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In the Open competition France managed to win against Ukraine and is now leading along with Czech Republik (who won against Turkey).

Results of top 5 matches by board

Bo. 3 FRANCE Rtg – 4 UKRAINE Rtg 3 : 1
1.1 GM BACROT, Etienne 2749 – GM ARESHCHENKO, Alexander 2720 ½ – ½
1.2 GM VACHIER-LAGRAVE, Maxime 2742 – GM VOLOKITIN, Andrei 2682 ½ – ½
1.3 GM EDOUARD, Romain 2653 – GM EFIMENKO, Zahar 2657 1 – 0
1.4 GM TKACHIEV, Vladislav 2637 – GM MOISEENKO, Alexander 2709 1 – 0

Bo. 9 CZECH REPUBLIC Rtg – 18 TURKEY Rtg 3½: ½
2.1 GM NAVARA, David 2705 – GM SOLAK, Dragan 2618 1 – 0
2.2 GM LAZNICKA, Viktor 2677 – GM IPATOV, Alexander 2630 ½ – ½
2.3 GM HRACEK, Zbynek 2638 – GM ESEN, Baris 2565 1 – 0
2.4 GM BABULA, Vlastimil 2574 – GM YILMAZ, Mustafa 2577 1 – 0

Bo. 19 ROMANIA Rtg – 15 GREECE Rtg 2 : 2
3.1 GM LUPULESCU, Constantin 2630 – GM BANIKAS, Hristos 2633 ½ – ½
3.2 GM JIANU, Vlad-Cristian 2565 – GM PAPAIOANNOU, Ioannis 2639 0 – 1
3.3 GM PARLIGRAS, Mircea-Emilian 2576 – GM MASTROVASILIS, Dimitrios 2589 ½ – ½
3.4 GM NEVEDNICHY, Vladislav 2590 – GM HALKIAS, Stelios 2555 1 – 0

Bo. 2 ARMENIA Rtg – 27 AUSTRIA Rtg 2½:1½
4.1 GM ARONIAN, Levon 2801 – GM RAGGER, Markus 2672 ½ – ½
4.2 GM MOVSESIAN, Sergei 2700 – GM SHENGELIA, David 2543 ½ – ½
4.3 GM SARGISSIAN, Gabriel 2676 – IM KREISL, Robert 2410 1 – 0
4.4 GM PETROSIAN, Tigran L. 2660 – IM SCHREINER, Peter 2452 ½ – ½

Bo. 12 POLAND Rtg – 6 AZERBAIJAN Rtg 1½:2½
5.1 GM SOCKO, Bartosz 2661 – GM MAMEDYAROV, Shakhriyar 2757 0 – 1
5.2 GM SWIERCZ, Dariusz 2627 – GM RADJABOV, Teimour 2715 0 – 1
5.3 GM BARTEL, Mateusz 2626 – GM MAMEDOV, Rauf 2647 1 – 0
5.4 GM MITON, Kamil 2597 – GM GUSEINOV, Gadir 2607 ½ – ½

Standings after 3 rounds (Top 10 teams)

1 CZECH REPUBLIC CZE 3 3 0 0 6 23.0 9.0
2 FRANCE FRA 3 3 0 0 6 22.0 8.0
3 HUNGARY HUN 3 2 1 0 5 19.0 8.0
4 GEORGIA GEO 3 2 1 0 5 17.5 7.0
5 GREECE GRE 3 2 1 0 5 17.0 7.5
6 ARMENIA ARM 3 2 1 0 5 15.0 7.0
7 AZERBAIJAN AZE 3 2 1 0 5 15.0 7.0
8 ROMANIA ROM 3 1 2 0 4 16.0 8.0
9 UKRAINE UKR 3 2 0 1 4 16.0 6.5
10 BELARUS BLR 3 2 0 1 4 15.0 7.5

Pairings of the top 5 matches

1 FRA FRANCE 8 6 : 6 9 CZECH REPUBLIC CZE
2 AZE AZERBAIJAN 7 5 : 5 8 HUNGARY HUN
3 GRE GREECE 7½ 5 : 5 7 GEORGIA GEO
4 UKR UKRAINE 6½ 4 : 5 7 ARMENIA ARM
5 CRO CROATIA 7 4 : 4 7 ISRAEL ISR

In the women’s event Ukraine won against France and is leading with Armenia and Poland. Israel again played very well and held the Georgians to a draw.

Results of top 5 matches

Bo. 7 France Rtg – 1 Ukraine Rtg 1 : 3
1.1 GM Sebag, Marie 2510 – GM Lagno, Kateryna 2542 ½ – ½
1.2 IM Milliet, Sophie 2383 – GM Ushenina, Anna 2492 0 – 1
1.3 WGM Maisuradze, Nino 2302 – IM Muzychuk, Mariya 2491 0 – 1
1.4 IM Collas, Silvia 2292 – IM Gaponenko, Inna 2402 ½ – ½

Bo. 15 Israel Rtg – 3 Georgia Rtg 2 : 2
2.1 WIM Efroimski, Marsel 2313 – GM Dzagnidze, Nana 2556 0 – 1
2.2 WIM Vasiliev, Olga 2282 – WGM Arabidze, Meri 2374 1 – 0
2.3 WIM Shvayger, Yuliya 2294 – IM Khurtsidze, Nino 2462 1 – 0
2.4 IM Borsuk, Angela 2186 – IM Khotenashvili, Bela 2524 0 – 1

Bo. 6 Armenia Rtg – 13 Poland III Rtg 4 : 0
3.1 GM Danielian, Elina 2457 – WIM Worek, Joanna 2336 1 – 0
3.2 IM Mkrtchian, Lilit 2447 – IM Dworakowska, Joanna 2326 1 – 0
3.3 IM Galojan, Lilit 2301 – WGM Bartel, Marta 2308 1 – 0
3.4 WGM Kursova, Maria 2339 – WGM Toma, Katarzyna 2282 1 – 0

