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Wang Yue
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China leads the event with 14 match points, France, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Czech Republic and Romania share 2nd place with 13.
Results of top 5 matches of the 8th round
Bo. 7 China (CHN) Rtg – 8 Azerbaijan (AZE) Rtg 3 : 1
1.1 GM Wang, Yue 2718 – GM Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar 2743 ½ – ½
1.2 GM Ding, Liren 2742 – GM Radjabov, Teimour 2724 ½ – ½
1.3 GM Yu, Yangyi 2668 – GM Safarli, Eltaj 2649 1 – 0
1.4 GM Ni, Hua 2666 – GM Guseinov, Gadir 2613 1 – 0
Bo. 32 Romania (ROU) Rtg – 16 Czech Republic (CZE) Rtg 2 : 2
2.1 GM Lupulescu, Constantin 2625 – GM Navara, David 2716 ½ – ½
2.2 GM Parligras, Mircea-Emilian 2574 – GM Laznicka, Viktor 2676 ½ – ½
2.3 GM Jianu, Vlad-Cristian 2579 – GM Hracek, Zbynek 2634 ½ – ½
2.4 GM Vajda, Levente 2561 – GM Babula, Vlastimil 2549 ½ – ½
Bo. 42 Bosnia & Herzegovina (BIH) Rtg – 14 Norway (NOR) Rtg 1 : 3
3.1 GM Predojevic, Borki 2604 – GM Carlsen, Magnus 2877 0 – 1
3.2 GM Dizdarevic, Emir 2522 – GM Agdestein, Simen 2630 0 – 1
3.3 GM Stojanovic, Dalibor 2503 – GM Hammer, Jon Ludvig 2628 0 – 1
3.4 IM Kadric, Denis 2473 – GM Lie, Kjetil A. 2528 1 – 0
Bo. 2 Ukraine (UKR) Rtg – 18 Bulgaria (BUL) Rtg 2½:1½
4.1 GM Ivanchuk, Vassily 2744 – GM Topalov, Veselin 2772 ½ – ½
4.2 GM Ponomariov, Ruslan 2717 – GM Cheparinov, Ivan 2681 0 – 1
4.3 GM Eljanov, Pavel 2723 – GM Iotov, Valentin 2553 1 – 0
4.4 GM Korobov, Anton 2680 – GM Rusev, Krasimir 2548 1 – 0
Bo. 3 France (FRA) Rtg – 15 Poland (POL) Rtg 2½:1½
5.1 GM Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime 2768 – GM Wojtaszek, Radoslaw 2735 ½ – ½
5.2 GM Bacrot, Etienne 2720 – GM Gajewski, Grzegorz 2659 1 – 0
5.3 GM Edouard, Romain 2680 – GM Duda, Jan-Krzysztof 2576 ½ – ½
5.4 GM Tkachiev, Vladislav 2624 – GM Socko, Bartosz 2612 ½ – ½
Top 10 teams after 8 rounds
1 China CHN 14 223.5 24.0 79.00
2 France FRA 13 199.0 23.0 75.00
3 Ukraine UKR 13 198.0 23.0 71.00
4 Azerbaijan AZE 13 195.5 21.5 81.00
5 Czech Republic CZE 13 194.0 22.5 75.00
6 Romania ROU 13 182.0 22.5 71.00
7 Israel ISR 12 198.5 22.0 75.00
8 Bulgaria BUL 12 193.5 21.0 80.00
9 Cuba CUB 12 192.5 22.0 78.00
10 Netherlands NED 12 192.0 22.0 78.00
Some games of the round
Pairings of top 5 matches of the 9th round
Bo. 7 China (CHN) Rtg – 2 Ukraine (UKR) Rtg 0 : 0
1.1 GM Wang, Yue 2718 – GM Ivanchuk, Vassily 2744
