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Campionato Europeo per Nazioni

 Campionato Europeo per Nazioni

Bulgaria-Italia 1.5-2.5! Femminile: Armenia-Italia 2.5-1.5

2° t.: Olanda-Italia LIVE h.15.00; Femm: Italia-Norvegia

La 17^ edizione del Campionato Europeo per Nazioni si disputa a Novi Sad in Serbia dal 22 al 30 ottobre.
Questa la TopTen delle squadre partecipanti:

1. Russia (RUS 2740)

1 GM Svidler Peter 2741
2 GM Morozevich Alexander 2750
3 GM Jakovenko Dmitry 2742
4 GM Alekseev Evgeny 2725
5 GM Tomashevsky Evgeny 2688


Alexander Morozevich

2. Azerbaijan (AZE 2721)

1 GM Radjabov Teimour 2757
2 GM Gashimov Vugar 2740
3 GM Guseinov Gadir 2667
4 GM Mamedyarov Shakhriyar 2721 
5 GM Mamedov Rauf 2626


Teimour Radjabov

3. Armenia (ARM 2703)

1 GM Aronian Levon 2773
2 GM Akopian Vladimir 2698
3 GM Sargissian Gabriel 2678
4 GM Pashikian Arman 2663
5 GM Petrosian Tigran L 2602


Levon Aronian

4. Bulgaria (BUL 2673)

1 GM Topalov Veselin 2813
2 GM Cheparinov Ivan 2667
3 GM Delchev Aleksander 2635
4 GM Iotov Valentin 2578
5 GM Bojkov Dejan 2528


Veselin Topalov

5. Ukraine (UKR 2670)

1 GM Eljanov Pavel 2717
2 GM Volokitin Andrei 2681
3 GM Efimenko Zahar 2654
4 GM Drozdovskij Yuri 2627
5 GM Kryvoruchko Yuriy 2612


Pavel Eljanov

6. Israel (ISR 2663)

1 GM Sutovsky Emil 2676
2 GM Roiz Michael 2658
3 GM Mikhalevski Victor 2625
4 GM Postny Evgeny 2651
5 GM Avrukh Boris 2668


Emil Sutovsky

7. Germany (GER 2658)

1 GM Naiditsch Arkadij 2685
2 GM Meier Georg 2664
3 GM Fridman Daniel 2661
4 GM Gustafsson Jan 2622
5 GM Khenkin Igor 2613


Arkadij Naiditsch

8. Spain (ESP 2647)

1 GM Shirov Alexei 2730
2 GM Vallejo Pons Francisco 2696
3 GM Illescas Cordoba Miguel 2591
4 GM Lopez Martinez Josep Manuel 2570
5 GM Salgado Lopez Ivan 2555


Alexei Shirov

9. France (FRA 2641)

1 GM Bacrot Etienne 2709
2 GM Fressinet Laurent 2658
3 GM Edouard Romain 2620
4 GM Cornette Matthieu 2577
5 GM Feller Sebastien 2570


Etienne Bacrot

10. Hungary (HUN 2641)

1 GM Almasi Zoltan 2685
2 GM Berkes Ferenc 2663
3 GM Balogh Csaba 2620
4 GM Gyimesi Zoltan 2594
5 GM Ruck Robert 2548


Zoltan Almasi

Gli Azzurri, Capitano Carlos Garcia Palermo:

23. Italy (ITA 2541)

1 GM Caruana Fabiano 2662
2 GM Godena Michele 2530
3 IM Rombaldoni Denis 2469
4 IM D'amore Carlo 2489
5 IM Shytaj Luca 2481


Michele Godena

38 le Federazioni partecipanti.


I grandi assenti

In una competizione a squadre di questo livello ci sono sempre assenti importanti, ma quest'anno il numero di giocatori di qualità che non hanno potuto o voluto partecipare è veramente elevato. Una breve carrellata.

Naturalmente salta subito all'occhio l'assenza di Carlsen (Norvegia) e di Kramnik (Russia), ma anche la mancanza di Leko (Ungheria), Ivanchuk (Ucraina) e Gelfand (Israele) sono di estremo rilievo. Ponomariov (Ucraina), Grischuk (Russia), Vachier-Lagrave (Francia) sono altri Over2700 che hanno declinato l'invito (Vachier-Lagrave però è impegnato nel Campionato del Mondo Under20 in Argentina). Manca proprio la squadra della Slovacchia (e quindi di Movsesian), dell'Uzbekistan (e quindi di Kasimdzhanov) e della Svezia. Short non è presente per i colori dell'Inghilterra, ma è da diverse edizioni che non partecipa all'Europeo per Nazioni.



Si disputa in contemporanea la versione al Femminile del Campionato, che è giunto all'8^ edizione.

Il probabile podio del Femminile:

1. Russia (RUS 2500)

1 GM Kosteniuk Alexandra 2516
2 IM Kosintseva Tatiana 2536
3 IM Kosintseva Nadezhda 2493
4 IM Romanko Marina 2453
5 WFM Gunina Valentina 2437 



Alexandra Kostenjuk

2. Georgia (GEO 2474)

1 GM Dzagnidze Nana 2535
2 IM Javakhishvili Lela 2472
3 IM Khukhashvili Sopiko 2451
4 IM Khurtsidze Nino 2420
5 IM Khotenashvili Bela 2438

3. Ukraine (UKR 2463)

1 GM Lahno Kateryna 2483
2 WGM Zhukova Natalia 2457
3 IM Ushenina Anna 2474
4 IM Gaponenko Inna 2438
5 WGM Zdebskaja Natalia 2410


Le Azzurre, Capitano Fabio Bruno:

19. Italy (ITA 2244)

1 IM Sedina Elena 2335
2 IM Zimina Olga 2319
3 WFM Brunello Marina 2162
4 WFM Ambrosi Eleonora 2159
5 WFM Chierici Marianna 2053


Eleonora Ambrosi
28 le Federazioni partecipanti al Campionato Femminile.
Si gioca tutti i giorni dalle ore 15.00, tranne l'ultimo turno previsto alle 13.00.
Cadenza di gioco: 90' x 40 mosse + 30' per concludere, sempre con 30" di abbuono a mossa.

Premi:

- Premi di squadra:

MEN TEAMS
1st place 10.000 Euro
2nd place 7.500 Euro
3rd place 5.500 Euro

WOMEN TEAMS
1st place 7.000 Euro
2nd place 5.000 Euro
3rd place 3.000 Euro

- Migliori scacchiere:

MEN
1st place 1.000 Euro
2nd place 700 Euro
3rd place 500 Euro

WOMEN
1st place 1.000 Euro
2nd place 700 Euro
3rd place 500 Euro

Foto dal sito ufficiale


Un esordio col botto dell'Italia: battuta la Bulgaria!


Nonostante la sconfitta, un buon esordio anche per l'Italia Femminile,
battuta di misura dalla forte Armenia


Occhio a questa squadra: dopo lo scivolone della Russia al primo turno
diventa ancor di più candidata alla vittoria finale


La sede di gioco,
non particolarmente elegante ma, si spera, funzionale

La precedente edizione si è giocata sull'isola di Creta nel 2007. Dominio delle squadre russe sia nell'Assoluto che nel Femminile, con in particolare una prestazione "monstre" di Svidler (performance 2989!); secondo e terzo posto per Armenia e Azerbaigian, il podio più probabile anche per l'edizione 2009. Per gli Azzurri nel 2007 un 29° posto nell'edizione assoluta, che aveva confermato il "ranking" iniziale. Non aveva partecipato la squadra femminile.



Lo stemma di
Novi Sad


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2009-10-22T21:50:00+01:00
 
 
 
Campionato Europeo per Squadre di Club 2009
Inizia la Coppa dei Campioni degli scacchi!

La 25^ edizione del Campionato Europeo per Squadre di Club (14^ nella versione al femminile) si svolge dal 4 al 10 ottobre a Ohrid (Ocrida), Macedonia. Prevista la partecipazione di 65 squadre (54 nell?Open, 11 nel Femminile), circa 420 tra giocatrici e giocatori, di cui 18 Over2700 e 79 Over2600. Dunque competizione di livello stratosferico (seconda solo alle Olimpiadi, ma senz'altro superiore al Campionato Europeo per Nazioni, visto che nel caso dell'ECC le squadre si possono avvalere di giocatori di prima grandezza non europei). I numeri sono però in netta flessione rispetto all?edizione 2008 di Halkidiki in Grecia, dove le squadre erano 82 e i giocatori più di 600. Con tutta probabilità sono le difficoltà economiche e il minor coinvolgimento di molti sponsor all?origine di questa defezione. L?Italia non è rappresentata: ricordiamo che la squadra Campione d?Italia in carica è Obiettivo Risarcimento di Padova; anche Pesaro, seconda classificata, avrebbe avuto il diritto di partecipare all?ECC 2009. Kiril Georgiev che aveva rappresentato la prima scacchiera di Obiettivo Risarcimento gioca ora per l?Husek di Vienna; Fabiano Caruana, prima scacchiera di Chieti, gioca per la fortissima ShSm-64 di Mosca.

Queste le regole di partecipazione:

- Possono partecipare due squadre per ogni Federazione Nazionale europea in cui venga organizzato il Campionato a Squadre Nazionale
- Una squadra per ogni FN in cui non venga organizzato tale Campionato
- Ammessa d?ufficio la squadra detentrice del titolo: Ural
- La nazione organizzatrice ha diritto a schierare una o due squadre addizionali
- Ciascuna delle FN che è piazzata nei primi cinque posti del ranking FIDE per nazioni ha diritto ad una squadra addizionale (per il 2009 Russia , Repubblica Ceca, Armenia, Bosnia e Germania)
- Le FN che hanno organizzato un campionato a squadre con la partecipazione di almeno 20 GM hanno diritto ad una terza squadra
- Ciascuna squadra è formata da sei titolari più due eventuali riserve (4+1 nel Femminile)

Ci sono almeno dieci squadre che possono ambire al titolo:

RUS 1. Economist-SGSEU-1 Saratov (Media Elo: 2703)
1 GM Alekseev Evgeny 2725 RUS
2 GM Tomashevsky Evgeny 2688 RUS
3 GM Andreikin Dmitry 2659 RUS
4 GM Ni Hua 2692 CHN
5 GM Bu Xiangzhi 2702 CHN
6 GM Eljanov Pavel 2717 UKR
7 GM Moiseenko Alexander 2694 UKR
8 GM Roiz Michael 2658 ISR


Evgeny Alekseev

RUS 2. Ural Svedrdlovskaya (2696)
1 GM Grischuk Alexander 2733 RUS
2 GM Shirov Alexei 2730 ESP
3 GM Malakhov Vladimir 2715 RUS
4 GM Rublevsky Sergei 2703 RUS
5 GM Dreev Alexey 2659 RUS
6 GM Bareev Evgeny 2633 RUS
7 GM Rashkovsky Nukhim N 2519 RUS


Alexander Grischuk

RUS 3. ShSm-64 Moscow (2692)
1??? GM??? Gelfand Boris??? 2756??? ISR???
2??? GM??? Karjakin Sergey??? 2722??? UKR???
3??? GM??? Caruana Fabiano??? 2662??? ITA???
4??? GM??? Riazantsev Alexander??? 2646??? RUS???
5??? GM??? Savchenko Boris??? 2638??? RUS???
6??? GM??? Najer Evgeniy??? 2681??? RUS???
7??? GM??? Nepomniachtchi Ian??? 2632??? RUS???
8??? GM??? Grachev Boris??? 2684??? RUS

Sergey Karjakin

GER 4. OSG Baden-Baden (2691)
1??? GM??? Movsesian Sergei??? 2711??? SVK???
2??? GM??? Bacrot Etienne??? 2709??? FRA???
3??? GM??? Vallejo Pons Francisco??? 2696??? ESP???
4??? GM??? Naiditsch Arkadij??? 2685??? GER???
5??? GM??? Adams Michael??? 2682??? ENG???
6??? GM??? Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter??? 2664??? ROU???
7??? GM??? Schlosser Philipp??? 2555??? GER


Etienne Bacrot

ISR 5. Ashdod Illit Chess Club (2682)
1 GM Ivanchuk Vassily 2756 UKR
2 GM Gashimov Vugar 2740 AZE
3 GM Sutovsky Emil 2676 ISR
4 GM Avrukh Boris 2668 ISR
5 GM Smirin Ilia 2648 ISR
6 GM Golod Vitali 2602 ISR
7 GM Kogan Artur 2522 ISR


Vassily Ivanchuk

RUS 6. Tomsk-400 (2678)
1??? GM??? Motylev Alexander??? 2710??? RUS???
2??? GM??? Tiviakov Sergei??? 2670??? NED???
3??? GM??? Bologan Viktor??? 2688??? MDA???
4??? GM??? Timofeev Artyom??? 2668??? RUS???
5??? GM??? Tkachiev Vladislav??? 2669??? FRA???
6??? GM??? Inarkiev Ernesto??? 2664??? RUS???
7??? GM??? Khismatullin Denis??? 2614??? RUS???
8??? GM??? Amonatov Farrukh??? 2643??? TJK


Alexander Motylev
?
ARM 7. Mika Yerevan (2671)
1 GM Aronian Levon 2773 ARM
2 GM Akopian Vladimir 2698 ARM
3 GM Sargissian Gabriel 2678 ARM
4 GM Pashikian Arman 2663 ARM?
5 GM Andriasian Zaven 2612 ARM
6 GM Petrosian Tigran L 2602 ARM


Levon Aronian

RUS 8. SPbChFed Sankt-Peterburg (2655)
1??? GM??? Svidler Peter??? 2741??? RUS???
2??? GM??? Vitiugov Nikita??? 2681??? RUS???
3??? GM??? Sakaev Konstantin??? 2625??? RUS???
4??? GM??? Zvjaginsev Vadim??? 2635??? RUS???
5??? GM??? Yemelin Vasily??? 2570??? RUS???
6??? GM??? Efimenko Zahar??? 2654??? UKR???
7??? GM??? Turov Maxim??? 2595??? RUS


Peter Svidler

UKR 9. PVK - Kievchess (2651)
1 GM Onischuk Alexander 2699 USA
2 GM Miroshnichenko Evgenij 2690 UKR
3 GM Areshchenko Alexander 2667 UKR
4 GM Beliavsky Alexander G 2656 SLO
5 GM Baklan Vladimir 2646 UKR
6 GM Vysochin Spartak 2550 UKR


Alexander Onischuk

MKD 10. Alkaloid Skopje (2650)
1 GM Mamedyarov Shakhriyar 2721 AZE
2 GM Kamsky Gata 2692 USA
3 GM Volokitin Andrei 2681 UKR
4 GM Guseinov Gadir 2667 AZE
5 GM Mamedov Rauf 2626 AZE
6 GM Nedev Trajko 2511 MKD
7 GM Stanojoski Zvonko 2492 MKD
8 IM Colovic Aleksandar 2441 MKD


Shakhriyar Mamedyarov

Svolgimento del torneo:

- Previsti sette turni di gioco, con cadenza 90? x 40 mosse + 30? per concludere, sempre con 30? d?incremento a mossa.
- Tutti i turni vengono disputati con inizio alle ore 15.
- In vigore la regola che chi non è presente alla scacchiera all?orario d?inizio del turno perde automaticamente la partita.
- Criteri di spareggio:
Tie Break1: punti-squadra (2 punti per ogni match vinto, 1 per il pareggio, 0 per la sconfitta)
Tie Break2: punti individuali + 1 punto per ogni match
Tie Break3: Buchholz (somma dei punti-squadra degli avversari)

Premi: oltre ai trofei alle medaglie di rito, 11.000 euro andranno alla squadra campione; previsti premi per le migliori scacchiere, a partire dalla prima, 700 euro.

Campioni in carica i russi dell?Ural
Gli articoli di Scacchierando per l?edizione 2008:
http://www.scacchierando.net/dblog/articolo.asp?id=1157
http://www.scacchierando.net/dblog/articolo.asp?id=1163
http://www.scacchierando.net/dblog/articolo.asp?id=1169


Nel contempo si disputa il 14? Campionato Europeo Femminile per Squadre di Club. Anche qui l?Italia non è rappresentata, la squadra Campione d?Italia in carica è Dorico Ancona.

Ecco la squadra favorita dell?ECC Femminile (e Campione in carica) con la principale antagonista:

1. Cercle d'Echecs Monte Carlo (Media-Elo 2531)
1 GM Koneru Humpy 2595 IND
2 GM Kosteniuk Alexandra 2516 RUS
3 GM Cramling Pia 2535 SWE
4 GM Socko Monika 2476 POL
5 IM Skripchenko Almira 2448 FRA


Koneru Humpy
?
2. Spartak Vidnoe (2510)
1 IM Kosintseva Tatiana 2536 RUS
2 GM Stefanova Antoaneta 2527 BUL
3 IM Kosintseva Nadezhda 2493 RUS
4 GM Lahno Kateryna 2483 UKR
5 IM Ovod Evgenija 2447 RUS


Tatiana Kosintseva

Tabella riassuntiva degli ultimi ECC disputati, con indicazione di sede, anno, squadra campione, tipo di torneo (S7: Svizzero a 7 turni), n? scacchiere x squadra, n? squadre partecipanti, totale giocatori partecipanti, totale partite giocate:





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Ocrida è uno degli insediamenti urbani più antichi in Europa. Il centro culturale di Ocrida è ritenuto il luogo da dove ha avuto origine l'alfabeto cirillico.






Veduta di Ohrid


con 48 scacchiere in diretta online!

 
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2009-10-05T18:00:00+01:00
 
 
 
European Club Cup 2009, diretta II turno
II turno: Sargissian - Caruana 1-0


Dal 4 al 10 ottobre si svolge, in Ohrid (Ocrida, Macedonia), la 25^ edizione del Campionato Europeo per Squadre di Club che vede tra i protagonisti il nostro Fabiano Caruana. Scacchierando allestirà, quando la partita del nostro portacolori verrà trasmessa in diretta, un articolo di rimando al sito ufficiale nel quale i lettori potranno seguire e commentare l'andamento dell'incontro.

Nel turno odierno Fabiano (secondo nero consecutivo) affonterà Sargissian (2678), terza scacchiera del Mika Yeravan.

GM Sargissian, Gabriel (ARM, 2678) - GM Caruana, Fabiano (ITA, 2662) [Megalovic]

1. d4 Cf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 b5 4. cxb5 a6 5. bxa6 g6 6. Cc3 Axa6 7. Cf3 d6 8. e4 Axf1 9. Rxf1 Cbd7 10. g3 Ag7 11. Rg2 0-0 12. h3 Da5 13. Te1 Tfb8 14. e5 dxe5 15. Cxe5 Cxe5 16. Txe5 Tb7 Caruna è ancora nella preparazione casalinga, visto che ha utilizzato solo l'incremento. Sargissian ha riflettuto per 40' in più 17. De2 Db6 18. a4 Rf8 19. Ta3 Ce8 20. Te3 Ah6? [Cd6] 21. Te6! fxe6 22. Axh6+ Rg8 23. Tb3! il nero deve cedere la torre per non prendere il matto  1-0

Orologi: Sargissian 32' Caruana 31'

Tempo di riflessione: 90' x 40 mosse +30' per terminare la partita +30" di incremento per mossa dalla prima mossa



Gabriel Sargissian, qui impegnato nel Marx Gyorgy Memorial


Incontri del II turno trasmessi in diretta 2009/10/05 ore 15:00
Bo. 21 NED  HMC Calder Rtg - 1 RUS  Economist-SGSEU-1 Saratov Rtg 0 : 0
1.1 GM Fridman Daniel 2661 - GM Alekseev Evgeny 2725
1.2 GM Giri Anish 2552 - GM Eljanov Pavel 2717
1.3 FM Burg Twan 2449 - GM Ni Hua 2692
1.4 FM Abeln Michiel 2334 - GM Moiseenko Alexander 2694
1.5 IM Welling Gerard 2372 - GM Andreikin Dmitry 2659
1.6 CM Sprangers Remco 2225 - GM Roiz Michael 2658
Bo. 2 RUS  Ural Svedrdlovskaya Rtg - 22 BEL  Rochade Eupen-Kelmis Rtg 0 : 0
2.1 GM Grischuk Alexander 2733 - IM Feygin Michael 2546
2.2 GM Shirov Alexei 2730 - GM Glek Igor 2537
2.3 GM Malakhov Vladimir 2715 - Fiebig Thomas 2416
2.4 GM Rublevsky Sergei 2703 - FM Meessen Rudolf 2334
2.5 GM Dreev Alexey 2659 - FM Klein Felix 2299
2.6 GM Bareev Evgeny 2633 - Petzold Klaus 2238
Bo. 7 ARM  Mika Yerevan Rtg - 3 RUS  ShSM-64 Moscow Rtg 0 : 0
3.1 GM Aronian Levon 2773 - GM Gelfand Boris 2756
3.2 GM Akopian Vladimir 2698 - GM Karjakin Sergey 2722
3.3 GM Sargissian Gabriel 2678 - GM Caruana Fabiano 2662
3.4 GM Pashikian Arman 2663 - GM Najer Evgeniy 2681
3.5 GM Andriasian Zaven 2612 - GM Nepomniachtchi Ian 2632
3.6 GM Petrosian Tigran L 2602 - GM Grachev Boris 2684
Bo. 4 GER  OSG Baden-Baden Rtg - 20 HUN  Zalaegerszegi Csuti-Hydrocomp Rtg 0 : 0
4.1 GM Movsesian Sergei 2711 - GM Horvath Adam 2505
4.2 GM Bacrot Etienne 2709 - FM Rapport Richard 2440
4.3 GM Vallejo Pons Francisco 2696 - IM Boros Denes 2462
4.4 GM Naiditsch Arkadij 2685 - IM Csiszar Csaba 2429
4.5 GM Adams Michael 2682 - IM Meszaros Tamas 2434
4.6 GM Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter 2664 - FM Csiszar Zoltan 2275
Bo. 27 GER  Sfr Berlin 1903 Rtg - 5 ISR  Ashdod Illit Chess Club Rtg 0 : 0
5.1 IM Schneider Ilja 2500 - GM Ivanchuk Vassily 2756
5.2 GM Polzin Rainer 2491 - GM Gashimov Vugar 2740
5.3 FM Lundin Jan 2387 - GM Sutovsky Emil 2676
5.4 FM Rudolf Henrik 2353 - GM Avrukh Boris 2668
5.5 FM Wendt Jan-Dietrich 2352 - GM Smirin Ilia 2648
5.6 Bruchmann Stephan 2284 - GM Golod Vitali 2602
Bo. 6 RUS  Tomsk-400 Rtg - 18 SRB  Lasta Belgrade Rtg 0 : 0
6.1 GM Motylev Alexander 2710 - GM Pavlovic Milos 2533
6.2 GM Tiviakov Sergei 2670 - IM Brenjo Slavisa 2495
6.3 GM Bologan Viktor 2688 - IM Arsovic Zoran 2468
6.4 GM Timofeev Artyom 2668 - IM Benkovic Petar 2463
6.5 GM Inarkiev Ernesto 2664 - IM Ostojic Nikola 2412
6.6 GM Amonatov Farrukh 2643 - Lapcevic Milos 2390



Svolgimento del torneo:

- Previsti sette turni di gioco, con cadenza 90’ x 40 mosse + 30’ per concludere, sempre con 30” d’incremento a mossa.
- Tutti i turni vengono disputati con inizio alle ore 15.
- In vigore la regola che chi non è presente alla scacchiera all’orario d’inizio del turno perde automaticamente la partita.
- Criteri di spareggio:
Tie Break1: punti-squadra (2 punti per ogni match vinto, 1 per il pareggio, 0 per la sconfitta)
Tie Break2: punti individuali + 1 punto per ogni match
Tie Break3: Buchholz (somma dei punti-squadra degli avversari)

VISORE



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2009-10-05T14:00:00+01:00
 
 
 
Caruana nel campionato spagnolo a squadre 2009


CECLUB con Ponomariov, Shirov, Adams e Caruana

III turno Caruana - GM Ubilava Live h.16

Dal 16 al 20 settembre si svolge a Montcada (Spagna, Catalogna) il gruppo 2 della "División de Honor" del Campionato Spagnolo a Squadre 2009 . Dal 20 al 24 settembre, a Lugo, avrà inizio il gruppo 1.

Partecipa alla manifestazione, con i super favoriti del Linex - Magic, il nostro Fabiano Caruana


Caruana prima dell'inizio del primo turno
foto FEDA, tratta da Flick

Giocatori over 2600 impegnatia a Montcada
UKR GM Ponomariov Ruslan 2741 UKR Linex - Magic
ESP GM Shirov Alexei 2730 ESP Linex - Magic
RUS GM Malakhov Vladimir 2715 RUS Reverte Albox - Ual
ENG GM Adams Michael 2682 ENG Linex - Magic
IND GM Harikrishna P 2673 IND C.A. Solvay
BUL GM Cheparinov Ivan 2667 BUL Linex - Magic
ITA GM Caruana Fabiano 2662 ITA Linex - Magic
RUS GM Dreev Alexey 2662 RUS Reverte Albox - Ual
BRA GM Fier Alexandr 2644 BRA Scc Sabadell
IND GM Ganguly Surya Shekhar 2634 IND C.A. Solvay
CZE GM Laznicka Viktor 2634 CZE U.E. Montcada
SWE GM Berg Emanuel 2616 SWE C.A. Solvay
IND GM Negi Parimarjan 2615 IND C.A. Solvay
ARG GM Flores Diego 2607 ARG Scc Sabadell

Squadre Partecipanti
1. Linex - Magic (RtgAvg:2693, Captain: Rodríguez, Manuel)
2. U.E. Montcada (RtgAvg:2559, Captain: Narciso, Marc)
3. C.A. Solvay (RtgAvg:2585, Captain: Bernal, Luis J.)
4. Reverte Albox (RtgAvg:2577, Captain: Martínez, Juan)
5. Scc Sabadell (RtgAvg:2575, Captain: Magem, Jordi)
6. C.A. Jaime Casas (RtgAvg:2292, Captain: Fontana, Javier)

Calendario di gioco:
Round 1 on 2009/09/16 at 16:00
No. Team Team Res. : Res.
1   U.E. Montcada   Scc Sabadell 3.5 : 2.5
    Reverte Albox   C.A. Solvay 2.5   3.5
3   C.A. Jaime Casas   Linex - Magic 0 : 6
Round 2 on 2009/09/17 at 16:00
No. Team Team Res. : Res.
1   Scc Sabadell   Linex - Magic 2.5 : 3.5
2   C.A. Solvay   C.A. Jaime Casas 5.5 : 0.5
3   U.E. Montcada   Reverte Albox 1 : 5
Round 3 on 2009/09/18 at 16:00
No. Team Team Res. : Res.
1   Reverte Albox   Scc Sabadell   :
2   C.A. Jaime Casas   U.E. Montcada   :  
3   Linex - Magic   C.A. Solvay :
Round 4 on 2009/09/19 at 16:00
No. Team Team Res. : Res.
1   Scc Sabadell   C.A. Solvay :
2   U.E. Montcada   Linex - Magic :
3   Reverte Albox   C.A. Jaime Casas :
Round 5 on 2009/09/20 at 09:30
No. Team Team Res. : Res.
1   C.A. Jaime Casas   Scc Sabadell :
2   Linex - Magic   Reverte Albox :
3   C.A. Solvay   U.E. Montcada :

Classifica dopo 2 turni:
1   Linex - Magic  *  3½ 6 9,5 0 5,50
2   C.A. Solvay  *  3½ 5½ 9,0 0 8,00
3   Reverte Albox 2½  *  5 7,5 0 4,50
4   Scc Sabadell 2½  *  2½ 5,0 0 0,00
5   U.E. Montcada 1 3½  *  4,5 0 5,00
6   C.A. Jaime Casas 0 ½  *  0,5 0 0,00



Partite commentate in diretta 

MI Cruz, Cristhian (PER, 2531) - GM Caruana, Fabiano (ITA, 2662)  CECLUB División de Honor II, II turno, Montcada 17.09.2009 [Megalovic]

1. d4 Cf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 b5 4. cxb5 a6 5. bxa6 g6 6. Cc3 Axa6 7. g3 d6 8. Ag2 Ag7 9. Cf3 Cbd7 10. O-O Cb6 e Caruana sperimenta anche il Gambetto Benko 11. Tb1 qui la più giocata è Te1 11...Ac4 seguendo, tra le altre, la Stojanovic - Perunovic 0-1 playoff del campionato serbo 2007 12. Cd2 Axa2 13. Cxa2 Txa2 14. e4 nella partita citata, così come in quasi tutte le partite di rilievo con questa posizione, era stata giocata Db3. La mossa del testo la troviamo nella Meduna (2461) - Polak (2553) 0-1 Decin 2009 14...0-0 Caruana sinora ha utilizzato solo l'incremento 15. b4 prima riflessione per Caruana che uilizza 20' prima di giocare 15.. cxb4 16.Txb4 Cfd7 Polak spostò l'altro cavallo in d7. Con la mossa del testo si rientra nella Lima(2420) - De la Villa (2495) 1/2, Leon 1997 17.Cf3 Da8 Novità. De la Villa giocò Dc7 18.Ag5 Ca4 la più attiva e invitando l'avversario ad entrare nelle complicazioni tattiche che deriverebbero da Axe7 19. Axe7 Cc3 20. Db3 Cc5 21.Axf8 sacrificio di Donna 21.. Cxb3 22.Axd6 f5 23.Txb3 Ce2+ 24. Rh1 Tb2 25.Txb2 Axb2 26.e5 Dxb5  al termine della schermaglia tattica, il bianco ha ceduto la Donna per Torre, Alfiere e un pedone, ma ha solo l'incremento per arrivare al controllo della 40esima.  Caruana ha 15' 27.Cg1 Dd2 28.Cf3 Dd3 29.Ac5 Dc4 30.Ae3 f4 31.gxf4 Cxf4 32.Axf4 Dxf4 33.Te1 Aa3 34.e6 Ae7 35.Rg1 Db4  36.h3 h5 37.Te5 g5 38.Cxg5 Af6 39.e7 Axe7 40.Cf3 Db1+ dopo alcune semplificazioni e raggiunto il controllo della 40esima, la differenza di materiale è rimasta la stessa (T+A+C+2p contro D+A+p) 41. Te1 Db4 42.Te5 Rg7 43.Af1 Dd6 44.Ae2 Dg6+ 45.Rf1 Af6 46.Tb5 De4 47.h4 Axh4 48.Txh5 Db1+ 49.Ce1 Af6 50.Tb5 Dc1 51.Td5 Ah4 52.Td4 Ae7 53.Td1 Dh6 54.Af3 Ac5 55.Td5 Dc1 56.Rg2 Ab6 57.Cd3 Dc2 58.Ae4 De2 1/2

Orologi: Cruz 3' Caruana 8'

tempo di riflessione: 90' x 40 mosse + 30' per terminare la partita + 30" di incremento per mossa a partire dalla prima mossa.

VISORE                                                                                                                                      altre scacchiere QUI


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2009-09-17T11:00:00+01:00
 
 
 
Chess Masters Bilbao
round 2 :
Aronian Levon - Kariakin Sergey : 1 - 0
Grischuk Alexander - Shirov Alexei : 1 - 0
Standings
 
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Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:34:28 +0200
 
 
 
Bilbao 2? Finale Grande Slam senza Topalov

 

FINALISSIMA GRANDE SLAM di BILBAO. LIVE ore 17

Si disputerà dal 6 al 12 Settembre a Bilbao (Spagna) la finalissima del Grande Slam (per la precisione denominato 2° Grand Slam Final Chess Masters Bilbao ). Il grande slam , così come nel tennis, riunisce i maggiori tornei mondiali, ovvero Linares, Wijk Aan Zee ,Sofia e Nanjing e l'ultima tappa  è rappresentata da Bilbao.

I finalisti che hanno acquisito il diritto a partecipare sono delle star di primo piano : Levon Aronian (in sostituzione di Topalov) , Alexander Grischuk, Alexei Shirov e Sergey Kariakin.  Mancano quindi 3 top players che hanno preso parte all'edizione 2008: Anand, Carlsen (non qualificati) e Topalov (rinuncia). Inoltre il numero di giocatori è sceso da 6 a 4 rispetto al 2008.

Il torneo è un double round robin , ovvero si giocheranno 6 partite con girone di andata e ritorno ed è prevista una giornata di riposo.  Il sistema prevede 3 punti per la vittoria ed uno per il pareggio. In caso di parità a fine torneo i contendenti si giocheranno il primo premio con due partite blitz ( 4 minuti + 3 secondi di incremento per mossa) ed un eventuale ulteriore spareggio con una sfida Armageddon ( 5 minuti per il bianco contro i 4 del nero ma con l'obbligo di vittoria per il primo giocatore).

Ha stupito l'assenza di Topalov che ha rifiutato l'invito guadagnato con la vittoria del supertorneo di Nanjing (Cina). La causa di tale scelta è di natura economica: infatti il bulgaro ed il suo manager non hanno gradito il cambio in corsa del montepremi, modificando così gli accordi già presi. Considerando il livello tecnico della manifestazione e la prossima sfida mondiale con Anand (in Aprile, forse in Bulgaria) hanno ritenuto opportuno di non prendere parte alla finale spagnola.

Qui sotto è infatti possibile confrontare l'enorme differenza tra i premi delle due edizioni, giustificata dagli organizzatori come segno di rispetto nei confronti della società colpita dalla crisi. La cosa che personalmente mi lascia perplesso è come nell'edizione 2009 si sia ridotto non solo l'importo totale ma anche la differenza tra i vari premi, disincentivando i giocatori a dare battaglia. Speriamo non sia così.

Il montepremi 2009  è

1° 35.000 €

2° 30.000 €

3° 25.000 €

4° 20.000 €

Il montepremi 2008  era

1° 150.000 €

2° 70.000 €

3° 60.000 €

4° 50.000 €

5: 40.000 €

6° 30.000 €

Come l'anno scorso si giocherà nella teca di vetro situata nel centro della città precisamente presso la Plaza Nueva. Ciò consentirà ai passanti di assistere all'evento che otterrà così maggior risalto e prestigio mentre i giocatori potranno comunque competere comodamente visto la presenza di aria condizionata all'interno del cubo di vetro e di un ottimo sistema di insonorizzazione per impedire che essi vengano disturbati. Sarà inoltre allestito uno spazio presso la "street cafè fashion" che consentirà agli appassionati di seguire comodamente le partite con i commenti del GM  Leontxo Garcia. Insomma sarà non solo un bel torneo ma anche una festa degli scacchi.

ABBINAMENTI

Round 1
GM Karjakin Sergey - GM Shirov Alexei
GM Grischuk Alexander - GM Aronian Levon

Round 2
GM Aronian Levon - GM Karjakin Sergey
GM Grischuk Alexander - GM Shirov Alexei

Round 3
GM Karjakin Sergey - GM Grischuk Alexander
GM Shirov Alexei - GM Aronian Levon

Round 4
GM Shirov Alexei - GM Karjakin Sergey
GM Aronian Levon - GM Grischuk Alexander

Round 5
GM Grischuk Alexander - GM Karjakin Sergey
GM Aronian Levon - GM Shirov Alexei

Round 6
GM Karjakin Sergey - GM Aronian Levon
GM Shirov Alexei - GM Grischuk Alexander

 

Topalov - Radjabov nell'acquario di fronte alla folla

Museo di arte moderna Guggenheim

Un palazzo di Bilbao

 

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Surfing on the Net - luglio 2009

update 26 luglio

Copenhagen - La Politiken Cup rappresenta da anni uno dei più forti open europei e probabilmente il più importante evento scacchistico danese. Nel 2008 s'impose Tiviakov su Malakhov, entrambi si sono ripresentati quest'anno, ma la concorrenza era veramente notevole. Questi i giocatori con il punteggio Elo più elevato:

1 Rusland GM Vladimir Malakhov 2707
2 Danmark GM Peter Heine Nielsen 2680
3 Holland GM Sergei Tiviakov 2674
4 Armenien GM Gabriel Sargissian 2667
5 Rusland GM Alexey Dreev 2660
6 Israel GM Evgeny Postny 2647
7 Israel GM Boris Avrukh 2641
8 Ukraine GM Yuri Kuzubov 2635
9 Sverige GM Emanuel Berg 2610
10 Sverige GM Tiger Hillarp-Persson 2596
11 Sverige GM Evgeny Agrest 2590
12 Indien GM Parimarjan Negi 2590


Malakhov, unico over2700 della competizione

Quest'anno nessun italiano al via, l'anno scorso partecipò Sabino Brunello.

Questa la classifica finale dell'edizione 2009 con punteggi di spareggio tecnico:

1 Parimarjan Negi 2590 8½ 57 57
2 Boris Avrukh 2641 8½ 53 54.5
3 Vladimir Malakhov 2707 8 57 54.75
4 Gabriel Sargissian 2667 8 57 54.75
5 Peter Heine Nielsen 2680 8 56.5 53.5
6 Evgeny Postny 2647 8 54 52.75
7 Sergei Tiviakov 2674 8 53 51.75

Decisivo l'ultimo turno con Avrukh che batte Malakhov, fino ad allora solitario in testa alla classifica, e Negi che batte Berg. Una vittoria di prestigio per il 16enne indiano Negi.
Il torneo si è svolto dal 18 al 26 luglio.


Parimarjan Negi


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Varsavia – Si è conclusa la IX edizione del Memorial Najdorf che si è disputato dal 19 al 26 luglio. Questi i partecipanti, nove GM e un IM:

GM Sasikiran, Krishnan IND 2669
GM Socko, Bartosz POL 2656
GM Wojtaszek, Radoslaw POL 2637
GM Krasenkow, Michal POL 2631
GM Nyback, Tomi FIN 2627
GM Aleksandrov, Aleksej BLR 2616
GM Macieja, Bartlomiej POL 2612
GM Rozentalis, Eduardas LTU 2588
GM Olszewski, Michal POL 2559
IM Abasov, Nijat Azad Oglu AZE 2505

Alla fine ha avuto la meglio il 22enne Wojtaszek, probabilmente il miglior talento polacco in circolazione, con prospettive di poter raggiungere l’elite mondiale; ha concluso imbattuto, 6 su 9, con tre vittorie, di cui due “pesanti” contro Sasikiran e Socko (entrambi non hanno brillato, terminando a metà classifica).


Radoslaw Wojtaszek
Il podio è stato raggiunto anche da Rozentalis e Macieja, rispettivamente con 5.5 e 5 punti. Abasov non è riuscito ad evitare l’ultima piazza, con 3 punti e mezzo, nonostante la prestigiosa vittoria contro Sasikiran; ma ci sarà tempo per il 14enne azero.



