Round 5 top board results:
| 5. Runde am 26.10.2009 um 15:00 | ||||||||
| Br. | 11 |  Georgia (GEO) |
Elo | – | 2 | Azerbaijan (AZE) |
Elo | 1½:2½ |
| 1.1 | GM | Jobava Baadur | 2696 | – | GM | Radjabov Teimour | 2757 | 1 – 0 |
| 1.2 | GM | Mchedlishvili Mikheil | 2613 | – | GM | Gashimov Vugar | 2740 | 0 – 1 |
| 1.3 | GM | Pantsulaia Levan | 2600 | – | GM | Guseinov Gadir | 2667 | 0 – 1 |
| 1.4 | GM | Sanikidze Tornike | 2600 | – | GM | Mamedyarov Shakhriyar | 2721 | ½ – ½ |
| Br. | 6 | Israel (ISR) |
Elo | – | 1 | Russia (RUS) |
Elo | 1 : 3 |
| 2.1 | GM | Sutovsky Emil | 2676 | – | GM | Svidler Peter | 2741 | 0 – 1 |
| 2.2 | GM | Mikhalevski Victor | 2625 | – | GM | Jakovenko Dmitry | 2742 | ½ – ½ |
| 2.3 | GM | Postny Evgeny | 2651 | – | GM | Alekseev Evgeny | 2725 | ½ – ½ |
| 2.4 | GM | Avrukh Boris | 2668 | – | GM | Tomashevsky Evgeny | 2688 | 0 – 1 |
| Br. | 9 | France (FRA) |
Elo | – | 3 | Armenia (ARM) |
Elo | 2 : 2 |
| 3.1 | GM | Bacrot Etienne | 2709 | – | GM | Aronian Levon | 2773 | 1 – 0 |
| 3.2 | GM | Fressinet Laurent | 2658 | – | GM | Akopian Vladimir | 2698 | ½ – ½ |
| 3.3 | GM | Edouard Romain | 2620 | – | GM | Sargissian Gabriel | 2678 | 0 – 1 |
| 3.4 | GM | Feller Sebastien | 2570 | – | GM | Petrosian Tigran L | 2602 | ½ – ½ |
| Br. | 8 | Spain (ESP) |
Elo | – | 17 | Serbia 1 (SRB 1) |
Elo | 2 : 2 |
| 4.1 | GM | Shirov Alexei | 2730 | – | GM | Solak Dragan | 2583 | ½ – ½ |
| 4.2 | GM | Vallejo Pons Francisco | 2696 | – | GM | Markus Robert | 2608 | 1 – 0 |
| 4.3 | GM | Illescas Cordoba Miguel | 2591 | – | GM | Vuckovic Bojan | 2600 | ½ – ½ |
| 4.4 | GM | Lopez Martinez Josep Manuel | 2570 | – | GM | Perunovic Milos | 2572 | 0 – 1 |
| Br. | 15 | Netherlands (NED) |
Elo | – | 13 | Czech Republic (CZE) |
Elo | 2 : 2 |
| 5.1 | GM | Smeets Jan | 2642 | – | GM | Navara David | 2692 | 0 – 1 |
| 5.2 | GM | Stellwagen Daniel | 2630 | – | GM | Laznicka Viktor | 2634 | ½ – ½ |
| 5.3 | GM | L’Ami Erwin | 2606 | – | GM | Hracek Zbynek | 2606 | 1 – 0 |
| 5.4 | GM | Werle Jan | 2563 | – | GM | Babula Vlastimil | 2569 | ½ – ½ |
| Br. | 19 | Greece (GRE) |
Elo | – | 5 | Ukraine (UKR) |
Elo | 1 : 3 |
| 6.1 | GM | Papaioannou Ioannis | 2628 | – | GM | Eljanov Pavel | 2717 | 0 – 1 |
| 6.2 | GM | Banikas Hristos | 2599 | – | GM | Volokitin Andrei | 2681 | 0 – 1 |
| 6.3 | GM | Halkias Stelios | 2570 | – | GM | Efimenko Zahar | 2654 | ½ – ½ |
| 6.4 | GM | Mastrovasilis Athanasios | 2519 | – | GM | Drozdovskij Yuri | 2627 | ½ – ½ |
| Br. | 12 | Poland (POL) |
Elo | – | 7 | Germany (GER) |
Elo | 2 : 2 |
| 7.1 | GM | Socko Bartosz | 2637 | – | GM | Naiditsch Arkadij | 2685 | 1 – 0 |
