The Draw In Everyone's Favour

In the second round of Women's World Team Championship that takes place in Mardin, Turkey Ukraine plays against Russia, while Georgian team has already defeated Armenia 2.5 - 1.5. 

The world team championship started today in Antalya, Turkey. Ten teams compete in a round-robin competition: Russia, Armenia, Ukraine, China, USA, Netherlands, Germany, Azerbaijan, Turkey and Egypt.

Favourites to face each other in Round 1: Russia - Armenia, Ukraine - USA.
Таble, schedule, results, other information

The 4th round games of Russia - China match have started in St. Petersburg at 15:00 MSK Time. The overall match score at the moment is equal. You follow the games live. 

As previously advised, the opening ceremony and draw for the women's world championship took place today in Chengdu.

Today FIDE has published the full list of participating teams which made it clear Hou Yifan won't play at the championship. Let us remind you, Tatiana and Nadezhda Kosintseva refused playing for the Russian team. Thus, Georgian team becomes top-seed, Russia is second, Ukraine - 3rd, while China is fourth with Ju Wenjun on Board 1.

The official website of the European Team Championship which will be held from October 7-18 in Warsaw, Poland published the composition of the participating teams. Russia will be represented by GMs Alexander Grischuk, Peter Svidler, Alexander Morozevich, Evgeny Tomashevsky, Dmitry Andreikin. The second-ranked team is Armenia which is traditionally headed by Levon Aronian.

It was clear with the Ukrainian team - the draw in the last round was enough for it to take gold, so we can only congratulate the team with this success.

While the official website of the Women's World Team Champion hasn't published any individual results yet, we offer you an unofficial list of ten individual performances of the tournament: