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45? Memorial Capablanca
LIVE h. 21
Con Ivanchuk, Dominguez, Alekseev, Nepomniatchi, Short e Bruzon!

Si svolge dal 10 al 20 Giugno, in La Habana (Cuba),? il "Memorial Capablanca", giunto alla 45esima edizione. Il torneo Elite, che ha una media elo FIDE di 2700, vede ai nastri di partenza i vincitori delle ultime sei edizioni, l'ucraino? Vassily Ivanchuk ed il cubano Leinier Dom?nguez. Completano il lotto dei partecipanti i russi Evgeny Alekseev e Ian Nepomniachtchi, l'inglese Nigel Short e il cubano Lazaro Bruzon. Il torneo, che nell'86 e nel 87 ha visto la vittoria dell'allora argentino Carlos Garcia Palermo, promette dunque scintille, vista la notoria combattività dei partecipanti. Oltre al torneo Elite, è prevista la disputa di un altro torneo chiuso, con tra gli altri i russi Vladimir Potkin e Ildar Khairullin, e di un Open riservato ai giocatori over 2000.


Una curiosità storica

Nel 1965 Bobby Fischer fu invitato a partecipare alla quarta edizione del Memorial Capablanca ma l'United State Department of State, a causa delle tensioni con Cuba, non concesse il visto per raggiungere l'Havana. Fischer, che veniva da tre anni di assenza dalle competizioni internazionali (dopo il torneo dei Candidati di Curacao), decise di partecipare comunque al torneo giocando le sue mosse che venivano trasmesse attraverso una telescrivente! Il torneo fu poi vinto dal sovietico Vasily Smyslov con 15,5 su 21, mentre l'americano giunse secondo a pari merito con Geller e Ivkov. Quasi trenta anni dopo, nel 1992, lo stesso dipartimento vietò a Fischer di giocare il match di rivincita con Spasskj in Jugoslavia, ma la reazione di Bobby fu molto meno diplomatica ...



Fischer gioca il Memorial Capablanca dal? Marshall Chess Club di New York!


Partecipanti al Memorial Capablanca

Gruppo Elite
1
Vasily Ivanchuk
RUS
2741
2
Leinier Dominguez
CUB
2713
3
Evgeny Alekseev
RUS
2700
4
Ian Nepomniachtchi
RUS
2695
5
Nigel Short
ENG
2685
6
Lazaro Bruzon
CUB
2668
elo medio 2700

Gruppo Premier
1
Vladimir Potkin
RUS
2634
2
Ildar Khairullin
RUS
2617
3
Fidel Corrales Jiménez
CUB
2590
4
Yuniesky Quesada Pérez
CUB
2582
5
Jesus Nogueiras Santiago
PER
2570
6
Axel Bachmann
PAR
2563
7
Emilio Cordova Daza
Per
2552
8
Is?n Ortiz Su?rez
CUB
2544
9
Holden Hernandez Carmenates
CUB
2543
10
Omar Almeida Quintana
CUB
2541
elo medio 2573

Open (>1999), migliori 10 iscritti per Elo Fide
01
GM Yuri Gonz?lez
Cuba
2543
02
MI Ruud Janssen
Holanda
2524
03
GM Lelys Mart?nez
Cuba
2515
04
GM Reynaldo Vera
Cuba
2515
05
MF Carlos Hevia
Cuba
2507
06
MI Aramis Alvarez
Cuba
2500
07
GM Walter Arencibia
Cuba
2500
08
MF Yusnel Bacallao
Cuba
2500
09
MI Camilo G?mez
Cuba
2498
10
MI Diogo Fernando
Portugal
2494


Risultati torneo Elite


<
Ronda 1?
1
GM
Short Nigel D
2685
0-1
GM
Ivanchuk Vassily
2741
6
2
GM
Dominguez Perez Leinier
2713
?-?
GM
Bruzon Batista Lazaro
2668
5
3
GM
Nepomniachtchi Ian
2695
?-?
GM
Alekseev Evgeny
2700
4
Ronda 2?
6
GM
Ivanchuk Vassily
2741
-
GM
Alekseev Evgeny
2700
4
5
GM
Bruzon Batista Lazaro
2668
-
GM
Nepomniachtchi Ian
2695
3
1
GM
Short Nigel D
2685
-
GM
Dominguez Perez Leinier
2713
2
Ronda 3?
2
GM
Dominguez Perez Leinier
2713
-
GM
Ivanchuk Vassily
2741
6
3
GM
Nepomniachtchi Ian
2695
-
GM
Short Nigel D
2685
1
4
GM
Alekseev Evgeny
2700
-
GM
Bruzon Batista Lazaro
2668
5
Ronda 4?
6
GM
Ivanchuk Vassily
2741
-
GM
Bruzon Batista Lazaro
2668
5
1
GM
Short Nigel D
2685
-
GM
Alekseev Evgeny
2700
4
2
GM
Dominguez Perez Leinier
2713
-
GM
Nepomniachtchi Ian
2695
3
Ronda 5?
SNo.

Nombre
Elo
Res.

Nombre
Elo
SNo.
3
GM
Nepomniachtchi Ian
2695
-
GM
Ivanchuk Vassily
2741
6
4
GM
Alekseev Evgeny
2700
-
GM
Dominguez Perez Leinier
2713
2
5
GM
Bruzon Batista Lazaro
2668
-
GM
Short Nigel D
2685
1
Ronda 6?
6
GM
Ivanchuk Vassily
2741
-
GM
Short Nigel D
2685
1
5
GM
Bruzon Batista Lazaro
2668
-
GM
Dominguez Perez Leinier
2713
2
4
GM
Alekseev Evgeny
2700
-
GM
Nepomniachtchi Ian
2695
3
Ronda 7?
4
GM
Alekseev Evgeny
2700
-
GM
Ivanchuk Vassily
2741
6
3
GM
Nepomniachtchi Ian
2695
-
GM
Bruzon Batista Lazaro
2668
5
2
GM
Dominguez Perez Leinier
2713
-
GM
Short Nigel D
2685
1
Ronda 8?
6
GM
Ivanchuk Vassily
2741
-
GM
Dominguez Perez Leinier
2713
2
1
GM
Short Nigel D
2685
-
GM
Nepomniachtchi Ian
2695
3
5
GM
Bruzon Batista Lazaro
2668
-
GM
Alekseev Evgeny
2700
4
Ronda 9?
SNo.

Nombre
Elo
Res.

Nombre
Elo
SNo.
5
GM
Bruzon Batista Lazaro
2668
-
GM
Ivanchuk Vassily
2741
6
4
GM
Alekseev Evgeny
2700
-
GM
Short Nigel D
2685
1
3
GM
Nepomniachtchi Ian
2695
-
GM
Dominguez Perez Leinier
2713
2
Ronda 10?
6
GM
Ivanchuk Vassily
2741
-
GM
Nepomniachtchi Ian
2695
3
2
GM
Dominguez Perez Leinier
2713
-
GM
Alekseev Evgeny
2700
4
1
GM
Short Nigel D
2685
-
GM
Bruzon Batista Lazaro
2668
5
 
2010-06-11T21:00:00+01:00
 
 
 
Thailand Open
108 players in Bangkok until April 20th.
Players whose ELO are over 500 are :
1.Short Nigel D ENG 2686
2.Hansen Sune Berg DEN 2556
3.Dzhumaev Marat UZB 2525
 
Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:20:39 +0200
 
 
 
Surfing on the Net: settembre 2009

update 17 settembre

Anversa, Belgio – L’InventiChess (dallo sponsor Inventi, società che opera in campo finanziario) giunge alla terza edizione con un “chiuso” di sicuro interesse. Questi i partecipanti:

GM Etienne Bacrot France 2709
GM Gabriel Sargissian Armenia 2678
GM Emil Sutovsky Israel 2676
GM Krishnan Sasikiran India 2661
GM Bartosz Socko Poland 2637
GM David Howell England 2624
GM Jan Timman The Netherlands 2588
IM Anna Muzychuk Slovenia 2542
GM Antoaneta Stefanova Bulgaria 2535
IM Bart Michiels Belgium 2451

Cat. XV. Media Elo 2610

Quindi tra i partecipanti il TopPlayer è Bacrot che ha da poco concluso un buon torneo in Canada, anche se è arrivato secondo dietro Naiditsch; Sargissian dopo l’ottimo risultato nella Politiken Cup ha ancora una volta nel mirino “quota 2700”; Sutovsky viene da un rovinoso Campionato a squadre serbo; Sasikiran invece la soglia dei 2700 l’ha già superata in passato, ma nel 2009 non ha ancora colto risultati brillanti.


"Gabriellino" Sargissian,
facile pronosticargli un ruolo da protagonista

La presenza di due ottime giocatrici, Anna Muzychuk ancora in crescita e la Stefanova già piuttosto stabilizzata ad alto livello, costituisce un ulteriore motivo d’interesse.
Il 23enne belga Bart Michiels è in cerca del titolo di GM, lui che già a 17 anni era un Over2400, ma gioca relativamente poco, probabilmente non ha ancora compiuto una scelta in senso professionistico.


Si gioca dal 18 al 26 settembre, con una cadenza 40 mosse in 90’ + 30’ per finire, sempre con 30” d’abbuono.
L’edizione del 2008 venne vinta da Bu Xiangzhi, quella del 2007 da Miroshnichenko.

Sito ufficiale (prevista la trasmissione live)

[runner – 17/09]


JinZhou, Cina – Due tornei di altissimo livello si disputano dal 17 al 25 settembre (giorno di riposo il 21): il Maotai Prince Cup China National Chess King e il suo omologo femminile il Chess Queen. Rigorosamente riservati a Cinesi che però hanno schierato il meglio a disposizione. Queste le due liste di partecipanti:

Chess King:
1 Wang, Yue g 2736 1987
2 Bu, Xiangzhi g 2702 1985
3 Ni, Hua g 2692 1983
4 Wang, Hao g 2690 1989
5 Zhou, Jianchao g 2623 1988
6 Li, Chao b g 2617 1989
7 Zhang, Pengxiang g 2616 1980
8 Ding, Liren 2530


Ding Liren, la più interessante "Rising Star" cinese del momento:
ma sarà estremamente difficile per il Campione in carica cinese ripetersi:
il Chess King è addirittura più forte del Campionato Cinese assoluto!
 
Chess Queen:
1 Hou, Yifan g 2585 1994
2 Zhao, Xue g 2542 1985
3 Ruan Lufei wg 2486 1987
4 Xu Yuhua g 2486 1976
5 Shen Yang wg 2453 1989
6 Ju Wenjun 2443 1991
7 Tan Zhongyi 2435 1991
8 Huang Qian wg 2424 1986


Zhao Xue, la principale alternativa a Hou Yifan


Trasmissione live

Risultati e classifiche su ChessResults

[runner – 16/09]


Sunny Beach, Bulgaria - Sulle rive del Mar Nero si disputa l'8^ edizione del Memorial Kesarovski - Georgiev (appassionati giocatori,divulgatori e mecenati degli scacchi in Bulgaria). Il lotto dei partecipanti è capitanato da Valentin Iotov (2578) ma l'interesse degli scacchisti italiani va soprattutto alla partecipazione di Carlo Marzano, recente autore di una prestazione maiuscola all'Open di Vienna, con norma di IM sfiorata. Si gioca dal 7 al 13 settembre, nove turni con due doppi turni, il 9 e l'11.



Sito ufficiale che prevede la diretta di alcune partite

[runner – 08/09]


Cali, Colombia - Martha Fierro
ha conquistato il titolo di Campionessa Continentale d'America.

Congratulazioni!!


Martha Fierro
Campionessa d'America 2009


[runner – 07/09]


Ningbo, Cina - La seconda edizione del Campionato del Mondo a squadre Femminile si svolge in casa della nazione detentrice del titolo. Infatti la prima edizione, che si era disputata ad Ekaterinburg in Russia, aveva visto il successo della Cina, davanti alla stessa Russia, all'Ucraina, alla Georgia e alla Polonia (dieci le nazioni partecipanti). Anche quest'anno alla manifestazione partecipano dieci nazioni, anzi nove, visto che la Cina annovera due rappresentative.

Ecco le componenti delle squadre di questa edizione:

Cina A 2490

1 GM Hou Yifan 2584
2 GM Zhao Xue 2544
3 WGM Shen Yang 2453
4 Ju Wenjun 2443
5 WGM Huang Qian 2424


Hou Yifan, la "star" della manifestazione

Georgia 2474

1 GM Chiburdanidze, Maia 2506
2 GM Dzagnidze, Nana 2536
3 IM Javakhishvili, Lela 2470
4 IM Lomineishvili, Maia 2427
5 IM Khukhashvili, Sopiko 2430

Russia 2468

1 IM Tatiana Kosintseva 2539
2 IM Nadezhda Kosintseva 2482
3 IM Ekaterina Kovalevskaya 2436
4 IM Marina Romanko 2447
5 IM Valentina Gunina 2437

Ucraina 2444

1 IM Anna Ushenina 2478
2 WGM Natalia Zhukova 2461
3 IM Yanovska Inna 2428
4 IM Maria Muzychuk 2441
5 WGM Natalya Zdebska 2412

India 2390

1 IM Harika Dronavalli 2474
2 IM Tania Sachdev 2423
3 WGM Kruttika Nadig 2361
4 WGM Eesha Karavade 2359
5 WGM Gomes Mary Ann 2332

Polonia 2378

1 IM Iweta Rajlich 2448
2 WGM Jolanta Zawadzka 2387
3 WGM Joanna Majdan 2382
4 IM Joanna Dworakowska 2345
5 WIM Karina Szczepkowska-Horowska 2327

