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China managed to win against Poland with 3-1 and thus won the event with 19 match points! Hungary, India, Russia and Azerbaijan shared 2nd with 17.

Results of top 5 matches of the last round

Bo. 15 Poland (POL) Rtg – 7 China (CHN) Rtg 1 : 3
1.1 GM Wojtaszek, Radoslaw 2735 – GM Wang, Yue 2718 ½ – ½
1.2 GM Gajewski, Grzegorz 2659 – GM Ding, Liren 2742 0 – 1
1.3 GM Duda, Jan-Krzysztof 2576 – GM Yu, Yangyi 2668 0 – 1
1.4 GM Bartel, Mateusz 2640 – GM Ni, Hua 2666 ½ – ½

Bo. 5 Hungary (HUN) Rtg – 2 Ukraine (UKR) Rtg 2 : 2
2.1 GM Leko, Peter 2740 – GM Ponomariov, Ruslan 2717 ½ – ½
2.2 GM Balogh, Csaba 2637 – GM Eljanov, Pavel 2723 ½ – ½
2.3 GM Almasi, Zoltan 2690 – GM Korobov, Anton 2680 ½ – ½
2.4 GM Rapport, Richard 2704 – GM Moiseenko, Alexander 2707 ½ – ½

Bo. 14 Norway (NOR) Rtg – 103 Malaysia (MAS) Rtg 4 : 0
3.1 GM Agdestein, Simen 2630 – IM Lim, Yee-Weng 2311 1 – 0
3.2 GM Hammer, Jon Ludvig 2628 – Teh, Eu Wen Aron 2309 1 – 0
3.3 GM Johannessen, Leif Erlend 2528 – Fong, Yit San 2143 1 – 0
3.4 GM Lie, Kjetil A. 2528 – Nayan, Ahmad Fadzil 2121 1 – 0

Bo. 1 Russia (RUS) Rtg – 3 France (FRA) Rtg 2½:1½
4.1 GM Kramnik, Vladimir 2760 – GM Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime 2768 ½ – ½
4.2 GM Grischuk, Alexander 2795 – GM Bacrot, Etienne 2720 ½ – ½
4.3 GM Karjakin, Sergey 2786 – GM Fressinet, Laurent 2708 ½ – ½
4.4 GM Nepomniachtchi, Ian 2714 – GM Edouard, Romain 2680 1 – 0

Bo. 8 Azerbaijan (AZE) Rtg – 6 United States of America (USA) Rtg 2½:1½
5.1 GM Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar 2743 – GM Nakamura, Hikaru 2787 1 – 0
5.2 GM Radjabov, Teimour 2724 – GM Kamsky, Gata 2706 ½ – ½
5.3 GM Mamedov, Rauf 2659 – GM Onischuk, Alexander 2659 ½ – ½
5.4 GM Safarli, Eltaj 2649 – GM Shankland, Samuel L 2624 ½ – ½

Top 10 teams after the last round

1 China CHN 19 422.5 31.5 155.00
2 Hungary HUN 17 372.0 29.0 152.00
3 India IND 17 371.5 30.5 140.00
4 Russia RUS 17 352.0 28.5 146.00
5 Azerbaijan AZE 17 345.0 28.0 149.00
6 Ukraine UKR 16 377.5 29.0 145.00
7 Cuba CUB 16 361.0 29.5 145.00
8 Armenia ARM 16 350.5 28.5 146.00
9 Israel ISR 16 348.0 28.0 143.00
10 Spain ESP 16 334.5 28.0 142.00

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Russian team

Russian team


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Russia won against Bulgaria (although at some point it looked somewhat unclear) and became the winner of the Olympiad with 20 match points! China and Ukraine shared 2nd-3rd places with 18.

Results of top 5 matches of the last round

Bo. 2 Russia (RUS) Rtg – 14 Bulgaria (BUL) Rtg 2½:1½
1.1 GM Lagno, Kateryna 2540 – GM Stefanova, Antoaneta 2505 0 – 1
1.2 GM Gunina, Valentina 2524 – WGM Videnova, Iva 2342 1 – 0
1.3 GM Kosteniuk, Alexandra 2531 – WGM Nikolova, Adriana 2325 1 – 0
1.4 WGM Pogonina, Natalija 2479 – WGM Voiska, Margarita 2279 ½ – ½