1.2 GM Ding, Liren 2742 – GM Ponomariov, Ruslan 2717
1.3 GM Yu, Yangyi 2668 – GM Eljanov, Pavel 2723
1.4 GM Wei, Yi 2638 – GM Moiseenko, Alexander 2707
Bo. 16 Czech Republic (CZE) Rtg – 3 France (FRA) Rtg 0 : 0
2.1 GM Navara, David 2716 – GM Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime 2768
2.2 GM Laznicka, Viktor 2676 – GM Bacrot, Etienne 2720
2.3 GM Hracek, Zbynek 2634 – GM Fressinet, Laurent 2708
2.4 GM Petr, Martin 2530 – GM Edouard, Romain 2680
Bo. 14 Norway (NOR) Rtg – 26 Turkey (TUR) Rtg 0 : 0
3.1 GM Carlsen, Magnus 2877 – GM Solak, Dragan 2632
3.2 GM Agdestein, Simen 2630 – GM Can, Emre 2529
3.3 GM Hammer, Jon Ludvig 2628 – GM Yilmaz, Mustafa 2569
3.4 GM Johannessen, Leif Erlend 2528 – GM Ipatov, Alexander 2614
Bo. 8 Azerbaijan (AZE) Rtg – 32 Romania (ROU) Rtg 0 : 0
4.1 GM Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar 2743 – GM Lupulescu, Constantin 2625
4.2 GM Radjabov, Teimour 2724 – GM Parligras, Mircea-Emilian 2574
4.3 GM Mamedov, Rauf 2659 – GM Jianu, Vlad-Cristian 2579
4.4 GM Guseinov, Gadir 2613 – GM Nevednichy, Vladislav 2554
Bo. 9 Israel (ISR) Rtg – 5 Hungary (HUN) Rtg 0 : 0
5.1 GM Gelfand, Boris 2753 – GM Leko, Peter 2740
5.2 GM Rodshtein, Maxim 2671 – GM Balogh, Csaba 2637
5.3 GM Smirin, Ilia 2656 – GM Almasi, Zoltan 2690
5.4 GM Sutovsky, Emil 2624 – GM Rapport, Richard 2704
Women’s Section
Ju-Zawadzka
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Russia keeps advancing (14 match points) as they won 3.5-0.5 versus Hungary. China is 2nd with 14 match points, while France, Armenia and Ukraine share 3rd with 13.
Results of top 5 matches of the 8th round
Bo. 2 Russia (RUS) Rtg – 13 Hungary (HUN) Rtg 3½: ½
1.1 GM Lagno, Kateryna 2540 – GM Hoang, Thanh Trang 2485 ½ – ½
1.2 GM Gunina, Valentina 2524 – IM Madl, Ildiko 2347 1 – 0
1.3 GM Kosteniuk, Alexandra 2531 – IM Gara, Anita 2327 1 – 0
1.4 WGM Pogonina, Natalija 2479 – WGM Gara, Ticia 2321 1 – 0
Bo. 33 Turkey (TUR) Rtg – 38 Norway (NOR) Rtg 1½:2½
2.1 WGM Yildiz, Betul Cemre 2296 – WIM Sahl, Sheila Barth 2216 ½ – ½
2.2 WIM Isgandarova, Khayala 2190 – WIM Bjerke, Silje 2189 0 – 1
2.3 WIM Topel, Zehra 2156 – WGM Dolzhikova, Olga 2166 1 – 0
2.4 WCM Cemhan, Kardelen 2019 – WGM Koskela, Niina 2213 0 – 1
Bo. 1 China (CHN) Rtg – 8 Poland (POL) Rtg 3 : 1
3.1 GM Hou, Yifan 2661 – GM Socko, Monika 2470 1 – 0
3.2 WGM Ju, Wenjun 2559 – WGM Zawadzka, Jolanta 2398 ½ – ½
3.3 GM Zhao, Xue 2508 – WGM Bartel, Marta 2359 ½ – ½
