The 9th Weekend Sale

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The weekend is here! As usual, there are quite some offers:

1. Theoretical material on the Russian + Scotch for US$ 30 (instead of US$ 40).

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8. 20 examples on Rook endgames for US$ 7 (instead of US$ 10).

9. 20 examples on Opposite colour Bishops endgame for US$ 7 (instead of US$ 10).

10. 20 examples on Minor piece and pawns versus larger amount of pawns for US$ 7 (instead of US$ 10).

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Chess Olympiad 2014

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Open Section

Chinese team

Chinese team


(Photo taken from chess-news.ru)

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

Games of the round

Women’s Section

Russian team

Russian team


(Photo taken from chess-news.ru)

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

Games of the round

Congratulations to the winners! 🙂

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