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It isn't that these two are incapable of it, since one thing the Israelis have long been doing is to consistently get results their ratings could not reconcile, with numerous podium performances ahead of stronger teams.
Round three was yet another demonstration of this quality that cannot be measured by the usual means, as they faced a similarly built Indian team but went on to crush the Indians with 3.5-0.5.
The only draw conceded was on board one between Boris Gelfand (2747) and P. Harikrishna (2731)
Gelfand enjoys playing with his pieces
Ukraine was even more merciless as they routed Egypt by a perfect 4-0. Vasil
Ivanchuk played on board one this time and dispatched Bassim Amin as well.
While Armenia defeated Ukraine in round two, in round three they fell to the event's biggest surprise, losing to Cuba with two wins to one and one draw. Yuniesky Quesada Perez was one of the heroes of the Cuban team today as he outplayed Vladimir Akopian quite handily. Lazaro Bruzon Batista was the other hero of the day as he beat Gabriel Sargissian to clinch the match.
The Chinese squad held Russia to 2-2 with draws on all four boards in spite of playing them out. One curiosity worth noting is that they have also socred nothing but draws on all boards throughout the event with the exception of Ding Liren's win over Sam Shankland in round one. Speaking of whom: the somewhat luckless US Team, stars of the Tromso Olympiad, lost to Hungary as Zoltan Almasi scored the only win of that matchup against Alexandr Lenderman.
Alexander Grischuk is the top-seed of the tournament but has struggled to shine
Nevertheless he avoided Ding Liren's search for chaos
In deep concentration
What have I done?!
Photos by Arman Karakhanyan
| Bo. | 2 | Israel | Rtg | FED | - | 10 | India | Rtg | FED | 3½: ½ |
| 1.1 | GM | Gelfand, Boris | 2747 | ISR | - | GM | Harikrishna, P. | 2731 | IND | ½ - ½ |
| 1.2 | GM | Sutovsky, Emil | 2628 | ISR | - | GM | Sethuraman, S.P. | 2634 | IND | 1 - 0 |
| 1.3 | GM | Smirin, Ilia | 2652 | ISR | - | GM | Sasikiran, Krishnan | 2654 | IND | 1 - 0 |
| 1.4 | GM | Postny, Evgeny | 2636 | ISR | - | GM | Sengupta, Deep | 2576 | IND | 1 - 0 |
| Bo. | 3 | Ukraine | Rtg | FED | - | 1 | Egypt | Rtg | FED | 4 : 0 |
| 2.1 | GM | Ivanchuk, Vassily | 2731 | UKR | - | GM | Amin, Bassem | 2634 | EGY | 1 - 0 |
| 2.2 | GM | Eljanov, Pavel | 2733 | UKR | - | GM | Shoker, Samy | 2482 | EGY | 1 - 0 |
| 2.3 | GM | Kryvoruchko, Yuriy | 2686 | UKR | - | IM | Ezat, Mohamed | 2479 | EGY | 1 - 0 |
| 2.4 | GM | Moiseenko, Alexander | 2697 | UKR | - | GM | Adly, Ahmed | 2595 | EGY | 1 - 0 |
| Bo. | 4 | Cuba | Rtg | FED | - | 9 | Armenia | Rtg | FED | 2½:1½ |
| 3.1 | GM | Dominguez Perez, Leinier | 2729 | CUB | - | GM | Aronian, Levon | 2770 | ARM | ½ - ½ |
| 3.2 | GM | Bruzon Batista, Lazaro | 2691 | CUB | - | GM | Sargissian, Gabriel | 2674 | ARM | 1 - 0 |
| 3.3 | GM | Quesada Perez, Yuniesky | 2629 | CUB | - | GM | Akopian, Vladimir | 2656 | ARM | 1 - 0 |
| 3.4 | GM | Gonzalez Vidal, Yuri | 2557 | CUB | - | GM | Melkumyan, Hrant | 2651 | ARM | 0 - 1 |
| Bo. | 5 | China | Rtg | FED | - | 8 | Russia | Rtg | FED | 2 : 2 |
| 4.1 | GM | Ding, Liren | 2751 | CHN | - | GM | Grischuk, Alexander | 2794 | RUS | ½ - ½ |
| 4.2 | GM | Yu, Yangyi | 2724 | CHN | - | GM | Karjakin, Sergey | 2757 | RUS | ½ - ½ |
| 4.3 | GM | Bu, Xiangzhi | 2681 | CHN | - | GM | Jakovenko, Dmitry | 2744 | RUS | ½ - ½ |
| 4.4 | GM | Wei, Yi | 2703 | CHN | - | GM | Vitiugov, Nikita | 2736 | RUS | ½ - ½ |
| Bo. | 6 | USA | Rtg | FED | - | 7 | Hungary | Rtg | FED | 1½:2½ |
| 5.1 | GM | Shankland, Samuel L | 2661 | USA | - | GM | Leko, Peter | 2713 | HUN | ½ - ½ |
| 5.2 | GM | Lenderman, Aleksandr | 2617 | USA | - | GM | Almasi, Zoltan | 2698 | HUN | 0 - 1 |
| 5.3 | GM | Akobian, Varuzhan | 2622 | USA | - | GM | Rapport, Richard | 2710 | HUN | ½ - ½ |
| 5.4 | GM | Naroditsky, Daniel | 2640 | USA | - | GM | Balogh, Csaba | 2651 | HUN | ½ - ½ |
| Rk | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 |
| 1 | Israel | * | 3½ | 2½ | 2 | 5 | 8.0 | 39.0 | ||||||
| 2 | Cuba | * | 2 | 2½ | 2½ | 5 | 7.0 | 39.3 | ||||||
| 3 | Ukraine | * | 1½ | 2½ | 4 | 4 | 8.0 | 32.8 | ||||||
| 4 | Hungary | 2 | * | 2 | 2½ | 4 | 6.5 | 39.5 | ||||||
| 5 | China | 2 | * | 2 | 2½ | 4 | 6.5 | 35.5 | ||||||
| 6 | India | ½ | * | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5.5 | 23.0 | ||||||
| 7 | Armenia | 1½ | 1½ | 2½ | * | 2 | 5.5 | 42.5 | ||||||
| 8 | Russia | 1½ | 1½ | 2 | * | 1 | 5.0 | 35.5 | ||||||
| 9 | USA | 1½ | 1½ | 2 | * | 1 | 5.0 | 30.5 | ||||||
| 10 | Egypt | 2 | 0 | 1 | * | 1 | 3.0 | 21.5 |
Tie Break 1: Matchpoints (2 for wins, 1 for draws, 0 for losses)
Tie Break 2: points (game-points)
Tie Break 3: FIDE Sonneborn-Berger
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