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Magnus Carlsen

Magnus Carlsen


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Quite some top matches were drawn today as the elite players start to face a tough opposition. There is an 11 team tie for 1st so far, with France and Serbia having the same tie-break points which puts them on 1st-2nd places.

Results of top 5 matches of the 3rd round

Bo. 4 Armenia (ARM) Rtg – 3 France (FRA) Rtg 1½:2½
1.1 GM Aronian, Levon 2805 – GM Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime 2768 ½ – ½
1.2 GM Sargissian, Gabriel 2686 – GM Bacrot, Etienne 2720 ½ – ½
1.3 GM Movsesian, Sergei 2672 – GM Fressinet, Laurent 2708 0 – 1
1.4 GM Akopian, Vladimir 2655 – GM Edouard, Romain 2680 ½ – ½

Bo. 6 United States of America (USA) Rtg – 11 Netherlands (NED) Rtg 1½:2½
2.1 GM Nakamura, Hikaru 2787 – GM Giri, Anish 2745 ½ – ½
2.2 GM Kamsky, Gata 2706 – GM L’Ami, Erwin 2631 0 – 1
2.3 GM Onischuk, Alexander 2659 – GM Van Wely, Loek 2662 1 – 0
2.4 GM Akobian, Varuzhan 2653 – GM Van Kampen, Robin 2638 0 – 1

Bo. 14 Norway (NOR) Rtg – 53 Montenegro (MNE) Rtg 3 : 1
3.1 GM Carlsen, Magnus 2877 – GM Djukic, Nikola 2521 1 – 0
3.2 GM Agdestein, Simen 2630 – GM Drasko, Milan 2437 ½ – ½
3.3 GM Hammer, Jon Ludvig 2628 – GM Kosic, Dragan 2486 1 – 0
3.4 GM Johannessen, Leif Erlend 2528 – GM Nikcevic, Nebojsa 2427 ½ – ½

Bo. 12 Germany (GER) Rtg – 10 England (ENG) Rtg 2 : 2
4.1 GM Naiditsch, Arkadij 2709 – GM Adams, Michael 2740 ½ – ½
4.2 GM Meier, Georg 2646 – GM Jones, Gawain C B 2665 1 – 0
4.3 GM Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter 2689 – GM Howell, David W L 2650 ½ – ½
4.4 GM Baramidze, David 2612 – GM Sadler, Matthew D 2653 0 – 1

Bo. 15 Poland (POL) Rtg – 13 Cuba (CUB) Rtg 2 : 2
5.1 GM Wojtaszek, Radoslaw 2735 – GM Dominguez Perez, Leinier 2760 ½ – ½
5.2 GM Duda, Jan-Krzysztof 2576 – GM Bruzon Batista, Lazaro 2664 ½ – ½
5.3 GM Bartel, Mateusz 2640 – GM Quesada Perez, Yuniesky 2649 ½ – ½
5.4 GM Socko, Bartosz 2612 – GM Ortiz Suarez, Isan Reynaldo 2603 ½ – ½

View the full results here.

Top 10 teams after 3 rounds

1 France FRA 3 6 32.0 10.5
2 Serbia SRB 3 6 32.0 10.5
3 Russia RUS 3 6 30.0 11.5
4 Uzbekistan UZB 3 6 28.0 9.5
5 Netherlands NED 3 6 26.0 10.5
6 Romania ROU 3 6 24.0 10.5
7 China CHN 3 6 24.0 10.0
8 Azerbaijan AZE 3 6 24.0 10.0
9 Israel ISR 3 6 24.0 10.0
10 Bulgaria BUL 3 6 24.0 10.0

Some games of the round

Pairings of top 5 teams of the 4th round

1 FRA France 10½ 6 : 6 10 Azerbaijan AZE
2 SRB Serbia 10½ 6 : 6 10 Czech Republic CZE
3 NOR Norway 7½ 5 : 5 9 Poland POL
4 RUS Russia 11½ 6 : 6 10 China CHN
5 NED Netherlands 10½ 6 : 6 10 Israel ISR

Women’s section

Ju Wenjun

Ju Wenjun


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The Chinese team had a good match against the US ladies, while Russia won against France with a narrow margin. But despite all that Iran is currently on the 1st place, having slightly better tie-breaks than China.

Results of top 5 matches of the 3rd round

Bo. 7 United States of America (USA) Rtg – 1 China (CHN) Rtg 1 : 3
1.1 GM Krush, Irina 2474 – GM Hou, Yifan 2661 0 – 1
1.2 IM Zatonskih, Anna 2466 – WGM Ju, Wenjun 2559 0 – 1
1.3 WGM Abrahamyan, Tatev 2366 – WGM Tan, Zhongyi 2468 ½ – ½
1.4 WGM Nemcova, Katerina 2315 – WGM Guo, Qi 2453 ½ – ½

Bo. 38 Norway (NOR) Rtg – 13 Hungary (HUN) Rtg 1 : 3
2.1 WIM Sahl, Sheila Barth 2216 – GM Hoang, Thanh Trang 2485 0 – 1
2.2 WIM Bjerke, Silje 2189 – IM Madl, Ildiko 2347 0 – 1
2.3 WGM Koskela, Niina 2213 – WGM Gara, Ticia 2321 ½ – ½
2.4 WIM Hagesather, Ellen 2182 – WGM Papp, Petra 2274 ½ – ½

Bo. 2 Russia (RUS) Rtg – 9 France (FRA) Rtg 2½:1½
3.1 GM Lagno, Kateryna 2540 – GM Sebag, Marie 2480 ½ – ½
3.2 GM Gunina, Valentina 2524 – IM Milliet, Sophie 2385 ½ – ½
3.3 GM Kosteniuk, Alexandra 2531 – WGM Guichard, Pauline 2375 1 – 0
3.4 WGM Girya, Olga 2484 – WIM Congiu, Mathilde 2318 ½ – ½

Bo. 10 Armenia (ARM) Rtg – 20 Vietnam (VIE) Rtg 3 : 1
4.1 GM Danielian, Elina 2490 – WIM Nguyen, Thi Mai Hung 2307 ½ – ½
4.2 IM Mkrtchian, Lilit 2453 – WIM Hoang, Thi Nhu Y 2269 1 – 0
4.3 IM Galojan, Lilit 2275 – WGM Hoang, Thi Bao Tram 2329 ½ – ½
4.4 WGM Kursova, Maria 2313 – Luong, Phuong Hanh 2171 1 – 0

Bo. 41 Bosnia & Herzegovina (BIH) Rtg – 21 Iran (IRI) Rtg 0 : 4
5.1 WFM Dimitrijevic, Aleksandra 2293 – WGM Pourkashiyan, Atousa 2352 0 – 1
5.2 WIM Boric, Elena 2196 – WGM Khademalsharieh, Sarasadat 2324 0 – 1
5.3 WFM Dengler, Dijana 2070 – WIM Hejazipour, Mitra 2269 0 – 1
5.4 Jacimovic, Sara 2032 – WFM Asgarizadeh, Minoo 2147 0 – 1

View the full results here.

Standings of top 10 teams after 3 rounds

1 Iran IRI 3 6 28.0 12.0 7.00
2 China CHN 3 6 28.0 11.0 8.00
3 Armenia ARM 3 6 28.0 11.0 8.00
4 Russia RUS 3 6 26.0 10.5 8.00
5 Indonesia INA 3 6 26.0 10.5 8.00
6 Netherlands NED 3 6 26.0 9.0 8.00
7 Hungary HUN 3 6 24.0 11.0 7.00
8 Cuba CUB 3 6 24.0 10.0 8.00
9 Georgia GEO 3 6 20.0 10.5 6.00
10 Slovakia SVK 3 6 20.0 10.5 6.00

Some games of the round

Pairings of top 5 matches of the 4th round

1 IRI Iran 12 6 : 6 10½ Slovakia SVK
2 NOR Norway 8 4 : 4 9½ Czech Republic CZE
3 CHN China 11 6 : 6 10½ Azerbaijan AZE
4 INA Indonesia 10½ 6 : 6 11 Armenia ARM
5 GER Germany 9½ 6 : 6 10½ Russia RUS

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Kramnik watches the games

Kramnik watches the games


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The 2nd round in the Open section was full of upsets as Norway 2 drew Ukraine and Finland drew Norway 1. Most of the top teams won though.

