Minute by minute updates from Khanty Mansiysk by Chessdom
15:20 CET
The three top teams in the women section – Russia, China, and Ukraine, will close their games with perfect 4-0. They are joined by Georgia, Russia 2, USA, and India to make the top 7 teams with 4 out of 4. Great performance by the top women and a tough fight for the medals ahead.
15:10 CET
GM Hammer scores a full point for Norway against Elliott, replay the game here.
15:00 CET
Russia 4 runs over Palestine with a total score 4-0. As per this moment even more games are available with live analysis, check them out here
14:55 CET
The Japanese Shinya Kojima joins the party and defeats GM Diego Flores. Argentina finally close the match 3-1, but there is a good sensation for Japan’s future games at the Olympiad.
14:50 CET
IM Hafizulhelmi Mas continues the trend and holds GM Adams to a draw! McShane and Howell secure the victory for England, but will the they regret the missed 1/2 tiebreak point in round 1?
14:47 CET
Costa Rica do not hesitate, the Olympic Champion Akopian is held to a draw! The happy first board of Costa Rica – Mauricio Arias Santana. But wait, there is more! A draw in Bernal Gonzalez – Arman Pashikian puts Armenia under question. Incredible first day of the Olympiad, full of surprises on all levels.
14:45 CET
South Africa join the proud nations of day 1! Kenny Solomon holds Mamedyarov to a draw, bringing the high moral in his team.
14:35 CET
Ivan Cheparinov and Kiprian Berbatov score two points for Bulgaria, but one or two of the rest of the games can converge to draw. The first rounds are important in view of the game points tiebreak, especially for the teams aiming in the medals and top 10.
14:30 CET
Philippines wins against Netherlands Antilles 4-0 in the women section. In the open section Ukraine wins with the same score against Iraq.
14:15 CET
Sam Collins keeps on playing against Grischuk in an equal position! What a game to open the Olympiad, click here to follow with commentary All other boards of the match are won for Russia and they lead 3-0.
14:03 CET
Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son equalises for Vietnam against Botswana.
14:00 CET
GM Ivan Ivanisevic, one of the top participants in the strong Bansko Chess Open wins his game and Serbia is heading towards a perfect victory at the start of the Olympiad.
13:57 CET
The youngest WGM Alina Kashlinskaya won her first game at the Olympiad 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 dxc4 5.a4 e6 6.e4 Bb4 7.Bg5 h6 8.Bxf6 Qxf6 9.Bxc4 O-O 10.O-O c5 11.e5 Qe7 12.d5 Bxc3 13.d6 Qd8 14.bxc3 Bd7 15.Qe2 Qa5 16.Qe3 Bc6 17.Nd2 Nd7 18.f4 Rfe8 19.f5 Qd8 20.f6 b6 21.Bd3 Nxf6 22.exf6 Qxd6 23.fxg7 Kxg7 24.Nc4 Qd5 25.Qg3+ Qg5 26.Qxg5+ hxg5 27.Ne5 Red8 28.Rxf7+ 1–0
More good news for Russia, Peter Svidler gives the team a full point.
13:55 CET
From Khanty Mansiysk: France losing 0-2 reported by the official site is technical error, all games are still in progress.
13:45 CET
Eljanov adds one more in the bag of Ukraine, game with analysis here. At the same time Mateusz Bartel scores for Poland.
I can’t believe the live website’s interface as compared the one that we got 2 years back or even the one that we had 4 years ago. This interface is quite bad. It doesn’t show the live scoring status between the teams, the Grandmaster’s Ratings, etc
Use Chess-results.com instead. It won’t be live or up-to-the minute, but the results will show ratings and team scores.