3.4 WGM Guo, Qi 2453 – WIM Kulon, Klaudia 2301 1 – 0
Bo. 9 France (FRA) Rtg – 7 United States of America (USA) Rtg 2½:1½
4.1 GM Sebag, Marie 2480 – IM Zatonskih, Anna 2466 ½ – ½
4.2 IM Milliet, Sophie 2385 – WGM Abrahamyan, Tatev 2366 0 – 1
4.3 WGM Guichard, Pauline 2375 – WGM Nemcova, Katerina 2315 1 – 0
4.4 WIM Congiu, Mathilde 2318 – WGM Foisor, Sabina-Francesca 2252 1 – 0
Bo. 3 Ukraine (UKR) Rtg – 4 Georgia (GEO) Rtg 2½:1½
5.1 GM Muzychuk, Anna 2555 – GM Dzagnidze, Nana 2550 0 – 1
5.2 IM Muzychuk, Mariya 2530 – GM Khotenashvili, Bela 2494 ½ – ½
5.3 GM Ushenina, Anna 2487 – IM Javakhishvili, Lela 2478 1 – 0
5.4 GM Zhukova, Natalia 2468 – IM Melia, Salome 2475 1 – 0
Top 10 teams after 8 rounds
1 Russia RUS 16 252.5 25.5 83.00
2 China CHN 14 230.5 25.0 81.00
3 France FRA 13 215.0 23.0 82.00
4 Armenia ARM 13 182.0 22.5 71.00
5 Ukraine UKR 13 179.5 21.5 73.00
6 India IND 12 198.0 23.5 73.00
7 Spain ESP 12 195.0 21.0 72.00
8 Romania ROU 12 185.0 21.5 72.00
9 Germany GER 12 180.5 21.5 77.00
10 Vietnam VIE 12 179.0 21.0 72.00
Some games of the round
Pairings of top 5 matches of the 9th round
Bo. 10 Armenia (ARM) Rtg – 2 Russia (RUS) Rtg 0 : 0
1.1 GM Danielian, Elina 2490 – GM Lagno, Kateryna 2540
1.2 IM Mkrtchian, Lilit 2453 – GM Gunina, Valentina 2524
1.3 IM Galojan, Lilit 2275 – WGM Girya, Olga 2484
1.4 WGM Kursova, Maria 2313 – WGM Pogonina, Natalija 2479
Bo. 47 Estonia (EST) Rtg – 38 Norway (NOR) Rtg 0 : 0
2.1 WCM Narva, Mai 2205 – WIM Sahl, Sheila Barth 2216
2.2 WIM Tsiganova, Monika 2094 – WGM Dolzhikova, Olga 2166
2.3 WCM Narva, Triin 2068 – WGM Koskela, Niina 2213
2.4 WIM Fomina, Tatyana 2216 – WIM Hagesather, Ellen 2182
Bo. 9 France (FRA) Rtg – 1 China (CHN) Rtg 0 : 0
3.1 GM Sebag, Marie 2480 – GM Hou, Yifan 2661
3.2 IM Milliet, Sophie 2385 – WGM Ju, Wenjun 2559
3.3 WGM Guichard, Pauline 2375 – WGM Tan, Zhongyi 2468
3.4 WIM Congiu, Mathilde 2318 – WGM Guo, Qi 2453
Bo. 5 India (IND) Rtg – 3 Ukraine (UKR) Rtg 0 : 0
4.1 GM Harika, Dronavalli 2521 – GM Muzychuk, Anna 2555
4.2 IM Sachdev, Tanya 2418 – IM Muzychuk, Mariya 2530
4.3 IM Karavade, Eesha 2392 – GM Ushenina, Anna 2487
4.4 WGM Gomes, Mary Ann 2352 – GM Zhukova, Natalia 2468
Bo. 11 Spain (ESP) Rtg – 24 Argentina (ARG) Rtg 0 : 0
5.1 IM Vega Gutierrez, Sabrina 2395 – IM Lujan, Carolina 2367
5.2 IM Alexandrova, Olga 2424 – WGM Amura, Claudia 2282
5.3 IM Matnadze, Ana 2385 – WIM Fernandez, Maria Florencia 2218
5.4 WIM Aranaz Murillo, Amalia 2314 – WIM Zuriel, Marisa 2235