At the World Team Chess Championship, the Ukrainian national team started with a victory over the US team. The match ended with a score of 2.5:1.5 points.
Victories for the Ukrainian team were achieved by Vasyl Ivanchuk (over Oleksandr Onischuk) and Andriy Volokitin (over Alexander Goldin). Ruslan Ponomariov played a draw with black against Grigory Kaidanov. Pavlo Ulyanov, playing on board 4, lost to Ildar Ibragimov.
Today our team will play a match against the chess players of Armenia.