The sixth round of the Asian Cities Team Championship has been completed at the Ugra Chess Academy.
The leader of the race, the Surgut team, defeated Penang (Malaysia) with a clean score.
At the second table, the Tehran men’s team defeated Tula with a score of 3:1. Only Sina Movahed stumbled, losing to Daniil Manelyuk with black on the first table.
Dmitry Kirillov spoke a little about his game: “The game developed very easily. I did not expect 1…e5 and the Russian game as a whole. But it appeared on the board, I played according to old analyzes that I didn’t even fully remember. But nevertheless less very quickly got well and, one might say, won without effort.”
The Colombo team (Sri Lanka) won against Baghdad (Iraq) with a minimal score. The decisive victory was the victory of international master Ranindu Llanage on the third board. The athlete noted that the game was not easy.
“I got the advantage from the opening, but he defended very well. I only managed to win in the end. Then the score in the match was 1.5:1.5, so thanks to this we were able to win.”
The Khanty-Mansiysk team beat Pavlodar (Kazakhstan) with a score of 2.5:1.5. Bogdan Perchinsky and Dinis Sattarov brought success to the team.
Sukhbaatar (Mongolia) defeated Al-Quds (Palestine) 2.5:1.5, and Muscat (Oman) defeated Charikot (Nepal) with the same result.
The day off was the El Mahra team (Yemen).
Pairs of the 7th round:
Surgut – Khanty-Mansiysk
Tehran (men) – Tehran (women)
Colombo – Moscow
Penang – Tula
Muscat – Sukhbaatar
El Mahra – Baghdad
Al-Quds – Charikot
Day off – Pavlodar