Standings after 10 rounds: Overall Olympiad: 1 Armenia ARM 29.02 China CHN 27.03 Russia RUS 26.54 Czech Republic CZE 26.55 France FRA 26.06 USA USA 25.5 The US received a miracle gift today. After GM Onischuk drew his game,...
USA vs. Slovenia and Russia
Women’s Olympiad: Bulgaria BUL 19½ – 23 Ukraine UKRGeorgia GEO 20 – 22½ Russia RUSChina CHN 20½ – 19½ Greece GREIndia IND 19½ – 19 Romania ROMUSA 19 – 19 Slovenia SLOFrance FRA 19 – 19 Armenia ARM Ukraine...
USA tied France in both matches
Round 10 matchups: #15 France – #5 USA (Women)France offers the strongest line up – I. Krush is sitting out this round for the US 4.1 IM Skripchenko Almira 2423 – WGM Zatonskih Anna 24334.2 WGM Leconte Maria 2345...
Olympiad Top Performers after 9 rounds
Rank – Title – Name – Rating – Country – Performance Olympiad Best Performers after 9 rounds: Overall Olympiad: 1 GM Kramnik, Vladimir 2729 Russia 2873 (He’s on his way back)2 GM Karjakin, Sergey 2661 Ukraine 2861 (Future world...
Learning more tactical motif
White to move. What should White do? Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
The importance of team captains
Since many of you have asked about the issue of the importance of a captain in the Olympiad, this post will be dedicated to this topic. 1. A good captain MUST know his / her players. This includes personalities,...
France versus USA
US board 1 IM Anna Zatonskih Round 10 Pairings:Women’s Olympiad: Ukraine 21 – 19 GeorgiaRussia 20½ – 18½ BulgariaArmenia 18 – 18½ ChinaFrance 17½ – 17½ USACroatia 17 – 17½ Romania Overall Olympiad: Armenia 26½ – 25½ ChinaFrance 24...
Ukraine – Armenia lead the Olympiad
IM Krush, US top performer in the 2006 OlympiadStandings after 9 rounds (women) Standing – Rank – Country – Points 1 2 Ukraine UKR 21.02 1 Russia RUS 20.53 3 Georgia GEO 19.04 6 China CHN 18.55 10 Bulgaria...
US Women lost – US men tied in round 9
Gata Kamsky won again! Onischuk held the fort with the Black pieces. Nakamura is in the middle of a complicated endgame and it looks like Okobian is losing. This match may result in a 2-2 tie and this is...
Miscellaneous Olympiad Items
Feel free to post any interesting Olympiad story that you know, especially this Olympiad.Top Olympiad Peformers after 8 rounds:Women’s Section:1 IM Kosintseva, Tatiana 2489 Russia 2665 (According to Kasparov, Tatiana is the most talented young Russian female player)2 IM...