Bo. 54 Montenegro (MNE) Rtg – 38 Norway (NOR) Rtg 1 : 3
2.1 WFM Milovic, Aleksandra 2170 – WIM Sahl, Sheila Barth 2216 ½ – ½
2.2 Blagojevic, Tijana 2095 – WIM Bjerke, Silje 2189 ½ – ½
2.3 WFM Stojanovic, Marija R 2100 – WGM Koskela, Niina 2213 0 – 1
2.4 Bacic, Kristina 1801 – WIM Hagesather, Ellen 2182 0 – 1

Bo. 3 Ukraine (UKR) Rtg – 1 China (CHN) Rtg 2 : 2
3.1 GM Muzychuk, Anna 2555 – GM Hou, Yifan 2661 ½ – ½
3.2 IM Muzychuk, Mariya 2530 – WGM Ju, Wenjun 2559 ½ – ½
3.3 GM Ushenina, Anna 2487 – GM Zhao, Xue 2508 ½ – ½
3.4 GM Zhukova, Natalia 2468 – WGM Guo, Qi 2453 ½ – ½

Bo. 4 Georgia (GEO) Rtg – 12 Germany (GER) Rtg 4 : 0
4.1 GM Khotenashvili, Bela 2494 – IM Paehtz, Elisabeth 2464 1 – 0
4.2 IM Javakhishvili, Lela 2478 – WGM Melamed, Tatjana 2364 1 – 0
4.3 IM Melia, Salome 2475 – WGM Ohme, Melanie 2301 1 – 0
4.4 IM Batsiashvili, Nino 2435 – WGM Hoolt, Sarah 2318 1 – 0

Bo. 10 Armenia (ARM) Rtg – 11 Spain (ESP) Rtg 2½:1½
5.1 GM Danielian, Elina 2490 – IM Vega Gutierrez, Sabrina 2395 1 – 0
5.2 IM Mkrtchian, Lilit 2453 – IM Alexandrova, Olga 2424 ½ – ½
5.3 IM Galojan, Lilit 2275 – IM Matnadze, Ana 2385 0 – 1
5.4 WGM Kursova, Maria 2313 – WIM Aranaz Murillo, Amalia 2314 1 – 0

Top 10 teams after the last round

1 Russia RUS 20 420.5 32.0 154.00
2 China CHN 18 406.0 32.5 149.00
3 Ukraine UKR 18 383.0 28.5 156.00
4 Georgia GEO 17 390.0 32.0 145.00
5 Armenia ARM 17 350.5 29.0 142.00
6 Kazakhstan KAZ 17 320.0 27.0 143.00
7 Poland POL 16 362.0 26.5 152.00
8 United States of America USA 16 339.5 29.5 139.00
9 Germany GER 16 304.0 26.5 143.00
10 India IND 15 380.0 30.5 143.00

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Congratulations to the winners! 🙂

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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-Russia

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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

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China and France lead the event with 15 match points. One point behind are Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania.

Results of top 5 matches of the 9th round

Bo. 7 China (CHN) Rtg – 2 Ukraine (UKR) Rtg 2 : 2
1.1 GM Wang, Yue 2718 – GM Ivanchuk, Vassily 2744 ½ – ½
1.2 GM Ding, Liren 2742 – GM Ponomariov, Ruslan 2717 ½ – ½
1.3 GM Yu, Yangyi 2668 – GM Eljanov, Pavel 2723 ½ – ½
1.4 GM Wei, Yi 2638 – GM Moiseenko, Alexander 2707 ½ – ½

Bo. 16 Czech Republic (CZE) Rtg – 3 France (FRA) Rtg 1½:2½
2.1 GM Navara, David 2716 – GM Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime 2768 ½ – ½
2.2 GM Laznicka, Viktor 2676 – GM Bacrot, Etienne 2720 0 – 1
2.3 GM Hracek, Zbynek 2634 – GM Fressinet, Laurent 2708 ½ – ½
2.4 GM Petr, Martin 2530 – GM Edouard, Romain 2680 ½ – ½

Bo. 14 Norway (NOR) Rtg – 26 Turkey (TUR) Rtg 2 : 2
3.1 GM Carlsen, Magnus 2877 – GM Solak, Dragan 2632 1 – 0
3.2 GM Agdestein, Simen 2630 – GM Can, Emre 2529 0 – 1
3.3 GM Hammer, Jon Ludvig 2628 – GM Yilmaz, Mustafa 2569 ½ – ½
3.4 GM Johannessen, Leif Erlend 2528 – GM Ipatov, Alexander 2614 ½ – ½

Bo. 8 Azerbaijan (AZE) Rtg – 32 Romania (ROU) Rtg 2 : 2
4.1 GM Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar 2743 – GM Lupulescu, Constantin 2625 ½ – ½
4.2 GM Radjabov, Teimour 2724 – GM Parligras, Mircea-Emilian 2574 ½ – ½
4.3 GM Mamedov, Rauf 2659 – GM Jianu, Vlad-Cristian 2579 ½ – ½
4.4 GM Guseinov, Gadir 2613 – GM Nevednichy, Vladislav 2554 ½ – ½

Bo. 9 Israel (ISR) Rtg – 5 Hungary (HUN) Rtg 1 : 3
5.1 GM Gelfand, Boris 2753 – GM Leko, Peter 2740 ½ – ½
5.2 GM Rodshtein, Maxim 2671 – GM Balogh, Csaba 2637 0 – 1
5.3 GM Smirin, Ilia 2656 – GM Almasi, Zoltan 2690 ½ – ½
5.4 GM Sutovsky, Emil 2624 – GM Rapport, Richard 2704 0 – 1

Top 10 teams after 9 rounds

1 China CHN 15 276.0 26.0 102.00
2 France FRA 15 260.0 25.5 98.00
3 Ukraine UKR 14 257.0 25.0 96.00
4 Azerbaijan AZE 14 248.5 23.5 103.00
5 Bulgaria BUL 14 247.0 23.5 101.00
6 Hungary HUN 14 240.5 24.0 97.00
7 Romania ROU 14 235.0 24.5 94.00
8 United States of America USA 13 241.0 24.0 94.00
9 Russia RUS 13 241.0 23.5 101.00
10 India IND 13 240.0 24.5 93.00

Some games of the round

Pairings of top 5 matches of the 10th round

1 FRA France 25½ 15 : 15 26 China CHN
2 UKR Ukraine 25 14 : 14 23½ Azerbaijan AZE
3 CRO Croatia 23½ 12 : 12 21 Norway NOR
4 HUN Hungary 24 14 : 14 24½ Romania ROU
5 BUL Bulgaria 23½ 14 : 13 25 Poland POL

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Lagno

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Russia continues to lead (18 points), China is 2nd with 16 and Ukraine is 3rd with 15 points.

Results of top 5 matches of the 9th round

Bo. 10 Armenia (ARM) Rtg – 2 Russia (RUS) Rtg 1½:2½
1.1 GM Danielian, Elina 2490 – GM Lagno, Kateryna 2540 1 – 0
1.2 IM Mkrtchian, Lilit 2453 – GM Gunina, Valentina 2524 0 – 1
1.3 IM Galojan, Lilit 2275 – WGM Girya, Olga 2484 ½ – ½
1.4 WGM Kursova, Maria 2313 – WGM Pogonina, Natalija 2479 0 – 1

Bo. 47 Estonia (EST) Rtg – 38 Norway (NOR) Rtg 1½:2½
2.1 WCM Narva, Mai 2205 – WIM Sahl, Sheila Barth 2216 1 – 0
2.2 WIM Tsiganova, Monika 2094 – WGM Dolzhikova, Olga 2166 0 – 1
2.3 WCM Narva, Triin 2068 – WGM Koskela, Niina 2213 ½ – ½
2.4 WIM Fomina, Tatyana 2216 – WIM Hagesather, Ellen 2182 0 – 1

Bo. 9 France (FRA) Rtg – 1 China (CHN) Rtg ½ :3½
3.1 GM Sebag, Marie 2480 – GM Hou, Yifan 2661 ½ – ½
3.2 IM Milliet, Sophie 2385 – WGM Ju, Wenjun 2559 0 – 1
3.3 WGM Guichard, Pauline 2375 – WGM Tan, Zhongyi 2468 0 – 1
3.4 WIM Congiu, Mathilde 2318 – WGM Guo, Qi 2453 0 – 1

Bo. 5 India (IND) Rtg – 3 Ukraine (UKR) Rtg 1½:2½
4.1 GM Harika, Dronavalli 2521 – GM Muzychuk, Anna 2555 ½ – ½
4.2 IM Sachdev, Tanya 2418 – IM Muzychuk, Mariya 2530 0 – 1
4.3 IM Karavade, Eesha 2392 – GM Ushenina, Anna 2487 ½ – ½
4.4 WGM Gomes, Mary Ann 2352 – GM Zhukova, Natalia 2468 ½ – ½

Bo. 11 Spain (ESP) Rtg – 24 Argentina (ARG) Rtg 3½: ½
5.1 IM Vega Gutierrez, Sabrina 2395 – IM Lujan, Carolina 2367 1 – 0
5.2 IM Alexandrova, Olga 2424 – WGM Amura, Claudia 2282 ½ – ½
5.3 IM Matnadze, Ana 2385 – WIM Fernandez, Maria Florencia 2218 1 – 0
5.4 WIM Aranaz Murillo, Amalia 2314 – WIM Zuriel, Marisa 2235 1 – 0

