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Chess Olympiad 2014
Open Section
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Really interesting standings after 10 rounds – China – 17 points, Hungary – 16 and 8 (!!) teams share 3rd with 15.
Results of top 5 matches of the 10th round
Bo. 3 France (FRA) Rtg – 7 China (CHN) Rtg 1½:2½
1.1 GM Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime 2768 – GM Wang, Yue 2718 ½ – ½
1.2 GM Bacrot, Etienne 2720 – GM Ding, Liren 2742 ½ – ½
1.3 GM Fressinet, Laurent 2708 – GM Yu, Yangyi 2668 0 – 1
1.4 GM Edouard, Romain 2680 – GM Ni, Hua 2666 ½ – ½
Bo. 2 Ukraine (UKR) Rtg – 8 Azerbaijan (AZE) Rtg 2 : 2
2.1 GM Ivanchuk, Vassily 2744 – GM Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar 2743 0 – 1
2.2 GM Ponomariov, Ruslan 2717 – GM Radjabov, Teimour 2724 ½ – ½
2.3 GM Eljanov, Pavel 2723 – GM Mamedov, Rauf 2659 1 – 0
2.4 GM Moiseenko, Alexander 2707 – GM Safarli, Eltaj 2649 ½ – ½
Bo. 24 Croatia (CRO) Rtg – 14 Norway (NOR) Rtg 3½: ½
3.1 GM Saric, Ivan 2671 – GM Carlsen, Magnus 2877 1 – 0
3.2 GM Stevic, Hrvoje 2606 – GM Hammer, Jon Ludvig 2628 1 – 0
3.3 GM Palac, Mladen 2563 – GM Johannessen, Leif Erlend 2528 ½ – ½
3.4 GM Kozul, Zdenko 2608 – GM Lie, Kjetil A. 2528 1 – 0
Bo. 5 Hungary (HUN) Rtg – 32 Romania (ROU) Rtg 3 : 1
4.1 GM Leko, Peter 2740 – GM Lupulescu, Constantin 2625 ½ – ½
4.2 GM Balogh, Csaba 2637 – GM Parligras, Mircea-Emilian 2574 1 – 0
4.3 GM Almasi, Zoltan 2690 – GM Jianu, Vlad-Cristian 2579 ½ – ½
4.4 GM Rapport, Richard 2704 – GM Vajda, Levente 2561 1 – 0
Bo. 18 Bulgaria (BUL) Rtg – 15 Poland (POL) Rtg 1½:2½
5.1 GM Topalov, Veselin 2772 – GM Wojtaszek, Radoslaw 2735 1 – 0
5.2 GM Cheparinov, Ivan 2681 – GM Gajewski, Grzegorz 2659 0 – 1
5.3 GM Iotov, Valentin 2553 – GM Duda, Jan-Krzysztof 2576 0 – 1
5.4 IM Dimitrov, Radoslav 2461 – GM Bartel, Mateusz 2640 ½ – ½
Top 10 teams after 10 rounds
1 China CHN 17 341.5 28.5 127.00
2 Hungary HUN 16 309.5 27.0 124.00
3 France FRA 15 305.0 27.0 123.00
4 Ukraine UKR 15 301.5 27.0 121.00
5 Russia RUS 15 301.5 26.0 125.00
6 United States of America USA 15 297.5 26.5 116.00
7 Uzbekistan UZB 15 294.5 25.0 121.00
8 India IND 15 291.5 27.0 114.00
9 Azerbaijan AZE 15 289.0 25.5 125.00
10 Poland POL 15 288.0 27.5 113.00
Some games of the round
Pairings of top 5 matches of the 11th round
1 POL Poland 27½ 15 : 17 28½ China CHN
2 HUN Hungary 27 16 : 15 27 Ukraine UKR
3 NOR Norway 21½ 12 : 12 23½ Malaysia MAS
4 RUS Russia 26 15 : 15 27 France FRA
5 AZE Azerbaijan 25½ 15 : 15 26½ United States of America
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Ukraine managed to win the match against Russia, but China only drew with Spain, so Russia still leads with 18 points, while China and Ukraine are 1 point behind.
