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Danny King chose Baramidze's fantastic positional victory yesterday as round one's Play of the Day
I'ts a big day for Norwegian chess as it is Magnus Carlsen's first Olympic game as World Champion. He plays the strong Finnish player Tomi Nyback... who beat Magnus last time they played!
Carlsen played a pawn sacrifice, Nyback returned it and reached a near equal endgame
Armenians: Elina Danielian, Melikset Khachiyan (USA Women's Coach) and Levon Aronian
The Armenian women's team is spearheaded by Lilit Mrktchian when Danielian takes the day off
Evelyn Moncayo is always smiling! The Ecuadorian women face Norway and are in the second board for this reason
Sarai Sanchez is thrilled to have an opportunity to play GM Ju Wenjun
Some people forfeited by default today. In a bizarre scenario, the Burundi women yesterday won their match by forfeit while today they did not show up in time against Argentina and lost all their games by forfeit. Two rounds, zero games, fifty percent score.
The Argentinean girls are simply opponent-less
Strict: 4-0 for Argentina
Speaking of the zero tolerance rule, an eleven year old player from Rwanda did not show up to the game in time. She cried, but it was to no avail - zero tolerance is zero tolerance and very strictly adhered to in this tournament. Then finally Palestine lost their first three boards to zero tolerance, but their fourth board started playing. For some reason the game ended in the opening in a Zimbabwe win.
Asian Continental Champion Irene Sukandar
Romania's Irina Bulmaga
Gulishkan Nakhbayeva is no strange to elite events; she is a common guest at the Grand Prix
Parimarjan Negi already faces stiff competition: the India vs. Canada match promises to be a close one with two 2600s facing off on board one
Tune in for live interviews, including one with Ulf Andersson, chess legend and current coach of Argentina
Open:
| Round 2 on 2014/08/03 at 14:00 | |||||||||||||||
| No. | SNo | Team | Pts. | MP | Res. | : | Res. | MP | Pts. | Team | SNo | ||||
| 1 | 1 | Russia | 4 | 2 | : | 2 | 4 | Qatar | 57 | ||||||
| 2 | 58 | Norway 2 | 4 | 2 | : | 2 | 4 | Ukraine | 2 | ||||||
| 3 | 56 | Finland | 4 | 2 | : | 2 | 2½ | Norway | 14 | ||||||
| 4 | 3 | France | 4 | 2 | : | 2 | 4 | Mongolia | 59 | ||||||
| 5 | 60 | Australia | 4 | 2 | : | 2 | 4 | Armenia | 4 | ||||||
| 6 | 5 | Hungary | 4 | 2 | : | 2 | 4 | Venezuela | 61 | ||||||
| 7 | 63 | Colombia | 4 | 2 | : | 2 | 4 | USA | 6 | ||||||
| 8 | 7 | China | 4 | 2 | : | 2 | 4 | Albania | 65 | ||||||
| 9 | 66 | Scotland | 4 | 2 | : | 2 | 4 | Azerbaijan | 8 | ||||||
| 10 | 9 | Israel | 4 | 2 | : | 2 | 4 | Tajikistan | 67 | ||||||
| 11 | 68 | Singapore | 4 | 2 | : | 2 | 4 | England | 10 | ||||||
| 12 | 11 | Netherlands | 4 | 2 | : | 2 | 4 | Ecuador | 69 | ||||||
| 13 | 71 | Norway 3 | 4 | 2 | : | 2 | 4 | Germany | 12 | ||||||
| 14 | 13 | Cuba | 4 | 2 | : | 2 | 4 | Portugal | 74 | ||||||
| 15 | 15 | Poland | 4 | 2 | : | 2 | 4 | New Zealand | 75 | ||||||
| 16 | 76 | Morocco | 4 | 2 | : | 2 | 4 | Czech Republic | 16 | ||||||
| 17 | 77 | UAE | 4 | 2 | : | 2 | 4 | Bulgaria | 18 | ||||||
| 18 | 78 | South Africa | 4 | 2 | : | 2 | 4 | Italy | 20 | ||||||
| 19 | 80 | Luxembourg | 4 | 2 | : | 2 | 4 | Turkey | 26 | ||||||
| 20 | 27 | Belarus | 4 | 2 | : | 2 | 4 | Indonesia | 81 | ||||||
Tomorrow's round should also heavily favor the top teams. However there will be many interesting games; for example Hungary will be playing Venezuela who fields the strong GM Eduardo Iturrizaga in their first board, only one more upset besides that and the match could be good for the latinamericans. That being said, it is expected that the top twenty teams move to 2-0.
Women:
| Round 2 on 2014/08/03 at 14:00 | |||||||||||||||
| No. | SNo | Team | Pts. | MP | Res. | : | Res. | MP | Pts. | Team | SNo | ||||
| 1 | 1 | China | 4 | 2 | : | 2 | 4 | Venezuela | 49 | ||||||
| 2 | 48 | Ecuador | 4 | 2 | : | 2 | 3 | Norway | 38 | ||||||
| 3 | 50 | Brazil | 4 | 2 | : | 2 | 4 | Russia | 2 | ||||||
| 4 | 3 | Ukraine | 4 | 2 | : | 2 | 4 | Australia | 51 | ||||||
| 5 | 54 | Montenegro | 4 | 2 | : | 2 | 4 | Georgia | 4 | ||||||
| 6 | 5 | India | 4 | 2 | : | 2 | 4 | Denmark | 56 | ||||||
| 7 | 7 | USA | 4 | 2 | : | 2 | 4 | Belgium | 58 | ||||||
| 8 | 59 | Bangladesh | 4 | 2 | : | 2 | 4 | Armenia | 10 | ||||||
| 9 | 60 | Egypt | 4 | 2 | : | 2 | 4 | Germany | 12 | ||||||
| 10 | 13 | Hungary | 4 | 2 | : | 2 | 4 | Lebanon | 61 | ||||||
| 11 | 62 | Norway 2 | 4 | 2 | : | 2 | 4 | Bulgaria | 14 | ||||||
| 12 | 63 | Chile | 4 | 2 | : | 2 | 4 | Slovakia | 18 | ||||||
| 13 | 19 | Cuba | 4 | 2 | : | 2 | 4 | Iceland | 64 | ||||||
| 14 | 21 | Iran | 4 | 2 | : | 2 | 4 | FYROM | 65 | ||||||
| 15 | 66 | El Salvador | 4 | 2 | : | 2 | 4 | Azerbaijan | 22 | ||||||
| 16 | 23 | Indonesia | 4 | 2 | : | 2 | 4 | Wales | 67 | ||||||
| 17 | 124 | Burundi | 4 | 2 | : | 2 | 4 | Argentina | 24 | ||||||
| 18 | 26 | Israel | 4 | 2 | : | 2 | 3½ | Romania | 6 | ||||||
| 19 | 27 | Czech Republic | 4 | 2 | : | 2 | 3½ | Poland | 8 | ||||||
| 20 | 9 | France | 3½ | 2 | : | 2 | 4 | Mongolia | 28 | ||||||
The case is the same in the Women's section. None of the matches will be "easy" but it is hard to say that there will be more than one upset in the top twenty matches, if that. That being said - chess is all about surprises!
Photos by Alejandro Ramirez