USA 2372

1 IM Irina Krush 2458
2 IM Anna Zatonskih 2466
3 IM Rusudan Goletiani 2391
4 WIM Alisa Melekhina 2270
5 WFM Tatev Abrahamian 2273

Armenia 2372

1 IM Elina Danielian 2503
2 IM Lilit Mkrtchian 2479
3 WGM Lilit Galojan 2323
4 WGM Nelli Aginian 2322
5 WIM Siranush Andriasian 2235

Cina B 2356

1 Tan Zhongyi 2435
2 WIM Zhang Xiaowen 2391
3 IM Wang Yu 2380
4 WFM Ding Yixin 2343
5 Wang Xiaohui 2231

Vietnam 2177

1 WGM Hoang Thi Bao Tram 2274
2 WIM Pham Le Thao Nguyen 2314
3 WFM Hoang Thi Nhu 2119
4 WFM Pham Bich Ngoc 2105
5 WFM Vo Thi Kim Phung 2073

La Cina A è la netta favorita: anche recentemente, nel match Russia-Cina, le Cinesi hanno ribadito la loro eccellenza.
Da notare tra le Top Players la mancanza, abbastanza scontata, di Koneru Humpy nell'India e di Alexandra Kosteniuk nella Russia; un po' meno scontate le assenze della Pogonina (sempre nella Russia), della Xu Yuhua (nella Cina), di Kateryna Lahno (nell'Ucraina) e di Monika Socko (nella Polonia).

Update: vince Cina1!


Sito ufficiale con trasmissione live delle partite

[runner – 04/09]




Kragujevac, Serbia - Dodici giocatori con Elo pari o superiore a 2600 costituiscono il biglietto da visita di questa edizione del Campionato Serbo a squadre. Questi i Top Players (con squadra d'appartenenza e posizione di scacchiera):

1 GM Rublevsky Sergei 2703 RUS SSK SK Premier 1
2 GM Miroshnichenko Evgenij 2690 UKR Beograd Beopublikum 1
3 GM Bologan Viktor 2688 MDA Politika PEP 1
4 GM Sutovsky Emil 2676 ISR Novosadski sah klub DDOR 1
5 GM Berkes Ferenc 2663 HUN Spartak Merkur 1
6 GM Sokolov Ivan 2657 BIH VSK Sveti Nikolaj Srpski 1
7 GM Efimenko Zahar 2654 UKR Radnicki 1
8 GM Predojevic Borki 2654 BIH Nis 1
9 GM Sakaev Konstantin 2625 RUS Sloga Amiga 1
10 GM Ivanisevic Ivan 2614 SRB VSK Sveti Nikolaj Srpski 2
11 GM Markus Robert 2608 SRB Novosadski sah klub DDOR 3
12 GM Vuckovic Bojan 2600 SRB Beograd Beopublikum 2


Sergei Rublevsky


La squadra favorita dovrebbe essere il VSK Sveti Nikolaj Srpski (media Elo sulle prime sei scacchiere 2581), con Ivan Sokolov in prima scacchiera e le "spalle coperte" da Ivan Ivanisevic; ma certo la Novosadski sah klub DDOR ("solo" 2580" come media Elo) non starà a guardare, con gente come Sutovsky; può inserirsi in questa lotta per il primato la SSK SK Premier di Rublevsky. Della partita anche il simpatico Nenad Aleksic, schierato in sesta scacchiera nel Radnicki, squadra guidata da Efimenko.



Update: vince VSK Sveti Nikolaj Srpski

Si gioca dal primo all'11 settembre, prevista la diretta online sul sito ufficiale

[runner – 03/09]




Ulan-Udè, Russia – Si svolge in Siberia il Campionato Russo valido per l’accesso alla SuperFinale che si terrà in dicembre a Mosca. Clamoroso il livello qualitativo dei partecipanti, con una trentina di giocatori Over2600!
Questa la TopTen:

1 GM Motylev Alexander 2710
2 GM Tomashevsky Evgeny 2688
3 GM Grachev, Boris 2684
4 GM Najer Evgeniy 2681
5 GM Vitiugov Nikita 2681
6 GM Kurnosov Igor 2669
7 GM Timofeev Artyom 2668
8 GM Inarkiev Ernesto 2664
9 GM Dreev Alexei 2662
10 GM Andreikin Dmitry 2659


Alexander Motylev, il n°1,
già sconfitto al primo turno...

Tra gli altri uno come Nepomniachtchi (2632) è solo al 18° posto del tabellone di questa che dovrebbe essere una Semifinale!

Previsti 11 turni; cadenza “importante”: 100’ x 40 mosse + 50’ x 20 + 15’ per finire, sempre con l’abbuono di 30” a mossa.
Montepremi 2.500.000 rubli.

Si gioca dal 2 al 13 settembre, giorno di riposo l’8.

Update: vince Evgeny Tomashevsky!





Sito ufficiale

[runner – 02/09]




Kolkata, India – In una delle città più orientali dell’India, meglio conosciuta come Calcutta, si disputa il 4° Kolkata Open con una partecipazione di livello elevato, guidata da Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. Ecco i giocatori Over2600:

1 GM Mamedyarov Shakhriyar AZE 2721
2 GM Short Nigel D ENG 2706
3 GM Ni Hua CHN 2692
4 GM Tkachiev Vladislav FRA 2669
5 GM Guseinov Gadir AZE 2667
6 GM Postny Evgeny ISR 2651
7 GM Aleksandrov Aleksej BLR 2639
8 GM Ganguly Surya Shekhar IND 2634
9 GM Laznicka Viktor CZE 2634
10 GM Mamedov Rauf AZE 2626
11 GM Negi Parimarjan IND 2615
12 GM Mchedlishvili Mikheil GEO 2613
13 GM Sandipan Chanda IND 2611
14 GM Le Quang Liem VIE 2602


Shakhriyar Mamedyarov

Ritorno dunque alle competizioni a cadenza classica per Mamedyarov, dopo la polemica con Kurnosov e il suo conseguente abbandono dell’Aeroflot. Short partecipa spesso agli open indiani, vedremo se saprà confermare il suo momento di forma. Presente anche il recente Campione di Francia Tkachiev. Giocatori di vaglia e motivati, ma si sa gli open indiani nascondono sempre insidie, con giovani emergenti pronti a cogliere lo “scalpo” importante.

Il torneo si disputa dal primo settembre al 10 settembre, previsti dieci turni.
Montepremi di complessivi 20.000 dollari, di cui 6.000 riservati al primo classificato.

Update: vince Le Quang Liem!


