By Vijaya Kumar
 

Top seeded al ain team attained a comphrensive victory over philipines team Tagaytay Chess Club (PHI) by 3.5 to .05 with grandmaster sergey krayakin drawing against wesley so . impressive wins by jobava, li chao and efimenko zahar . Qi Yuan Club (China managed to outplay india club by 2.5 to 1.5 and now shares the lead with al ain with 8 match points. the two seeded teams will face each other in a crucial match that will decide the tournament. Tagaytay Chess Club put up a resourceful fight in their games but were eventually outclassed by superior technique in the endgame.

the match between China and India club was decided by wang hao against R R .Laxman. wang played a fine positional game and penerated the sixth rank to clinch the issue wang said " the position was tricky but my pair of bishops became active and i clinched the match"

Al Ain b Club , intchess Singapore and Uzbekistan are in second spot with 6 match points they managed to win against stronger teams . hisham al taher the team captain of the Al Ain team said "tomorrow is a crucial match and our players are in form

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