Top 10 teams after 9 rounds

1 Russia RUS 18 301.0 28.0 102.00
2 China CHN 16 294.0 28.5 101.00
3 Ukraine UKR 15 236.5 24.0 95.00
4 Spain ESP 14 246.0 24.5 93.00
5 Germany GER 14 234.0 24.0 93.00
6 Romania ROU 14 230.0 24.0 90.00
7 Poland POL 14 226.0 22.0 100.00
8 Georgia GEO 13 250.5 25.0 100.00
9 France FRA 13 244.5 23.5 107.00
10 Bulgaria BUL 13 230.5 26.0 89.00

Some games of the round

Pairings of top 5 matches of the 10th round

1 UKR Ukraine 24 15 : 18 28 Russia RUS
2 NOR Norway 22½ 12 : 12 23 Azerbaijan AZE
3 CHN China 28½ 16 : 14 24½ Spain ESP
4 GER Germany 24 14 : 14 24 Romania ROU
5 GEO Georgia 25 13 : 14 22 Poland POL

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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

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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

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Azerbaijan won against the closest rival, Cuba and is now leading alone with 13 match points. China, Czech Republic, Bulgaria and Romania share 2nd place.

Results of top 5 matches of the 7th round

Bo. 13 Cuba (CUB) Rtg – 8 Azerbaijan (AZE) Rtg 1½:2½
1.1 GM Dominguez Perez, Leinier 2760 – GM Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar 2743 1 – 0
1.2 GM Bruzon Batista, Lazaro 2664 – GM Radjabov, Teimour 2724 0 – 1
1.3 GM Quesada Perez, Yuniesky 2649 – GM Mamedov, Rauf 2659 ½ – ½
1.4 GM Ortiz Suarez, Isan Reynaldo 2603 – GM Guseinov, Gadir 2613 0 – 1

Bo. 16 Czech Republic (CZE) Rtg – 1 Russia (RUS) Rtg 3 : 1
2.1 GM Navara, David 2716 – GM Grischuk, Alexander 2795 1 – 0
2.2 GM Laznicka, Viktor 2676 – GM Svidler, Peter 2751 1 – 0
2.3 GM Hracek, Zbynek 2634 – GM Karjakin, Sergey 2786 ½ – ½
2.4 GM Babula, Vlastimil 2549 – GM Nepomniachtchi, Ian 2714 ½ – ½

Bo. 14 Norway (NOR) Rtg – 12 Germany (GER) Rtg 1½:2½
3.1 GM Carlsen, Magnus 2877 – GM Naiditsch, Arkadij 2709 0 – 1
3.2 GM Agdestein, Simen 2630 – GM Fridman, Daniel 2639 ½ – ½
3.3 GM Hammer, Jon Ludvig 2628 – GM Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter 2689 ½ – ½
3.4 GM Lie, Kjetil A. 2528 – GM Baramidze, David 2612 ½ – ½

Bo. 29 Serbia (SRB) Rtg – 7 China (CHN) Rtg ½ :3½
4.1 GM Perunovic, Milos 2602 – GM Ding, Liren 2742 0 – 1
4.2 GM Markus, Robert 2602 – GM Yu, Yangyi 2668 0 – 1
4.3 GM Sedlak, Nikola 2554 – GM Ni, Hua 2666 ½ – ½
4.4 GM Indjic, Aleksandar 2539 – GM Wei, Yi 2638 0 – 1

Bo. 18 Bulgaria (BUL) Rtg – 11 Netherlands (NED) Rtg 3 : 1
5.1 GM Topalov, Veselin 2772 – GM Giri, Anish 2745 ½ – ½
5.2 GM Cheparinov, Ivan 2681 – GM L’Ami, Erwin 2631 ½ – ½
5.3 GM Iotov, Valentin 2553 – GM Tiviakov, Sergei 2664 1 – 0
5.4 GM Rusev, Krasimir 2548 – GM Van Wely, Loek 2662 1 – 0

Top 10 teams after 7 rounds

1 Azerbaijan AZE 13 166.5 20.5 61.00
2 China CHN 12 166.0 21.0 58.00
3 Czech Republic CZE 12 150.0 20.5 55.00
4 Bulgaria BUL 12 149.5 19.5 59.00
5 Romania ROU 12 138.0 20.5 52.00
6 France FRA 11 159.0 20.5 60.00
7 Cuba CUB 11 153.5 20.0 61.00
8 Armenia ARM 11 145.0 19.5 58.00
9 India IND 11 138.5 20.5 51.00
10 Ukraine UKR 11 136.5 20.5 50.00