Results of top 5 matches of the 10th round
Bo. 3 Ukraine (UKR) Rtg – 2 Russia (RUS) Rtg 2½:1½
1.1 GM Muzychuk, Anna 2555 – GM Lagno, Kateryna 2540 ½ – ½
1.2 IM Muzychuk, Mariya 2530 – GM Gunina, Valentina 2524 ½ – ½
1.3 GM Ushenina, Anna 2487 – GM Kosteniuk, Alexandra 2531 ½ – ½
1.4 GM Zhukova, Natalia 2468 – WGM Girya, Olga 2484 1 – 0
Bo. 38 Norway (NOR) Rtg – 22 Azerbaijan (AZE) Rtg 1 : 3
2.1 WIM Bjerke, Silje 2189 – WGM Mamedjarova, Zeinab 2229 0 – 1
2.2 WGM Dolzhikova, Olga 2166 – WGM Mammadova, Gulnar 2334 ½ – ½
2.3 WGM Koskela, Niina 2213 – WIM Abdulla, Khayala 2286 ½ – ½
2.4 WIM Hagesather, Ellen 2182 – WGM Mamedjarova, Turkan 2274 0 – 1
Bo. 1 China (CHN) Rtg – 11 Spain (ESP) Rtg 2 : 2
3.1 GM Hou, Yifan 2661 – IM Vega Gutierrez, Sabrina 2395 1 – 0
3.2 WGM Ju, Wenjun 2559 – IM Alexandrova, Olga 2424 ½ – ½
3.3 WGM Tan, Zhongyi 2468 – IM Matnadze, Ana 2385 0 – 1
3.4 WGM Guo, Qi 2453 – WIM Aranaz Murillo, Amalia 2314 ½ – ½
Bo. 12 Germany (GER) Rtg – 6 Romania (ROU) Rtg 2½:1½
4.1 IM Paehtz, Elisabeth 2464 – IM Peptan, Corina-Isabela 2422 1 – 0
4.2 WGM Melamed, Tatjana 2364 – IM Foisor, Cristina-Adela 2404 ½ – ½
4.3 WGM Ohme, Melanie 2301 – WGM L’ami, Alina 2446 1 – 0
4.4 WGM Hoolt, Sarah 2318 – IM Bulmaga, Irina 2354 0 – 1
Bo. 4 Georgia (GEO) Rtg – 8 Poland (POL) Rtg 3 : 1
5.1 GM Dzagnidze, Nana 2550 – GM Socko, Monika 2470 1 – 0
5.2 GM Khotenashvili, Bela 2494 – WGM Zawadzka, Jolanta 2398 1 – 0
5.3 IM Melia, Salome 2475 – WGM Szczepkowska-Horowska, Karina 2380 ½ – ½
5.4 IM Batsiashvili, Nino 2435 – WGM Bartel, Marta 2359 ½ – ½
Top 10 teams after the 10th round
1 Russia RUS 18 355.5 29.5 129.00
2 China CHN 17 341.0 30.5 121.00
3 Ukraine UKR 17 319.5 26.5 128.00
4 Germany GER 16 285.5 26.5 117.00
5 Georgia GEO 15 311.5 28.0 122.00
6 Spain ESP 15 304.0 26.5 120.00
7 Bulgaria BUL 15 280.5 28.5 109.00
8 Armenia ARM 15 276.5 26.5 114.00
9 Kazakhstan KAZ 15 248.5 24.0 116.00
10 India IND 14 304.5 28.5 117.00
Some games of the round
Pairings of top 5 matches of the 11 round
1 RUS Russia 29½ 18 : 15 28½ Bulgaria BUL
2 MNE Montenegro 24½ 12 : 12 23½ Norway NOR
3 UKR Ukraine 26½ 17 : 17 30½ China CHN
4 GEO Georgia 28 15 : 16 26½ Germany GER
5 ARM Armenia 26½ 15 : 15 26½ Spain ESP