Results of top 5 matches of the 2nd round

Bo. 1 Russia (RUS) Rtg – 57 Qatar (QAT) Rtg 3½: ½
1.1 GM Kramnik, Vladimir 2760 – GM Al-Modiahki, Mohamad 2549 1 – 0
1.2 GM Grischuk, Alexander 2795 – GM Zhu, Chen 2461 1 – 0
1.3 GM Karjakin, Sergey 2786 – IM Nezad, Husein Aziz 2365 1 – 0
1.4 GM Nepomniachtchi, Ian 2714 – Al-Tamimi, Hamad 2186 ½ – ½

Bo. 58 Norway 2 (NOR2) Rtg – 2 Ukraine (UKR) Rtg 2 : 2
2.1 IM Urkedal, Frode 2500 – GM Ivanchuk, Vassily 2744 1 – 0
2.2 IM Elsness, Frode 2477 – GM Eljanov, Pavel 2723 ½ – ½
2.3 IM Hansen, Torbjorn Ringdal 2450 – GM Korobov, Anton 2680 ½ – ½
2.4 IM Tari, Aryan 2440 – GM Moiseenko, Alexander 2707 0 – 1

Bo. 56 Finland (FIN) Rtg – 14 Norway (NOR) Rtg 2 : 2
3.1 GM Nyback, Tomi 2591 – GM Carlsen, Magnus 2877 ½ – ½
3.2 IM Karttunen, Mika 2437 – GM Agdestein, Simen 2630 ½ – ½
3.3 IM Sipila, Vilka 2425 – GM Johannessen, Leif Erlend 2528 ½ – ½
3.4 FM Ebeling, Daniel 2445 – GM Lie, Kjetil A. 2528 ½ – ½

Bo. 3 France (FRA) Rtg – 59 Mongolia (MGL) Rtg 4 : 0
4.1 GM Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime 2768 – GM Batchuluun, Tsegmed 2513 1 – 0
4.2 GM Fressinet, Laurent 2708 – GM Khatanbaatar, Bazar 2390 1 – 0
4.3 GM Edouard, Romain 2680 – GM Gundavaa, Bayarsaikhan 2501 1 – 0
4.4 GM Tkachiev, Vladislav 2624 – IM Munkhgal, Gombosuren 2418 1 – 0

Bo. 60 Australia (AUS) Rtg – 4 Armenia (ARM) Rtg 1 : 3
5.1 GM Smerdon, David 2513 – GM Aronian, Levon 2805 ½ – ½
5.2 IM Ly, Moulthun 2462 – GM Sargissian, Gabriel 2686 0 – 1
5.3 IM Illingworth, Max 2439 – GM Movsesian, Sergei 2672 ½ – ½
5.4 FM Ikeda, Junta 2402 – GM Akopian, Vladimir 2655 0 – 1

Some games of the round

Pairings of top 5 matches of the 3rd round

1 ARM Armenia 7 4 : 4 8 France FRA
2 USA United States of America 7 4 : 4 8 Netherlands NED
3 NOR Norway 4½ 3 : 3 6 Montenegro MNE
4 GER Germany 8 4 : 4 7 England ENG
5 POL Poland 7 4 : 4 8 Cuba CUB

Anna Muzychuk

Anna Muzychuk


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There were no real upsets in the Women’s section as all top teams won their matches.

Results of top 5 matches of the 2nd round

Bo. 1 China (CHN) Rtg – 49 Venezuela (VEN) Rtg 4 : 0
1.1 WGM Ju, Wenjun 2559 – IM Sanchez Castillo, Sarai Carolina 2207 1 – 0
1.2 GM Zhao, Xue 2508 – WIM Rovira Contreras, Tairu Manuela 2076 1 – 0
1.3 WGM Tan, Zhongyi 2468 – WFM Gutierrez Salazar, Leonela 2096 1 – 0
1.4 WGM Guo, Qi 2453 – WIM Montilla, Jorcerys 2118 1 – 0

Bo. 48 Ecuador (ECU) Rtg – 38 Norway (NOR) Rtg 0 : 4
2.1 WGM Heredia Serrano, Carla 2168 – WIM Sahl, Sheila Barth 2216 0 – 1
2.2 WFM Bosch Garcia, Jacqueline 2173 – WIM Bjerke, Silje 2189 0 – 1
2.3 WIM Moncayo Romero, Evelyn 2119 – WGM Dolzhikova, Olga 2166 0 – 1
2.4 WIM Vasquez Ramirez, Rocio 2122 – WIM Hagesather, Ellen 2182 0 – 1