Bo. 4 Poland Rtg – 10 Romania Rtg 2½:1½
4.1 GM Socko, Monika 2431 – WGM Bulmaga, Irina 2399 1 – 0
4.2 WGM Zawadzka, Jolanta 2383 – WGM L’ami, Alina 2361 0 – 1
4.3 WGM Majdan-Gajewska, Joanna 2420 – IM Foisor, Cristina-Adela 2347 1 – 0
4.4 WGM Szczepkowska-Horowska, Karina 2382 – WGM Voicu-Jagodzinsky, Carmen 2275 ½ – ½

Bo. 8 Hungary Rtg – 12 Serbia Rtg 1½:2½
5.1 GM Hoang, Thanh Trang 2511 – IM Bojkovic, Natasa 2405 ½ – ½
5.2 IM Gara, Anita 2311 – WGM Vojinovic, Jovana 2352 0 – 1
5.3 WGM Papp, Petra 2300 – WGM Stojanovic, Andjelija 2293 ½ – ½
5.4 WGM Rudolf, Anna 2281 – WIM Rakic, Marija 2291 ½ – ½

Pairings of top 5 matches

1 Poland 9 6 : 6 11 Armenia
2 Ukraine 9½ 6 : 5 8 Israel
3 Georgia 8½ 5 : 5 7 Serbia
4 Poland Futures 8 4 : 4 8½ Russia
5 Lithuania 8½ 4 : 4 8 Germany

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The surprise of the round was definitely the loss of both (!) Russian teams. The men’s lost to the Turkish team and the women’s to Israeli.

Results of top 5 matches by board

Bo. 18 TURKEY Rtg – 1 RUSSIA Rtg 2½:1½
1.1 GM SOLAK, Dragan 2618 – GM GRISCHUK, Alexander 2785 1 – 0
1.2 GM IPATOV, Alexander 2630 – GM SVIDLER, Peter 2752 ½ – ½
1.3 GM ESEN, Baris 2565 – GM ANDREIKIN, Dmitry 2710 ½ – ½
1.4 GM YILMAZ, Mustafa 2577 – GM TOMASHEVSKY, Evgeny 2722 ½ – ½

Bo. 17 BELARUS Rtg – 3 FRANCE Rtg 1½:2½
2.1 GM ZHIGALKO, Sergei 2694 – GM BACROT, Etienne 2749 ½ – ½
2.2 GM ZHIGALKO, Andrey 2619 – GM VACHIER-LAGRAVE, Maxime 2742 ½ – ½
2.3 GM KOVALEV, Vladislav 2583 – GM EDOUARD, Romain 2653 0 – 1
2.4 GM STUPAK, Kirill 2494 – GM TKACHIEV, Vladislav 2637 ½ – ½

Bo. 4 UKRAINE Rtg – 16 CROATIA Rtg 2½:1½
3.1 GM ARESHCHENKO, Alexander 2720 – GM SARIC, Ivan 2628 1 – 0
3.2 GM VOLOKITIN, Andrei 2682 – GM STEVIC, Hrvoje 2611 1 – 0
3.3 GM EFIMENKO, Zahar 2657 – GM PALAC, Mladen 2571 ½ – ½
3.4 GM FEDORCHUK, Sergey A. 2666 – GM KOZUL, Zdenko 2597 0 – 1

Bo. 15 GREECE Rtg – 5 ENGLAND Rtg 3 : 1
4.1 GM BANIKAS, Hristos 2633 – GM ADAMS, Michael 2752 ½ – ½
4.2 GM PAPAIOANNOU, Ioannis 2639 – GM MCSHANE, Luke J 2696 1 – 0
4.3 GM MASTROVASILIS, Dimitrios 2589 – GM JONES, Gawain C B 2648 ½ – ½
4.4 GM KOTRONIAS, Vasilios 2564 – GM HOWELL, David W L 2644 1 – 0

Bo. 14 GEORGIA Rtg – 7 HUNGARY Rtg 2 : 2
5.1 GM JOBAVA, Baadur 2695 – GM ERDOS, Viktor 2658 1 – 0
5.2 GM MCHEDLISHVILI, Mikheil 2631 – GM BALOGH, Csaba 2630 ½ – ½
5.3 GM GAGUNASHVILI, Merab 2556 – GM ALMASI, Zoltan 2710 ½ – ½
5.4 GM PANTSULAIA, Levan 2595 – GM POLGAR, Judit 2689 0 – 1

Results of all the matches

1 TURKEY RUSSIA 2½ : 1½
2 BELARUS FRANCE 1½ : 2½
3 UKRAINE CROATIA 2½ : 1½
4 GREECE ENGLAND 3 : 1
5 GEORGIA HUNGARY 2 : 2
6 ITALY CZECH REPUBLIC 1 : 3
7 GERMANY POLAND 2 : 2
8 AUSTRIA ROMANIA 2 : 2
9 ARMENIA MONTENEGRO 2½ : 1½
10 AZERBAIJAN BULGARIA 2½ : 1½
11 SWEDEN SPAIN 1½ : 2½
12 NETHERLANDS WALES 4 : 0
13 SERBIA SCOTLAND 2 : 2
14 SLOVENIA NORWAY 3 : 1
15 FYROM POLAND FUTURES ½ : 3½
16 POLAND GOLDIES LITHUANIA 2½ : 1½
17 DENMARK BELGIUM 2½ : 1½
18 ICELAND FINLAND 2 : 2
19 SWITZERLAND ISRAEL 1 : 3

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