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, it looked like Kamsky, Nakamura and Ibragimob were all losing badly. Nakamura did a Houdini and […]
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 continues to lead the Women’s Olympiad over Russia. These 2 teams will most likely end up […]
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 – WGM Goletiani Rusudan 23714.3 WGM Milliet Sophie 2330 – WGM Baginskaite Camilla 2299 #5 France […]
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 champion?)3 GM Sargissian, Gabriel 2612 Armenia 28524 GM Bu, Xiangzhi 2640 China 2841 (China’s youngest ever […]
Learning more tactical motif
White to move. What should White do? Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar