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Chess Olympiad 2008

results round 5 open

9 Armenia (ARM) Rtg - 20 Netherlands (NED) Rtg 2½:1½

GM Aronian Levon 2757 - GM Van Wely Loek 2618 ½ - ½
GM Akopian Vladimir 2679 - GM Smeets Jan 2604 ½ - ½
GM Sargissian Gabriel 2642 - GM Stellwagen Daniel 2605 1 - 0
GM Petrosian Tigran L 2629 - GM L'Ami Erwin 2610 ½ - ½

11 Germany 1 (GER1) Rtg - 1 Russia (RUS) Rtg 2 : 2

GM Naiditsch Arkadij 2678 - GM Kramnik Vladimir 2772 ½ - ½
GM Khenkin Igor 2647 - GM Grischuk Alexander 2719 ½ - ½
GM Gustafsson Jan 2634 - GM Morozevich Alexander 2787 ½ - ½
GM Fridman Daniel 2630 - GM Jakovenko Dmitry 2737 ½ - ½

5 Hungary (HUN) Rtg - 2 Ukraine (UKR) Rtg 1½:2½

GM Leko Peter 2747 - GM Ivanchuk Vassily 2786 0 - 1
GM Polgar Judit 2711 - GM Karjakin Sergey 2730 0 - 1
GM Almasi Zoltan 2663 - GM Eljanov Pavel 2720 1 - 0
GM Balogh Csaba 2616 - GM Volokitin Andrei 2659 ½ - ½

19 Norway (NOR) Rtg - 4 Azerbaijan (AZE) Rtg 1 : 3

GM Carlsen Magnus 2786 - GM Mamedyarov Shakhriyar 2731 ½ - ½
GM Agdestein Simen 2588 - GM Gashimov Vugar 2703 0 - 1
GM Lie Kjetil A 2526 - GM Huseynov Gadir 2650 ½ - ½
IM Hammer Jon Ludvig 2522 - GM Mammadov Rauf 2631 0 - 1

15 England (ENG) Rtg - 44 Italy (ITA) Rtg 2½:1½

GM Adams Michael 2734 - GM Caruana Fabiano 2640 0 - 1
GM Short Nigel D 2642 - GM Godena Michele 2517 1 - 0
GM Howell David W L 2593 - IM Shytaj Luca 2472 1 - 0
GM Jones Gawain C B 2548 - IM Brunello Sabino 2455 ½ - ½

13 India (IND) Rtg - 54 Austria (AUT) Rtg 3 : 1

GM Sasikiran Krishnan 2694 - GM Ragger Markus 2518 ½ - ½
GM Harikrishna P 2659 - GM Kindermann Stefan 2517 1 - 0
GM Ganguly Surya Shekhar 2603 - IM Atlas Valery 2465 1 - 0
GM Geetha Narayanan Gopal 2548 - IM Neubauer Martin 2422 ½ - ½

21 Poland (POL) Rtg - 66 Costa Rica (CRC) Rtg 3½: ½

GM Socko Bartosz 2631 - GM Ramirez Alejandro 2533 1 - 0
GM Miton Kamil 2604 - IM Gonzalez Bernal 2432 ½ - ½
GM Wojtaszek Radoslaw 2599 - IM Valdes Leonardo 2401 1 - 0
GM Bartel Mateusz 2602 - IM Hernandez Basante Francisco 2247 1 - 0

3 China (CHN) Rtg - 46 Scotland (SCO) Rtg 2½:1½

GM Wang Yue 2736 - GM Rowson Jonathan 2596 ½ - ½
GM Bu Xiangzhi 2714 - GM Aagaard Jacob 2528 ½ - ½
GM Wang Hao 2696 - GM Shaw John 2469 1 - 0
GM Li Chao B 2622 - GM McNab Colin A 2455 ½ - ½

37 Vietnam (VIE) Rtg - 16 Cuba (CUB) Rtg 2 : 2

GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son 2567 - GM Dominguez Perez Leinier 2719 ½ - ½
GM Le Quang Liem 2583 - GM Bruzon Batista Lazaro 2623 ½ - ½
GM Dao Thien Hai 2510 - GM Quezada Perez Yuniesky 2580 ½ - ½
CM Nguyen Van Huy 2422 - GM Hernandez Carmenates Holden 2580 ½ - ½

32 Denmark (DEN) Rtg - 8 Israel (ISR) Rtg ½ :3½

GM Hansen Lars Bo 2570 - GM Gelfand Boris 2719 0 - 1
GM Nielsen Peter Heine 2662 - GM Avrukh Boris 2657 ½ - ½
IM Rasmussen Allan Stig 2513 - GM Postny Evgeny 2674 0 - 1
IM Glud Jakob Vang 2444 - GM Rodshtein Maxim 2609 0 - 1

12 Spain (ESP) Rtg - 23 Belarus (BLR) Rtg 2 : 2

GM Vallejo Pons Francisco 2664 - GM Azarov Sergei 2613 1 - 0
GM Illescas Cordoba Miguel 2604 - GM Zhigalko Sergei 2592 0 - 1
GM Khamrakulov Ibragim S 2580 - GM Aleksandrov Aleksej 2617 ½ - ½
GM San Segundo Carrillo Pablo 2564 - GM Fedorov Alexei 2584 ½ - ½

28 Slovenia (SLO) Rtg - 6 Bulgaria (BUL) Rtg ½ :3½

GM Beliavsky Alexander G 2619 - GM Topalov Veselin 2791 ½ - ½
GM Pavasovic Dusko 2597 - GM Cheparinov Ivan 2696 0 - 1
GM Lenic Luka 2569 - GM Delchev Aleksander 2632 0 - 1
IM Borisek Jure 2548 - GM Iotov Valentin 2532 0 - 1

35 Lithuania (LTU) Rtg - 14 Romania (ROU) Rtg ½ :3½

GM Kveinys Aloyzas 2533 - GM Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter 2684 0 - 1
GM Rozentalis Eduardas 2577 - GM Istratescu Andrei 2633 ½ - ½
GM Sulskis Sarunas 2572 - GM Lupulescu Constantin 2594 0 - 1
IM Zagorskis Darius 2509 - GM Vajda Levente 2582 0 - 1

22 Serbia (SRB) Rtg - 7 France (FRA) Rtg 1½:2½

GM Ivanisevic Ivan 2658 - GM Bacrot Etienne 2705 ½ - ½
GM Solak Dragan 2595 - GM Vachier-Lagrave Maxime 2716 ½ - ½
GM Perunovic Milos 2580 - GM Fressinet Laurent 2676 ½ - ½
GM Vuckovic Bojan 2561 - GM Tkachiev Vladislav 2664 0 - 1

24 Croatia (CRO) Rtg - 30 Sweden (SWE) Rtg 1 : 3

GM Palac Mladen 2583 - GM Agrest Evgenij 2574 0 - 1
GM Kozul Zdenko 2593 - GM Hillarp Persson Tiger 2543 0 - 1
GM Zelcic Robert 2589 - GM Cicak Slavko 2564 ½ - ½
GM Stevic Hrvoje 2588 - GM Carlsson Pontus 2515 ½ - ½

25 Slovakia (SVK) Rtg - 17 Georgia (GEO) Rtg 1½:2½

GM Movsesian Sergei 2732 - GM Jobava Baadur 2664 ½ - ½
GM Ftacnik Lubomir 2571 - GM Izoria Zviad 2610 0 - 1
GM Markos Jan 2557 - GM Mchedlishvili Mikheil 2615 ½ - ½
GM Petrik Tomas 2487 - GM Pantsulaia Levan 2580 ½ - ½

42 Montenegro (MNE) Rtg - 29 Bosnia & Herzegovina (BIH) Rtg 1½:2½

GM Djukic Nikola 2519 - GM Nikolic Predrag 2669 0 - 1
GM Drasko Milan 2537 - GM Predojevic Borki 2615 ½ - ½
GM Kosic Dragan 2511 - GM Saric Ibro 2559 ½ - ½
IM Kalezic Blazo 2448 - IM Stojanovic Dalibor 2455 ½ - ½

64 Paraguay (PAR) Rtg - 52 Finland (FIN) Rtg 1 : 3

GM Bachmann Axel 2555 - GM Nyback Tomi 2639 ½ - ½
GM Franco Ocampos Zenon 2501 - IM Sammalvuo Tapani 2463 ½ - ½
FM Kropff Ricardo 2286 - IM Agopov Mikael 2449 0 - 1
FM Peralta Eduardo 2257 - IM Karttunen Mika 2411 0 - 1

33 Uzbekistan (UZB) Rtg - 26 Moldova (MDA) Rtg 1½:2½

GM Kasimdzhanov Rustam 2672 - GM Bologan Viktor 2682 ½ - ½
GM Iuldachev Saidali 2511 - GM Iordachescu Viorel 2572 ½ - ½
IM Khamrakulov Dzhurabek 2533 - GM Svetushkin Dmitry 2588 ½ - ½
GM Barsov Alexei 2513 - GM Khruschiov Alexey 2499 0 - 1

50 Turkey (TUR) Rtg - 43 Latvia (LAT) Rtg 2 : 2

GM Gurevich Mikhail 2634 - GM Miezis Normunds 2557 ½ - ½
IM Can Emre 2464 - GM Sveshnikov Evgeny 2525 0 - 1
IM Haznedaroglu Kivanc 2436 - GM Meijers Viesturs 2514 ½ - ½
FM Yilmaz Mustafa 2387 - GM Lanka Zigurds 2491 1 - 0

41 Germany 2 (GER2) Rtg - 31 Argentina (ARG) Rtg 3 : 1

GM Meier Georg 2558 - GM Felgaer Ruben 2591 1 - 0
IM Braun Arik 2567 - GM Peralta Fernando 2557 ½ - ½
GM Bindrich Falko 2517 - IM Flores Diego 2568 ½ - ½
IM Bogner Sebastian 2448 - GM Campora Daniel H 2537 1 - 0

27 Greece (GRE) Rtg - 34 Kazakhstan (KAZ) Rtg 3 : 1

GM Papaioannou Ioannis 2597 - GM Kazhgaleyev Murtas 2640 1 - 0
GM Kotronias Vasilios 2587 - GM Kotsur Pavel 2563 ½ - ½
GM Banikas Hristos 2572 - IM Ismagambetov Anuar 2527 ½ - ½
GM Halkias Stelios 2584 - GM Ibrayev Nurlan 2448 1 - 0

38 Philippines (PHI) Rtg - 40 Iran (IRI) Rtg 2½:1½

GM Villamayor Buenaventura 2468 - GM Ghaem Maghami Ehsan 2599 ½ - ½
GM So Wesley 2610 - GM Moradiabadi Elshan 2499 1 - 0
IM Gomez John Paul 2519 - GM Bagheri Amir 2490 1 - 0
GM Laylo Darwin 2507 - GM Mahjoob Morteza 2507 0 - 1

18 Czech Republic (CZE) Rtg - 59 Colombia (COL) Rtg 1½:2½

GM Navara David 2633 - IM Cuartas Jaime Alexander 2489 ½ - ½
GM Hracek Zbynek 2613 - IM Escobar Forero Alder 2482 ½ - ½
GM Laznicka Viktor 2591 - IM Barrientos Sergio 2450 0 - 1
GM Babula Vlastimil 2608 - FM Uribe Mauricio 2414 ½ - ½

45 Iceland (ISL) Rtg - 58 Brazil (BRA) Rtg 2½:1½

GM Stefansson Hannes 2575 - GM Lima Darcy 2488 ½ - ½
GM Steingrimsson Hedinn 2540 - GM Sunye Neto Jaime 2488 1 - 0
GM Danielsen Henrik 2492 - FM El Debs Felipe De Cresce 2447 0 - 1
GM Thorhallsson Throstur 2455 - IM Diamant Andre 2412 1 - 0

10 United States of America (USA) Rtg - 131 Hongkong (HKG) Rtg 4 : 0

GM Kamsky Gata 2729 - WGM Corke Anya 2301 1 - 0
GM Nakamura Hikaru 2704 - Tsang Hon Ki 2121 1 - 0
GM Shulman Yuri 2616 - Yu Marco 2006 1 - 0
GM Akobian Varuzhan 2606 - Lam Mingo Kwok Wai 1665 1 - 0

82 Yemen (YEM) Rtg - 48 Canada (CAN) Rtg 2 : 2

Al-Subaihi Khalil 2154 - GM Bluvshtein Mark 2557 0 - 1
IM Al-Zendani Zendan 2400 - GM Charbonneau Pascal 2499 ½ - ½
Ahmed Abdo 0 - IM Roussel-Roozmon Thomas 2486 ½ - ½
IM Al Qudaimi Basheer 2464 - IM Noritsyn Nikolay 2372 1 - 0

36 Switzerland (SUI) Rtg - 100 Andorra (AND) Rtg 3 : 1

GM Pelletier Yannick 2557 - GM De La Riva Aguado Oscar 2537 ½ - ½
GM Jenni Florian 2543 - FM Garcia Raul 2257 ½ - ½
GM Gallagher Joseph G 2480 - Jose Queralto Daniel 2125 1 - 0
IM Hug Werner 2448 - Santamaria V 2106 1 - 0

92 Iraq (IRQ) Rtg - 68 Belgium (BEL) Rtg 2 : 2

FM Hussein H A 2354 - IM Polaczek Richard 2419 1 - 0
FM Hussein N A 2338 - FM Gulbas Cemil 2371 1 - 0
Ahmed Abdul Sattar Abdulwhhab 2246 - IM Saiboulatov Daniyal 2360 0 - 1
Albadri Abd Al Sattar 2163 - IM Laurent Bruno 2370 0 - 1

55 Bangladesh (BAN) Rtg - 122 Albania (ALB) Rtg 3½: ½

GM Rahman Ziaur 2510 - FM Boshku Harallamb 2308 1 - 0
GM Abdulla Al-Rakib 2522 - IM Mehmeti Dritan 2403 1 - 0
FM Abu Sufian Shakil 2418 - FM Rama Lorenc 2297 1 - 0
FM Minhazuddin Ahmed 2377 - Paci Aleksander 0 ½ - ½

84 South Africa (RSA) Rtg - 95 Luxembourg (LUX) Rtg 3½: ½

IM Kobese Watu 2369 - IM Berend Fred 2345 1 - 0
IM Solomon Kenny 2337 - IM Bakalarz Mietek 2330 1 - 0
CM Steel Henry Robert 2280 - Jeitz Christian 2251 1 - 0
IM Mabusela Johanne Mayedi 2273 - Gengler Pierre 2200 ½ - ½

49 Egypt (EGY) Rtg - 109 Malta (MLT) Rtg 4 : 0

GM Adly Ahmed 2586 - Sorensen Torben 2383 1 - 0
IM Ezat Mohamed 2425 - CM Pace Colin 2148 1 - 0
IM Frhat Ali 2418 - Zerafa Patrick 2065 1 - 0
FM Abdel Razik Khaled 2406 - Zerafa Robert 1991 1 - 0

98 Wales (WLS) Rtg - 130 Pakistan (PAK) Rtg ½ :3½

FM Jones Richard S 2307 - Amir Karim 2265 ½ - ½
Kett Tim 2272 - Waqar Mohamed 2207 0 - 1
Blackburn Jonathan Lb 2175 - Butt Khalil Ur Rehman 0 0 - 1
Spice Alan 2173 - Ahmed Haseeb 2253 0 - 1

70 Mongolia (MGL) Rtg - 115 Libya (LBA) Rtg 4 : 0

Gundavaa Bayarsaihan 2458 - Homrana Mustafa 2001 1 - 0
GM Hatanbaatar Bazar 2375 - Elbaruni Mohamed 2072 1 - 0
Oyunbaatar Tumendemberel 2306 - FM Chahrani Ibrahim 2314 1 - 0
Battulga Namhai 2317 - Ghattour Mosab 1984 1 - 0

71 New Zealand (NZL) Rtg - 81 United Arab Emirates (UAE) Rtg 3 : 1

GM Chandler Murray G 2515 - IM Salem A R Saleh 2476 ½ - ½
FM Smith Robert W 2316 - IM Hassan Abdullah 2287 ½ - ½
FM Nokes Roger I 2293 - FM Othman A Moussa 2336 1 - 0
FM Lukey Stephen G 2271 - FM AlHuwar Jasem 2230 1 - 0

69 Indonesia (INA) Rtg - 39 Former Yug Rep of Macedonia (MKD) Rtg 2½:1½

GM Megaranto Susanto 2536 - GM Georgiev Vladimir 2517 1 - 0
IM Irwanto Sadikin 2441 - GM Nedev Trajko 2525 0 - 1
Yohannes Simbolon 0 - GM Mitkov Nikola 2556 1 - 0
FM Purnama Tirta Chandra 2417 - IM Colovic Aleksandar 2458 ½ - ½

67 Qatar (QAT) Rtg - 111 Trinidad & Tobago (TRI) Rtg 3 : 1

GM Al-Modiahki Mohamad 2559 - FM Harper Ryan 2233 1 - 0
IM Al Sayed Mohamad N 2477 - FM Cave Christo 2250 1 - 0
IM Nezad Husein Aziz 2401 - Singh Ravishen 2084 1 - 0
Al-Hitmi Mohamad 2161 - Chang Eddison Dr 2056 0 - 1

Germany 8 : 8 Russia
Armenia 7 : 7 Netherlands
Hungary 7 : 7 Ukraine
Norway 7 : 7 Azerbaijan
England 7 : 6 Italy
India 6 : 6 Austria
Poland 6 : 6 Costa Rica
China 6 : 6 Scotland
Vietnam 6 : 6 Cuba
Denmark 6 : 6 Israel
Spain 6 : 6 Belarus
Slovenia 6 : 6 Bulgaria
Lithuania 6 : 6 Romania
Serbia 6 : 6 France
Croatia 6 : 6 Sweden
Slovakia 6 : 6 Georgia
Montenegro 5 : 6 Bosnia & Herzegovina
Paraguay 5 : 5 Finland
Uzbekistan 5 : 5 Moldova
Turkey 5 : 5 Latvia
Germany 2 5 : 5 Argentina
Greece 5 : 5 Kazakhstan
Philippines 5 : 5 Iran
Czech Republic 5 : 5 Colombia
Iceland 5 : 5 Brazil
United States of America 5 : 4 Hongkong
Yemen 4 : 4 Canada
Switzerland 4 : 4 Andorra
Bangladesh 4 : 4 Albania
South Africa 4 : 4 Luxembourg
Egypt 4 : 4 Malta
Iraq 4 : 4 Belgium
Wales 4 : 4 Pakistan
Mongolia 4 : 4 Libya
New Zealand 4 : 4 United Arab Emirates
Indonesia 4 : 4 Former Yug Rep of Macedonia
Venezuela 4 : 4 ICSC
Puerto Rico 4 : 4 Kyrgyzstan
Algeria 4 : 4 El Salvador
Qatar 4 : 4 Trinidad & Tobago
Malaysia 4 : 4 Dominican Republic
IPCA 4 : 4 Syria
Bolivia 4 : 4 Faroe Islands
Tunisia 4 : 4 Portugal
Australia 4 : 4 Singapore
Lebanon 4 : 4 Ecuador
Japan 4 : 4 Tajikistan
Turkmenistan 4 : 4 Ireland
Nicaragua 3 : 3 Estonia
Jordan 3 : 3 Uruguay
Germany 3 3 : 3 Thailand
Palestine 3 : 3 San Marino
South Korea 3 : 3 Mexico
Jamaica 3 : 3 Nigeria
Botswana 3 : 3 Netherlands Antilles
Bermuda 2 : 2 Jersey
Ghana 2 : 2 Monaco
Guatemala 2 : 2 Surinam
Macau 2 : 2 Mozambique
Guernsey 2 : 2 Namibia
Liechtenstein 2 : 2 IBCA
Panama 2 : 2 Kenya
Honduras 2 : 2 Mauritius
Cyprus 2 : 2 Uganda
Zambia 2 : 2 Barbados
Sri Lanka 2 : 2 Nepal
Malawi 2 : 2 Ethiopia
Angola 2 : 2 Aruba
Madagascar 1 : 2 Afghanistan
Papua New Guinea 1 : 1 British Virgin Islands
Chinese Taipei 1 : 1 Rwanda
Gabon 1 : 1 Fiji
U.S. Virgin Islands 0 : 0 Seychelles