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Villarrobledo, Spagna – E’ giunto alla XXIV edizione il prestigioso rapid “Ciudad de Villarrobledo”. Negli ultimi anni il livello di partecipazione è stato elevatissimo (nel 2007 vinse Ponomariov, nel 2008 addirittura Topalov!) e anche quest’anno gli organizzatori non si sono smentiti, 33 GM, questi i più quotati:

1 GM Grischuk Alexander RUS 2733
2 GM Shirov Alexei ESP 2732
3 GM Ponomariov Ruslan UKR 2727
4 GM Bacrot Etienne FRA 2721
5 GM Ni Hua CHN 2701
6 GM Naiditsch Arkadij GER 2697
7 GM Moiseenko Alexander UKR 2682
8 GM Fridman Daniel GER 2665
9 GM Milov Vadim SUI 2659
10 GM Tkachiev Vladislav FRA 2650
11 GM Khenkin Igor GER 2634
12 GM Potkin Vladimir RUS 2619
13 GM Hou Yifan CHN 2584


Alexander Grischuk

Si gioca il 25 e 26 luglio; sono previsti nove turni di gioco (cinque nel pomeriggio del 25 e quattro nella mattinata del 26) con cadenza 20’ + 3” a mossa.
Montepremi 18.000 euro, di cui 3.000 al primo classificato.



Update: vince Arkadij Naiditsch!


 

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Filadelfia - Il World Open è un colossale evento scacchistico che si disputa ormai da ben 37 anni, coinvolgendo una quantità enorme di giocatori, anche attirati dal montepremi: 250.000 dollari!
Come tipico negli Stati Uniti, vi è un Open vero e proprio (primo premio 20.000 dollari) e diversi tornei di fascia (con premi veramente allettanti: 14.000 $ per il primo degli under1800, 10.000 per il primo under1400, 5.000 per il primo under1200!); per favorire il massimo della partecipazione è possibile partecipare dal primo giorno oppure optare per formule che consentono di essere impegnati solo per gli ultimi 5-4-3 giorni (vengono disputate partite rapid per avere poi gli ultimi tre giorni tutti lo stesso numero di partite da disputare).

Anche quest'anno il torneo è stato vinto da Evgeny Najer, forte GM russo con 2663 punti Elo, con 7 su 9. All'ultimo turno ha battuto Jaan Ehlvest (2614), ma deve ringraziare il fatto che Hikaru Nakamura, in testa con 6 su 7 e che aveva battuto lo stesso Najer, ha interrotto la propria partecipazione al World Open per volare in Spagna dove sarà impegnato a partire dal 7 luglio nel prestigioso "San Sebastian". Nel corso della manifestazione il 20enne Alex Lenderman (2504) ha conseguito la sua ultima norma di GM.

Il World Open si è svolto, nelle sue varie modalità, dal 29 giugno al 5 luglio.

Foto veramente ben fatte da Chris Bird sul sito ufficiale


il vincitore Evgeny Najer


Nakamura impegnato con Yudasin, prima della sua partenza anticipata


Alex Lenderman, il prossimo GM statunitense

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Kallithea, Halkidiki, Grecia - In corso il Campionato Greco a squadre, competizione di livello molto elevato, presenti una cinquantina di GM, alcuni sicuri Top Players. Questi i partecipanti di spicco(con squadra di appartenenza e ordine di scacchiera):

1 GM Ivanchuk Vassily 2703 UKR PS PERISTERIOU 1
2 GM Miroshnichenko Evgenij 2696 UKR ES THESSALONIKIS 1
3 GM Bologan Viktor 2689 MDA ES AMFISAS 1
4 GM Tomashevsky Evgeny 2689 RUS SO KAVALAS 1
5 GM Navara David 2687 CZE OS TRIANDRIAS 1
6 GM Tiviakov Sergei 2674 NED SA THESSALONIKIS O GALAXIAS 1
7 GM Tregubov Pavel V 2652 RUS SA THESSALONIKIS O GALAXIAS 2
8 GM Postny Evgeny 2647 ISR SO IRAKLIOU 1
9 GM Wojtaszek Radoslaw 2637 POL ES THESSALONIKIS 2
10 GM Ivanisevic Ivan 2629 SRB SO POLICHNIS 1
11 GM Azmaiparashvili Zurab 2626 GEO NO KALAMATAS O POSIDON 1
12 GM Istratescu Andrei 2624 ROU NO KALAMATAS O POSIDON 2
13 GM Papaioannou Ioannis 2624 GRE SO KAVALAS 3
14 GM Howell David W L 2614 ENG AO KIDON CHANION 1
15 GM Kotronias Vasilios 2613 GRE SO KAVALAS 2
16 GM Macieja Bartlomiej 2612 POL PS PERISTERIOU 2
17 GM Kryvoruchko Yuriy 2611 UKR SA CHANION 1
18 GM Svetushkin Dmitry 2607 MDA OS TRIANDRIAS 2
19 GM Gelashvili Tamaz 2605 GEO ES KALAMARIAS 1
20 GM Pavasovic Dusko 2605 SLO SO MITILINIS 1
21 GM Kempinski Robert 2601 POL EOAO FISIOLATRIS NIKAIAS


Vassily Ivanchuk

Si gioca addirittura su 12 scacchiere! Largo spazio al movimento giovanile: ogni squadra deve provvedere a schierare almeno 5 giocatori senza limiti di Elo o età, una giocatrice anch'ella senza limiti, una giocatrice under18 e una under16, 4 giocatori di cui uno under18, uno under16, uno under14 e uno under12. Più le riserve...

Questa per rendersi conto la squadra con media-Elo più elevata della competizione, SO Kavalas:

GM Tomashevsky Evgeny 2689 RUS
GM Kotronias Vasilios 2613 GRE
GM Papaioannou Ioannis 2624 GRE
GM Halkias Stelios 2564 GRE
GM Skembris Spyridon 2452 GRE
WGM Botsari Anna-Maria 2298 GRE W
Manelidou Maria 2008 GRE W U18
Vatkali Dimitra 1865 GRE W U16
Ketzetzis Georgios 2222 GRE U18
Skoulakis Charalambos 2132 GRE U16
Kafetzis Georgios 1892 GRE U14
Wagner Dennis 2061 GER U12

Più quattro riserve.


Tomashevsky (sulla destra) impegnato per "SO Kavalas"

Nella manifestazione sono coinvolti quasi 600 giocatori.

Si gioca dal 3 al 9 luglio.


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Calendario dei principali eventi internazionali nel mese di luglio

by runner:

02-12 Sparkassen Chess-Meeting (Dortmund, Germania): con Carlsen, Jakovenko, Kramnik, Leko, Bacrot e Naiditsch

07-16  San Sebastian (Spagna): con Movsesian, Svidler, Ponomariov, Nakamura, Kasimzhanov, Vallejo, Vachier-Lagraeve, Karpov, Granda, San Segundo

11-19 Canadian Open (Edmonton, Canada): con Shirov, Ni Hua, Adams, ecc.

16.07-02.08  Pardubice (Repubblica Ceca)

17-19 Open "Città di Bergamo"

18-26 Andorra Open

18-26 "Miguel Najdorf" Memorial (Varsavia, Polonia): con Sasikiran, Krasenkow, Macieja, ecc.

22-30 Sitges Open (Spagna)

19-31 Biel Chess Festival (Svizzera): con Morozevich, Ivanchuk, Gelfand, Alekseev, Vachier-Lagrave e Caruana


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2009-07-26T17:00:00+01:00
 
 
 
2009 Canadian Open Chess Championship

11. bis 19.7.2009
Auszug aus der Teilnehmerliste:
GM Shirov Alexei 2748  ESP GM Ni Hua 2701 CHN GM Adams Michael 2699  ENG GM Ganguly Surya 2637  IND GM Mikhalevski Victor 2631  ISR IM Samsonkin Artiom 2612 CAN/ON GM Perelshtyn Eugene 2588 USA GM Kovalyov Anton 2572  ARG/QC GM Bluvshtein Mark 2568 CAN/ON GM/WGM Zhao Xue 2544 CHN IM Gerzhoy Leonid 2530 CAN/ON IM Porper Edward 2510  CAN/AB IM/WGM Krush Irina 2481  USA FM Hansen Eric 2472  CAN/AB IM Quan Zhe 2465 CAN/ON IM Bradford Joseph 2459 USA FM Yoos John 2442 CAN/BC IM Mulyar Michael 2440 USA IM Zilberstein Dmitry 2437 USA   Panjwani Raja 2418 CAN/ON …

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Bazna King's chess t. round 4
Round 4

Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter - Shirov Alexei : 0,5 - 0,5
Ivanchuk Vassily - Radjabov Teimour : 0,5 - 0,5
Gelfand Boris - Kamsky Gata : 0,5 - 0,5
Standings
 
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XXVeme Open International d'Echecs de Cappelle la Grande 2009. Scoop de Sylvie Templeur. Le GMI Sves
Sylvie Templeur Un scoop de Sylvie Templeur pour ceux qui jouent la B22 Variante Alapine.

Sveshnikov Evgeny, sera à l'Open International de Cappelle-La-Grande 2009.

Sylvie Templeur a récemment traduit un livre en français d'Evgeny Sveshnikov "Gagner contre la défense Sicilienne" une variante 100% Alapine dont le code eco est B22 .

On voit sur le bord de l'écran un livre de Véronique Houck pour les enfants apprendrent le jeu d'échecs. Sa page perso.

Anecdote: Hier Zenman s'est planté en beauté (;))!! Quand j'entends parler de Sveshnikov cela me fait penser à la défense Sicilienne Sveshnikov. Et j'ai cru que c'était ce livre là qui a été traduit par Sylvie Templeur. Et pas de bol c'était pas cela.....milliards.....(;)) En plus ce n'est pas le seul livre qui a été traduit par Sylvie Templeur, voyez plutôt les éditions Payot


Sicilienne Alapine code eco B22
Gagner contre la Sicilienne par Sveshnikov un livre traduit en français par Sylvie Templeur.

L'avance d'un pion dès le deuxième coup est le fondement de la théorie développée par Svechnikov : occupation et contestation immédiate du centre avec développement rapide des pièces en vue d'une attaque.

Et moi qui joue la Sicilienne....
Je pourrai répondre éventuellement
1.e4 c5 2.c3 g6 3.d4 cxd4 4.cxd4 d5 en posant une question au pion e4 (;)) mais bon je suis qu'un petit joueur...(;))










Albin Dal Borgo Il y aura une séance de dédicace par Sveshnikov Evgeny & Sylvie Templeur à l'Open International de Cappelle-la-Grande 2009. Le célèbre libraire de la boutique En passant d'Albin Dal Borgo fera le plein de livres pour cette séance de dédicace.




On voit Albin Dal Borgo donner ses précieux conseils lors de l'Open 2008.






Sveshnikov Evgeny

Sveshnikov Evgeny (Jevg??ijs Sveš?ikovs en letton, ??????? ????????? ????????? en russe) est un joueur d'échecs Russe, né le 11 février 1950 à Tcheliabinsk. Il a obtenu le titre de Grand maître international en 1977. Son elo actuel 2535.


Bon anniversaire avec un léger retard.....


Une courte biographie envoyé par Sveshnikov lui-même à Sylvie Templeur en ligne sur le site de Cappelle-la-Grande.







Sveshnikov FEN r1bqkb1r/pp1p1ppp/2n2n2/4p3/3NP3/2N5/PPP2PPP/R1BQKB1R w KQkq e6 0 6
Théoricien de premier plan, il a mis au point avec les Noirs la variante de la défense sicilienne 1. e4 c5 2. Cf3 Cc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Cxd4 Cf6 5. Cc3 e5 (voir diagramme), qui porte maintenant son nom.
Très dynamique, cette Sicilienne Sveshnikov a été jouée au plus haut niveau avec succès avec les noirs notamment par:

Garry Kasparov face à Leko Peter en 2002 à Linares,
Leko Peter face à Veselin Topalov en 2002 lors du Canditates final,
Grishuk Alexander face à Shirov Alexei en 2003 à Corus,
Kramnik Vladimir face à Leko Peter en 2004 à Linares,
Leko Peter face à Anand Viswanathan en 2005 à Corus.

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Ivanchuk dominates Benidorm
Ivanchuk won again! This time the Benidorm Chess Festival.Congratulations!


Festival de Benidorm



Final Standings - after 10 rounds:

1 GM Ivanchuk Vassily UKR 2786 : 8,0 !
2 GM Shirov Alexei ESP 2726 : 7,5
3 GM Tiviakov Sergei NED 2686 : 5,5
4 GM Lahno Kateryna UKR 2488 : 4,0
5 Vila Gazquez Xavier ESP 2422 : 3,0
6 WGM Vega Gutierrez Sabrina ESP 2278 : 2,0



 
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Ivanchuk wins Bali Benidorm 2008
GM Ivanchuk won the 2008 edition of the Bali Benidorm tournament. He finished just half a point ahead of Shirov after being ahead by 2 points at one time. Ivanchuk drew and lost games in the last two rounds.

Final Standings after Round 10

1 GM IVANCHUK Vassily UKR 2786 8
2 GM SHIROV Alexei ESP 2726 7,5
3 GM TIVIAKOV Sergei NED 2686 5,5
4 GM LAHNO Kateryna UKR 2488 4,0
5 IM VILA GAZQUEZ Xavier ESP 2422 3,0
6 WGM VEGA GUTIERREZ Sabrina ESP 2278 2,0
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Chess Olympiad, Dresden 2008 Round 7 Results Open Section
Results of Top Teams - Round 7

Round 7 on 2008/11/20 at 15:00

Bo. 9 Armenia (ARM) Rtg - 1 Russia (RUS) Rtg 2½:1½

1.1 GM Aronian Levon 2757 - GM Kramnik Vladimir 2772 ½ - ½
1.2 GM Akopian Vladimir 2679 - GM Svidler Peter 2727 ½ - ½
1.3 GM Sargissian Gabriel 2642 - GM Grischuk Alexander 2719 1 - 0
1.4 GM Petrosian Tigran L 2629 - GM Jakovenko Dmitry 2737 ½ - ½

Bo. 11 Germany 1 (GER1) Rtg - 14 Romania (ROU) Rtg 2½:1½

2.1 GM Naiditsch Arkadij 2678 - GM Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter 2684 0 - 1
2.2 GM Gustafsson Jan 2634 - GM Istratescu Andrei 2633 1 - 0
2.3 GM Fridman Daniel 2630 - GM Parligras Mircea 2611 ½ - ½
2.4 GM Baramidze David 2557 - GM Vajda Levente 2582 1 - 0

Bo. 3 China (CHN) Rtg - 2 Ukraine (UKR) Rtg 2 : 2

3.1 GM Wang Yue 2736 - GM Ivanchuk Vassily 2786 ½ - ½
3.2 GM Bu Xiangzhi 2714 - GM Karjakin Sergey 2730 ½ - ½
3.3 GM Ni Hua 2710 - GM Efimenko Zahar 2680 ½ - ½
3.4 GM Wang Hao 2696 - GM Volokitin Andrei 2659 ½ - ½

Bo. 13 India (IND) Rtg - 7 France (FRA) Rtg 1½:2½

4.1 GM Sasikiran Krishnan 2694 - GM Bacrot Etienne 2705 ½ - ½
4.2 GM Harikrishna P 2659 - GM Vachier-Lagrave Maxime 2716 0 - 1
4.3 GM Ganguly Surya Shekhar 2603 - GM Fressinet Laurent 2676 ½ - ½
4.4 GM Geetha Narayanan Gopal 2548 - GM Tkachiev Vladislav 2664 ½ - ½

Bo. 8 Israel (ISR) Rtg - 12 Spain (ESP) Rtg 3 : 1

5.1 GM Gelfand Boris 2719 - GM Shirov Alexei 2726 ½ - ½
5.2 GM Roiz Michael 2677 - GM Vallejo Pons Francisco 2664 ½ - ½
5.3 GM Postny Evgeny 2674 - GM Illescas Cordoba Miguel 2604 1 - 0
5.4 GM Rodshtein Maxim 2609 - GM Khamrakulov Ibragim S 2580 1 - 0

Bo. 10 United States of America (USA) Rtg - 5 Hungary (HUN) Rtg 2½:1½

6.1 GM Kamsky Gata 2729 - GM Leko Peter 2747 ½ - ½
6.2 GM Nakamura Hikaru 2704 - GM Almasi Zoltan 2663 ½ - ½
6.3 GM Onischuk Alexander 2644 - GM Balogh Csaba 2616 1 - 0
6.4 GM Shulman Yuri 2616 - GM Berkes Ferenc 2645 ½ - ½

Bo. 15 England (ENG) Rtg - 4 Azerbaijan (AZE) Rtg 2 : 2

7.1 GM Adams Michael 2734 - GM Radjabov Teimour 2752 ½ - ½
7.2 GM Short Nigel D 2642 - GM Mamedyarov Shakhriyar 2731 1 - 0
7.3 GM Howell David W L 2593 - GM Gashimov Vugar 2703 0 - 1
7.4 GM Jones Gawain C B 2548 - GM Huseynov Gadir 2650 ½ - ½
Fresh Chess News
 
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Surfing on the Net - dicembre 2008

update 07 dicembre

Mosca – Dal 5 al 14 dicembre si disputa il Campionato Russo Femminile. Ovviamente assente la Campionessa del Mondo Alexandra Kostenjuk, la giocatrice più qualificata è Tatiana Kosintseva.
Questo il tabellone delle partecipanti:

Kosintseva, Tatiana m RUS 2513
Pogonina, Natalija wg RUS 2474
Kosintseva, Nadezhda m RUS 2468
Korbut, Ekaterina m RUS 2459
Ovod, Evgenija m RUS 2429
Shadrina, Tatiana wg RUS 2429
Romanko, Marina wg RUS 2398
Stepovaia, Tatiana wg RUS 2386
Bodnaruk, Anastasia wf RUS 2381
Gunina, Valentina wf RUS 2381

Assente anche la 17enne Elena Tairova, tra le giovani di maggior talento da segnalare Anastasia Bodnaruk, classe 1992.


Tatiana Kosintseva

Sito ufficiale

[runner – 07/12]



Poltava, Ucraina – Dal primo al 10 dicembre si svolge il Campionato individuale assoluto ucraino. Come al solito assenti i vari Ivanchuk, Karjakin, Eljanov, Ponomariov, ma in ogni caso la partecipazione è di grande qualità. Questi i giocatori Over2600:

Miroshnichenko, Evgenij g UKR 2632
Kryvoruchko, Yuriy g UKR 2627
Baklan, Vladimir g UKR 2625
Kuzubov, Yuriy g UKR 2622
Korobov, Anton g UKR 2605

26 i partecipanti. Al n° 22 del tabellone è posizionato Illya Nyzhnyk (classe 1996, Elo 2444).


