Winning starts with what you know
The new version 18 offers completely new possibilities for chess training and analysis: playing style analysis, search for strategic themes, access to 6 billion Lichess games, player preparation by matching Lichess games, download Chess.com games with built-in API, built-in cloud engine and much more.
The top pairings was Ukraine vs the leading Armenia. The top three boards drew, but the deadly board four weapon that the Armenians have launched struck yet again: Gabriel Sargissian scored his eighth win in nine games to clinch the match. Sargissian has the best rating perfomance (2852) so far in the Olympiad for a board five player, and the third best over all. Only Vladimir Kramnik (board one, 2873) and Sergey Karjakin (board 3, 2861) are above him.
The Russian produced Yet Another Shock result, by losing 1.5:2.5 to France, with Fressinet scoring the decisive win on board four. Even more shocking: China did a 4-0 whitewash over Georgia. The USA drew with the Czech Republic, with Kamsky winning and Akobian losing. Kamsky has now scored 4.5/6 on board one, with a 2829 performance, the sixth best in these games.
Armenia is now one point ahead of China, which in turn is 1.5 points ahead of France. Russia, USA and Ukraine share 4-6 half a point behind France.
Armenia (left) vs Ukraine (right)
| 4 | Ukraine (UKR) | Rtg | 1½:2½ |
3 | Armenia (ARM) | Rtg |
| GM | Ivanchuk Vasyl | 2731 | ½-½ |
GM | Aronian Levon | 2756 |
| GM | Karjakin Sergey | 2661 | ½-½ |
GM | Akopian Vladimir | 2706 |
| GM | Elyanov Pavel | 2665 | ½-½ |
GM | Asrian Karen | 2646 |
| GM | Moiseyenko Alexander | 2662 | 0-1 |
GM | Sargissian Gabriel | 2612 |
France vs Russia
| 1 | Russia (RUS) | Rtg | 1½:2½ |
5 | France (FRA) | Rtg |
| GM | Kramnik Vladimir | 2729 | ½-½ |
GM | Bacrot Etienne | 2708 |
| GM | Grischuk Alexander | 2719 | ½-½ |
GM | Lautier Joel | 2682 |
| GM | Morozevich Alexander | 2730 | ½-½ |
GM | Sokolov Andrei | 2628 |
| GM | Rublevskiy Sergey | 2687 | 0-1 |
GM | Fressinet Laurent | 2633 |
Cuba vs Germany
| 14 | Germany (GER) | Rtg | 1½:2½ |
18 | Cuba (CUB) | Rtg |
| GM | Naiditsch Arkadij | 2664 | 1-0 |
GM | Bruzon Batista Lazaro | 2652 |
| GM | Jussupow Artur | 2608 | 0-1 |
GM | Dominguez Perez Leinier | 2647 |
| GM | Gustafsson Jan | 2603 | ½-½ |
GM | Nogueira Santiago Jesus | 2556 |
| GM | Graf Alexander | 2592 | 0-1 |
GM | Arencibia Rodriguez Walter | 2535 |
China vs Georgia
| 17 | Georgia (GEO) | Rtg | 0:4 |
12 | China (CHN) | Rtg |
| GM | Jobava Baadur | 2646 | 0-1 |
GM | Bu Xiangzhi | 2640 |
| GM | Kacheishvili Giorgi | 2605 | 0-1 |
GM | Zhang Zhong | 2640 |
| GM | Gagunashvili Merab | 2560 | 0-1 |
GM | Wang Yue | 2598 |
| GM | Gelashvili Tamaz | 2576 | 0-1 |
GM | Ni Hua | 2607 |
| Rk. | Sd | Team | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1 | 3 | Armenia | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 26.5 | 194.5 | 17 |
| 2 | 12 | China | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 25.5 | 191.0 | 13 |
| 3 | 5 | France | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 24.0 | 188.5 | 15 |
| 4 | 1 | Russia | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 23.5 | 201.5 | 12 |
| 5 | 7 | USA | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 23.5 | 192.5 | 16 |
| 6 | 4 | Ukraine | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 23.5 | 190.0 | 14 |
| 7 | 20 | Czech Republic | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 23.0 | 191.0 | 14 |
| 8 | 18 | Cuba | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 23.0 | 189.0 | 13 |
| 9 | 32 | Slovenia | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 23.0 | 185.5 | 14 |
| 10 | 30 | Uzbekistan | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 22.5 | 190.5 | 11 |
| 11 | 2 | India | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 22.5 | 187.5 | 12 |
| 12 | 14 | Germany | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 22.5 | 185.5 | 10 |
| 13 | 25 | Denmark | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 22.0 | 193.5 | 13 |
| 14 | 22 | Greece | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 22.0 | 184.5 | 12 |
| 15 | 6 | Israel | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 22.0 | 183.0 | 13 |
| 16 | 28 | Croatia | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 22.0 | 181.0 | 12 |
| 17 | 23 | Moldova | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 22.0 | 179.5 | 11 |
| 18 | 17 | Georgia | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 21.5 | 196.0 | 14 |
| 19 | 51 | Iran | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 21.5 | 187.5 | 9 |
| 20 | 24 | Norway | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 21.5 | 184.5 | 15 |
| 21 | 31 | Sweden | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 21.5 | 184.0 | 11 |
| 22 | 16 | Hungary | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 21.5 | 179.0 | 12 |
| 23 | 9 | Azerbaijan | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 21.5 | 178.0 | 12 |
| 24 | 62 | Colombia | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 21.5 | 175.0 | 11 |
| 25 | 34 | Turkey | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 21.5 | 174.5 | 10 |
China drew with Russia, with Tatiana Kosintseva winning and Kovalevskaya losing. Ukraine beat the US with Natalia Zhukova beating Anna Zatonskih, and Inna Yanovska-Gaponenko beating Irina Krush. Georgia defeated Hungary 2.5:0.5. Ukraine is now at the top of the list, half a point ahead of Russia. After that there is a gap of 1.5 points to the next best team (Georgia).
