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Russians remain chess kings
MANILA. June 26: From the first gambit to the last check mate of the 30th World Chess Olympiad
in Manila, Russia proved they are still kings and everyone else mere pawns on the international chess board, reports Reuter.
Despite the breakup of the Soviet Union and the fielding of a team of moderate stature — with the exception of world champion Oarri Kasparov — the Russians demoralised a record 1 12-nation field by thoroughly dominating play.
"We could have won with a bigger (margin),' declared Grandmaster Alexander Khallf-man.
"I predicted several months ago that the Russian team will get the gold medal and we did it before the last round," said a happy Kasparov, who had dourly ignored admirers and reporters during the competition.
The Russians lost only four out of their 56 games in the Olympiad, all by 24-year-old Grandmaster Alexei Dreev. They clinched the title with one round to spare by taking an unbeatable 4.5 point lead over their closest rivals.
The Russians eventually finished with 39 points, four ahead of runnersup Uzbekistan.
Kasparov led the way, winning seven of his 10 games — Including decisive victories over American Gata Kamsky and Ukrainian Vassily Ivanchuk — to clinch the Board One gold medal.
"Kasparov was in top shape," declared Russian team captain Yuri Razuvaycv.
But the decisive factor was the play of lower board members like Vladimir Kramnik, who scored 8.5 out of a possible nine points against his opponents.
"Our secret weapon was Kramnik," said Razuvaycv, referring to the team's youngest player who won his first six games and was promoted to Grandmaster status midway through the 14 round tourna-
ment.
Kramnik, who celebrated his 17th birthday on Thursday, "was winning games easily, especially with the black pieces,'' Razuvaycv said
Khallfman and Sergei Dolmatov also turned into dependable players who did not lose during the competition. Dolmatov provided the clincher by snatching a win
from a losing position in the match against Israel.
The expected challenge from co-favouritcs England disappeared in a quagmire of bad results. The English team tied for eighth place with Georgia and Ukraine, six points behind Russia.
"1 expected England to be a very strong opponent but 1 don't know what happened with them." said Kasparov. "I also expected more from the team from Ukraine."
"We just played badly," English team captain Michael Slean told reporters.
The Russians met every challenge, routing Switzerland. Croatia. Latvia. Uzbekistan. Bosnia-Herzegovina, the United States, the Netherlands. Georgia and Iceland.
"I hope wc can defend the gold medal In two years at the next Olympiad in Greece," Kasparov said.
MEN:
39 Russia
35 Uzbekistan
34.5 Armenia
34 United States
33.5 Latvia, Iceland. Croatia
33 Georgia, Ukraine, England
32.5 Israel. Bosnia Hcrz.cgovina. Germany, Czechoslovakia.
Switzerland, China
32 Hungry. Sweden, Bulgaria. Colombia.
31.5
31 Netherlands, Lithuania, Estonia, Peru. France, Brazil
30.5 Italy, Turkmenistan. Philippines A
30 Poland. Norway,
Argentina, Moldova, Romania, Turkey
29.5 Kyrgyzstan. Greece. Indonesia, Spain, Philippines C.
Portugal, Philippines B 29 Kazakhstan. Australia, Austria
28.5 Denmark. Finland. Bclgiu m, Mexico, Singapore. Vietnam, Canada.
WOMEN:
30.5 Georgia
29 Ukraine
28.5 China
26.5 Hungary
26 Russia
25 Romania, Azerbaijan
24.5 Kazakhstan. United States
24 Czechoslovakia, Estonia. Latvia
23.5 Poland, Bulgaria
23 Kyrgyzstan. Lithuania. Moldova
22.5 Indonesia, Switzerland, Greece. Turkmenistan
22 England, Mongolia. India. Israel. Slovenia. Bangladesh
21.5 Netherlands.
Argentina, Croatia. Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Armenta. Sweden. Vietnam, Brazil
21 Germany, Norway. Australia. Philippines A
20 Austria, Spain. Scotland. Venezuela
19.5 Finland. Canada. France, Malaysia. Turkey. Portugal. Italy, Philippines B