Evgenij Miroshnichenko
ha disputato un'ottima Olimpiade a Dresda
(foto Pahlevanzadeh)

Sito ufficiale

[runner – 07/12]



Benidorm, Spagna – Nell’ambito della grande kermesse scacchistica di Benidorm (con una miriade di attività scacchistiche previste, vari tornei open a fasce d’Elo, tornei giovanili e a squadre, “advanced chess”, ecc.) si disputa dal 5 all’8 dicembre il “Torneo des las Estrellas”. Questi i partecipanti:

GM IVANCHUK Vassily UKR 2786
GM SHIROV Alexei ESP 2726
GM TIVIAKOV Sergei NED 2686
GM LAHNO Kateryna UKR 2488
IM VILA GAZQUEZ Xavier ESP 2422
WGM VEGA GUTIERREZ Sabrina ESP 2278

Due fuoriclasse assoluti come Ivanchuk e Shirov, un giocatore di primissimo piano come Tiviakov, una tra le migliori giocatrici al mondo come l’ucraina Lahno, il Campione Europeo U18 in carica Xavier Vila Gazquez e la Campionessa spagnola in carica Sabrina Vega Gutierrez costituiscono l’interessante partecipazione a questo torneo che l’anno scorso vide la vittoria del russo Vladimir Malakhov. L’andamento del torneo è inoltre da seguire per vedere la reazione di Chuky alle possibilità di squalifica da parte della FIDE per non essersi sottoposto all’antidoping a Dresda.
Previsto un girone doppio all'italiana.

Sito ufficiale

Diretta online


Vassily Ivanchuk

[runner – 07/12]




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2008-12-07T09:00:00+01:00
 
 
 
Ivanchuk dominates Benidorm

Le classement après la ronde 8 du tournoi des Étoiles

Place. Titre Nom Pays Elo : Points
1 GM Ivanchuk Vassily UKR 2786 : 7,5
2 GM Shirov Alexei ESP 2726 : 5,5
3 GM Tiviakov Sergei NED 2686 : 4,0
4 GM Lahno Kateryna UKR 2488 : 4,0
5
Vila Gazquez Xavier ESP 2422 : 2,0
6 WGM Vega Gutierrez Sabrina ESP 2278 : 1,0

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Holding down board 1

Here are the top performers on board 1 at the Dresden Olympiad:

Board 1
Rk.

Name Rtg Team Rp Games Pts.
1
GM Leko Peter 2747 Hungary 2834 10 7,5
2
GM Gelfand Boris 2719 Israel 2833 10 7,5
3
GM Topalov Veselin 2791 Bulgaria 2821 8 6,5
4
GM Movsesian Sergei 2732 Slovakia 2794 9 7,0
5
GM Meier Georg 2558 Germany 2 2779 9 7,0
6
GM Wang Yue 2736 China 2773 10 6,5
7
GM Kamsky Gata 2729 United States
 2768 10 6,5
8
GM Bacrot Etienne 2705 France 2766 10 6,5
9
GM Jobava Baadur 2664 Georgia 2758 10 6,5
10
GM Carlsen Magnus 2786 Norway 2757 11 7,5
11
GM Shirov Alexei 2726 Spain 2755 10 7,0
12
GM Beliavsky Alexander G 2619 Slovenia 2744 10 6,5
13
GM Aronian Levon 2757 Armenia 2743 10 5,5
14
GM Kramnik Vladimir 2772 Russia 2735 9 5,0
15
GM Ivanchuk Vassily 2786 Ukraine 2722 11 6,0
16
GM Kasimdzhanov Rustam 2672 Uzbekistan 2721 9 6,5
17
GM Radjabov Teimour 2752 Azerbaijan 2713 9 5,0
18
GM Sasikiran Krishnan 2694 India 2712 10 6,0
19
GM Naiditsch Arkadij 2678 Germany 1 2706 10 5,5
20
GM Nyback Tomi 2639 Finland 2701 8 5,5

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http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2008/12/holding-down-board-1.html
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:48:00 +0000
 
 
 
The key board matchups for final round 11

Here are the board matchups of the top 6 boards:

Round 11 on 2008/11/25 at 10:00
Bo.3CHN China (CHN)Rtg-9ARM Armenia (ARM)Rtg0 : 0
1.1GMWang Yue2736-GMAronian Levon2757
1.2GMBu Xiangzhi2714-GMAkopian Vladimir2679
1.3GMNi Hua2710-GMSargissian Gabriel2642
1.4GMLi Chao B2622-GMPetrosian Tigran L2629
Bo.35LTU Lithuania (LTU)Rtg-11GER Germany 1 (GER1)Rtg0 : 0
2.1GMKveinys Aloyzas2533-GMKhenkin Igor2647
2.2GMRozentalis Eduardas2577-GMGustafsson Jan2634
2.3GMSulskis Sarunas2572-GMFridman Daniel2630
2.4IMZagorskis Darius2509-GMBaramidze David2557
Bo.10USA United States of America (USA)Rtg-2UKR Ukraine (UKR)Rtg0 : 0
3.1GMKamsky Gata2729-GMIvanchuk Vassily2786
3.2GMNakamura Hikaru2704-GMKarjakin Sergey2730
3.3GMOnischuk Alexander2644-GMEljanov Pavel2720
3.4GMShulman Yuri2616-GMEfimenko Zahar2680
Bo.8ISR Israel (ISR)Rtg-20NED Netherlands (NED)Rtg0 : 0
4.1GMGelfand Boris2719-GMVan Wely Loek2618
4.2GMRoiz Michael2677-GMSmeets Jan2604
4.3GMAvrukh Boris2657-GMStellwagen Daniel2605
4.4GMRodshtein Maxim2609-GML'Ami Erwin2610
Bo.1RUS Russia (RUS)Rtg-12ESP Spain (ESP)Rtg0 : 0
5.1GMKramnik Vladimir2772-GMShirov Alexei2726
5.2GMSvidler Peter2727-GMVallejo Pons Francisco2664
5.3GMGrischuk Alexander2719-GMIllescas Cordoba Miguel2604
5.4GMJakovenko Dmitry2737-GMSan Segundo Carrillo Pablo2564
Bo.7FRA France (FRA)Rtg-4AZE Azerbaijan (AZE)Rtg0 : 0
6.1GMBacrot Etienne2705-GMRadjabov Teimour2752
6.2GMVachier-Lagrave Maxime2716-GMMamedyarov Shakhriyar2731
6.3GMFressinet Laurent2676-GMGashimov Vugar2703
6.4GMTkachiev Vladislav2664-GMHuseynov Gadir2650

Women's Olympiad

Round 11 on 2008/11/25 at 10:00
Bo.9POL Poland (POL)Rtg-2UKR Ukraine (UKR)Rtg0 : 0
1.1IMSocko Monika2434-GMLahno Kateryna2488
1.2IMRajlich Iweta2404-WGMZhukova Natalia2488
1.3WGMZawadzka Jolanta2378-IMUshenina Anna2496
1.4WIMMajdan Joanna2284-IMGaponenko Inna2473
Bo.12GER Germany 1 (GER1)Rtg-20SWE Sweden (SWE)Rtg0 : 0
2.1IMPaehtz Elisabeth2471-GMCramling Pia2550
2.2IMKachiani-Gersinska Ketino2371-WIMAgrest Svetlana2258
2.3WGMMichna Marta2399-WIMTetenkina Irina2243
2.4WFMOhme Melanie2237-
Agrest Inna2215
Bo.4GEO Georgia (GEO)Rtg-10SRB Serbia (SRB)Rtg0 : 0
3.1GMChiburdanidze Maia2489-IMMaric Alisa2405
3.2IMDzagnidze Nana2503-IMBojkovic Natasa2420
3.3IMJavakhishvili Lela2473-WGMStojanovic Andjelija2357
3.4IMKhukhashvili Sopiko2409-WGMChelushkina Irina2360
Bo.7USA United States of America (USA)Rtg-5FRA France (FRA)Rtg0 : 0
4.1IMKrush Irina2452-GMSebag Marie2533
4.2IMZatonskih Anna2440-IMSkripchenko Almira2455
4.3WGMGoletiani Rusudan2359-IMCollas Silvia2352
4.4WGMRohonyan Katerina2334-WGMMilliet Sophie2366
Bo.17NED Netherlands (NED)Rtg-1RUS Russia (RUS)Rtg0 : 0
5.1GMPeng Zhaoqin2455-IMKosintseva Tatiana2513
5.2WIMBensdorp Marlies2303-IMKosintseva Nadezhda2468
5.3WIMVan Weersel Arlette2209-IMKorbut Ekaterina2459
5.4
Schut Lisa2153-WGMPogonina Natalija2474
Bo.16ROU Romania (ROU)Rtg-3CHN China (CHN)Rtg0 : 0
6.1WGMCosma Elena Luminita2340-WGMHou Yifan2578
6.2WGMVoicu Carmen2239-GMZhao Xue2518
6.3WIMPaulet Iozefina2307-WGMShen Yang2450
6.4WGMMotoc Alina2313-
Ju Wenjun2397

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Armenia wins gold at Olympiad

Last round pairingsWe’re keeping an eye on the final round of the Chess Olympiad and whenever possible, we’ll try to bring you the latest news during the day. Armenia wins, Ukraine loses, Armenia takes gold in open section. Ukraine beats and overtakes Poland, with Serbia, in women’s.

(Live games here.)

  • Vladislav Tkachiev, France’s board 4, didn’t show up and was forfeited - Azerbaijan starts with a one-point lead.
  • Bacrot and Radjabov quickly drew.
  • A few more games have ended in a draw: Wang Yue-Aronian, Gelfand-Van Wely, Fressinet-Gashimov.
  • Kamsky beats Ivanchuk.
  • Van Weersel beats Korbut.
  • Bu Xiangzhi-Akopian also drawn.
  • Onischuk beats Eljanov; Ukraine virtually lost their chances for gold.
  • Three draws in Azerbaijan-France, match decided by Tkachiev’s forfeit.
  • Ushenina beats Zawadska.
  • Jakashvili and Stojanovic draw their game.
  • USA takes lead against against France: Rohonyan beats Milliet and Zatonski & Skripchenko drawn.
  • Russia-Spain ends in 2-2 after four draws
  • Petrosian beats Li Chao; Armenia takes lead versus China
  • Socko-Lahno drawn.
  • Georgia beats Serbia.
  • Nakamura draws Karjakin to decide the match in USA’s favour.
  • Three draws make Petrosian’s win decide the Olympiad - Armenia takes gold as Ukraine loses.
  • Ukraine beats and overtakes Poland; joined by Serbia.
  • The disappointed Chinese ladies finish with another non-win: 2-2 vs Romania.
Ilyumzhinov and press waiting

Ilyumzhinov waiting to make the first move; media waiting to take their last bunch of pictures

38th Olympiad, Dresden | Last round pairings (Open section, top)

Bo. 3 CHN China (CHN) Rtg - 9 ARM Armenia (ARM) Rtg 1½:2½
1.1 GM Wang Yue 2736 - GM Aronian Levon 2757 ½-½
1.2 GM Bu Xiangzhi 2714 - GM Akopian Vladimir 2679 ½-½
1.3 GM Ni Hua 2710 - GM Sargissian Gabriel 2642 ½-½
1.4 GM Li Chao B 2622 - GM Petrosian Tigran L 2629 0-1
Bo. 35 LTU Lithuania (LTU) Rtg - 11 GER Germany 1 (GER1) Rtg 1 : 2
2.1 GM Kveinys Aloyzas 2533 - GM Khenkin Igor 2647 ½-½
2.2 GM Rozentalis Eduardas 2577 - GM Gustafsson Jan 2634 ½-½
2.3 GM Sulskis Sarunas 2572 - GM Fridman Daniel 2630  
2.4 IM Zagorskis Darius 2509 - GM Baramidze David 2557 0-1
Bo. 10 USA United States of America (USA) Rtg - 2 UKR Ukraine (UKR) Rtg 2½:½
3.1 GM Kamsky Gata 2729 - GM Ivanchuk Vassily 2786 1-0
3.2 GM Nakamura Hikaru 2704 - GM Karjakin Sergey 2730 ½-½
3.3 GM Onischuk Alexander 2644 - GM Eljanov Pavel 2720 1-0
3.4 GM Shulman Yuri 2616 - GM Efimenko Zahar 2680  
Bo. 8 ISR Israel (ISR) Rtg - 20 NED Netherlands (NED) Rtg 2 : 1
4.1 GM Gelfand Boris 2719 - GM Van Wely Loek 2618 ½-½
4.2 GM Roiz Michael 2677 - GM Smeets Jan 2604 1-0
4.3 GM Avrukh Boris 2657 - GM Stellwagen Daniel 2605 ½-½
4.4 GM Rodshtein Maxim 2609 - GM L'Ami Erwin 2610  
Bo. 1 RUS Russia (RUS) Rtg - 12 ESP Spain (ESP) Rtg 2 : 2
5.1 GM Kramnik Vladimir 2772 - GM Shirov Alexei 2726 ½-½
5.2 GM Svidler Peter 2727 - GM Vallejo Pons Francisco 2664 ½-½
5.3 GM Grischuk Alexander 2719 - GM Illescas Cordoba Miguel 2604 ½-½
5.4 GM Jakovenko Dmitry 2737 - GM San Segundo Carrillo Pablo 2564 ½-½
Bo. 7 FRA France (FRA) Rtg - 4 AZE Azerbaijan (AZE) Rtg 1½:2½
6.1 GM Bacrot Etienne 2705 - GM Radjabov Teimour 2752 ½-½
6.2 GM Vachier-Lagrave Maxime 2716 - GM Mamedyarov Shakhriyar 2731 ½-½
6.3 GM Fressinet Laurent 2676 - GM Gashimov Vugar 2703 ½-½
6.4 GM Tkachiev Vladislav 2664 - GM Huseynov Gadir 2650 0-1F


38th Olympiad, Dresden | Last round pairings (Women section, top)

Bo. 9 POL Poland (POL) Rtg - 2 UKR Ukraine (UKR) Rtg 1½:2½
1.1 IM Socko Monika 2434 - GM Lahno Kateryna 2488 ½-½
1.2 IM Rajlich Iweta 2404 - WGM Zhukova Natalia 2488 0-1
1.3 WGM Zawadzka Jolanta 2378 - IM Ushenina Anna 2496 0-1
1.4 WIM Majdan Joanna 2284 - IM Gaponenko Inna 2473 1-0
Bo. 12 GER Germany 1 (GER1) Rtg - 20 SWE Sweden (SWE) Rtg 3 : 1
2.1 IM Paehtz Elisabeth 2471 - GM Cramling Pia 2550 ½-½
2.2 IM Kachiani-Gersinska Ketino 2371 - WIM Agrest Svetlana 2258 ½-½
2.3 WGM Michna Marta 2399 - WIM Tetenkina Irina 2243 1-0
2.4 WFM Ohme Melanie 2237 -   Agrest Inna 2215 1-0
Bo. 4 GEO Georgia (GEO) Rtg - 10 SRB Serbia (SRB) Rtg 2½:½
3.1 GM Chiburdanidze Maia 2489 - IM Maric Alisa 2405 1-0
3.2 IM Dzagnidze Nana 2503 - IM Bojkovic Natasa 2420  
3.3 IM Javakhishvili Lela 2473 - WGM Stojanovic Andjelija 2357 ½-½
3.4 IM Khukhashvili Sopiko 2409 - WGM Chelushkina Irina 2360 1-0
Bo. 7 USA United States of America (USA) Rtg - 5 FRA France (FRA) Rtg 1½-1½
4.1 IM Krush Irina 2452 - GM Sebag Marie 2533 0-1
4.2 IM Zatonskih Anna 2440 - IM Skripchenko Almira 2455 ½-½
4.3 WGM Goletiani Rusudan 2359 - IM Collas Silvia 2352  
4.4 WGM Rohonyan Katerina 2334 - WGM Milliet Sophie 2366 1-0
Bo. 17 NED Netherlands (NED) Rtg - 1 RUS Russia (RUS) Rtg 1 : 1
5.1 GM Peng Zhaoqin 2455 - IM Kosintseva Tatiana 2513  
5.2 WIM Bensdorp Marlies 2303 - IM Kosintseva Nadezhda 2468  
5.3 WIM Van Weersel Arlette 2209 - IM Korbut Ekaterina 2459 1-0
5.4   Schut Lisa 2153 - WGM Pogonina Natalija 2474 0-1
Bo. 16 ROU Romania (ROU) Rtg - 3 CHN China (CHN) Rtg 2 : 2
6.1 WGM Cosma Elena Luminita 2340 - WGM Hou Yifan 2578 ½-½
6.2 WGM Voicu Carmen 2239 - GM Zhao Xue 2518 0-1
6.3 WIM Paulet Iozefina 2307 - WGM Shen Yang 2450 1-0
6.4 WGM Motoc Alina 2313 -   Ju Wenjun 2397 ½-½


 
http://www.chessvibes.com/reviews/final-round-olympiad-started/
Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:05:16 +0000
 
 
 
Dresden Olympiad Final Round Key Board Match Ups
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By Susan Polgar


Here are the board matchups of the top 6 boards:

Round 11 on 2008/11/25 at 10:00
Bo. 3 CHN China (CHN) Rtg - 9 ARM Armenia (ARM) Rtg 0 : 0
1.1 GM Wang Yue 2736 - GM Aronian Levon 2757
1.2 GM Bu Xiangzhi 2714 - GM Akopian Vladimir 2679
1.3 GM Ni Hua 2710 - GM Sargissian Gabriel 2642
1.4 GM Li Chao B 2622 - GM Petrosian Tigran L 2629
Bo. 35 LTU Lithuania (LTU) Rtg - 11 GER Germany 1 (GER1) Rtg 0 : 0
2.1 GM Kveinys Aloyzas 2533 - GM Khenkin Igor 2647
2.2 GM Rozentalis Eduardas 2577 - GM Gustafsson Jan 2634
2.3 GM Sulskis Sarunas 2572 - GM Fridman Daniel 2630
2.4 IM Zagorskis Darius 2509 - GM Baramidze David 2557
Bo. 10 USA United States of America (USA) Rtg - 2 UKR Ukraine (UKR) Rtg 0 : 0
3.1 GM Kamsky Gata 2729 - GM Ivanchuk Vassily 2786
3.2 GM Nakamura Hikaru 2704 - GM Karjakin Sergey 2730
3.3 GM Onischuk Alexander 2644 - GM Eljanov Pavel 2720
3.4 GM Shulman Yuri 2616 - GM Efimenko Zahar 2680
Bo. 8 ISR Israel (ISR) Rtg - 20 NED Netherlands (NED) Rtg 0 : 0
4.1 GM Gelfand Boris 2719 - GM Van Wely Loek 2618
4.2 GM Roiz Michael 2677 - GM Smeets Jan 2604
4.3 GM Avrukh Boris 2657 - GM Stellwagen Daniel 2605
4.4 GM Rodshtein Maxim 2609 - GM L'Ami Erwin 2610
Bo. 1 RUS Russia (RUS) Rtg - 12 ESP Spain (ESP) Rtg 0 : 0
5.1 GM Kramnik Vladimir 2772 - GM Shirov Alexei 2726
5.2 GM Svidler Peter 2727 - GM Vallejo Pons Francisco 2664
5.3 GM Grischuk Alexander 2719 - GM Illescas Cordoba Miguel 2604
5.4 GM Jakovenko Dmitry 2737 - GM San Segundo Carrillo Pablo 2564
Bo. 7 FRA France (FRA) Rtg - 4 AZE Azerbaijan (AZE) Rtg 0 : 0
6.1 GM Bacrot Etienne 2705 - GM Radjabov Teimour 2752
6.2 GM Vachier-Lagrave Maxime 2716 - GM Mamedyarov Shakhriyar 2731
6.3 GM Fressinet Laurent 2676 - GM Gashimov Vugar 2703
6.4 GM Tkachiev Vladislav 2664 - GM Huseynov Gadir 2650