| 7.2 | GM | Wojtaszek Radoslaw | 2640 | – | GM | Meier Georg | 2664 | 0 – 1 |
| 7.3 | GM | Macieja Bartlomiej | 2618 | – | GM | Gustafsson Jan | 2622 | ½ – ½ |
| 7.4 | GM | Bartel Mateusz | 2609 | – | GM | Khenkin Igor | 2613 | ½ – ½ |
| Br. | 10 | Hungary (HUN) |
Elo | – | 21 | Austria (AUT) |
Elo | 3 : 1 |
| 8.1 | GM | Almasi Zoltan | 2685 | – | GM | Ragger Markus | 2561 | 1 – 0 |
| 8.2 | GM | Berkes Ferenc | 2663 | – | GM | Shengelia David | 2560 | ½ – ½ |
| 8.3 | GM | Balogh Csaba | 2620 | – | GM | Kindermann Stefan | 2529 | 1 – 0 |
| 8.4 | GM | Gyimesi Zoltan | 2594 | – | IM | Neubauer Martin | 2448 | ½ – ½ |
| Br. | 4 | Bulgaria (BUL) |
Elo | – | 22 | Serbia 2 (SRB 2) |
Elo | 3 : 1 |
| 9.1 | GM | Topalov Veselin | 2813 | – | GM | Miladinovic Igor | 2547 | ½ – ½ |
| 9.2 | GM | Cheparinov Ivan | 2667 | – | GM | Sedlak Nikola | 2571 | 1 – 0 |
| 9.3 | GM | Delchev Aleksander | 2635 | – | GM | Pikula Dejan | 2562 | ½ – ½ |
| 9.4 | GM | Iotov Valentin | 2578 | – | GM | Brenjo Slavisa | 2495 | 1 – 0 |
| Br. | 14 | Romania (ROU) |
Elo | – | 18 | England (ENG) |
Elo | 2 : 2 |
| 10.1 | GM | Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter | 2664 | – | GM | Adams Michael | 2682 | ½ – ½ |
| 10.2 | GM | Lupulescu Constantin | 2599 | – | GM | McShane Luke J | 2615 | ½ – ½ |
| 10.3 | GM | Nevednichy Vladislav | 2601 | – | GM | Conquest Stuart C | 2563 | ½ – ½ |
| 10.4 | IM | Szabo Gergely | 2526 | – | GM | Gordon Stephen J | 2535 | ½ – ½ |
Full results here: http://www.chess-results.com/Default.aspx?id=5442&lan=1
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Wow Susan The European Assizes is holding alot of events and no one of African descent playin any of theses guys!! I guess we just not qualified Susan! Wait a minute Susan arent theses the same bums i crushed on icc? hehe.Oh its only blitz that’s right,Susan ,when you go over to Europe do theses guys have a Ujia board? hehehe. Good thing the Bills won, mondays in Buffalo is the pits if they lose!!! JEEEZ.haha.
It should be a great match between Azerbaijan and Russia tomorrow. I think you almost have to make Azerbaijan (the #2 seed) the favourite against the top-seeded Russian team. Their #4 board, lol, Mamedyarov, has been ranked as high as #4 in the world (January, 2007) and there’s nobody on the planet hotter than Gashimov at the moment (except for Carlsen and he’s not here). He’s moved up from #11 to #6 on the live ratings list and fast closing on Kramnik for #5 status. Hard to believe that such a relatively tiny (less than 9 million population) country could have 3 Super GMs and all under the age of 25!
Huge win for Bacrot! Is he ready to rejoin the elite?