Bo. 50 Brazil (BRA) Rtg – 2 Russia (RUS) Rtg 0 : 4
3.1 WIM Feliciano Ebert, Vanessa 2226 – GM Lagno, Kateryna 2540 0 – 1
3.2 WIM Terao, Juliana Sayumi 2222 – GM Gunina, Valentina 2524 0 – 1
3.3 WIM Ribeiro, Regina 2000 – WGM Girya, Olga 2484 0 – 1
3.4 WFM Chang, Suzana 1991 – WGM Pogonina, Natalija 2479 0 – 1

Bo. 3 Ukraine (UKR) Rtg – 51 Australia (AUS) Rtg 3 : 1
4.1 GM Muzychuk, Anna 2555 – IM Berezina, Irina 2182 ½ – ½
4.2 GM Ushenina, Anna 2487 – WFM Nguyen, Thu Giang 2165 ½ – ½
4.3 GM Zhukova, Natalia 2468 – WIM Dekic, Biljana N. 2048 1 – 0
4.4 IM Gaponenko, Inna 2379 – Yu, Sally 1953 1 – 0

Bo. 54 Montenegro (MNE) Rtg – 4 Georgia (GEO) Rtg 1 : 3
5.1 WFM Milovic, Aleksandra 2170 – GM Dzagnidze, Nana 2550 0 – 1
5.2 Blagojevic, Tijana 2095 – GM Khotenashvili, Bela 2494 0 – 1
5.3 WFM Stojanovic, Marija R 2100 – IM Melia, Salome 2475 1 – 0
5.4 Misovic, Sanja 1862 – IM Batsiashvili, Nino 2435 0 – 1

Some games from the 2nd round

Pairings of top 5 matches of the 3rd round

1 USA United States of America 7 4 : 4 8 China CHN
2 NOR Norway 7 4 : 4 8 Hungary HUN
3 RUS Russia 8 4 : 4 7 France FRA
4 ARM Armenia 8 4 : 4 7 Vietnam VIE
5 BIH Bosnia & Herzegovina 7 4 : 4 8 Iran IRI

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Karjakin

Karjakin


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Most top players rested in the first round. Still, top teams won 4-0 or 3.5 in both sections.

Results of top 5 matches in the Open:

Jordan 0 4 Russia
Basil, A. 2135 0-1 GM Grischuk, A. 2795
FM Samhouri, B. 2256 0-1 GM Svidler, P. 2751
FM Mansour, S. 2249 0-1 GM Karjakin, S. 2786
FM Mohannad, F. 2321 0-1 GM Nepomniachtchij, I. 2714

Bo. 2 Ukraine (UKR) Rtg – 88 Tunisia (TUN) Rtg 4 : 0
2.1 GM Ponomariov, Ruslan 2717 – FM Zaibi, Amir 2297 1 – 0
2.2 GM Eljanov, Pavel 2723 – FM Amdouni, Zoubaier 2350 1 – 0
2.3 GM Korobov, Anton 2680 – FM Boudriga, Med Ali 2282 1 – 0
2.4 GM Moiseenko, Alexander 2707 – CM Bouaziz, Mehdi 2246 1 – 0

Bo. 14 Norway (NOR) Rtg – 100 Yemen (YEM) Rtg 2½:1½
3.1 GM Agdestein, Simen 2630 – IM Al Qudaimi, Basheer 2396 1 – 0
3.2 GM Hammer, Jon Ludvig 2628 – FM Al Badani, Abdu 2180 ½ – ½
3.3 GM Johannessen, Leif Erlend 2528 – Al-Subaihi, Khalil 2082 1 – 0
3.4 GM Lie, Kjetil A. 2528 – FM Al-Hadarani, Hatim 2254 0 – 1

Bo. 89 Zambia (ZAM) Rtg – 3 France (FRA) Rtg 0 : 4
4.1 IM Chumfwa, Stanley 2317 – GM Bacrot, Etienne 2720 0 – 1
4.2 IM Jere, Daniel 2405 – GM Fressinet, Laurent 2708 0 – 1
4.3 IM Mwali, Chitumbo 2250 – GM Edouard, Romain 2680 0 – 1
4.4 FM Phiri, Richmond 2121 – GM Tkachiev, Vladislav 2624 0 – 1

