The first big result of the day was Dominguez's win against Mamedyarov. In a brutal attack the Cuban annihilated his opponent's Sicilian Defense:
However things started to look up for Azerbaijan. Guseinov won his game against Ortiz after outplaying the Cuban in time pressure. With a draw in Quesada-Mamedov it was all down to the game between Radjabov and Bruzon. The Azeri held the advantage the whole time, but the ensuing endgame was not so clear. With patience and good technique Radjabov eventually won a key game and Azerbaijan leads the tournament!
Dominguez (right) won his game, but Bruzon could not hold on to the draw
The Russian team had the disaster of the round for sure. Grischuk was simply outplayed by Navara and the same was true of Svidler and Laznicka. With 2-0 in the top two boards all the Czech Republic needed was one draw in the bottom two to win the match, and they even managed to draw both games for a clean 3-1 victory.
Serbia got absolutely mauled by China. Ding Liren destroyed Perunovic's weak play while Wei Yi also quickly won. Yu Yangyi beat Markus. The rest was unnecessary and China took an easy win, relatively.
Bulgaria continues to be just on pace playing a wonderful tournament. Early wins by Iotov and Rusev allowed Topalov to simply draw Giri for the match win against the Netherlands. There wasn't even a need for the third game to finish for the result to favor the Bulgarians.
Romania edged out Croatia with a last minute win by Nevednichy. Meanwhile the United States finally gets back in the game after destroying Uzbekistan.
Shankland helped America's destruction of Uzbekistan. A much needed result for the Americans.
Poland's white players won their games and the black ones held theirs, giving them a good win against Bosnia & Herzegovina.
Despite missing an immediate win on move 34, Aronian played a relatively clean game and demolished Peter Leko. This was not enough to win the match though as Balogh came back for Hungary to beat Sargissian and draw the match 2-2.
A hard fought split match: Armenia vs. Hungary
Magnus Carlsen held a very strong advantage and was even up a pawn against Arkadij Naiditsch. However he somehow completely misplayed the position, lost control and found himself in a much worse endgame! Naiditsch very cleanly converted his advantage and gave Germany the win over Norway by the 2.5-1.5 margin.
Carlsen was surprised by Naiditsch!
Canada-England was a very exciting match that should have ended in a 2-2 tie, but Howell managed to trick Sambuev near the end of the game:
GM Dejan Bojkov is the coach of Papua New Guinea
The Ukrainian team has had a few problems this Olympaid but today they took care of Kazakhstan without issues
Just as important as the result in the Open section between Dominguez and Mamedyarov was the game Lagno vs. Hou Yifan. The World Champion fell for a trick early in the opening and never was able to recover.
This was a huge result as none of the other Chiense women were able to win; Olga Girya also beat Tan Zhongyi to seal the deal and despite Zhao Xue's best efforts she was unable to best Kosteniuk.
Poland and France traded blows and the result was a 2-2 tie. Marie Sebag won a good game against Monica Socko but Marta Bartel took out Guichard to even the score.
The Cinderella stories of the tournament, Indonesia and Iran, faced each other. The match was surprisingly intense! Iran quickly took board two with a clean win by Sarasadat Khademalshar (lets call her Sara) against Medina Aualia. Iran then also took board four and went up 2-0, but the position in the remaining two boards were not good. Irene Sukandar destroyed Atousa Pourkashiyan's kingside and won the game while Chelsie Sihite converted a long game against Mitra Hejazipour.
Russia's hero: Kateryna Lagno
The Colombian Women's team has had a great showing, today they dispatched Greece and advance in the standings
They also know something important about photography: it's always a good time for a selfie
Lorena Zepeda de Van Wely from El Salvador. Her team lost against Venezuela.
A shocked Hou Yifan and a shocked Chinese Women's coach (Yu Shaoteng)
The China-Russia match went for the Olympic defending Champions and China is hoping someone will stop them
The top board of the Women's section and the Open section are very close by
Today was Lilit Mrktchian's birthday! She is being congratulated by Kateryna Lagno. Mrktchian drew America's Anna Zatosnkih.
The Tunisian team crushed Namibia 3.5-0.5!
Photos by Alejandro Ramirez and André Schulz
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