The best I can come up with is the chessbase site with the pgn files for all the games. Copy and load into your favorite chess database. chessbase.com/news/2009/even … eamw09.pgn
Best, BL
I think it’s payback, recalling the recent Women’s World (individual) Championship in Russia where Hou Yifan was defeated in the final match by a Russian player in a way that was not entirely convincing to me. The player who defeated her there did not attend this Women’s Team tournament, thus avoiding the possibility of a rematch on first board against Hou on Chinese soil.
But it’s a very strong result for Russia in the team tournament, considering they did not have their normal first board.
In the future these events really should not be held in countries that have prospective winners. If that means they can’t use Chess City in Elista, or even Ekaterinburg, that’s exactly what it means.
There was mention in one of the linked articles of two suspicious games. I only found and went over this one - the one posted above. The offer of a draw at that point is disgraceful! Even with the opposite-colored Bishops, White easily has a won position - starting with a Rook that is well positioned to increase White’s advantage. I cannot believe that this won’t continue to get a lot of scrutiny (hopefully so).
I thought about this briefly as well. I didn’t notice the information in the database.
However, given the relative simplicity of the position (bB+R vs wB+R) - at least in terms of avoiding a game-losing blunder - and the fact that it was move 36 (assuming the first control was based on 40 moves), I don’t think it’s very likely that the clock induced White to offer the draw.
But if anybody else has this information, I agree that it would be interesting to know.