Women's Olympiad

Round 11 on 2008/11/25 at 10:00
Bo. 9 POL Poland (POL) Rtg - 2 UKR Ukraine (UKR) Rtg 0 : 0
1.1 IM Socko Monika 2434 - GM Lahno Kateryna 2488
1.2 IM Rajlich Iweta 2404 - WGM Zhukova Natalia 2488
1.3 WGM Zawadzka Jolanta 2378 - IM Ushenina Anna 2496
1.4 WIM Majdan Joanna 2284 - IM Gaponenko Inna 2473
Bo. 12 GER Germany 1 (GER1) Rtg - 20 SWE Sweden (SWE) Rtg 0 : 0
2.1 IM Paehtz Elisabeth 2471 - GM Cramling Pia 2550
2.2 IM Kachiani-Gersinska Ketino 2371 - WIM Agrest Svetlana 2258
2.3 WGM Michna Marta 2399 - WIM Tetenkina Irina 2243
2.4 WFM Ohme Melanie 2237 -
Agrest Inna 2215
Bo. 4 GEO Georgia (GEO) Rtg - 10 SRB Serbia (SRB) Rtg 0 : 0
3.1 GM Chiburdanidze Maia 2489 - IM Maric Alisa 2405
3.2 IM Dzagnidze Nana 2503 - IM Bojkovic Natasa 2420
3.3 IM Javakhishvili Lela 2473 - WGM Stojanovic Andjelija 2357
3.4 IM Khukhashvili Sopiko 2409 - WGM Chelushkina Irina 2360
Bo. 7 USA United States of America (USA) Rtg - 5 FRA France (FRA) Rtg 0 : 0
4.1 IM Krush Irina 2452 - GM Sebag Marie 2533
4.2 IM Zatonskih Anna 2440 - IM Skripchenko Almira 2455
4.3 WGM Goletiani Rusudan 2359 - IM Collas Silvia 2352
4.4 WGM Rohonyan Katerina 2334 - WGM Milliet Sophie 2366
Bo. 17 NED Netherlands (NED) Rtg - 1 RUS Russia (RUS) Rtg 0 : 0
5.1 GM Peng Zhaoqin 2455 - IM Kosintseva Tatiana 2513
5.2 WIM Bensdorp Marlies 2303 - IM Kosintseva Nadezhda 2468
5.3 WIM Van Weersel Arlette 2209 - IM Korbut Ekaterina 2459
5.4
Schut Lisa 2153 - WGM Pogonina Natalija 2474
Bo. 16 ROU Romania (ROU) Rtg - 3 CHN China (CHN) Rtg 0 : 0
6.1 WGM Cosma Elena Luminita 2340 - WGM Hou Yifan 2578
6.2 WGM Voicu Carmen 2239 - GM Zhao Xue 2518
6.3 WIM Paulet Iozefina 2307 - WGM Shen Yang 2450
6.4 WGM Motoc Alina 2313 -
Ju Wenjun 2397

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Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:42:00 +0000
 
 
 
Final round Olympiad started

Last round pairingsThe final round of the Chess Olympiad has started. Whenever possible, we’ll try to bring you the latest news during the day. For now, here are the top pairings.

(Live games here.)

First small update: Vladislav Tkachiev, France’s board 4, didn’t show up and was forfeited - Azerbaijan starts with a one-point lead.

38th Olympiad, Dresden | Last round pairings (Open section, top)

Bo. 3 CHN China (CHN) Rtg - 9 ARM Armenia (ARM) Rtg 0 : 0
1.1 GM Wang Yue 2736 - GM Aronian Levon 2757  
1.2 GM Bu Xiangzhi 2714 - GM Akopian Vladimir 2679  
1.3 GM Ni Hua 2710 - GM Sargissian Gabriel 2642  
1.4 GM Li Chao B 2622 - GM Petrosian Tigran L 2629  
Bo. 35 LTU Lithuania (LTU) Rtg - 11 GER Germany 1 (GER1) Rtg 0 : 0
2.1 GM Kveinys Aloyzas 2533 - GM Khenkin Igor 2647  
2.2 GM Rozentalis Eduardas 2577 - GM Gustafsson Jan 2634  
2.3 GM Sulskis Sarunas 2572 - GM Fridman Daniel 2630  
2.4 IM Zagorskis Darius 2509 - GM Baramidze David 2557  
Bo. 10 USA United States of America (USA) Rtg - 2 UKR Ukraine (UKR) Rtg 0 : 0
3.1 GM Kamsky Gata 2729 - GM Ivanchuk Vassily 2786  
3.2 GM Nakamura Hikaru 2704 - GM Karjakin Sergey 2730  
3.3 GM Onischuk Alexander 2644 - GM Eljanov Pavel 2720  
3.4 GM Shulman Yuri 2616 - GM Efimenko Zahar 2680  
Bo. 8 ISR Israel (ISR) Rtg - 20 NED Netherlands (NED) Rtg 0 : 0
4.1 GM Gelfand Boris 2719 - GM Van Wely Loek 2618  
4.2 GM Roiz Michael 2677 - GM Smeets Jan 2604  
4.3 GM Avrukh Boris 2657 - GM Stellwagen Daniel 2605  
4.4 GM Rodshtein Maxim 2609 - GM LAmi Erwin 2610  
Bo. 1 RUS Russia (RUS) Rtg - 12 ESP Spain (ESP) Rtg 0 : 0
5.1 GM Kramnik Vladimir 2772 - GM Shirov Alexei 2726  
5.2 GM Svidler Peter 2727 - GM Vallejo Pons Francisco 2664  
5.3 GM Grischuk Alexander 2719 - GM Illescas Cordoba Miguel 2604  
5.4 GM Jakovenko Dmitry 2737 - GM San Segundo Carrillo Pablo 2564  
Bo. 7 FRA France (FRA) Rtg - 4 AZE Azerbaijan (AZE) Rtg 0 : 1
6.1 GM Bacrot Etienne 2705 - GM Radjabov Teimour 2752  
6.2 GM Vachier-Lagrave Maxime 2716 - GM Mamedyarov Shakhriyar 2731  
6.3 GM Fressinet Laurent 2676 - GM Gashimov Vugar 2703  
6.4 GM Tkachiev Vladislav 2664 - GM Huseynov Gadir 2650 0-1F


38th Olympiad, Dresden | Last round pairings (Women section, top)

Bo. 9 POL Poland (POL) Rtg - 2 UKR Ukraine (UKR) Rtg 0 : 0
1.1 IM Socko Monika 2434 - GM Lahno Kateryna 2488  
1.2 IM Rajlich Iweta 2404 - WGM Zhukova Natalia 2488  
1.3 WGM Zawadzka Jolanta 2378 - IM Ushenina Anna 2496  
1.4 WIM Majdan Joanna 2284 - IM Gaponenko Inna 2473  
Bo. 12 GER Germany 1 (GER1) Rtg - 20 SWE Sweden (SWE) Rtg 0 : 0
2.1 IM Paehtz Elisabeth 2471 - GM Cramling Pia 2550  
2.2 IM Kachiani-Gersinska Ketino 2371 - WIM Agrest Svetlana 2258  
2.3 WGM Michna Marta 2399 - WIM Tetenkina Irina 2243  
2.4 WFM Ohme Melanie 2237 -   Agrest Inna 2215  
Bo. 4 GEO Georgia (GEO) Rtg - 10 SRB Serbia (SRB) Rtg 0 : 0
3.1 GM Chiburdanidze Maia 2489 - IM Maric Alisa 2405  
3.2 IM Dzagnidze Nana 2503 - IM Bojkovic Natasa 2420  
3.3 IM Javakhishvili Lela 2473 - WGM Stojanovic Andjelija 2357  
3.4 IM Khukhashvili Sopiko 2409 - WGM Chelushkina Irina 2360  
Bo. 7 USA United States of America (USA) Rtg - 5 FRA France (FRA) Rtg 0 : 0
4.1 IM Krush Irina 2452 - GM Sebag Marie 2533  
4.2 IM Zatonskih Anna 2440 - IM Skripchenko Almira 2455  
4.3 WGM Goletiani Rusudan 2359 - IM Collas Silvia 2352  
4.4 WGM Rohonyan Katerina 2334 - WGM Milliet Sophie 2366  
Bo. 17 NED Netherlands (NED) Rtg - 1 RUS Russia (RUS) Rtg 0 : 0
5.1 GM Peng Zhaoqin 2455 - IM Kosintseva Tatiana 2513  
5.2 WIM Bensdorp Marlies 2303 - IM Kosintseva Nadezhda 2468  
5.3 WIM Van Weersel Arlette 2209 - IM Korbut Ekaterina 2459  
5.4   Schut Lisa 2153 - WGM Pogonina Natalija 2474  
Bo. 16 ROU Romania (ROU) Rtg - 3 CHN China (CHN) Rtg 0 : 0
6.1 WGM Cosma Elena Luminita 2340 - WGM Hou Yifan 2578  
6.2 WGM Voicu Carmen 2239 - GM Zhao Xue 2518  
6.3 WIM Paulet Iozefina 2307 - WGM Shen Yang 2450  
6.4 WGM Motoc Alina 2313 -   Ju Wenjun 2397  

 
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Desden Olympiad: The Leaders Falter In Round 9

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Two major shocks pulled the two teams that had been leading all the way away from the top: Armenia lost to Israel in the open section, and the overpowering Chinese lost to Serbia in the women's section. Suddenly on this snow-covered weekend in Dresden we have Israel in the sole lead in the former and Ukraine, Poland and Serbia leading the latter section. Full illustrated report.

Round nine Open Section

The shocker was Armenia's loss to Israel, with Levon Aronian traumatically losing a rook ending to perennial Boris Gelfand. The final score was 2½:1½. Meanwhile Ukraine beat Russia, with the top three boards drawing and Alexander Morozevich losing to Zahar Efimenko. The result: Israel has taken the lead in the 38th Olympiad, with 16/19 match points, followed by Armenia and Ukraine, with 15/18 each. Behind them are China, England and Serbia, all with 14/18. Russia is in the next group of nine teams with 13/18 each.

 

Results of the top teams

Bo. 9 Armenia (ARM) Rtg 1½:2½ 8 Israel (ISR) Rtg
1.1 GM Aronian Levon 2757 0 - 1 GM Gelfand Boris 2719
1.2 GM Akopian Vladimir 2679 ½ - ½ GM Roiz Michael 2677
1.3 GM Sargissian Gabriel 2642 1 - 0 GM Avrukh Boris 2657
1.4 GM Petrosian Tigran L 2629 0 - 1 GM Rodshtein Maxim 2609
Bo. 21 Poland (POL) Rtg 2 : 2 11 Germany 1 (GER1) Rtg
2.1 GM Socko Bartosz 2631 ½ - ½ GM Naiditsch Arkadij 2678
2.2 GM Wojtaszek Radoslaw 2599 ½ - ½ GM Khenkin Igor 2647
2.3 GM Gajewski Grzegorz 2577 1 - 0 GM Gustafsson Jan 2634
2.4 GM Bartel Mateusz 2602 0 - 1 GM Fridman Daniel 2630
Bo. 1 Russia (RUS) Rtg 1½:2½ 2 Ukraine (UKR) Rtg
3.1 GM Kramnik Vladimir 2772 ½ - ½ GM Ivanchuk Vassily 2786
3.2 GM Svidler Peter 2727 ½ - ½ GM Karjakin Sergey 2730
3.3 GM Grischuk Alexander 2719 ½ - ½ GM Eljanov Pavel 2720
3.4 GM Morozevich Alexander 2787 0 - 1 GM Efimenko Zahar 2680
Bo. 22 Serbia (SRB) Rtg 2½:1½ 4 Azerbaijan (AZE) Rtg
4.1 GM Ivanisevic Ivan 2658 ½ - ½ GM Radjabov Teimour 2752
4.2 GM Solak Dragan 2595 ½ - ½ GM Mamedyarov Shakhriyar 2731
4.3 GM Perunovic Milos 2580 ½ - ½ GM Huseynov Gadir 2650
4.4 GM Vuckovic Bojan 2561 1 - 0 GM Mammadov Rauf 2631
Bo. 7 France (FRA) Rtg 1 : 3 3 China (CHN) Rtg
5.1 GM Bacrot Etienne 2705 ½ - ½ GM Wang Yue 2736
5.2 GM Vachier-Lagrave Maxime 2716 ½ - ½ GM Bu Xiangzhi 2714
5.3 GM Fressinet Laurent 2676 0 - 1 GM Ni Hua 2710
5.4 GM Maze Sebastien 2577 0 - 1 GM Li Chao B 2622
Bo. 37 Vietnam (VIE) Rtg 1 : 3 15 England (ENG) Rtg
6.1 GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son 2567 0 - 1 GM Adams Michael 2734
6.2 GM Le Quang Liem 2583 0 - 1 GM Short Nigel D 2642
6.3 GM Dao Thien Hai 2510 ½ - ½ GM Howell David W L 2593
6.4 CM Nguyen Van Huy 2422 ½ - ½ GM Jones Gawain C B 2548
Bo. 23 Belarus (BLR) Rtg 2 : 2 25 Slovakia (SVK) Rtg
7.1 GM Azarov Sergei 2613 0 - 1 GM Movsesian Sergei 2732
7.2 GM Aleksandrov Aleksej 2617 1 - 0 GM Ftacnik Lubomir 2571
7.3 GM Fedorov Alexei 2584 0 - 1 GM Markos Jan 2557
7.4 GM Zhigalko Andrey 2568 1 - 0 GM Petrik Tomas 2487
Bo. 34 Kazakhstan (KAZ) Rtg 1 : 3 20 Netherlands (NED) Rtg
8.1 GM Kazhgaleyev Murtas 2640 0 - 1 GM Van Wely Loek 2618
8.2 GM Kotsur Pavel 2563 ½ - ½ GM Smeets Jan 2604
8.3 GM Ibrayev Nurlan 2448 ½ - ½ GM Stellwagen Daniel 2605
8.4 IM Zhumabayev Rinat 2490 0 - 1 GM Werle Jan 2582
Bo. 16 Cuba (CUB) Rtg 2 : 2 5 Hungary (HUN) Rtg
9.1 GM Dominguez Perez Leinier 2719 ½ - ½ GM Leko Peter 2747
9.2 GM Bruzon Batista Lazaro 2623 ½ - ½ GM Almasi Zoltan 2663
9.3 GM Quezada Perez Yuniesky 2580 ½ - ½ GM Balogh Csaba 2616
9.4 GM Hernandez Carmenates Holden 2580 ½ - ½ GM Berkes Ferenc 2645
Bo. 30 Sweden (SWE) Rtg 1½:2½ 6 Bulgaria (BUL) Rtg
10.1 GM Berg Emanuel 2623 0 - 1 GM Topalov Veselin 2791
10.2 GM Agrest Evgenij 2574 ½ - ½ GM Cheparinov Ivan 2696
10.3 GM Hillarp Persson Tiger 2543 1 - 0 GM Georgiev Kiril 2645
10.4 GM Carlsson Pontus 2515 0 - 1 GM Iotov Valentin 2532
Bo. 13 India (IND) Rtg ½ :3½ 10 United States (USA) Rtg
11.1 GM Sasikiran Krishnan 2694 0 - 1 GM Kamsky Gata 2729
11.2 GM Harikrishna P 2659 0 - 1 GM Nakamura Hikaru 2704
11.3 GM Ganguly Surya Shekhar 2603 ½ - ½ GM Onischuk Alexander 2644
11.4 GM Geetha Narayanan Gopal 2548 0 - 1 GM Akobian Varuzhan 2606
Bo. 19 Norway (NOR) Rtg 1 : 3 28 Slovenia (SLO) Rtg
12.1 GM Carlsen Magnus 2786 ½ - ½ GM Beliavsky Alexander G 2619
12.2 GM Lie Kjetil A 2526 0 - 1 GM Pavasovic Dusko 2597
12.3 GM Johannessen Leif Erlend 2545 ½ - ½ GM Lenic Luka 2569
12.4 IM Hammer Jon Ludvig 2522 0 - 1 IM Borisek Jure 2548
Bo. 81 United Arab Emirates (UAE) Rtg 1 : 3 12 Spain (ESP) Rtg
13.1 IM Salem A R Saleh 2476 0 - 1 GM Shirov Alexei 2726
13.2 Ali Abdulkhaleq 2176 0 - 1 GM Vallejo Pons Francisco 2664
13.3 IM Hassan Abdullah 2287 1 - 0 GM Khamrakulov Ibragim S 2580
13.4 FM AlHuwar Jasem 2230 0 - 1 GM San Segundo Pablo 2564
Bo. 71 New Zealand (NZL) Rtg 0 : 4 17 Georgia (GEO) Rtg
14.1 GM Chandler Murray G 2515 0 - 1 GM Jobava Baadur 2664
14.2 IM Dive Russell John 2357 0 - 1 GM Izoria Zviad 2610
14.3 FM Nokes Roger I 2293 0 - 1 GM Mchedlishvili Mikheil 2615
14.4 FM Lukey Stephen G 2271 0 - 1 GM Arutinian David 2584
Bo. 39 Yug Rep Macedonia (MKD) Rtg 1½:2½ 14 Romania (ROU) Rtg
15.1 GM Georgiev Vladimir 2517 1 - 0 GM Istratescu Andrei 2633
15.2 GM Nedev Trajko 2525 0 - 1 GM Parligras Mircea 2611
15.3 GM Stanojoski Zvonko 2502 ½ - ½ GM Lupulescu Constantin 2594
15.4 GM Mitkov Nikola 2556 0 - 1 GM Vajda Levente 2582
Bo. 32 Denmark (DEN) Rtg 3 : 1 50 Turkey (TUR) Rtg
16.1 GM Hansen Lars Bo 2570 1 - 0 GM Gurevich Mikhail 2634
16.2 GM Nielsen Peter Heine 2662 ½ - ½ IM Can Emre 2464
16.3 GM Schandorff Lars 2520 ½ - ½ IM Erdogdu Mert 2449
16.4 IM Glud Jakob Vang 2444 1 - 0 IM Haznedaroglu Kivanc 2436



Top rankings (eleven match points or higher)

Rk. SNo Team Team Gms   +    =    -   TB1   TB2   TB3  TB4
1 8 Israel ISR 9 7 2 0 16 252.5 98.0 24.0
2 9 Armenia ARM 9 7 1 1 15 268.0 103.0 25.5
3 2 Ukraine UKR 9 6 3 0 15 241.5 105.0 22.5
4 3 China CHN 9 6 2 1 14 240.0 95.0 23.0
5 15 England ENG 9 6 2 1 14 213.5 93.0 22.5
6 22 Serbia SRB 9 7 0 2 14 207.5 87.0 22.5
7 1 Russia RUS 9 6 1 2 13 250.0 107.0 21.5
8 11 Germany 1 GER1 9 5 3 1 13 246.0 106.0 22.5
9 6 Bulgaria BUL 9 6 1 2 13 241.0 87.0 25.5
10 20 Netherlands NED 9 6 1 2 13 223.5 89.0 23.5
11 25 Slovakia SVK 9 6 1 2 13 214.0 85.0 25.0
12 10 USA USA 9 6 1 2 13 207.0 90.0 23.0
13 21 Poland POL 9 6 1 2 13 206.5 85.0 24.0
14 12 Spain ESP 9 6 1 2 13 203.5 89.0 22.5
15 28 Slovenia SLO 9 6 1 2 13 202.5 86.0 23.0
16 17 Georgia GEO 9 6 0 3 12 238.0 98.0 23.0
17 5 Hungary HUN 9 5 2 2 12 236.5 97.0 22.0
18 4 Azerbaijan AZE 9 5 2 2 12 236.0 104.0 22.5
19 37 Vietnam VIE 9 5 2 2 12 218.5 96.0 23.0
20 14 Romania ROU 9 6 0 3 12 215.5 95.0 21.5
21 16 Cuba CUB 9 5 2 2 12 206.5 91.0 21.5
22 23 Belarus BLR 9 4 4 1 12 206.0 95.0 22.0
23 7 France FRA 9 5 2 2 12 200.0 100.0 20.5
24 27 Greece GRE 9 4 4 1 12 188.0 90.0 21.0
25 59 Colombia COL 9 5 2 2 12 183.5 81.0 22.5
26 49 Egypt EGY 9 6 0 3 12 174.5 82.0 22.5
27 36 Switzerland SUI 9 6 0 3 12 169.0 75.0 21.5
28 32 Denmark DEN 9 6 0 3 12 165.5 82.0 21.5
29 19 Norway NOR 9 4 3 2 11 204.0 95.0 19.5
30 30 Sweden SWE 9 5 1 3 11 194.0 91.0 21.0
31 35 Lithuania LTU 9 4 3 2 11 189.5 90.0 20.5
32 33 Uzbekistan UZB 9 5 1 3 11 189.5 81.0 23.0
33 13 India IND 9 5 1 3 11 186.0 93.0 20.0
34 40 Iran IRI 9 5 1 3 11 184.5 77.0 23.0
35 43 Latvia LAT 9 4 3 2 11 184.0 87.0 21.5
36 34 Kazakhstan KAZ 9 5 1 3 11 180.5 84.0 22.0
37 24 Croatia CRO 9 5 1 3 11 172.5 83.0 19.5
38 18 Czech Republic CZE 9 5 1 3 11 171.5 83.0 21.5
39 54 Austria AUT 9 5 1 3 11 170.5 85.0 20.5
40 26 Moldova MDA 9 4 3 2 11 169.5 86.0 19.5
41 44 Italy ITA 9 5 1 3 11 162.0 90.0 20.0
42 46 Scotland SCO 9 5 1 3 11 162.0 86.0 20.0



Round nine women's section

China suffered a shock loss to Serbia (in spite of a win by Hou Yifan), while Poland defeated the US and Ukraine Romania, both by 3:1. This put three teams in the lead: Ukraine, Poland and Serbia, with 15/18 match points each. China is suddenly in the second group, together with Georgia and Armenia.

