After a huge win versus Russia yesterday, the US team unfortunately eliminated themselves from gold medal contention by losing a match they must win or tie to stay in the hunt. Alex Onischuk, a strong endgame player and a long time clutch Olympiad player for the US, lost a technically drawn R and P endgame. This was the margin which the US lost by. This was a heartbreaking loss and a sad reality of the Olympiad. One blunder at the wrong time can cost a contending team a medal. Alex is a good friend and I feel very bad for him and team USA.

In the mean time, Armenia defeated Holland and Russia defeated Argentina to remain the gold medal race. As of the rest of the contenders, Ukraine defeated Azerbaijan, Germany defeated Belarus, and Hungary wiped out Denmark 4-0 to still have mathematical chances for the bronze.

Round 10 top match results

Bo. 6 China (CHN) Rtg – 5 United States Of America (USA) Rtg 2½:1½
1.1 GM Wang, Hao 2726 – GM Nakamura, Hikaru 2778 ½ – ½
1.2 GM Wang, Yue 2685 – GM Kamsky, Gata 2746 ½ – ½
1.3 GM Ding, Liren 2695 – GM Onishuk, Alexander 2666 1 – 0
1.4 GM Bu, Xiangzhi 2670 – GM Akobian, Varuzhan 2617 ½ – ½
Bo. 29 Argentina (ARG) Rtg – 1 Russia (RUS) Rtg 1½:2½
2.1 GM Peralta, Fernando 2606 – GM Grischuk, Alexander 2763 ½ – ½
2.2 GM Flores, Diego 2589 – GM Karjakin, Sergey 2785 0 – 1
2.3 GM Felgaer, Ruben 2570 – GM Tomashevsky, Evgeny 2730 ½ – ½
2.4 GM Mareco, Sandro 2589 – GM Jakovenko, Dmitry 2722 ½ – ½
Bo. 9 Netherlands (NED) Rtg – 3 Armenia (ARM) Rtg 1 : 3
3.1 GM Giri, Anish 2711 – GM Aronian, Levon 2816 0 – 1
3.2 GM Van Wely, Loek 2691 – GM Movsesian, Sergei 2698 ½ – ½
3.3 GM Sokolov, Ivan 2696 – GM Akopian, Vladimir 2687 0 – 1
3.4 GM Smeets, Jan 2608 – GM Sargissian, Gabriel 2693 ½ – ½
Bo. 7 Azerbaijan (AZE) Rtg – 2 Ukraine (UKR) Rtg 1½:2½
4.1 GM Radjabov, Teimour 2788 – GM Ivanchuk, Vassily 2769 ½ – ½
4.2 GM Safarli, Eltaj 2620 – GM Ponomariov, Ruslan 2734 0 – 1
4.3 GM Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar 2729 – GM Volokitin, Andrei 2709 ½ – ½
4.4 GM Mamedov, Rauf 2634 – GM Moiseyenko, Aleksandr 2706 ½ – ½
Bo. 17 Czech Republic (CZE) Rtg – 16 Poland (POL) Rtg 1 : 3
5.1 GM Laznicka, Viktor 2683 – GM Wojtaszek, Radoslaw 2717 0 – 1
5.2 GM Navara, David 2691 – GM Socko, Bartosz 2635 1 – 0
5.3 GM Hracek, Zbynek 2619 – GM Swiercz, Dariusz 2594 0 – 1
5.4 GM Babula, Vlastimil 2595 – GM Macieja, Bartlomiej 2594 0 – 1
Bo. 39 Denmark (DEN) Rtg – 4 Hungary (HUN) Rtg 0 : 4
6.1 GM Hansen, Sune Berg 2577 – GM Leko, Peter 2737 0 – 1
6.2 GM Aagaard, Jacob 2517 – GM Almasi, Zoltan 2713 0 – 1
6.3 GM Rasmussen, Allan Stig 2496 – GM Polgar, Judit 2698 0 – 1
6.4 IM Glud, Jakob Vang 2498 – GM Berkes, Ferenc 2685 0 – 1
Bo. 32 Belarus (BLR) Rtg – 14 Germany (GER) Rtg 1½:2½
7.1 GM Zhigalko, Sergei 2667 – GM Naiditsch, Arkadij 2712 ½ – ½
7.2 GM Zhigalko, Andrey 2582 – GM Meier, Georg 2648 ½ – ½
7.3 GM Teterev, Vitaly 2528 – GM Fridman, Daniel 2653 ½ – ½
7.4 GM Stupak, Kirill 2523 – GM Gustafsson, Jan 2610 0 – 1
Bo. 35 Philippines (PHI) Rtg – 27 Vietnam (VIE) Rtg 2 : 2
8.1 GM So, Wesley 2652 – GM Le, Quang Liem 2693 ½ – ½
8.2 GM Barbosa, Oliver 2554 – GM Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son 2639 ½ – ½
8.3 GM Torre, Eugene 2469 – IM Nguyen, Van Huy 2506 ½ – ½
8.4 GM Paragua, Mark 2508 – IM Nguyen, Doc Hoa 2505 ½ – ½
Bo. 13 India (IND) Rtg – 15 Cuba (CUB) Rtg 2 : 2
9.1 GM Sasikiran, Krishnan 2707 – GM Dominguez Perez, Leinier 2725 0 – 1
9.2 GM Harikrishna, Pentala 2685 – GM Bruzon Batista, Lazaro 2711 0 – 1
9.3 GM Negi, Parimarjan 2664 – GM Quesada Perez, Yuniesky 2626 1 – 0
9.4 GM Gupta, Abhijeet 2637 – IM Bacallao Alonso, Yusnel 2583 1 – 0
Bo. 12 Israel (ISR) Rtg – 26 Georgia (GEO) Rtg 2 : 2
10.1 GM Gelfand, Boris 2738 – GM Mchedlishvili, Mikheil 2659 ½ – ½
10.2 GM Rodshtein, Maxim 2642 – GM Gagunashvili, Merab 2578 ½ – ½
10.3 GM Postny, Evgeny 2638 – GM Pantsulaia, Levan 2575 1 – 0
10.4 GM Avrukh, Boris 2605 – GM Shanava, Konstantine 2569 0 – 1

Full results here.

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Susan Polgar September 7, 2012 General News 1 Comment
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