During the Olympiad, unknown players sometimes rise above the clouds to be the heroes for their teams and countries. Other times, it is the stars who carry their teams and countries on their backs. After 7 rounds of the 2006 Olympiad, there are some familiar names at the top of the best performer list. However, there are some who you may have never heard of. Here are the top 10:
Title – Name – Rating – Country – Performance Rating
Women’s Olympiad
1 IM Kosintseva, Nadezhda 2469 Russia 2678
2 IM Kachiani-Gersinska, Ketino 2421 Germany 2644
3 WGM Muzychuk, Anna 2418 Slovenia 2638
4 IM Kosintseva, Tatiana 2489 Russia 2616
5 IM Peptan Corina, Isabela 2408 Romania 2601
6 WFM Przezdziecka, Marta 2265 Poland 2599
7 GM Koneru, Humpy 2548 India 2590
8 IM Hoang Thanh, Trang 2487 Hungary 2577
9 IM Javakhishvili, Lela 2410 Georgia 2570
10 IM Lahno, Katerina 2468 Ukraine 2562
Overall Olympiad
1 GM Kramnik, Vladimir 2729 Russia 2914
2 GM Karjakin, Sergey 2661 Ukraine 2884
3 GM Navara, David 2658 Czech Republic 2858
4 GM Laznicka, Viktor 2551 Czech Republic 2856
5 GM Iuldachev, Saidali 2480 Uzbekistan 2825
6 GM Zhigalko, Andrey 2511 Belarus 2818
7 GM Akopian, Vladimir2706 Armenia 2812
8 GM Bruzon, Batista Lazaro 2652 Cuba 2809
9 GM Aronian, Levon 2756 Armenia 2806
10 GM Grischuk, Alexander 2719 Russia 2795
Onischuk should have been board 1. Onischuk has no losses!
Captain of the US “Dream Team”: Susan Polgar:
http://www.chessbase.com/eventarticle.asp?newsid=1986
At the Chess Olympiad in Calviа, Spain, the US “Dream Team” is poised to take a medal in the Women’s section, which would be a great boost for chess in USA. But team captain Susan Polgar is in turmoil. Today she must fight it out against the Hungarian team. Susan is originally from Hungary and tells us her feelings in an exclusive interview.
Haha. Kosteniuk is not playing against USA on board #1!!!!!!!!!!!
We are the winners now for sure!!!
Maybe she loves USA so much, she refused to play in this match!!!!
Bravo for the Russian Captain!!!
This US team is about to break all US records.
Putin should send Kosteniuk home after her decision to skip this match. Boo, Alexandra.
Performance calculations after so few games are amusing but essentially meaningless.
Maybe AK joins a team and plays as and when required by the team under team discipline. No prima donna outbursts and fighting chess in every game, win or lose.
Shame on Anand; series of draws. He is a place holder in this tournament, he should have let someone junior represent his country. Even someone like Parimarjan Negi (not even a GM yet) would have done better.
“Shame on Anand; series of draws. He is a place holder in this tournament, he should have let someone junior represent his country.”
Strange results, I must admit. Maybe India forced Anand to play? Remember, he was refusing so many times before.
Look at the Hungarian Leko. Nowhere to be found.
Super GMs are many overrated, as they play only among each other. When they come out of their caves, they get bitten and sometimes eaten.
There can be only one – Topalov! and
There can be only one – Xu Yuhua!