Bo. 3 China (CHN) Rtg 1½:2½ 10 Serbia (SRB) Rtg
1.1 WGM Hou Yifan 2578 1 - 0 IM Maric Alisa 2405
1.2 GM Zhao Xue 2518 0 - 1 IM Bojkovic Natasa 2420
1.3 WGM Shen Yang 2450 ½ - ½ WGM Stojanovic Andjelija 2357
1.4 Tan Zhongyi 2395 0 - 1 WGM Chelushkina Irina 2360
Bo. 41 Luxembourg (LUX) Rtg 2 : 2 12 Germany 1 (GER1) Rtg
2.1 WGM Berend Elvira 2328 1 - 0 IM Paehtz Elisabeth 2471
2.2 WGM Wagener Anna 2246 1 - 0 IM Kachiani-Gersinska Ketino 2371
2.3 WFM Steil-Antoni Fiona 2166 0 - 1 WGM Michna Marta 2399
2.4 WFM Bakalarz Grazyna 2001 0 - 1 WFM Ohme Melanie 2237
Bo. 9 Poland (POL) Rtg 3 : 1 7 United States (USA) Rtg
3.1 IM Socko Monika 2434 1 - 0 IM Krush Irina 2452
3.2 IM Rajlich Iweta 2404 ½ - ½ IM Zatonskih Anna 2440
3.3 WGM Zawadzka Jolanta 2378 ½ - ½ WGM Goletiani Rusudan 2359
3.4 WIM Majdan Joanna 2284 1 - 0 WGM Rohonyan Katerina 2334
Bo. 2 Ukraine (UKR) Rtg 3 : 1 16 Romania (ROU) Rtg
4.1 WGM Zhukova Natalia 2488 1 - 0 IM Peptan Corina-Isabela 2430
4.2 IM Ushenina Anna 2496 ½ - ½ WGM Voicu Carmen 2239
4.3 IM Gaponenko Inna 2473 ½ - ½ WIM Paulet Iozefina 2307
4.4 WGM Zdebskaja Natalia 2419 1 - 0 WGM Motoc Alina 2313
Bo. 4 Georgia (GEO) Rtg 4 : 0 14 Slovenia (SLO) Rtg
5.1 GM Chiburdanidze Maia 2489 1 - 0 IM Muzychuk Anna 2508
5.2 IM Dzagnidze Nana 2503 1 - 0 WGM Krivec Jana 2345
5.3 IM Lomineishvili Maia 2437 1 - 0 WGM Srebrnic Ana 2290
5.4 IM Khukhashvili Sopiko 2409 1 - 0 WIM Rozic Vesna 2293
Bo. 29 Argentina (ARG) Rtg ½ :3½ 6 Armenia (ARM) Rtg
6.1 IM Lujan Carolina 2366 ½ - ½ IM Danielian Elina 2513
6.2 WGM Amura Claudia 2344 0 - 1 IM Mkrtchian Lilit 2443
6.3 WFM Plazaola Maria 2126 0 - 1 WGM Aginian Nelly 2325
6.4 WFM Amed Stephanie 2142 0 - 1 WIM Galojan Lilit 2305
Bo. 1 Russia (RUS) Rtg 3 : 1 23 Lithuania (LTU) Rtg
7.1 IM Kosintseva Tatiana 2513 ½ - ½ IM Cmilyte Viktorija 2512
7.2 IM Kosintseva Nadezhda 2468 1 - 0 WIM Daulyte Deimante 2278
7.3 IM Korbut Ekaterina 2459 1 - 0 WFM Limontaite Simona 2197
7.4 WGM Pogonina Natalija 2474 ½ - ½ WIM Sarakauskiene Zivile 2188
Bo. 8 Hungary (HUN) Rtg 2½:1½ 24 Vietnam (VIE) Rtg
8.1 GM Hoang Thanh Trang 2483 1 - 0 WGM Le Thanh Tu 2324
8.2 IM Vajda Szidonia 2380 0 - 1 WFM Pham Le Thao Nguyen 2304
8.3 IM Madl Ildiko 2376 1 - 0 WGM Hoang Thi Bao Tram 2250
8.4 WGM Rudolf Anna 2318 ½ - ½ WFM Dang Bich Ngoc 2186
Bo. 11 India (IND) Rtg 2 : 2 5 France (FRA) Rtg
9.1 IM Harika Dronavalli 2462 1 - 0 GM Sebag Marie 2533
9.2 IM Tania Sachdev 2425 ½ - ½ IM Skripchenko Almira 2455
9.3 WGM Mohota Nisha 2311 ½ - ½ IM Collas Silvia 2352
9.4 WGM Swathi Ghate 2320 0 - 1 WGM Milliet Sophie 2366
Bo. 13 Bulgaria (BUL) Rtg 1½:2½ 43 Uzbekistan (UZB) Rtg
10.1 GM Stefanova Antoaneta 2548 1 - 0 Muminova Nafisa 2240
10.2 WGM Djingarova Emilia 2352 ½ - ½ WIM Sabirova O 2185
10.3 WGM Velcheva Maria 2280 0 - 1 WFM Gevorgyan Irina 2179
10.4 WFM Raeva Elitsa 2251 0 - 1 Nodirjanova Nodira 2118
Bo. 17 Netherlands (NED) Rtg 2½:1½ 20 Sweden (SWE) Rtg
11.1 GM Peng Zhaoqin 2455 ½ - ½ GM Cramling Pia 2550
11.2 WIM Bensdorp Marlies 2303 ½ - ½ WIM Agrest Svetlana 2258
11.3 WIM Van Weersel Arlette 2209 1 - 0 Agrest Inna 2215
11.4 Schut Lisa 2153 ½ - ½ WFM Pavlovskaia Evgenia 2197



Top rankings (ten match points or higher)

Rk. SNo Team Team Gms   +    =    -   TB1   TB2   TB3  TB4
1 2 Ukraine UKR 9 6 3 0 15 268.0 97.0 25.5
2 9 Poland POL 9 7 1 1 15 249.5 104.0 23.5
3 10 Serbia SRB 9 7 1 1 15 232.5 97.0 23.5
4 3 China CHN 9 6 2 1 14 278.5 109.0 24.0
5 4 Georgia GEO 9 6 2 1 14 269.5 97.0 25.5
6 6 Armenia ARM 9 7 0 2 14 230.0 97.0 24.0
7 7 USA USA 9 6 1 2 13 248.5 96.0 24.5
8 1 Russia RUS 9 5 3 1 13 245.0 100.0 24.0
9 8 Hungary HUN 9 6 1 2 13 229.5 97.0 23.5
10 43 Uzbekistan UZB 9 6 1 2 13 188.5 87.0 21.5
11 5 France FRA 9 5 2 2 12 224.0 90.0 25.0
12 11 India IND 9 5 2 2 12 210.0 96.0 20.5
13 17 Netherlands NED 9 6 0 3 12 202.5 97.0 20.0
14 16 Romania ROU 9 6 0 3 12 198.0 95.0 22.0
15 25 Cuba CUB 9 6 0 3 12 196.5 83.0 24.5
16 15 Slovakia SVK 9 6 0 3 12 192.0 91.0 22.0
17 14 Slovenia SLO 9 5 2 2 12 191.0 88.0 22.5
18 28 Azerbaijan AZE 9 5 2 2 12 171.5 95.0 18.5
19 19 Greece GRE 9 5 1 3 11 203.5 81.0 24.5
20 13 Bulgaria BUL 9 5 1 3 11 197.5 84.0 22.0
21 21 Israel ISR 9 4 3 2 11 194.5 89.0 20.0
22 26 Belarus BLR 9 4 3 2 11 188.5 78.0 23.0
23 24 Vietnam VIE 9 5 1 3 11 188.0 94.0 21.0
24 47 Mongolia MGL 9 5 1 3 11 184.5 93.0 19.0
25 18 Czech Republic CZE 9 5 1 3 11 183.0 83.0 22.5
26 36 Austria AUT 9 5 1 3 11 179.0 90.0 20.5
27 33 Italy ITA 9 4 3 2 11 178.0 86.0 21.5
28 27 Latvia LAT 9 5 1 3 11 178.0 81.0 22.0
29 23 Lithuania LTU 9 4 3 2 11 170.5 87.0 19.5
30 29 Argentina ARG 9 5 1 3 11 169.5 81.0 23.0
31 37 Ecuador ECU 9 5 1 3 11 168.5 86.0 20.5
32 32 Moldova MDA 9 5 1 3 11 166.5 90.0 19.0
33 34 Montenegro MNE 9 5 1 3 11 152.5 73.0 21.5
34 55 Bosnia Herzeg. BIH 9 5 1 3 11 141.0 72.0 20.0
 
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Ukraine beats Israel; Poland leads women’s

Olympiad logoIn the penultimate round of the Olympiad, leader Israel lost to Ukraine; they took over the lead and share it with Armenia who beat Serbia. Poland is in clear first in the women’s section after they beat Armenia and Serbia-Ukraine shared match points. Just results and standings for now; more on Monday (the last rest day).

Results and standings in both the Open and Women’s sections:


38th Olympiad, Dresden | Results round 10 (Open section, top)

Bo. 2 UKR Ukraine (UKR) Rtg - 8 ISR Israel (ISR) Rtg 2½:1½
1.1 GM Ivanchuk Vassily 2786 - GM Gelfand Boris 2719 ½ - ½
1.2 GM Karjakin Sergey 2730 - GM Roiz Michael 2677 ½ - ½
1.3 GM Efimenko Zahar 2680 - GM Postny Evgeny 2674 1 - 0
1.4 GM Volokitin Andrei 2659 - GM Rodshtein Maxim 2609 ½ - ½
Bo. 11 GER Germany 1 (GER1) Rtg - 10 USA United States of America (USA) Rtg 1½:2½
2.1 GM Naiditsch Arkadij 2678 - GM Kamsky Gata 2729 ½ - ½
2.2 GM Khenkin Igor 2647 - GM Nakamura Hikaru 2704 0 - 1
2.3 GM Fridman Daniel 2630 - GM Onischuk Alexander 2644 1 - 0
2.4 GM Baramidze David 2557 - GM Shulman Yuri 2616 0 - 1
Bo. 22 SRB Serbia (SRB) Rtg - 9 ARM Armenia (ARM) Rtg 1 : 3
3.1 GM Ivanisevic Ivan 2658 - GM Aronian Levon 2757 0 - 1
3.2 GM Solak Dragan 2595 - GM Akopian Vladimir 2679 0 - 1
3.3 GM Perunovic Milos 2580 - GM Sargissian Gabriel 2642 ½ - ½
3.4 GM Vuckovic Bojan 2561 - GM Petrosian Tigran L 2629 ½ - ½
Bo. 15 ENG England (ENG) Rtg - 3 CHN China (CHN) Rtg 1½:2½
4.1 GM Adams Michael 2734 - GM Wang Yue 2736 ½ - ½
4.2 GM Short Nigel D 2642 - GM Bu Xiangzhi 2714 ½ - ½
4.3 GM Howell David W L 2593 - GM Ni Hua 2710 ½ - ½
4.4 GM Jones Gawain C B 2548 - GM Li Chao B 2622 0 - 1
Bo. 28 SLO Slovenia (SLO) Rtg - 1 RUS Russia (RUS) Rtg ½ :3½
5.1 GM Beliavsky Alexander G 2619 - GM Kramnik Vladimir 2772 ½ - ½
5.2 GM Pavasovic Dusko 2597 - GM Svidler Peter 2727 0 - 1
5.3 GM Lenic Luka 2569 - GM Morozevich Alexander 2787 0 - 1
5.4 IM Borisek Jure 2548 - GM Jakovenko Dmitry 2737 0 - 1
Bo. 12 ESP Spain (ESP) Rtg - 6 BUL Bulgaria (BUL) Rtg 3 : 1
6.1 GM Shirov Alexei 2726 - GM Topalov Veselin 2791 1 - 0
6.2 GM Vallejo Pons Francisco 2664 - GM Cheparinov Ivan 2696 1 - 0
6.3 GM Illescas Cordoba Miguel 2604 - GM Delchev Aleksander 2632 0 - 1
6.4 GM San Segundo Carrillo Pablo 2564 - GM Iotov Valentin 2532 1 - 0
Bo. 20 NED Netherlands (NED) Rtg - 21 POL Poland (POL) Rtg 2½:1½
7.1 GM Van Wely Loek 2618 - GM Socko Bartosz 2631 ½ - ½
7.2 GM Smeets Jan 2604 - GM Miton Kamil 2604 1 - 0
7.3 GM Stellwagen Daniel 2605 - GM Wojtaszek Radoslaw 2599 ½ - ½
7.4 GM L'Ami Erwin 2610 - GM Gajewski Grzegorz 2577 ½ - ½
Bo. 25 SVK Slovakia (SVK) Rtg - 7 FRA France (FRA) Rtg 1 : 3
8.1 GM Movsesian Sergei 2732 - GM Bacrot Etienne 2705 ½ - ½
8.2 GM Markos Jan 2557 - GM Vachier-Lagrave Maxime 2716 0 - 1
8.3 GM Petrik Tomas 2487 - GM Tkachiev Vladislav 2664 ½ - ½
8.4 IM Vavrak Peter 2478 - GM Maze Sebastien 2577 0 - 1
Bo. 17 GEO Georgia (GEO) Rtg - 32 DEN Denmark (DEN) Rtg 2½:1½
9.1 GM Jobava Baadur 2664 - GM Hansen Lars Bo 2570 1 - 0
9.2 GM Izoria Zviad 2610 - GM Nielsen Peter Heine 2662 ½ - ½
9.3 GM Mchedlishvili Mikheil 2615 - GM Schandorff Lars 2520 ½ - ½
9.4 GM Pantsulaia Levan 2580 - IM Glud Jakob Vang 2444 ½ - ½
Bo. 5 HUN Hungary (HUN) Rtg - 36 SUI Switzerland (SUI) Rtg 3 : 1
10.1 GM Leko Peter 2747 - GM Korchnoi Viktor 2584 1 - 0
10.2 GM Almasi Zoltan 2663 - GM Pelletier Yannick 2557 1 - 0
10.3 GM Balogh Csaba 2616 - GM Jenni Florian 2543 ½ - ½
10.4 GM Berkes Ferenc 2645 - GM Gallagher Joseph G 2480 ½ - ½
Bo. 4 AZE Azerbaijan (AZE) Rtg - 49 EGY Egypt (EGY) Rtg 4 : 0
11.1 GM Mamedyarov Shakhriyar 2731 - GM Adly Ahmed 2586 1 - 0
11.2 GM Gashimov Vugar 2703 - GM Amin Bassem 2560 1 - 0
11.3 GM Huseynov Gadir 2650 - IM Ezat Mohamed 2425 1 - 0
11.4 GM Mammadov Rauf 2631 - FM Abdel Razik Khaled 2406 1 - 0
Bo. 59 COL Colombia (COL) Rtg - 37 VIE Vietnam (VIE) Rtg ½ :3½
12.1 IM Cuartas Jaime Alexander 2489 - GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son 2567 ½ - ½
12.2 IM Escobar Forero Alder 2482 - GM Le Quang Liem 2583 0 - 1
12.3 IM Barrientos Sergio 2450 - GM Dao Thien Hai 2510 0 - 1
12.4 IM Clavijo Jorge Mario 2358 - GM Tu Hoang Thong 2496 0 - 1
Bo. 14 ROU Romania (ROU) Rtg - 27 GRE Greece (GRE) Rtg 2½:1½
13.1 GM Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter 2684 - GM Papaioannou Ioannis 2597 1 - 0
13.2 GM Parligras Mircea 2611 - GM Kotronias Vasilios 2587 0 - 1
13.3 GM Lupulescu Constantin 2594 - GM Halkias Stelios 2584 ½ - ½
13.4 GM Vajda Levente 2582 - GM Mastrovasilis Dimitrios 2572 1 - 0
Bo. 23 BLR Belarus (BLR) Rtg - 16 CUB Cuba (CUB) Rtg 3 : 1
14.1 GM Zhigalko Sergei 2592 - GM Dominguez Perez Leinier 2719 ½ - ½
14.2 GM Aleksandrov Aleksej 2617 - GM Bruzon Batista Lazaro 2623 1 - 0
14.3 GM Fedorov Alexei 2584 - GM Quezada Perez Yuniesky 2580 1 - 0
14.4 GM Zhigalko Andrey 2568 - GM Nogueiras Santiago Jesus 2574 ½ - ½
Bo. 46 SCO Scotland (SCO) Rtg - 19 NOR Norway (NOR) Rtg 2 : 2
15.1 GM Rowson Jonathan 2596 - GM Carlsen Magnus 2786 0 - 1
15.2 GM Aagaard Jacob 2528 - GM Agdestein Simen 2588 1 - 0
15.3 IM Arakhamia-Grant Ketevan 2448 - GM Johannessen Leif Erlend 2545 ½ - ½
15.4 GM McNab Colin A 2455 - IM Hammer Jon Ludvig 2522 ½ - ½
Bo. 26 MDA Moldova (MDA) Rtg - 30 SWE Sweden (SWE) Rtg 2 : 2
16.1 GM Bologan Viktor 2682 - GM Berg Emanuel 2623 1 - 0
16.2 GM Iordachescu Viorel 2572 - GM Agrest Evgenij 2574 ½ - ½
16.3 GM Svetushkin Dmitry 2588 - GM Hillarp Persson Tiger 2543 ½ - ½
16.4 GM Khruschiov Alexey 2499 - GM Cicak Slavko 2564 0 - 1


38th Olympiad, Dresden | Round 10 Standings (Open section, top 20)

Rk. SNo Team Team + = - TB1 TB2 TB3 TB4
1 9 Armenia ARM 8 1 1 17 339,0 128,0 28,5
2 2 Ukraine UKR 7 3 0 17 309,5 133,0 25,0
3 8 Israel ISR 7 2 1 16 315,5 123,0 25,5
4 3 China CHN 7 2 1 16 291,5 122,0 25,5
5 1 Russia RUS 7 1 2 15 309,0 127,0 25,0
6 20 Netherlands NED 7 1 2 15 292,0 116,0 26,0
7 12 Spain ESP 7 1 2 15 270,0 112,0 25,5
8 10 United States of America USA 7 1 2 15 266,0 114,0 25,5
9 4 Azerbaijan AZE 6 2 2 14 305,0 125,0 26,5
10 37 Vietnam VIE 6 2 2 14 296,0 119,0 26,5
11 5 Hungary HUN 6 2 2 14 284,5 115,0 25,0
12 17 Georgia GEO 7 0 3 14 277,5 119,0 25,5
13 14 Romania ROU 7 0 3 14 265,0 113,0 24,0
14 15 England ENG 6 2 2 14 261,5 120,0 24,0
15 23 Belarus BLR 5 4 1 14 257,0 114,0 25,0
16 7 France FRA 6 2 2 14 251,0 121,0 23,5
17 22 Serbia SRB 7 0 3 14 251,0 117,0 23,5
18 11 Germany 1 GER1 5 3 2 13 290,0 130,0 24,0
19 6 Bulgaria BUL 6 1 3 13 276,5 111,0 26,5
20 21 Poland POL 6 1 3 13 256,5 111,0 25,5


38th Olympiad, Dresden | Best players after rd 10 (rating perf.; Open section)

No. Title Name Rtg Team Rp Pts. Games % Bo.
1 GM Sargissian Gabriel 2642 Armenia 2893 8,5 10 85,0 3
2 GM Gelfand Boris 2719 Israel 2862 7,0 9 77,8 1
3 GM Aleksandrov Aleksej 2617 Belarus 2830 7,0 8 87,5 3
4 GM Jakovenko Dmitry 2737 Russia 2826 6,5 8 81,3 5
5 GM Vallejo Pons Francisco 2664 Spain 2823 8,5 10 85,0 2
6 GM Akopian Vladimir 2679 Armenia 2823 7,5 10 75,0 2
7 GM Topalov Veselin 2791 Bulgaria 2821 6,5 8 81,3 1
8 GM Leko Peter 2747 Hungary 2813 6,5 9 72,2 1
9 GM Short Nigel D 2642 England 2812 7,0 9 77,8 2
10 GM Movsesian Sergei 2732 Slovakia 2811 6,5 8 81,3 1
11 GM Almasi Zoltan 2663 Hungary 2805 7,0 9 77,8 3
12 GM Rodshtein Maxim 2609 Israel 2801 6,5 8 81,3 5
13 GM Efimenko Zahar 2680 Ukraine 2793 6,0 8 75,0 4
14 GM Gashimov Vugar 2703 Azerbaijan 2783 6,0 8 75,0 3
15 GM Meier Georg 2558 Germany 2 2779 7,0 9 77,8 1
16 GM Wang Yue 2736 China 2777 6,0 9 66,7 1
17 GM Delchev Aleksander 2632 Bulgaria 2772 7,0 8 87,5 4
18 GM Bacrot Etienne 2705 France 2771 6,0 9 66,7 1
19 GM Jobava Baadur 2664 Georgia 2769 6,0 9 66,7 1
20 GM Kotronias Vasilios 2587 Greece 2767 7,5 10 75,0 2


38th Olympiad, Dresden | Results round 10 (Women section, top)

Bo. 10 SRB Serbia (SRB) Rtg - 2 UKR Ukraine (UKR) Rtg 2 : 2
1.1 IM Maric Alisa 2405 - GM Lahno Kateryna 2488 ½ - ½
1.2 IM Bojkovic Natasa 2420 - WGM Zhukova Natalia 2488 ½ - ½
1.3 WGM Stojanovic Andjelija
 
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Israel clear first after beating Armenia

Karpov making the first moveAnything can happen in the decisive last two rounds of the Olympiad in Dresden after Israel surprisingly but convincingly beat Armenia. The Chinese women dropped to shared 4th after losing to Ukraine, who now share first with Poland and Serbia. Round 9 report with games, results, standings and a very interesting press conference on video.

The Chess Olympiad takes place 12-25 november in Dresden, Germany. ChessVibes provides on-the-spot coverage from the venue, until the end of the tournament.

Before we go to the 9th round, first we’d like to draw your attention to yesterday’s very interesting, 45-minute press conference in which former world champions Anatoli Karpov and Alexander Khalifman were interviewed. Topics like Fischer, Olympiads, the Russian team and opening books were extensively discussed. Enjoy!

Round 9 press conference with Anatoli Karpov, Alexander Khalifman and Robert von Weiszäcker:

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During the 9th round, one could see Levon Aronian using paper handkerchiefs throughout the day - he has a cold, and it might have prevented him from playing at his top level. And you really need this when you want to stand a chance against a Boris Gelfand in top shape - the Israeli GM is showing the form he was in during the world championship in Mexico last year and convincingly beat the Armenian board one, with Black.

A big blow for the Armenians, who couldn’t make up for it at the lower three boards, against an Israeli team playing without the experience of Sutovsky and Smirin, but with the energy of the young GMs Roiz and Rodshtein. The former drew with Akopian and the latter beat Petrosian, and so the match was decided; it didn’t matter that Gabriel Sargissian added another point to his massive score (now 8/9!) against Avrukh.

Another important result was Ukraina’s victory over Russia. In a wild game that shouldn’t be missed (go to the selection of games right now!) Ivanchuk and Kramnik drew, the same result as in Karjakin-Svidler and Grischuk-Eljanov (where Black drew the famous rook plus f- and h-pawn versus rook). And so Ukraine’s board four Zahar Efimenko became the match winner, beating Alexander Morozevich (who by the way has dropped from second to fifth place in the live ratings).

And so it looks like Russia is again not going to win gold at an Olympiad, despite having the highest rated players in the team. According to Karpov, the reason is that after he and Kasparov left, Russia is missing a clear leader in the team. An interesting theory that might have some truth in it…

Armenia and Ukraine are now sharing second place, one point behind Israel. The following group, on 14/9, consists of China (who beat France 1-3), England (they defeated Vietnam 1-3) and, surprisingly, Serbia. They upset Azerbaijan by drawing on the first three boards, and Bojan Vuckovic managed to beat Rauf Mammadov.

And in the women’s section, Serbia is doing even better! Yesterday they surprised everyone by winning against China. Alisa Maric’s 3…Nc6 French couldn’t to it against a patient Hou Yifan, but an even more patient Natasa Bojkovic, who went for an unambitious approach of the Ruy Lopez Exchange, simply outplayed Zhao Xue. She actually missed a quicker win (40.Qg5 is curtains).

Andjelija Stojanovic drew with Shen Yang and then Chinese hopes rested on Tan Zhongyi, who had started in Dresden with five out of five but lost her sixth game. But no, she lost again. She was better after the opening but Cheluskinja’s active play forced her to sacrifice her queen, which should have been enough for at least draw. However, after the blunder 38…Rff2 (Black is still better after 38…d4!) it was suddenly over.

For the second day in a row, the German ladies played 2-2, and again didn’t draw a single game! This time the fight was with Luxembourg, for whom this result was just great. Their first two boards Elvira Berend (2328) and Anna Waganer (2246) both won, against Elisabeth Pähtz (2471) and Ketino Kachiani-Gersinska (2371) respectively!

Both Poland and Ukraine profited from the surprising result on the top boards and share first place with Serbia now, one point ahead of China, Armenia and Georgia.

Today’s top pairings in the open section: Ukraine-Israel, Serbia-Armenia and England-China. In the women’s there’s Serbia-Ukraine, Armenia-Poland and China-Georgia. We’ll be witnessing a very exciting last two rounds of the Olympiad!

Results and standings in both the Open and Women’s sections:

38th Olympiad, Dresden | Results round 9 (Open section, top)

Bo. 9 ARM Armenia (ARM) Rtg - 8 ISR Israel (ISR) Rtg 1½:2½
1.1 GM Aronian Levon 2757 - GM Gelfand Boris 2719 0 - 1
1.2 GM Akopian Vladimir 2679 - GM Roiz Michael 2677 ½ - ½
1.3 GM Sargissian Gabriel 2642 - GM Avrukh Boris 2657 1 - 0
1.4 GM Petrosian Tigran L 2629 - GM Rodshtein Maxim 2609 0 - 1
Bo. 21 POL Poland (POL) Rtg - 11 GER Germany 1 (GER1) Rtg 2 : 2
2.1 GM Socko Bartosz 2631 - GM Naiditsch Arkadij 2678 ½ - ½
2.2 GM Wojtaszek Radoslaw 2599 - GM Khenkin Igor 2647 ½ - ½
2.3 GM Gajewski Grzegorz 2577 - GM Gustafsson Jan 2634 1 - 0
2.4 GM Bartel Mateusz 2602 - GM Fridman Daniel 2630 0 - 1
Bo. 1 RUS Russia (RUS) Rtg - 2 UKR Ukraine (UKR) Rtg 1½:2½
3.1 GM Kramnik Vladimir 2772 - GM Ivanchuk Vassily 2786 ½ - ½
3.2 GM Svidler Peter 2727 - GM Karjakin Sergey 2730 ½ - ½
3.3 GM Grischuk Alexander 2719 - GM Eljanov Pavel 2720 ½ - ½
3.4 GM Morozevich Alexander 2787 - GM Efimenko Zahar 2680 0 - 1
Bo. 22 SRB Serbia (SRB) Rtg - 4 AZE Azerbaijan (AZE) Rtg 2½:1½
4.1 GM Ivanisevic Ivan 2658 - GM Radjabov Teimour 2752 ½ - ½
4.2 GM Solak Dragan 2595 - GM Mamedyarov Shakhriyar 2731 ½ - ½
4.3 GM Perunovic Milos 2580 - GM Huseynov Gadir 2650 ½ - ½
4.4 GM Vuckovic Bojan 2561 - GM Mammadov Rauf 2631 1 - 0
Bo. 7 FRA France (FRA) Rtg - 3 CHN China (CHN) Rtg 1 : 3
5.1 GM Bacrot Etienne 2705 - GM Wang Yue 2736 ½ - ½
5.2 GM Vachier-Lagrave Maxime 2716 - GM Bu Xiangzhi 2714 ½ - ½
5.3 GM Fressinet Laurent 2676 - GM Ni Hua 2710 0 - 1
5.4 GM Maze Sebastien 2577 - GM Li Chao B 2622 0 - 1
Bo. 37 VIE Vietnam (VIE) Rtg - 15 ENG England (ENG) Rtg 1 : 3
6.1 GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son 2567 - GM Adams Michael 2734 0 - 1
6.2 GM Le Quang Liem 2583 - GM Short Nigel D 2642 0 - 1
6.3 GM Dao Thien Hai 2510 - GM Howell David W L 2593 ½ - ½
6.4 CM Nguyen Van Huy 2422 - GM Jones Gawain C B 2548 ½ - ½
Bo. 23 BLR Belarus (BLR) Rtg - 25 SVK Slovakia (SVK) Rtg 2 : 2
7.1 GM Azarov Sergei 2613 - GM Movsesian Sergei 2732 0 - 1
7.2 GM Aleksandrov Aleksej 2617 - GM Ftacnik Lubomir 2571 1 - 0
7.3 GM Fedorov Alexei 2584 - GM Markos Jan 2557 0 - 1
7.4 GM Zhigalko Andrey 2568 - GM Petrik Tomas 2487 1 - 0
Bo. 34 KAZ Kazakhstan (KAZ) Rtg - 20 NED Netherlands (NED) Rtg 1 : 3
8.1 GM Kazhgaleyev Murtas 2640 - GM Van Wely Loek 2618 0 - 1
8.2 GM Kotsur Pavel 2563 - GM Smeets Jan 2604 ½ - ½
8.3 GM Ibrayev Nurlan 2448 - GM Stellwagen Daniel 2605 ½ - ½
8.4 IM Zhumabayev Rinat 2490 - GM Werle Jan 2582 0 - 1
Bo. 16 CUB Cuba (CUB) Rtg - 5 HUN Hungary (HUN) Rtg 2 : 2
9.1 GM Dominguez Perez Leinier 2719 - GM Leko Peter 2747 ½ - ½
9.2 GM Bruzon Batista Lazaro 2623 - GM Almasi Zoltan 2663 ½ - ½
9.3 GM Quezada Perez Yuniesky 2580 - GM Balogh Csaba 2616 ½ - ½
9.4 GM Hernandez Carmenates Holden 2580 - GM Berkes Ferenc 2645 ½ - ½
Bo. 30 SWE Sweden (SWE) Rtg - 6 BUL Bulgaria (BUL) Rtg 1½:2½
10.1 GM Berg Emanuel 2623 - GM Topalov Veselin 2791 0 - 1
10.2 GM Agrest Evgenij 2574 - GM Cheparinov Ivan 2696 ½ - ½
10.3 GM Hillarp Persson Tiger 2543 - GM Georgiev Kiril 2645 1 - 0
10.4 GM Carlsson Pontus 2515 - GM Iotov Valentin 2532 0 - 1
Bo. 13 IND India (IND) Rtg - 10 USA United States of America (USA) Rtg ½ :3½
11.1 GM Sasikiran Krishnan 2694 - GM Kamsky Gata 2729 0 - 1
11.2 GM Harikrishna P 2659 - GM Nakamura Hikaru 2704 0 - 1
11.3 GM Ganguly Surya Shekhar 2603 - GM Onischuk Alexander 2644 ½ - ½
11.4 GM Geetha Narayanan Gopal 2548 - GM Akobian Varuzhan 2606 0 - 1
Bo. 19 NOR Norway (NOR) Rtg - 28 SLO Slovenia (SLO) Rtg 1 : 3
12.1 GM Carlsen Magnus 2786 - GM Beliavsky Alexander G 2619 ½ - ½
12.2 GM Lie Kjetil A 2526 - GM Pavasovic Dusko 2597 0 - 1
12.3 GM Johannessen Leif Erlend 2545 - GM Lenic Luka 2569 ½ - ½
12.4 IM Hammer Jon Ludvig 2522 - IM Borisek Jure 2548 0 - 1
Bo. 81 UAE United Arab Emirates (UAE) Rtg - 12 ESP Spain (ESP) Rtg 1 : 3
13.1 IM Salem A R Saleh 2476 - GM Shirov Alexei 2726 0 - 1
13.2   Ali Abdulkhaleq 2176 - GM Vallejo Pons Francisco 2664 0 - 1
13.3 IM Hassan Abdullah 2287 - GM Khamrakulov Ibragim S 2580 1 - 0
13.4 FM AlHuwar Jasem 2230 - GM San Segundo Carrillo Pablo 2564 0 - 1
Bo. 71 NZL New Zealand (NZL) Rtg - 17 GEO Georgia (GEO) Rtg 0 : 4
14.1 GM Chandler Murray G 2515 - GM Jobava Baadur 2664 0 - 1
14.2 IM Dive Russell John 2357 - GM Izoria Zviad 2610 0 - 1
14.3 FM Nokes Roger I 2293 - GM Mchedlishvili Mikheil 2615 0 - 1
14.4 FM Lukey Stephen G 2271 - GM Arutinian David 2584 0 - 1
Bo. 39 MKD Former Yug Rep of Macedonia (MKD) Rtg - 14 ROU Romania (ROU) Rtg 1½:2½
15.1 GM Georgiev Vladimir 2517 - GM Istratescu Andrei 2633 1 - 0
15.2 GM Nedev Trajko 2525 - GM Parligras Mircea 2611 0 - 1
15.3 GM Stanojoski Zvonko 2502 - GM Lupulescu Constantin 2594 ½ - ½
15.4 GM Mitkov Nikola 2556 - GM Vajda Levente 2582 0 - 1
Bo. 32 DEN Denmark (DEN) Rtg - 50 TUR Turkey (TUR) Rtg 3 : 1
16.1 GM Hansen Lars Bo 2570 - GM Gurevich Mikhail 2634 1 - 0
16.2 GM Nielsen Peter Heine 2662 - IM Can Emre 2464 ½ - ½
16.3 GM Schandorff Lars 2520 - IM Erdogdu Mert 2449 ½ - ½
16.4 IM Glud Jakob Vang 2444 - IM Haznedaroglu Kivanc 2436 1 - 0


38th Olympiad, Dresden | Round 9 Standings (Open section, top 20)

Rk. SNo Team Team + = - TB1 TB2 TB3 TB4
1 8 Israel ISR 7 2 0 16 252,5 98,0 24,0
2 9 Armenia ARM 7 1 1 15 268,0 103,0 25,5
3 2 Ukraine UKR 6 3 0 15 241,5 105,0 22,5
4 3 China CHN 6 2 1 14 240,0 95,0 23,0
5 15 England ENG 6 2 1 14 213,5 93,0 22,5
6 22 Serbia SRB 7 0 2 14 207,5 87,0 22,5
7 1 Russia RUS 6 1 2 13 250,0 107,0 21,5
8 11 Germany 1 GER1 5 3 1 13 246,0 106,0 22,5
9 6 Bulgaria BUL 6 1 2 13 241,0 87,0 25,5
10 20 Netherlands NED 6 1 2 13 223,5 89,0 23,5
11 25 Slovakia SVK 6 1 2 13 214,0 85,0 25,0
12 10 United States of America USA 6 1 2 13 207,0 90,0 23,0
13 21 Poland POL 6 1 2 13 206,5 85,0 24,0
14 12 Spain ESP 6 1 2 13 203,5 89,0 22,5
15 28 Slovenia SLO 6 1 2 13 202,5 86,0 23,0
16 17 Georgia GEO 6 0 3 12 238,0 98,0 23,0
17 5 Hungary HUN 5 2 2 12 236,5 97,0 22,0
18 4 Azerbaijan AZE 5 2 2 12 236,0 104,0 22,5
19 37 Vietnam VIE 5 2 2 12 218,5 96,0 23,0
20 14 Romania ROU 6 0 3 12 215,5 95,0 21,5


38th Olympiad, Dresden | Best players after rd 9 (rating perf.; Open section)

No. Title Name Rtg Team Rp Pts. Games % Bo.
1 GM Topalov Veselin 2791 Bulgaria 2969 6,5 7 92,9 1
2 GM Sargissian Gabriel 2642 Armenia 2950 8,0 9 88,9 3
3 FM Abdel Razik Khaled 2406 Egypt 2929 7,0 7 100,0 5
4 GM Gelfand Boris 2719 Israel 2875 6,5 8 81,3 1
5 GM Movsesian Sergei 2732 Slovakia 2848 6,0 7 85,7 1
6 GM Rodshtein Maxim 2609 Israel 2843 6,0 7 85,7 5
7 GM Short Nigel D 2642 England 2827 6,5 8 81,3 2
8 GM Jakovenko Dmitry 2737 Russia 2809 5,5 7 78,6 5
9 GM Akopian Vladimir 2679 Armenia 2800 6,5 9 72,2 2
10 GM Kasimdzhanov Rustam 2672 Uzbekistan 2796 5,5 7 78,6 1
11 GM Leko Peter 2747 Hungary 2796 5,5 8 68,8 1
12 GM Aleksandrov Aleksej 2617 Belarus 2785 6,0 7 85,7 3
13 GM Wang Yue 2736 China 2783 5,5 8 68,8 1
14 GM Almasi Zoltan 2663 Hungary
 
Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:05:20 +0000
 
 
 
Armenia beats France; USA women defeat Russia

Russia-ArmeniaArmenia swept France 3½-1½ and Germany lost their first match against Israel. The Chinese ladies were held to 2-2 again, this time by Ukraine, and USA beat Russia 3-1! Round 8 report with games, results, standings and the press conference on video.

