{"id":18654,"date":"2020-03-10T13:55:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T13:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1090.fide.com\/?p=18654"},"modified":"2023-10-30T07:37:01","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T07:37:01","slug":"wstcc-2020-round-4-two-leaders-emerge-in-both-categories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wstcc-2020-round-4-two-leaders-emerge-in-both-categories\/","title":{"rendered":"WSTCC 2020 Round 4: Two leaders emerge in both categories"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The fight for the top position is getting more and more intense at the World Senior Team Chess Championship in Prague. Round 4 saw the leaders clash in both 50+ and 65+ categories.<\/p>

50+ category<\/strong><\/p>

Six teams came to Round 4 with 100% result, but after the dust settled, only two squads can boast of four victories in four matches. The defending champion team USA made short work of England 1 3-1, with\u00a0Alex Shabalov<\/strong>\u00a0winning his fourth game in a row (he has had a clean sore so far). Czech Republic 1 prevailed over Iceland thanks to the victory by\u00a0Michal Konopka<\/strong>\u00a0on the fourth board.<\/p>

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The match Lasker Schachstiftung GK vs. Slovakia was drawn \u2013 the teams exchanged blows on the first and fourth boards. Czech Republic 2 somewhat unexpectedly beat Yamal 2\u00bd – 1\u00bd. USA and Czech Republic 1 are leading the field and will face each other in Round 5.<\/p>

Standings after Round 4<\/strong>:<\/p>

1. USA \u2013 8
2. CZECH REPUBLIC 1 \u2013 8
3. LASKER SCHACHSTIFTUNG GK \u2013 7
4. SLOVAKIA \u2013 7
5. YAMAL \u2013 6
6. MOSCOW \u2013 6
7. CANADA \u2013 6
8. USA TOO \u2013 6
9. ENGLAND 1 \u2013 6
10. ISLAND \u2013 6<\/p>

65+ category<\/strong><\/p>

Similarly, there are only two leaders left in the older category. In Round 4 Russia crushed France 3\u00bd – \u00bd (only Anatoly Vaisser managed a draw on the first board); Germany 1 downed Czech Republic 1, whereas one of the leaders Israel suffered a painful defeat in the match vs. Schachfeunde Leipzig.<\/p>

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Russia and Germany 1 tops the standings both with a 100% score and will face off in Round 5.<\/p>

Standings after Round 4:<\/p>

1. RUSSIA \u2013 8
2. GERMANY 1 \u2013 8
3. SCHACHFREUNDE LEIPZIG \u2013 7
4. GERMANY 3 \u2013 6
5. GERMANY 2 \u2013 6
6. ISRAEL \u2013 6
7. CZECH REPUBLIC 1 \u2013 6
8. AUSTRIA 1 \u2013 6
9. EPPINGEN \u2013 6
10. HUNGARY \u2013 6<\/p>

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The fight for the top position is getting more and more intense at the World Senior Team Chess Championship in Prague. Round 4 saw the leaders clash in both 50+ and 65+ categories. 50+ category Six teams came to Round 4 with 100% result, but after the dust settled, only two squads can boast of four victories in four matches. The defending champion team USA made short work of England 1 3-1, with\u00a0Alex Shabalov\u00a0winning his fourth game in a row (he has had a clean sore so far). Czech Republic 1 prevailed over Iceland thanks to the victory by\u00a0Michal Konopka\u00a0on the fourth board. The match Lasker Schachstiftung GK vs. Slovakia was drawn \u2013 the teams exchanged blows on the first and fourth boards. Czech Republic 2 somewhat unexpectedly beat Yamal 2\u00bd – 1\u00bd. USA and Czech Republic 1 are leading the field and will face each other in Round 5. Standings after Round 4: 1. USA \u2013 82. CZECH REPUBLIC 1 \u2013 83. LASKER SCHACHSTIFTUNG GK \u2013 74. SLOVAKIA \u2013 75. YAMAL \u2013 66. MOSCOW \u2013 67. CANADA \u2013 68. USA TOO \u2013 69. ENGLAND 1 \u2013 610. ISLAND \u2013 6 65+ category Similarly, there are only two leaders left in the older category. In Round 4 Russia crushed France 3\u00bd – \u00bd (only Anatoly Vaisser managed a draw on the first board); Germany 1 downed Czech Republic 1, whereas one of the leaders Israel suffered a painful defeat in the match vs. Schachfeunde Leipzig. Russia and Germany 1 tops the standings both with a 100% score and will face off in Round 5. Standings after Round 4: 1. RUSSIA \u2013 82. GERMANY 1 \u2013 83. SCHACHFREUNDE LEIPZIG \u2013 74. GERMANY 3 \u2013 65. GERMANY 2 \u2013 66. ISRAEL \u2013 67. CZECH REPUBLIC 1 \u2013 68. AUSTRIA 1 \u2013 69. EPPINGEN \u2013 610. HUNGARY \u2013 6 Photo: Vladimir Jagr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[222,157],"regular":[],"sticky-post":[],"class_list":["post-18654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chess-news","tag-czechrepublic","tag-senior-chess"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18654"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18659,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18654\/revisions\/18659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18654"},{"taxonomy":"regular","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regular?post=18654"},{"taxonomy":"sticky-post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sticky-post?post=18654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}