Ukraine vs USA
| 5 | USA (USA) | Rtg | ½:2½ |
2 | Ukraine (UKR) | Rtg |
| WGM | Zatonskih Anna | 2433 | 0-1 |
WGM | Zhukova Natalia | 2425 |
| IM | Krush Irina | 2437 | 0-1 |
IM | Yanovska-Gaponenko I | 2430 |
| WGM | Goletiani Rusudan | 2371 | ½-½ |
WGM | Ushenina Anna | 2397 |
Russia vs China
| 6 | China (CHN) | Rtg | 1½:1½ |
1 | Russia (RUS) | Rtg |
| WGM | Zhao Xue | 2423 | ½-½ |
GM | Kosteniuk Alexandra | 2540 |
| Shen Yang | 2411 | 0-1 |
IM | Kosintseva Tatiana | 2489 | |
| WFM | Hou Yifan | 2298 | 1-0 |
IM | Kovalevskaya Ekaterina | 2460 |
Germany vs Armenia
| 7 | Armenia (ARM) | Rtg | 2½:½ |
8 | Germany (GER) | Rtg |
| IM | Mkrtchian Lilit | 2453 | ½-½ |
IM | Paehtz Elisabeth | 2438 |
| IM | Danielian Elina | 2422 | 1-0 |
IM | Kachiani-Gersinska K | 2421 |
| WIM | Andriasian Siranush | 2237 | 1-0 |
WGM | Juergens Vera | 2330 |
Standings after nine rounds (Women)
| Rk. | Sd | Team | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1 | 2 | Ukraine | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 21.0 | 146.5 | 18 |
| 2 | 1 | Russia | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 20.5 | 149.5 | 14 |
| 3 | 3 | Georgia | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 19.0 | 144.5 | 15 |
| 4 | 6 | China | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 18.5 | 151.0 | 12 |
| 5 | 10 | Bulgaria | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 18.5 | 146.0 | 15 |
| 6 | 7 | Armenia | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 18.0 | 141.5 | 14 |
| 7 | 5 | USA | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 17.5 | 155.0 | 14 |
| 8 | 11 | Romania | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 17.5 | 145.5 | 13 |
| 9 | 15 | France | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 17.5 | 142.5 | 11 |
| 10 | 13 | Lithuania | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 17.0 | 141.0 | 12 |
| 11 | 14 | Greece | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 17.0 | 136.5 | 14 |
| 12 | 36 | Croatia | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 17.0 | 131.5 | 12 |
| 13 | 4 | Hungary | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 16.5 | 156.5 | 10 |
| 14 | 9 | India | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 16.5 | 147.0 | 12 |
| 15 | 17 | Slovenia | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 16.5 | 140.0 | 10 |
| 16 | 29 | Mongolia | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 16.5 | 139.5 | 12 |
| 17 | 23 | Vietnam | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 16.5 | 139.0 | 10 |
| 18 | 20 | Israel | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 16.5 | 138.0 | 13 |
| 19 | 32 | Belarus | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 16.0 | 140.0 | 10 |
| 20 | 8 | Germany | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 16.0 | 136.5 | 11 |
Report: Frederic Friedel, pictures: Natalia Straub
Vladimir Kramnik, with the best rating performance so far in Turin
Boy wonder Sergey Karjakin, Ukraine
Artur Jussupow, playing for Germany
Karolina Smokina of Moldavia
Viktorija Cmilyte, Lithuania
Anita Gara, Hungary
The obligatory picture of Anna Sharevich
Pictures by Karsten Straub
| 37th Olympiad | 77th FIDE Congress | ||
| May 20 2006 | 21:00 | Opening ceremony | |
| May 21 2006 | 15:00 | First round | |
| May 22 2006 | 15:00 | Second round | |
| May 23 2006 | 15:00 | Third round | |
| May 24 2006 | 15:00 | Fourth round | |
| May 25 2006 | 15:00 | Fifth round | |
| May 26 2006 | Rest day | ||
| May 27 2006 | 15:00 | Sixth round | FIDE Commissions and committees |
| May 28 2006 | 15:00 | Seventh round | |
| May 29 2006 | 15:00 | Eighth round | |
| May 30 2006 | 15:00 | Ninth round | Executive board, Presidential board |
| May 31 2006 | 15:00 | Tenth round | |
| June 1 2006 | Rest day | ||
| June 2 2006 | 15:00 | Eleventh round | Continental Meeting, General Assembly |
| June 3 2006 | 15:00 | Twelfth round | |
| June 4 2006 | 10:00 | Thirteenth round | |
| June 4 2006 | 20:30 | Closing ceremony | |