Some games of the round

Pairings of top 5 matches of the 8th round

1 CHN China 21 12 : 13 20½ Azerbaijan AZE
2 ROU Romania 20½ 12 : 12 20½ Czech Republic CZE
3 BIH Bosnia & Herzegovina 17½ 9 : 9 16 Norway NOR
4 UKR Ukraine 20½ 11 : 12 19½ Bulgaria BUL
5 FRA France 20½ 11 : 11 20 Poland POL

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Lagno-Hou

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The Russian ladies beat China and lead the event with 14 match points. China, Hungary and Poland share 2nd place with 12 points.

Results of top 5 matches of the 7th round

Bo. 2 Russia (RUS) Rtg – 1 China (CHN) Rtg 3 : 1
1.1 GM Lagno, Kateryna 2540 – GM Hou, Yifan 2661 1 – 0
1.2 GM Gunina, Valentina 2524 – WGM Ju, Wenjun 2559 ½ – ½
1.3 GM Kosteniuk, Alexandra 2531 – GM Zhao, Xue 2508 ½ – ½
1.4 WGM Girya, Olga 2484 – WGM Tan, Zhongyi 2468 1 – 0

Bo. 38 Norway (NOR) Rtg – 20 Vietnam (VIE) Rtg ½ :3½
2.1 WIM Sahl, Sheila Barth 2216 – WIM Nguyen, Thi Mai Hung 2307 ½ – ½
2.2 WIM Bjerke, Silje 2189 – WIM Hoang, Thi Nhu Y 2269 0 – 1
2.3 WGM Dolzhikova, Olga 2166 – WGM Hoang, Thi Bao Tram 2329 0 – 1
2.4 WIM Hagesather, Ellen 2182 – Luong, Phuong Hanh 2171 0 – 1

Bo. 8 Poland (POL) Rtg – 9 France (FRA) Rtg 2 : 2
3.1 GM Socko, Monika 2470 – GM Sebag, Marie 2480 0 – 1
3.2 WGM Szczepkowska-Horowska, Karina 2380 – IM Milliet, Sophie 2385 ½ – ½
3.3 WGM Bartel, Marta 2359 – WGM Guichard, Pauline 2375 1 – 0
3.4 WIM Kulon, Klaudia 2301 – IM Collas, Silvia 2316 ½ – ½

Bo. 13 Hungary (HUN) Rtg – 6 Romania (ROU) Rtg 2½:1½
4.1 GM Hoang, Thanh Trang 2485 – IM Peptan, Corina-Isabela 2422 ½ – ½
4.2 IM Madl, Ildiko 2347 – IM Foisor, Cristina-Adela 2404 ½ – ½
4.3 WGM Gara, Ticia 2321 – WGM L’ami, Alina 2446 1 – 0
4.4 WGM Papp, Petra 2274 – IM Bulmaga, Irina 2354 ½ – ½

Bo. 10 Armenia (ARM) Rtg – 7 United States of America (USA) Rtg 2 : 2
5.1 GM Danielian, Elina 2490 – GM Krush, Irina 2474 1 – 0
5.2 IM Mkrtchian, Lilit 2453 – IM Zatonskih, Anna 2466 ½ – ½
5.3 IM Galojan, Lilit 2275 – WGM Abrahamyan, Tatev 2366 ½ – ½
5.4 WGM Kursova, Maria 2313 – WGM Foisor, Sabina-Francesca 2252 0 – 1

Top 10 teams after 7 rounds

1 Russia RUS 14 179.5 22.0 61.00
2 China CHN 12 188.5 22.0 66.00
3 Hungary HUN 12 148.0 20.0 58.00
4 Poland POL 12 136.5 18.5 55.00
5 France FRA 11 170.5 20.5 62.00
6 Georgia GEO 11 153.0 20.0 57.00
7 United States of America USA 11 143.0 19.5 56.00
8 Indonesia INA 11 141.5 19.0 59.00
9 Ukraine UKR 11 134.0 19.0 54.00
10 Armenia ARM 11 133.5 19.0 57.00

Some games of the round

Pairings of top 5 matches of the 8th round

1 RUS Russia 22 14 : 12 20 Hungary HUN
2 TUR Turkey 14½ 8 : 8 17½ Norway NOR
3 CHN China 22 12 : 12 18½ Poland POL
4 FRA France 20½ 11 : 11 19½ United States of America USA
5 UKR Ukraine 19 11 : 11 20 Georgia GEO

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