Sito ufficiale

[runner – 02/09]



Montreal, Canada – La decima edizione del Torneo Internazionale di Montreal si attesta sulla XV Cat. (media Elo 2615), ottimo livello dunque anche se inferiore all’edizione 2007, quella vinta da Ivanchuk. Questi i partecipanti:

Étienne Bacrot GM (France) 2721
Alexander Onischuk GM (États-Unis - USA) 2699
Arkady Naiditsch GM (Allemagne - Germany) 2697
Alexander Moiseenko GM (Ukraine) 2682
Sergei Tiviakov GM (Hollande - Netherland) 2674
Yuri Shulman GM (États-Unis - USA) 2648
Varuzhan Akobian GM (États-Unis - USA) 2626
Anton Kovalyov GM (Argentine - Argentina - Canada) 2572
Mark Bluvshtein GM (Canada) 2558
Sébastien Mazé GM (France) 2546
Thomas Roussel-Roozmon MI (Cananda) 2487
Vinay Bhat GM (États-Unis - USA) 2473



Etienne Bacrot, in testa dopo la prima metà del torneo

Update: vince
Arkady Naiditsch!


Si gioca dal 27 agosto al 7 settembre.

Sito ufficiale

[runner – 01/09]



Calendario dei principali eventi internazionali nel mese di settembre

by runner:


31/08-10/09 Campionati Europei Giovanili - Fermo, Italia

01-12/09 Women's World Team Chess Championship - Ningbo, Cina

06-12/09 Finale Grande Slam – Bilbao, Spagna (con Aronian, Grischuk, Karjakin e Shirov)

10-18/09 Campionati del Mediterraneo - Rijeka, Croatia

18-26/09 InventiChess 2009 - Anversa, Belgio (con Bacrot, Bu Xiangzhi, Sasikiran, Sargissian, Timman, ecc.)

24/09-03/10 World Youth Under-16 Chess Olympiad - Akhisar, Turchia

27/09-09/10 Nanjing Pearl Spring Chess Tournament - Nanchino, Cina (con Topalov, Carlsen, Leko, Radjabov, Jakovenko e Wang Yue)


World Chess News
Actualités Echiquénnes
Noticias de Ajedrez en el Mundo

 
2009-09-14T22:30:00+01:00
 
 
 
Thailand Open Chess Championship - final
Final standings, top 3
  Player Country Points
1 Xiu Deshun CHN 8
2 Moradiabadi Elshan IRI 7,5
3 Short Nigel ENG 7
 
Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:43:58 +0200
 
 
 
Les tournois d'échecs qui ont été suivi par Zenman. Parties d'échecs visualisables et téléchargeable

"GENS UNA SUMUS" nous sommes une même famille, maxime de la FIDE.

Corus Chess 2009 Sergei Karjakin
XXIX Open International de Béthune Vainqueur Azarov Sergeï
Super Tournoi d'échecs à Nanjing en Chine Vainqueur Veselin Topalov
Olympiades d'échecs 2008 Dresde Allemagne Vainqueur chez les hommes l'Arménie et chez les femmes la Géorgie
Championnat du Monde de Blitz 2008 Vainqueur Leinier Domiguez Perez
Cap d'Agde 2008 Vainqueur Hikaru Nakamura
Le Championnat du Monde 2008: Match Anand - Kramnik Vainqueur Anand Viswanathan
Coupe d Europe d Echecs des clubs 2008
3e « Circuit des Espoirs » Europe-Echecs Vainqueur Sophie Milliet
EUROPEAN YOUTH CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 2008
Championnat du Monde Féminin 2008 à Nalchick Vainqueur Alexandra Kosteniuk
4th EU Individual Open Chess Championships 2008 Vainqueur le GMI Jan Werle
Final Chess Masters Bilbao 2008 Vainqueur le GMI Vesselin Topalov
Mémorial Tal 2008 à Moscou Vainqueur le GMI Vassily Ivanchuk
Championnat de France 2008 Vainqueur le GMI Etienne Bacrot
Fide Grand Prix 2008 2009 de Sochi Vainqueur le GMI arménien Levon Aronian
Open International de Charleroi 2008 Vainqueur: GMI slovaque Jan Plachetka et l'open, le MI français Vincent Colin
Open International d'Andorre 2008 Vainqueur le GMI le GMI anglais Howell,David W L
Open International de Gand
Vainqueur le MI Geert Van der Stricht

Championnat de Belgique 2008 Vainqueur le MI Laurent Bruno
Championnat International de Paris 2008 Vainqueur le GMI Vachier-Lagrave
Circuits Espoirs Europe Echecs 2008 Vainqueur le MI Edouard Romain
AEROSVIT 2008 Vainqueur le GMI Magnus Carlsen
King's Bazna 2008 Vainqueur le GMI Short Nigel
Torneo Magistral de Ajedrez 2008 Vainqueur le GMI Ivanchuk Vassily
Interclubs nationaux division 1 en Belgique saison 2007-2008
M-Tel Masters Chess à Sofia 2008 Vainqueur le GMI Ivanchuk Vassily
Fide Grand Prix à Bakou 2008-2009 Vainqueur le GMI Gashimov Vugar
European Individual Chess Championship, Coupe d'Europe d'échecs individuel à Plovdiv Bulgarie 2008
Championnat d'échecs de la Jeunesse à Ostende 2008 et Tanguy Ringoir Tanguy Ringoir 2
Le Chess Ladies Open à Stockholm en Suède 2008 Vainqueur la WGM Muzychuk Mariya 2357
Le 17e Tournoi d'échecs d'Amber à Nice 2008, Amberchess 2008 Vainqueur le GMI Aronian Levon
XXV Tournoi d'échecs de Morelia-Linares 2008 Vainqueur le GMI Anand Wiswanathan
Open international d'échecs de Cappelle-La-Grande 2008 Vainqueur le GMI Vugar Gashimov
Tournoi de Corus à Wijk aan Zee 2008 Vainqueur le GMI Aronian Levon
Chess World Cup 2007 Vainqueur le GMI Kamsky Gata
Super finale du Championnat d'échecs de Russie 2007, hommes et femmes
Mémorial Tal Moscou du 10/11/2007 au 19 toutes les parties d'échecs Vainqueur le GMI Kramnik Vladimir
Le Championnat d'Europe d'échecs des Nations 2007
Le Championnat du Monde d'échecs 2007 Vainqueur le GMI Wiswanathan Anand
Et les victoires en vidéos ainsi que mes nulles préférées

 
Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:00:00 +0000
 
 
 
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
 
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:02:00 +0000
 
 
 
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
 
Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:42:53 +0000
 
 
 
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
 
Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:57:23 +0000
 
 
 
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:




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
 
 
 
Topalov breaking 2800 again

Here are the top performers of the Open Olympiad after 9 rounds

No.
NameRtgTeamRpPts.Games%Bo.
1BULGMTopalov Veselin2791Bulgaria29696,5792,91
2ARMGMSargissian Gabriel2642Armenia29508,0988,93
3EGYFMAbdel Razik Khaled2406Egypt29297,07100,05
4ISRGMGelfand Boris2719Israel28756,5881,31
5SVKGMMovsesian Sergei2732Slovakia28486,0785,71
6ISRGMRodshtein Maxim2609Israel28436,0785,75
7ENGGMShort Nigel D2642England28276,5881,32
8RUSGMJakovenko Dmitry2737Russia28095,5778,65
9ARMGMAkopian Vladimir2679Armenia28006,5972,22
10UZBGMKasimdzhanov Rustam2672Uzbekistan27965,5778,61

