09:00 Moscow time).

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