US Men’s Team defeated Georgia 2.5 – 1.5. Kamsky, Onischuk won while Akobian drew and Nakamura lost. The US will meet China next.
On the women’s side, Zatonskih drew Stefanova. Goletiani and Baginskaite also drew. Therefore, USA and Bulgaria tie at 1.5 – 1.5. The US will play Mongolia next.
Zhukova defeated Kosteniuk. The 2 Kosintseva sisters drew Gaponenko and Ushenina. Ukraine has pulled within 1/2 point of Russia with this 2-1 win.
As you can see, it is very difficult to go undefeated in the Olympiad. Everyone wants to beat you. In a span of 16 years and 4 Olympiads (1988 – 2004), I played 56 straight games on board 1 (without ever sitting out any game) against the world’s best (Xie Jun, Chiburdanidze, Humpy, Kosteniuk and countless others) without ever losing a game. When a player takes the Olympiad seriously and puts in the efforts to train physically, mentally and in chess, it pays off.
Some interesting personal results this round:
Kramnik defeated Aronian. It looks like Kramnik is back! Excellent! This will give the fans a great thrill for the upcoming Topalov – Kramnik match.
Sargissian defeated Morozevich, Kasimdzhanov defeated Sokolov, Tiviakov defeated Gareev of the University of Texas in Brownsville, Ivanchuk defeated Georgiev, Cheparinov defeated Volotikin, etc.
I just landed in Fort Lauderdale and I am updating this blog from the car. Thank God for wireless Internet technology! I will have more updates soon!
Once again, thanks to everyone for updating me with the results! All of you are GREAT!!!
I would definitely say that Kramnik is back in form! Some impressive games here. He beat Aronian convincingly today.
Nakamura lost today ..
If the official site is correct, Nakamura lost.
I don’t understand why there are so many rounds, since there are only 140 countries.
How many rounds do you need to get a clear winner?
With 140 you only need 7 rounds?
So many upsets confirm that many GMs, IMs, FMs, WGMs, WIMs and WFMs should be stripped of their title. Really, these titles and ratings in chess, who invented them??
Susan,
1. Have you been invited as a guest of honor to Turin Olympiad, as a former World Champion, among other?
2. Do you have any comment on three women boards only, making every match played completely unfair by any standards in chess? Am I missing something here?
Thank you.
nice performance by hungarian women team!!
US meets China next round… nice!
THE US, ChINA and INDIA are tied!
Chessbase: “Yasser Seirawan can, like very few other top grandmasters, explain games in a way chess amateurs and advanced players alike are able to follow.”
Is this really true? After all, there are nearly a thousand grandmasters of both sexes and many ages in the world, with at least 100 top ones.
“why do we need 13 at the olympiad.”
1st reason – nice long holiday
2nd reason – mininum 9 games are needed to become a GM
3rd reason – experts (I don’t know their names) calculated, that the number of players/teams divided by seven gives the most accurate placing in the end.
4th reason – 14 rounds (not 13, by accident in Turin) is cool.
5th reason – sponsors get more days to advertise their expensive products.
6th reason – with less rounds, no profit.
I can’t think of any more, can you?
“I would definitely say that Kramnik is back in form!”
Sorry, but not even I would lose in such an embarassing way as Kramnik’s opponent in the first game (forgot his name). He was no GM opponent, rather a 2250 elo player in that game. Kramnik got a free point there. Haven’t seen the other game, or games.
I read somewhere: “Mickey Adams is having a fine event and has the highest performance rating of the Olympiad so far.”
HaHeHa, check this result out:
23.1 Kozlov Roman 2290 – GM Adams Michael 2720 ½ – ½
Below 2300, no elo, yet an even match for the great Michael!!
How is this possible, I really can’t understand? How is this possible?
1 8 Netherlands NED 15 0 : 0 15½ Russia RUS 1
2 3 Armenia ARM 15½ 0 : 0 14½ Uzbekistan UZB 30
3 31 Sweden SWE 14 0 : 0 14 Bulgaria BUL 10
4 4 Ukraine UKR 14 0 : 0 14 Iran IRI 51
5 19 Belarus BLR 14 0 : 0 14 Spain ESP 11
6 12 China CHN 13½ 0 : 0 14 USA USA 7
1 1 Russia RUS 12½ 0 : 0 11½ Hungary HUN 4
2 24 Spain ESP 11 0 : 0 12 Ukraine UKR 2
3 29 Mongolia MGL 11 0 : 0 11 USA USA 5
Please do not mind me asking: WHERE IS MONGOLIA on the map??
On http://schach.wienerzeitung.at, why is the Open Olympiad called “Olympiad Men”? Since, I mean, girls and women are plying there, too, in the “mens” group?
“Below 2300, no elo, yet an even match for the great Michael!!”
That should have been “no title”. Sorry.
Why is the Womens Olympiad called like this, when girls are playing, too? I thought you chess players were more articulate, if don’t you mind.
On the Austrian statistics site, why are players with 1/1 against elod players – with performance=0? Shouldn’t they have something of a performance?
Why did we get the toughest team from the lower point group and Azerbeidjan didn’t catch the lowest from the higher group, when in the same situation?
“The Return of Kramzilla”
so what are the predictions for china-versus-US? Will the US rest Kamsky (ONishuck has gotten enough rest!!!!)? Will China rest Wang? Can Bu win against Kamsky or Onishuck?
Tomorrow is a rest day. So, everybody will get a day’s rest.
Susan is the Greatest!!!!
I do not think anyone can claim to have played 56 games in Olympics without losing at least once. It is truly a World Record which we may never see anyone else equal much less beat. Bravo!!!!!
“I do not think anyone can claim to have played 56 games in Olympics without losing at least once.”
This was an impossible result to make. It can and should inspire all the chess girls out there! I’d think there are not many players who have not lost in 56 consecutive tournament games, weaker than the Olympiad ones!
Susan, were you on the bridge of losing maybe one or two in those 56? And fought back hard to win?
“Once again, thank you to everyone for updating me with the results! All of you are GREAT!!!”
No, THANK YOU.
“Tomorrow is a rest day.”
Is it good to have a rest day so early?
There will be another rest day after the 10th round.
(Susan, were you on the bridge of losing maybe one or two in those 56? And fought back hard to win?)
Yes, I was in danger 3 times if I remember correctly. One was against Pia Cramling (former #1 in the world and the last person to be #1 before the Polgar sisters in the last 22 years), one was against Daniellan (Armenian #1) in the 04 Olympiad and the last one was against Muzychuk (Slovenia #1) also in 04.
I drew all three of those games.
Best wishes,
Susan Polgar
http://www.PolgarChess.com
http://www.SusanPolgar.com
Susan got +7 and =7 in Calvia 2004.
Maybe being prepared to fight and risk it could be say +11 and -3 – that would be more points.
A player should play for points for the team, not to keep an unbeaten record.