Women's Olympiad

No.
NameRtgTeamRpPts.Games%Bo.
1GEOGMChiburdanidze Maia2489Georgia26575,5778,61
2CHNWGMHou Yifan2578China26547,0977,81
3ECUIMFierro Baquero Martha L2361Ecuador26137,5893,81
4CUBWIMLinares Napoles Oleiny2261Cuba26038,5994,44
5UKRWGMZdebskaja Natalia2419Ukraine25906,5792,95
6USAIMZatonskih Anna2440United States of America25866,5881,32
7POLIMSocko Monika2434Poland25825,5868,81
8AUTIMMoser Eva2376Austria25767,0887,51
9POLWIMMajdan Joanna2284Poland25687,5983,34
10NEDGMPeng Zhaoqin2455Netherlands25565,5868,81

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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:



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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US knocked Russia out of Gold medal race

Women's Olympiad

Round 8 on 2008/11/21 at 15:00
Bo.2UKR Ukraine (UKR)Rtg-3CHN China (CHN)Rtg2 : 2
1.1GMLahno Kateryna2488-WGMHou Yifan2578½ - ½
1.2WGMZhukova Natalia2488-GMZhao Xue25180 - 1
1.3IMUshenina Anna2496-WGMShen Yang2450½ - ½
1.4IMGaponenko Inna2473-
Ju Wenjun23971 - 0
Bo.12GER Germany 1 (GER1)Rtg-46EST Estonia (EST)Rtg2 : 2
2.1IMPaehtz Elisabeth2471-WIMTsiganova Monika22081 - 0
2.2WGMMichna Marta2399-WFMGansvind Valeriya I22120 - 1
2.3WFMOhme Melanie2237-WIMBashkite Viktoria21291 - 0
2.4WFMHoolt Sarah2274-
Vahtra Tuuli19610 - 1
Bo.7USA United States of America (USA)Rtg-1RUS Russia (RUS)Rtg3 : 1
3.1IMKrush Irina2452-GMKosteniuk Alexandra25251 - 0
3.2IMZatonskih Anna2440-IMKosintseva Tatiana25131 - 0
3.3WGMGoletiani Rusudan2359-IMKosintseva Nadezhda2468½ - ½
3.4WGMRohonyan Katerina2334-IMKorbut Ekaterina2459½ - ½
Bo.9POL Poland (POL)Rtg-8HUN Hungary (HUN)Rtg3 : 1
4.1IMSocko Monika2434-GMHoang Thanh Trang2483½ - ½
4.2IMRajlich Iweta2404-IMVajda Szidonia23801 - 0
4.3WGMZawadzka Jolanta2378-IMMadl Ildiko2376½ - ½
4.4WIMMajdan Joanna2284-WGMRudolf Anna23181 - 0
Bo.11IND India (IND)Rtg-10SRB Serbia (SRB)Rtg1½:2½
5.1IMHarika Dronavalli2462-IMMaric Alisa24051 - 0
5.2IMTania Sachdev2425-IMBojkovic Natasa24200 - 1
5.3WGMSwathi Ghate2320-WGMStojanovic Andjelija2357½ - ½
5.4WGMGomes Mary Ann2298-WGMChelushkina Irina23600 - 1

Open Olympiad

Round 8 on 2008/11/21 at 15:00
Bo.7FRA France (FRA)Rtg-9ARM Armenia (ARM)Rtg½ :3½
1.1GMBacrot Etienne2705-GMAronian Levon2757½ - ½
1.2GMVachier-Lagrave Maxime2716-GMAkopian Vladimir26790 - 1
1.3GMFressinet Laurent2676-GMSargissian Gabriel26420 - 1
1.4GMTkachiev Vladislav2664-GMPetrosian Tigran L26290 - 1
Bo.8ISR Israel (ISR)Rtg-11GER Germany 1 (GER1)Rtg2½:1½
2.1GMGelfand Boris2719-GMNaiditsch Arkadij26781 - 0
2.2GMRoiz Michael2677-GMKhenkin Igor2647½ - ½
2.3GMAvrukh Boris2657-GMFridman Daniel2630½ - ½
2.4GMPostny Evgeny2674-GMBaramidze David2557½ - ½
Bo.10USA United States of America (USA)Rtg-1RUS Russia (RUS)Rtg1½:2½
3.1GMKamsky Gata2729-GMSvidler Peter27271 - 0
3.2GMNakamura Hikaru2704-GMGrischuk Alexander27190 - 1
3.3GMOnischuk Alexander2644-GMMorozevich Alexander2787½ - ½
3.4GMAkobian Varuzhan2606-GMJakovenko Dmitry27370 - 1
Bo.3CHN China (CHN)Rtg-37VIE Vietnam (VIE)Rtg2 : 2
4.1GMBu Xiangzhi2714-GMNguyen Ngoc Truong Son2567½ - ½
4.2GMNi Hua2710-GMLe Quang Liem2583½ - ½
4.3GMWang Hao2696-GMDao Thien Hai25100 - 1
4.4GMLi Chao B2622-GMTu Hoang Thong24961 - 0
Bo.2UKR Ukraine (UKR)Rtg-71NZL New Zealand (NZL)Rtg4 : 0
5.1GMIvanchuk Vassily2786-GMChandler Murray G25151 - 0
5.2GMEljanov Pavel2720-IMDive Russell John23571 - 0
5.3GMEfimenko Zahar2680-FMSmith Robert W23161 - 0
5.4GMVolokitin Andrei2659-FMNokes Roger I22931 - 0
Bo.4AZE Azerbaijan (AZE)Rtg-24CRO Croatia (CRO)Rtg2½:1½
6.1GMRadjabov Teimour2752-GMPalac Mladen2583½ - ½
6.2GMGashimov Vugar2703-GMKozul Zdenko2593½ - ½
6.3GMHuseynov Gadir2650-GMZelcic Robert25891 - 0
6.4GMMammadov Rauf2631-GMStevic Hrvoje2588½ - ½
Bo.6BUL Bulgaria (BUL)Rtg-23BLR Belarus (BLR)Rtg2 : 2
7.1GMTopalov Veselin2791-GMZhigalko Sergei25921 - 0
7.2GMCheparinov Ivan2696-GMAleksandrov Aleksej26170 - 1
7.3GMGeorgiev Kiril2645-GMFedorov Alexei2584½ - ½
7.4GMDelchev Aleksander2632-GMZhigalko Andrey2568½ - ½
Bo.15ENG England (ENG)Rtg-17GEO Georgia (GEO)Rtg2½:1½
8.1GMAdams Michael2734-GMJobava Baadur2664½ - ½
8.2GMShort Nigel D2642-GMIzoria Zviad26101 - 0
8.3GMHowell David W L2593-GMMchedlishvili Mikheil2615½ - ½
8.4GMJones Gawain C B2548-GMPantsulaia Levan2580½ - ½
Bo.25SVK Slovakia (SVK)Rtg-27GRE Greece (GRE)Rtg3 : 1
9.1GMMovsesian Sergei2732-GMPapaioannou Ioannis25971 - 0
9.2GMFtacnik Lubomir2571-GMKotronias Vasilios2587½ - ½
9.3GMMarkos Jan2557-GMHalkias Stelios25841 - 0
9.4IMVavrak Peter2478-GMMastrovasilis Dimitrios2572½ - ½
Bo.50TUR Turkey (TUR)Rtg-21POL Poland (POL)Rtg1½:2½
10.1GMGurevich Mikhail2634-GMMiton Kamil2604½ - ½
10.2IMCan Emre2464-GMWojtaszek Radoslaw25990 - 1
10.3IMErdogdu Mert2449-GMGajewski Grzegorz25771 - 0
10.4FMYilmaz Mustafa2387-GMBartel Mateusz26020 - 1

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Russia vs USA in both Olympiads

Board Pairings

Round 8 on 2008/11/21 at 15:00
Bo.7FRA France (FRA)Rtg-9ARM Armenia (ARM)Rtg0 : 0
1.1GMBacrot Etienne2705-GMAronian Levon2757
1.2GMVachier-Lagrave Maxime2716-GMAkopian Vladimir2679
1.3GMFressinet Laurent2676-GMSargissian Gabriel2642
1.4GMTkachiev Vladislav2664-GMPetrosian Tigran L2629
Bo.8ISR Israel (ISR)Rtg-11GER Germany 1 (GER1)Rtg0 : 0
2.1GMGelfand Boris2719-GMNaiditsch Arkadij2678
2.2GMRoiz Michael2677-GMKhenkin Igor2647
2.3GMAvrukh Boris2657-GMFridman Daniel2630
2.4GMPostny Evgeny2674-GMBaramidze David2557
Bo.10USA United States of America (USA)Rtg-1RUS Russia (RUS)Rtg0 : 0
3.1GMKamsky Gata2729-GMSvidler Peter2727
3.2GMNakamura Hikaru2704-GMGrischuk Alexander2719
3.3GMOnischuk Alexander2644-GMMorozevich Alexander2787
3.4GMAkobian Varuzhan2606-GMJakovenko Dmitry2737
Bo.3CHN China (CHN)Rtg-37VIE Vietnam (VIE)Rtg0 : 0
4.1GMBu Xiangzhi2714-GMNguyen Ngoc Truong Son2567
4.2GMNi Hua2710-GMLe Quang Liem2583
4.3GMWang Hao2696-GMDao Thien Hai2510
4.4GMLi Chao B2622-GMTu Hoang Thong2496
Bo.2UKR Ukraine (UKR)Rtg-71NZL New Zealand (NZL)Rtg0 : 0
5.1GMIvanchuk Vassily2786-GMChandler Murray G2515
5.2GMEljanov Pavel2720-IMDive Russell John2357
5.3GMEfimenko Zahar2680-FMSmith Robert W2316
5.4GMVolokitin Andrei2659-FMNokes Roger I2293
Bo.4AZE Azerbaijan (AZE)Rtg-24CRO Croatia (CRO)Rtg0 : 0
6.1GMRadjabov Teimour2752-GMPalac Mladen2583
6.2GMGashimov Vugar2703-GMKozul Zdenko2593
6.3GMHuseynov Gadir2650-GMZelcic Robert2589
6.4GMMammadov Rauf2631-GMStevic Hrvoje2588
Bo.6BUL Bulgaria (BUL)Rtg-23BLR Belarus (BLR)Rtg0 : 0
7.1GMTopalov Veselin2791-GMZhigalko Sergei2592
7.2GMCheparinov Ivan2696-GMAleksandrov Aleksej2617
7.3GMGeorgiev Kiril2645-GMFedorov Alexei2584
7.4GMDelchev Aleksander2632-GMZhigalko Andrey2568
Bo.15ENG England (ENG)Rtg-17GEO Georgia (GEO)Rtg0 : 0
8.1GMAdams Michael2734-GMJobava Baadur2664
8.2GMShort Nigel D2642-GMIzoria Zviad2610
8.3GMHowell David W L2593-GMMchedlishvili Mikheil2615
8.4GMJones Gawain C B2548-GMPantsulaia Levan2580
Bo.25SVK Slovakia (SVK)Rtg-27GRE Greece (GRE)Rtg0 : 0
9.1GMMovsesian Sergei2732-GMPapaioannou Ioannis2597
9.2GMFtacnik Lubomir2571-GMKotronias Vasilios2587
9.3GMMarkos Jan2557-GMHalkias Stelios2584
9.4IMVavrak Peter2478-GMMastrovasilis Dimitrios2572
Bo.50TUR Turkey (TUR)Rtg-21POL Poland (POL)Rtg0 : 0
10.1GMGurevich Mikhail2634-GMMiton Kamil2604
10.2IMCan Emre2464-GMWojtaszek Radoslaw2599
10.3IMErdogdu Mert2449-GMGajewski Grzegorz2577
10.4FMYilmaz Mustafa2387-GMBartel Mateusz2602
Bo.28SLO Slovenia (SLO)Rtg-13IND India (IND)Rtg0 : 0
11.1GMBeliavsky Alexander G2619-GMSasikiran Krishnan2694
11.2GMPavasovic Dusko2597-GMHarikrishna P2659
11.3GMLenic Luka2569-GMGeetha Narayanan Gopal2548
11.4IMBorisek Jure2548-GMSandipan Chanda2579
Bo.14ROU Romania (ROU)Rtg-22SRB Serbia (SRB)Rtg0 : 0
12.1GMNisipeanu Liviu-Dieter2684-GMIvanisevic Ivan2658
12.2GMIstratescu Andrei2633-GMSolak Dragan2595
12.3GMParligras Mircea2611-GMKovacevic Aleksandar2581
12.4GMLupulescu Constantin2594-GMPerunovic Milos2580
Bo.5HUN Hungary (HUN)Rtg-44ITA Italy (ITA)Rtg0 : 0
13.1GMLeko Peter2747-GMCaruana Fabiano2640
13.2GMPolgar Judit2711-GMGodena Michele2517
13.3GMAlmasi Zoltan2663-IMBrunello Sabino2455
13.4GMBerkes Ferenc2645-IMRombaldoni Denis2436
Bo.20NED Netherlands (NED)Rtg-38PHI Philippines (PHI)Rtg0 : 0
14.1GMVan Wely Loek2618-GMVillamayor Buenaventura2468
14.2GMSmeets Jan2604-GMSo Wesley2610
14.3GMStellwagen Daniel2605-IMGomez John Paul2519
14.4GMWerle Jan2582-GMLaylo Darwin2507
Bo.19NOR Norway (NOR)Rtg-18CZE Czech Republic (CZE)Rtg0 : 0
15.1GMCarlsen Magnus2786-GMNavara David2633
15.2GMAgdestein Simen2588-GMHracek Zbynek2613
15.3GMJohannessen Leif Erlend2545-GMLaznicka Viktor2591
15.4IMHammer Jon Ludvig2522-GMBabula Vlastimil2608