The Chess Olympiad takes place 12-25 november in Dresden, Germany. ChessVibes provides on-the-spot coverage from the venue, until the end of the tournament.

Although everything is usually decided in the last two rounds of the Olympiad, Armenia are the clear favorites for gold after their crushing victory over France. Bacrot and Aronian quickly bashed out loads of theory but in their highly topical Marshall ending there was nothing new under the sun; White has an extra pawn but against Black’s bishop pair it’s impossible to convert it.

And then… Armenia just won their other three games. Akopian totally crushed Vachier-Lagrave’s irregular Najdorf with the nice 18.Bh5! and the even nicer pointe 19.Bxg6! and Sargissian easily equalized against Fressinet, who then found himself in a lost ending just a few inaccurate moves later. Tkachiev dared not to accept Petrosian’s Evans Gambit pawn (fantastic Tigran, you’re our hero!) and instead of romantically, the Frenchman went down positionally.

Germany lost their undefeated status against Israel, who have good-old Boris Gelfand on board one doing very well; currently he’s fourth on the list of best performers in Dresden. Against Germany he decided the match with the only victory, over Naiditsch.

In both sections USA and Russia played each other and in the open it was Russia who took the two match points with a 1½-2½ win. Kamsky beat Svidler, but this was more than compensated by Grischuk and Jakovenko who beat Nakamura and Akobian. After winning against The Netherlands, Vietnam continued to surprise by holding China (who left out Wang Yue) 2-2.

Much has been written about the pairing system in Dresden, but the fact that after just one upset (versus Bosnia & Herzegovina) New Zealand plays Ukraine in round 8 of an Olympiad can’t be right (with all due respect for the kiwis!). Naturally the match ended in 4-0.

Bulgaria’s 2-2 versus Belarus only increased Topalov’s chances to win gold at board one and England recovered with a small victory against Georgia thanks to a brillant Black game by Short. Carlsen’s win versus Navara shouldn’t be missed either.

Drama for the Aussies who lost a match they should have won. Zong-Yuan Zhao, David Smerdon and Stephen Solomon drew reasonably balanced games but Darryl Johansen had been considered a certain win the larger part of the match. In a totally won position he completely lost track and suddenly found himself getting mated.

Top pairings for today: Armenia-Israel, Poland-Germany, Russia-Ukraine, Serbia-Azerbaijan and France-China.

Round 8 press conference with, among others, Henrik Carlsen and blitz world champion Leinier Dominguez:

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The big news in the women’s section was of course the USA blowing away Russia 3-1, shattering world champion Kosteniuk and her team’s last hopes to win the gold medal. Krush’s opening and early middlegame didn’t look very healthy, but the way Kosteniuk tried too refute it was just too bombastic. Zatonskih provided that it’s quite possible to play for a win with the Petroff and that was it - with two meaningless draws on boards 3 and 4 Russia went off and took their cold shower.

China on the other hand is comfortably cruising to gold, adding another two match points to their already impressive score by defeating Ukraine. This match was decided on board two, where Zhao Xue smashed Natalia Zhukova - husband Grischuk might have to explain some details of that Tarrasch once more.

Germany-Estonia was a fightful tie, in which all games were won by White, and Poland did a very good job with their 3-1 against Hungary. Armenia was clearly superior to Azerbaijan (4-0) and Argentina upset Czech Republic 2½-1½. Sweden beat neigbour Norway 4-0; their board one Pia Cramling is now on six out of six!

China takes up Serbia today and on board two, yes it’s true, Luxembourg plays, against Germany.

Results and standings in both the Open and Women’s sections:

38th Olympiad, Dresden | Results round 8 (Open section, top)

Bo. 7 FRA France (FRA) Rtg - 9 ARM Armenia (ARM) Rtg ½ :3½
1.1 GM Bacrot Etienne 2705 - GM Aronian Levon 2757 ½ - ½
1.2 GM Vachier-Lagrave Maxime 2716 - GM Akopian Vladimir 2679 0 - 1
1.3 GM Fressinet Laurent 2676 - GM Sargissian Gabriel 2642 0 - 1
1.4 GM Tkachiev Vladislav 2664 - GM Petrosian Tigran L 2629 0 - 1
Bo. 8 ISR Israel (ISR) Rtg - 11 GER Germany 1 (GER1) Rtg 2½:1½
2.1 GM Gelfand Boris 2719 - GM Naiditsch Arkadij 2678 1 - 0
2.2 GM Roiz Michael 2677 - GM Khenkin Igor 2647 ½ - ½
2.3 GM Avrukh Boris 2657 - GM Fridman Daniel 2630 ½ - ½
2.4 GM Postny Evgeny 2674 - GM Baramidze David 2557 ½ - ½
Bo. 10 USA United States of America (USA) Rtg - 1 RUS Russia (RUS) Rtg 1½:2½
3.1 GM Kamsky Gata 2729 - GM Svidler Peter 2727 1 - 0
3.2 GM Nakamura Hikaru 2704 - GM Grischuk Alexander 2719 0 - 1
3.3 GM Onischuk Alexander 2644 - GM Morozevich Alexander 2787 ½ - ½
3.4 GM Akobian Varuzhan 2606 - GM Jakovenko Dmitry 2737 0 - 1
Bo. 3 CHN China (CHN) Rtg - 37 VIE Vietnam (VIE) Rtg 2 : 2
4.1 GM Bu Xiangzhi 2714 - GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son 2567 ½ - ½
4.2 GM Ni Hua 2710 - GM Le Quang Liem 2583 ½ - ½
4.3 GM Wang Hao 2696 - GM Dao Thien Hai 2510 0 - 1
4.4 GM Li Chao B 2622 - GM Tu Hoang Thong 2496 1 - 0
Bo. 2 UKR Ukraine (UKR) Rtg - 71 NZL New Zealand (NZL) Rtg 4 : 0
5.1 GM Ivanchuk Vassily 2786 - GM Chandler Murray G 2515 1 - 0
5.2 GM Eljanov Pavel 2720 - IM Dive Russell John 2357 1 - 0
5.3 GM Efimenko Zahar 2680 - FM Smith Robert W 2316 1 - 0
5.4 GM Volokitin Andrei 2659 - FM Nokes Roger I 2293 1 - 0
Bo. 4 AZE Azerbaijan (AZE) Rtg - 24 CRO Croatia (CRO) Rtg 2½:1½
6.1 GM Radjabov Teimour 2752 - GM Palac Mladen 2583 ½ - ½
6.2 GM Gashimov Vugar 2703 - GM Kozul Zdenko 2593 ½ - ½
6.3 GM Huseynov Gadir 2650 - GM Zelcic Robert 2589 1 - 0
6.4 GM Mammadov Rauf 2631 - GM Stevic Hrvoje 2588 ½ - ½
Bo. 6 BUL Bulgaria (BUL) Rtg - 23 BLR Belarus (BLR) Rtg 2 : 2
7.1 GM Topalov Veselin 2791 - GM Zhigalko Sergei 2592 1 - 0
7.2 GM Cheparinov Ivan 2696 - GM Aleksandrov Aleksej 2617 0 - 1
7.3 GM Georgiev Kiril 2645 - GM Fedorov Alexei 2584 ½ - ½
7.4 GM Delchev Aleksander 2632 - GM Zhigalko Andrey 2568 ½ - ½
Bo. 15 ENG England (ENG) Rtg - 17 GEO Georgia (GEO) Rtg 2½:1½
8.1 GM Adams Michael 2734 - GM Jobava Baadur 2664 ½ - ½
8.2 GM Short Nigel D 2642 - GM Izoria Zviad 2610 1 - 0
8.3 GM Howell David W L 2593 - GM Mchedlishvili Mikheil 2615 ½ - ½
8.4 GM Jones Gawain C B 2548 - GM Pantsulaia Levan 2580 ½ - ½
Bo. 25 SVK Slovakia (SVK) Rtg - 27 GRE Greece (GRE) Rtg 3 : 1
9.1 GM Movsesian Sergei 2732 - GM Papaioannou Ioannis 2597 1 - 0
9.2 GM Ftacnik Lubomir 2571 - GM Kotronias Vasilios 2587 ½ - ½
9.3 GM Markos Jan 2557 - GM Halkias Stelios 2584 1 - 0
9.4 IM Vavrak Peter 2478 - GM Mastrovasilis Dimitrios 2572 ½ - ½
Bo. 50 TUR Turkey (TUR) Rtg - 21 POL Poland (POL) Rtg 1½:2½
10.1 GM Gurevich Mikhail 2634 - GM Miton Kamil 2604 ½ - ½
10.2 IM Can Emre 2464 - GM Wojtaszek Radoslaw 2599 0 - 1
10.3 IM Erdogdu Mert 2449 - GM Gajewski Grzegorz 2577 1 - 0
10.4 FM Yilmaz Mustafa 2387 - GM Bartel Mateusz 2602 0 - 1
Bo. 28 SLO Slovenia (SLO) Rtg - 13 IND India (IND) Rtg 2 : 2
11.1 GM Beliavsky Alexander G 2619 - GM Sasikiran Krishnan 2694 ½ - ½
11.2 GM Pavasovic Dusko 2597 - GM Harikrishna P 2659 0 - 1
11.3 GM Lenic Luka 2569 - GM Geetha Narayanan Gopal 2548 ½ - ½
11.4 IM Borisek Jure 2548 - GM Sandipan Chanda 2579 1 - 0
Bo. 14 ROU Romania (ROU) Rtg - 22 SRB Serbia (SRB) Rtg 1½:2½
12.1 GM Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter 2684 - GM Ivanisevic Ivan 2658 0 - 1
12.2 GM Istratescu Andrei 2633 - GM Solak Dragan 2595 ½ - ½
12.3 GM Parligras Mircea 2611 - GM Kovacevic Aleksandar 2581 1 - 0
12.4 GM Lupulescu Constantin 2594 - GM Perunovic Milos 2580 0 - 1
Bo. 5 HUN Hungary (HUN) Rtg - 44 ITA Italy (ITA) Rtg 3 : 1
13.1 GM Leko Peter 2747 - GM Caruana Fabiano 2640 1 - 0
13.2 GM Polgar Judit 2711 - GM Godena Michele 2517 0 - 1
13.3 GM Almasi Zoltan 2663 - IM Brunello Sabino 2455 1 - 0
13.4 GM Berkes Ferenc 2645 - IM Rombaldoni Denis 2436 1 - 0
Bo. 20 NED Netherlands (NED) Rtg - 38 PHI Philippines (PHI) Rtg 3½: ½
14.1 GM Van Wely Loek 2618 - GM Villamayor Buenaventura 2468 1 - 0
14.2 GM Smeets Jan 2604 - GM So Wesley 2610 ½ - ½
14.3 GM Stellwagen Daniel 2605 - IM Gomez John Paul 2519 1 - 0
14.4 GM Werle Jan 2582 - GM Laylo Darwin 2507 1 - 0
Bo. 19 NOR Norway (NOR) Rtg - 18 CZE Czech Republic (CZE) Rtg 3 : 1
15.1 GM Carlsen Magnus 2786 - GM Navara David 2633 1 - 0
15.2 GM Agdestein Simen 2588 - GM Hracek Zbynek 2613 ½ - ½
15.3 GM Johannessen Leif Erlend 2545 - GM Laznicka Viktor 2591 ½ - ½
15.4 IM Hammer Jon Ludvig 2522 - GM Babula Vlastimil 2608 1 - 0
Bo. 12 ESP Spain (ESP) Rtg - 55 BAN Bangladesh (BAN) Rtg 3 : 1
16.1 GM Shirov Alexei 2726 - GM Rahman Ziaur 2510 1 - 0
16.2 GM Vallejo Pons Francisco 2664 - GM Hossain Enamul 2494 1 - 0
16.3 GM Illescas Cordoba Miguel 2604 - GM Abdulla Al-Rakib 2522 ½ - ½
16.4 GM San Segundo Carrillo Pablo 2564 - FM Minhazuddin Ahmed 2377 ½ - ½
Bo. 30 SWE Sweden (SWE) Rtg - 33 UZB Uzbekistan (UZB) Rtg 2½:1½
17.1 GM Berg Emanuel 2623 - GM Kasimdzhanov Rustam 2672 ½ - ½
17.2 GM Hillarp Persson Tiger 2543 - GM Iuldachev Saidali 2511 1 - 0
17.3 GM Cicak Slavko 2564 - IM Khamrakulov Dzhurabek 2533 1 - 0
17.4 GM Carlsson Pontus 2515 - GM Safin Shukhrat 2510 0 - 1


38th Olympiad, Dresden | Round 8 Standings (Open section, top 20)

Rk. SNo Team Team + = - TB1 TB2 TB3 TB4
1 9 Armenia ARM 7 1 0 15 224,0 80,0 24,0
2 8 Israel ISR 6 2 0 14 205,5 74,0 21,5
3 1 Russia RUS 6 1 1 13 206,0 84,0 20,0
4 2 Ukraine UKR 5 3 0 13 205,5 84,0 20,0
5 4 Azerbaijan AZE 5 2 1 12 210,5 82,0 21,0
6 11 Germany 1 GER1 5 2 1 12 190,0 81,0 20,5
7 3 China CHN 5 2 1 12 187,0 76,0 20,0
8 37 Vietnam VIE 5 2 1 12 169,5 69,0 22,0
9 7 France FRA 5 2 1 12 168,0 79,0 19,5
10 25 Slovakia SVK 6 0 2 12 168,0 64,0 23,0
11 15 England ENG 5 2 1 12 161,5 75,0 19,5
12 21 Poland POL 6 0 2 12 161,5 66,0 22,0
13 22 Serbia SRB 6 0 2 12 157,0 68,0 20,0
14 20 Netherlands NED 5 1 2 11 181,5 75,0 20,5
15 5 Hungary HUN 5 1 2 11 176,5 71,0 20,0
16 6 Bulgaria BUL 5 1 2 11 173,0 65,0 23,0
17 13 India IND 5 1 2 11 170,0 76,0 19,5
18 19 Norway NOR 4 3 1 11 168,0 73,0 18,5
19 12 Spain ESP 5 1 2 11 164,5 74,0 19,5
20 23 Belarus BLR 4 3 1 11 160,0 72,0 20,0


38th Olympiad, Dresden | Best players after rd 8 (rating perf.; Open section)

No. Title Name Rtg Team Rp Pts. Games % Bo.
1 GM Topalov Veselin 2791 Bulgaria 2936 5,5 6 91,7 1
2 GM Sargissian Gabriel 2642 Armenia 2927 7,0 8 87,5 3
3 FM Abdel Razik Khaled 2406 Egypt 2893 6,0 6 100,0 5
4 GM Gelfand Boris 2719 Israel 2835 5,5 7 78,6 1
5 GM Akopian Vladimir 2679 Armenia 2822 6,0 8 75,0 2
6 GM Almasi Zoltan 2663 Hungary 2814 5,5 7 78,6 3
7 GM Jakovenko Dmitry 2737 Russia 2809 5,5 7 78,6 5
8 GM Short Nigel D 2642 England 2805 5,5 7 78,6 2
9 GM Leko Peter 2747 Hungary 2803 5,0 7 71,4 1
10 GM Vallejo Pons Francisco 2664
 
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Armenia beats Russia; Chinese women held by USA

Russia-ArmeniaIn the 7th round of the Olympiad the Armenian team did very well in their efforts to win another gold medal by beating the Russian favorites 2½-1½. Still undefeated, Germany is now sharing second with Israel and France. The Chinese women dropped their first match point against the USA. Round 7 report with games, results, standings and the press conference on video.

The Chess Olympiad takes place 12-25 november in Dresden, Germany. ChessVibes provides on-the-spot coverage from the venue, until the end of the tournament.

The 7th round included the crucial match between Armenia and Russia, which was decided on board three where Sargissian beat Grischuk. In what might have been a great bit of preparation, or just an excellent over-the-board reaction to Black’s novelty 11…Nc7, White sacrificed a piece for long-term attacking chances and after he got e5-e6 in, he could comfortably play for a win. The final king march was very nice as well.

Aronian-Kramnik was a very interesting Anti-Moscow Gambit where Kramnik improved upon Aronian-Caruana, played in the first round of this Olympiad, with 13…Qf6. In a sharp ending Aronian decided to go for perpetual. Akopian used Jeroen Piket’s pet line in the Closed Ruy Lopez to draw against Svidler and Jakovenko couldn’t win a double rook ending with an extra a-pawn - something that’s usually won with just one pair of rooks.

Despite Naiditsch’s first loss, against Nisipeanu, Germany stayed undefeated and actually beat Romania 2½-1½. Gustafsson improved upon his game of last month against Sargissian and then easily refuted Istratescu’s piece sac and Baramidze played a great game where his opponent Vajda was just blow away after the opening, and especially after eating the poisened pawn on f5.

Round 7 press conference with, among others, Fabiano Caruana and Jan Gustafsson:

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China and Ukraine shared match points with four draws and France and Israel fought themselves up the special stage by beating India and Spain respectively. USA beat Hungary (who decided to leave out Polgar) and will face Russia today. France takes up Armenia on the top boards and Israel will play the Germans. (Oh, and by the way round 7 included quite an upset on board 15 where New Zealand beat Bosnia & Herzegovina 2½-1½!)

The Chinese ladies lost their first match point in this Olympiad against the US ladies; Hou Yifan did win on one against Krush but top scorer Tan Zhongyi lost to Katerina Rohonyan. Both Germany-Italy and Russia-Poland were hard-fought 2-2’s but Ukraine crushed The Netherlands to take over clear second place with 12 out of 7, behind China’s 13/7.

Results and standings in both the Open and Women’s sections:

38th Olympiad, Dresden | Results round 7 (Open section, top)

Bo. 9 ARM Armenia (ARM) Rtg - 1 RUS Russia (RUS) Rtg 2½:1½
1.1 GM Aronian Levon 2757 - GM Kramnik Vladimir 2772 ½ - ½
1.2 GM Akopian Vladimir 2679 - GM Svidler Peter 2727 ½ - ½
1.3 GM Sargissian Gabriel 2642 - GM Grischuk Alexander