Denmark – USA (Overall)
6.1 GM Nielsen Peter Heine 2646 – GM Kamsky Gata 2671
6.2 GM Hansen Sune Berg 2555 – GM Onischuk Alexander 2650
6.3 GM Hansen Lars Bo 2560 – GM Nakamura Hikaru 2664
6.4 GM Schandorff Lars 2521 – GM Kaidanov Gregory 2603
Even though each overall team consist of the top 4 boards and 2 reserves, Denmark only brought 5 players instead of 6.
Russia – USA (Women)
1.1 IM Kosintseva Tatiana 2489 – WGM Zatonskih Anna 2433
1.2 IM Kosintseva Nadezhda 2469 – IM Krush Irina 2437
1.3 IM Kovalevskaya Ekaterina 2460 – WGM Goletiani Rusudan 2371
Russia’s top board Kosteniuk is sitting out this round. The Russian captain decided to play their 3 top performers so far instead.
Kosteniuk, the pretender, is afraid of our US Champion Zatonskih 🙂
Twin sisters with 20 points rating difference. I bet theres sibling rivalry there.