Bo. 4 Armenia (ARM) Rtg – 90 Japan (JPN) Rtg 4 : 0
5.1 GM Sargissian, Gabriel 2686 – CM Nanjo, Ryosuke 2344 1 – 0
5.2 GM Movsesian, Sergei 2672 – FM Kojima, Shinya 2373 1 – 0
5.3 GM Akopian, Vladimir 2655 – FM Watanabe, Akira 2252 1 – 0
5.4 GM Kotanjian, Tigran 2500 – Averbukh, Alex 2183 1 – 0

View the full results here.

Some games of the Open section

Second round pairings of top 5 teams

1 RUS Russia 0 0 : 2 4 Qatar QAT
2 NOR2 Norway 2 4 2 : 2 4 Ukraine UKR
3 FIN Finland 4 2 : 2 2½ Norway NOR
4 FRA France 4 2 : 2 4 Mongolia MGL
5 AUS Australia 4 2 : 2 4 Armenia ARM

Top 5 results of the Women’s section

Bo. 2 Russia (RUS) Rtg – 69 Jordan (JOR) Rtg 4 : 0
1.1 GM Lagno, Kateryna 2540 – WIM Dahdal, Lougain 1973 1 – 0
1.2 GM Kosteniuk, Alexandra 2531 – WIM Fuad Kamel Jamaliah, Natalie 2003 1 – 0
1.3 WGM Girya, Olga 2484 – WFM Alattar, Ghayda M. 1950 1 – 0
1.4 WGM Pogonina, Natalija 2479 – WFM Boshra, Alshaeby 1947 1 – 0

Bo. 38 Norway (NOR) Rtg – 105 South Korea (KOR) Rtg 3 : 1
2.1 WIM Sahl, Sheila Barth 2216 – Wang, Chengjia 1989 0 – 1
2.2 WIM Bjerke, Silje 2189 – WCM Lim, Hakyung 1567 1 – 0
2.3 WGM Dolzhikova, Olga 2166 – WCM Cho, Yeonhee 1525 1 – 0
2.4 WGM Koskela, Niina 2213 – Kim, Yubin 1421 1 – 0

Bo. 70 Luxembourg (LUX) Rtg – 3 Ukraine (UKR) Rtg 0 : 4
3.1 WIM Steil-Antoni, Fiona 2112 – IM Muzychuk, Mariya 2530 0 – 1
3.2 Biryukov, Alice 1941 – GM Ushenina, Anna 2487 0 – 1
3.3 Kremer, Nadine 1844 – GM Zhukova, Natalia 2468 0 – 1
3.4 WFM Bakalarz, Grazyna 1972 – IM Gaponenko, Inna 2379 0 – 1

Bo. 4 Georgia (GEO) Rtg – 72 Kyrgyzstan (KGZ) Rtg 4 : 0
4.1 GM Dzagnidze, Nana 2550 – Samaganova, Alexandra 2012 1 – 0
4.2 GM Khotenashvili, Bela 2494 – Alymbay, Kyzy Aizhan 1859 1 – 0
4.3 IM Melia, Salome 2475 – Shyngys Kyzy, Aijarkyn 1800 1 – 0
4.4 IM Batsiashvili, Nino 2435 – Omurbekova, Diana 1707 1 – 0

Bo. 73 New Zealand (NZL) Rtg – 5 India (IND) Rtg 0 : 4
5.1 CM Milligan, Helen 1938 – IM Sachdev, Tanya 2418 0 – 1
5.2 WIM Meyer, Marany 2064 – IM Karavade, Eesha 2392 0 – 1
5.3 WFM Gao, Judy 1947 – WGM Gomes, Mary Ann 2352 0 – 1
5.4 WFM Tsoi, Nicole 1787 – WGM Padmini, Rout 2318 0 – 1

View the full results here.

Some games of the Women’s section

Second round pairings of top 5 teams

1 CHN China 4 2 : 2 4 Venezuela VEN
2 ECU Ecuador 4 2 : 2 3 Norway NOR
3 BRA Brazil 4 2 : 2 4 Russia RUS
4 UKR Ukraine 4 2 : 2 4 Australia AUS
5 MNE Montenegro 4 2 : 2 4 Georgia GEO

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