Round 8 on 2008/11/21 at 15:00
Bo.2UKR Ukraine (UKR)Rtg-3CHN China (CHN)Rtg0 : 0
1.1GMLahno Kateryna2488-WGMHou Yifan2578
1.2WGMZhukova Natalia2488-GMZhao Xue2518
1.3IMUshenina Anna2496-WGMShen Yang2450
1.4IMGaponenko Inna2473-
Ju Wenjun2397
Bo.12GER Germany 1 (GER1)Rtg-46EST Estonia (EST)Rtg0 : 0
2.1IMPaehtz Elisabeth2471-WIMTsiganova Monika2208
2.2WGMMichna Marta2399-WFMGansvind Valeriya I2212
2.3WFMOhme Melanie2237-WIMBashkite Viktoria2129
2.4WFMHoolt Sarah2274-
Vahtra Tuuli1961
Bo.7USA United States of America (USA)Rtg-1RUS Russia (RUS)Rtg0 : 0
3.1IMKrush Irina2452-GMKosteniuk Alexandra2525
3.2IMZatonskih Anna2440-IMKosintseva Tatiana2513
3.3WGMGoletiani Rusudan2359-IMKosintseva Nadezhda2468
3.4WGMRohonyan Katerina2334-IMKorbut Ekaterina2459
Bo.9POL Poland (POL)Rtg-8HUN Hungary (HUN)Rtg0 : 0
4.1IMSocko Monika2434-GMHoang Thanh Trang2483
4.2IMRajlich Iweta2404-IMVajda Szidonia2380
4.3WGMZawadzka Jolanta2378-IMMadl Ildiko2376
4.4WIMMajdan Joanna2284-WGMRudolf Anna2318
Bo.11IND India (IND)Rtg-10SRB Serbia (SRB)Rtg0 : 0
5.1IMHarika Dronavalli2462-IMMaric Alisa2405
5.2IMTania Sachdev2425-IMBojkovic Natasa2420
5.3WGMSwathi Ghate2320-WGMStojanovic Andjelija2357
5.4WGMGomes Mary Ann2298-WGMChelushkina Irina2360
Bo.32MDA Moldova (MDA)Rtg-4GEO Georgia (GEO)Rtg0 : 0
6.1IMPetrenko Svetlana2285-GMChiburdanidze Maia2489
6.2WGMSmokina Karolina2235-IMDzagnidze Nana2503
6.3WGMPartac Elena2168-IMJavakhishvili Lela2473
6.4WIMBulmaga Irina2287-IMKhukhashvili Sopiko2409
Bo.5FRA France (FRA)Rtg-43UZB Uzbekistan (UZB)Rtg0 : 0
7.1IMSkripchenko Almira2455-
Muminova Nafisa2240
7.2IMCollas Silvia2352-WIMSabirova O2185
7.3WGMMilliet Sophie2366-
Tokhirjanova Hulkar2106
7.4WGMLeconte Maria2349-
Nodirjanova Nodira2118
Bo.16ROU Romania (ROU)Rtg-17NED Netherlands (NED)Rtg0 : 0
8.1WGMCosma Elena Luminita2340-GMPeng Zhaoqin2455
8.2WGMVoicu Carmen2239-FMSchuurman Petra2324
8.3WIMPaulet Iozefina2307-WIMVan Weersel Arlette2209
8.4WGMMotoc Alina2313-
Schut Lisa2153
Bo.14SLO Slovenia (SLO)Rtg-37ECU Ecuador (ECU)Rtg0 : 0
9.1IMMuzychuk Anna2508-WIMVasquez Ramirez Rocio2284
9.2WGMKrivec Jana2345-WIMMoncayo Romero Evelyn2142
9.3WIMRozic Vesna2293-
Heredia Serrano Carla2105
9.4WFMNovak Ksenija2163-
Rojas Solano Jessenia1959
Bo.28AZE Azerbaijan (AZE)Rtg-6ARM Armenia (ARM)Rtg0 : 0
10.1WGMMamedjarova Zeinab2351-IMDanielian Elina2513
10.2WGMMamedjarova Turkan2269-IMMkrtchian Lilit2443
10.3WIMUmudova Nargiz2219-WGMAginian Nelly2325
10.4
Kazimova Narmin Nizami qizi2171-WIMGalojan Lilit2305

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Individual medal contenders (Open Olympiad)

Open Olympiad

Board 1
Rk.
NameRtgTeamRpGamesPts.
1BULGMTopalov Veselin2791Bulgaria288954,5
2UZBGMKasimdzhanov Rustam2672Uzbekistan282965,0
3INDGMSasikiran Krishnan2694India280764,5
4CHNGMWang Yue2736China279175,0
5FRAGMBacrot Etienne2705France279164,5

Board 2
Rk.
NameRtgTeamRpGamesPts.
1GREGMKotronias Vasilios2587Greece280575,5
2ESPGMVallejo Pons Francisco2664Spain278875,5
3VIEGMLe Quang Liem2583Vietnam278276,0
4ARMGMAkopian Vladimir2679Armenia277475,0
5ENGGMShort Nigel D2642England276364,5

Board 3
Rk.
NameRtgTeamRpGamesPts.
1ARMGMSargissian Gabriel2642Armenia288876,0
2HUNGMAlmasi Zoltan2663Hungary279964,5
3AZEGMGashimov Vugar2703Azerbaijan278764,5
4USAGMOnischuk Alexander2644United States of America274464,5
5NORGMLie Kjetil A2526Norway274164,5

Board 4
Rk.
NameRtgTeamRpGamesPts.
1AUSGMJohansen Darryl K2446Australia284255,0
2BULGMDelchev Aleksander2632Bulgaria278665,5
3ROUGMLupulescu Constantin2594Romania277154,0
4RUSGMMorozevich Alexander2787Russia277064,5
5TURIMHaznedaroglu Kivanc2436Turkey274576,5

Board 5
Rk.
NameRtgTeamRpGamesPts.
1GERGMBaramidze David2557Germany 1281743,5
2EGYFMAbdel Razik Khaled2406Egypt281055,0
3ISRGMRodshtein Maxim2609Israel279165,0
4HUNGMBerkes Ferenc2645Hungary278254,0
5RUSGMJakovenko Dmitry2737Russia276864,5

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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:



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 2719 1 - 0
1.4 GM Petrosian Tigran L 2629 - GM Jakovenko Dmitry 2737 ½ - ½
Bo. 11 GER Germany 1 (GER1) Rtg - 14 ROU 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 CHN China (CHN) Rtg - 2 UKR 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 IND India (IND) Rtg - 7 FRA 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 ISR Israel (ISR) Rtg - 12 ESP 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 USA United States of America (USA) Rtg - 5 HUN 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 ENG England (ENG) Rtg - 4 AZE 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
Bo. 27 GRE Greece (GRE) Rtg - 23 BLR Belarus (BLR) Rtg 2 : 2
8.1 GM Papaioannou Ioannis 2597 - GM Azarov Sergei 2613 1 - 0
8.2 GM Kotronias Vasilios 2587 - GM Zhigalko Sergei 2592 1 - 0
8.3 GM Banikas Hristos 2572 - GM Fedorov Alexei 2584 0 - 1
8.4 GM Mastrovasilis Dimitrios 2572 - GM Zhigalko Andrey 2568 0 - 1
Bo. 37 VIE Vietnam (VIE) Rtg - 20 NED Netherlands (NED) Rtg 2½:1½
9.1 GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son 2567 - GM Van Wely Loek 2618 1 - 0
9.2 GM Le Quang Liem 2583 - GM Smeets Jan 2604 1 - 0
9.3 GM Dao Thien Hai 2510 - GM Stellwagen Daniel 2605 0 - 1
9.4 GM Tu Hoang Thong 2496 - GM L'Ami Erwin 2610 ½ - ½
Bo. 6 BUL Bulgaria (BUL) Rtg - 53 AUS Australia (AUS) Rtg 4 : 0
10.1 GM Topalov Veselin 2791 - GM Zhao Zong-Yuan 2567 1 - 0
10.2 GM Cheparinov Ivan 2696 - IM Smerdon David 2470 1 - 0
10.3 GM Georgiev Kiril 2645 - IM Solomon Stephen J 2470 1 - 0
10.4 GM Delchev Aleksander 2632 - IM Xie George Wendi 2403 1 - 0
Bo. 21 POL Poland (POL) Rtg - 70 MGL Mongolia (MGL) Rtg 3 : 1
11.1 GM Socko Bartosz 2631 -   Gundavaa Bayarsaihan 2458 1 - 0
11.2 GM Miton Kamil 2604 - GM Hatanbaatar Bazar 2375 0 - 1
11.3 GM Wojtaszek Radoslaw 2599 -   Oyunbaatar Tumendemberel 2306 1 - 0
11.4 GM Gajewski Grzegorz 2577 -   Bayarmandah Balgan 2339 1 - 0
Bo. 44 ITA Italy (ITA) Rtg - 30 SWE Sweden (SWE) Rtg 2 : 2
12.1 GM Caruana Fabiano 2640 - GM Berg Emanuel 2623 1 - 0
12.2 GM Godena Michele 2517 - GM Agrest Evgenij 2574 ½ - ½
12.3 IM Shytaj Luca 2472 - GM Hillarp Persson Tiger 2543 0 - 1
12.4 IM Brunello Sabino 2455 - GM Carlsson Pontus 2515 ½ - ½
Bo. 55 BAN Bangladesh (BAN) Rtg - 19 NOR Norway (NOR) Rtg 2 : 2
13.1 GM Rahman Ziaur 2510 - GM Carlsen Magnus 2786 ½ - ½
13.2 GM Hossain Enamul 2494 - GM Lie Kjetil A 2526 1 - 0
13.3 GM Abdulla Al-Rakib 2522 - GM Johannessen Leif Erlend 2545 ½ - ½
13.4 FM Abu Sufian Shakil 2418 - IM Hammer Jon Ludvig 2522 0 - 1
Bo. 66 CRC Costa Rica (CRC) Rtg - 50 TUR Turkey (TUR) Rtg ½ :3½
14.1 GM Ramirez Alejandro 2533 - GM Gurevich Mikhail 2634 ½ - ½
14.2 IM Valdes Leonardo 2401 - IM Can Emre 2464 0 - 1
14.3 IM Hernandez Basante Francisco 2247 - IM Erdogdu Mert 2449 0 - 1
14.4   Vargas Serano Pablo 1978 - IM Haznedaroglu Kivanc 2436 0 - 1
Bo. 71 NZL New Zealand (NZL) Rtg - 29 BIH Bosnia & Herzegovina (BIH) Rtg 2½:1½
15.1 GM Chandler Murray G 2515 - GM Nikolic Predrag 2669 1 - 0
15.2 IM Dive Russell John 2357 - GM Predojevic Borki 2615 0 - 1
15.3 FM Nokes Roger I 2293 - GM Saric Ibro 2559 ½ - ½
15.4 FM Lukey Stephen G 2271 - IM Stojanovic Dalibor 2455 1 - 0


38th Olympiad, Dresden | Round 7 Standings (Open section, top 20)

Rk. SNo Team Team + = - TB1 TB2 TB3 TB4
1 9 Armenia ARM 6 1 0 13 165,0 58,0 20,5
2 11 Germany 1 GER1 5 2 0 12 149,5 59,0 19,0
3 8 Israel ISR 5 2 0 12 141,5 50,0 19,0
4 7 France FRA 5 2 0 12 137,0 55,0 19,0
5 1 Russia RUS 5 1 1 11 155,0 64,0 17,5
6 2 Ukraine UKR 4 3 0 11 149,5 67,0 16,0
7 3 China CHN 5 1 1 11 145,0 57,0 18,0
8 37 Vietnam VIE 5 1 1 11 130,0 50,0 20,0
9 10 United States of America USA 5 1 1 11 116,0 52,0 18,0
10 4 Azerbaijan AZE 4 2 1 10 147,5 62,0 18,5
11 6 Bulgaria BUL 5 0 2 10 147,5 51,0 21,0
12 17 Georgia GEO 5 0 2 10 136,5 57,0 17,5
13 27 Greece GRE 3 4 0 10 133,5 60,0 17,5
14 21 Poland POL 5 0 2 10 133,5 54,0 19,5
15 13 India IND 5 0 2 10 130,0 55,0 17,5
16 14 Romania ROU 5 0 2 10 125,5 54,0 17,5
17 22 Serbia SRB 5 0 2 10 124,0 54,0 17,5
18 28 Slovenia SLO 5 0 2 10 123,0 53,0 18,0
19 50 Turkey TUR 4 2 1 10 122,0 47,0 19,5
20 15 England ENG 4 2 1 10 120,5 57,0 17,0


38th Olympiad, Dresden | Best players after rd 7 (rating perf.; Open section)

No. Title Name Rtg Team Rp Pts. Games % Bo.
1 GM Topalov Veselin 2791 Bulgaria 2889 4,5 5 90,0 1
2 GM Sargissian Gabriel 2642 Armenia 2888 6,0 7 85,7 3
3 GM Johansen Darryl K 2446 Australia 2842 5,0 5 100,0 4
4 GM Kasimdzhanov Rustam 2672 Uzbekistan 2829 5,0 6 83,3 1
5 FM Abdel Razik Khaled 2406 Egypt 2810 5,0 5 100,0 5
6 GM Sasikiran Krishnan 2694 India 2807 4,5 6 75,0 1
7 GM Kotronias Vasilios 2587 Greece 2805 5,5 7 78,6 2
8 GM Almasi Zoltan 2663