Board Pairings
| Round 8 on 2008/11/21 at 15:00 | ||||||||
| Bo. | 7 |  France (FRA) |
Rtg | – | 9 | Armenia (ARM) |
Rtg | 0 : 0 |
| 1.1 | GM | Bacrot Etienne | 2705 | – | GM | Aronian Levon | 2757 | |
| 1.2 | GM | Vachier-Lagrave Maxime | 2716 | – | GM | Akopian Vladimir | 2679 | |
| 1.3 | GM | Fressinet Laurent | 2676 | – | GM | Sargissian Gabriel | 2642 | |
| 1.4 | GM | Tkachiev Vladislav | 2664 | – | GM | Petrosian Tigran L | 2629 | |
| Bo. | 8 | Israel (ISR) |
Rtg | – | 11 | Germany 1 (GER1) |
Rtg | 0 : 0 |
| 2.1 | GM | Gelfand Boris | 2719 | – | GM | Naiditsch Arkadij | 2678 | |
| 2.2 | GM | Roiz Michael | 2677 | – | GM | Khenkin Igor | 2647 | |
| 2.3 | GM | Avrukh Boris | 2657 | – | GM | Fridman Daniel | 2630 | |
| 2.4 | GM | Postny Evgeny | 2674 | – | GM | Baramidze David | 2557 | |
| Bo. | 10 | United States of America (USA) |
Rtg | – | 1 | Russia (RUS) |
Rtg | 0 : 0 |
| 3.1 | GM | Kamsky Gata | 2729 | – | GM | Svidler Peter | 2727 | |
| 3.2 | GM | Nakamura Hikaru | 2704 | – | GM | Grischuk Alexander | 2719 | |
| 3.3 | GM | Onischuk Alexander | 2644 | – | GM | Morozevich Alexander | 2787 | |
| 3.4 | GM | Akobian Varuzhan | 2606 | – | GM | Jakovenko Dmitry | 2737 | |
| Bo. | 3 | China (CHN) |
Rtg | – | 37 | Vietnam (VIE) |
Rtg | 0 : 0 |
| 4.1 | GM | Bu Xiangzhi | 2714 | – | GM | Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son | 2567 | |
| 4.2 | GM | Ni Hua | 2710 | – | GM | Le Quang Liem | 2583 | |
| 4.3 | GM | Wang Hao | 2696 | – | GM | Dao Thien Hai | 2510 | |
| 4.4 | GM | Li Chao B | 2622 | – | GM | Tu Hoang Thong | 2496 | |
| Bo. | 2 | Ukraine (UKR) |
Rtg | – | 71 | New Zealand (NZL) |
Rtg | 0 : 0 |
| 5.1 | GM | Ivanchuk Vassily | 2786 | – | GM | Chandler Murray G | 2515 | |
| 5.2 | GM | Eljanov Pavel | 2720 | – | IM | Dive Russell John | 2357 | |
| 5.3 | GM | Efimenko Zahar | 2680 | – | FM | Smith Robert W | 2316 | |
| 5.4 | GM | Volokitin Andrei | 2659 | – | FM | Nokes Roger I | 2293 | |
| Bo. | 4 | Azerbaijan (AZE) |
Rtg | – | 24 | Croatia (CRO) |
Rtg | 0 : 0 |
| 6.1 | GM | Radjabov Teimour | 2752 | – | GM | Palac Mladen | 2583 | |
| 6.2 | GM | Gashimov Vugar | 2703 | – | GM | Kozul Zdenko | 2593 | |
| 6.3 | GM | Huseynov Gadir | 2650 | – | GM | Zelcic Robert | 2589 | |
| 6.4 | GM | Mammadov Rauf | 2631 | – | GM | Stevic Hrvoje | 2588 | |
| Bo. | 6 | Bulgaria (BUL) |
Rtg | – | 23 | Belarus (BLR) |
Rtg | 0 : 0 |
| 7.1 | GM | Topalov Veselin | 2791 | – | GM | Zhigalko Sergei | 2592 | |
| 7.2 | GM | Cheparinov Ivan | 2696 | – | GM | Aleksandrov Aleksej | 2617 | |
| 7.3 | GM | Georgiev Kiril | 2645 | – | GM | Fedorov Alexei | 2584 | |
| 7.4 | GM | Delchev Aleksander | 2632 | – | GM | Zhigalko Andrey | 2568 | |
| Bo. | 15 | England (ENG) |
Rtg | – | 17 | Georgia (GEO) |
Rtg | 0 : 0 |
| 8.1 | GM | Adams Michael | 2734 | – | GM | Jobava Baadur | 2664 | |
| 8.2 | GM | Short Nigel D | 2642 | – | GM | Izoria Zviad | 2610 | |
| 8.3 | GM | Howell David W L | 2593 | – | GM | Mchedlishvili Mikheil | 2615 | |
| 8.4 | GM | Jones Gawain C B | 2548 | – | GM | Pantsulaia Levan | 2580 | |
| Bo. | 25 | Slovakia (SVK) |
Rtg | – | 27 | Greece (GRE) |
Rtg | 0 : 0 |
| 9.1 | GM | Movsesian Sergei | 2732 | – | GM | Papaioannou Ioannis | 2597 | |
| 9.2 | GM | Ftacnik Lubomir | 2571 | – | GM | Kotronias Vasilios | 2587 | |
| 9.3 | GM | Markos Jan | 2557 | – | GM | Halkias Stelios | 2584 | |
| 9.4 | IM | Vavrak Peter | 2478 | – | GM | Mastrovasilis Dimitrios | 2572 | |
| Bo. | 50 | Turkey (TUR) |
Rtg | – | 21 | Poland (POL) |
Rtg | 0 : 0 |
| 10.1 | GM | Gurevich Mikhail | 2634 | – | GM | Miton Kamil | 2604 | |
| 10.2 | IM | Can Emre | 2464 | – | GM | Wojtaszek Radoslaw | 2599 | |
| 10.3 | IM | Erdogdu Mert | 2449 | – | GM | Gajewski Grzegorz | 2577 | |
| 10.4 | FM | Yilmaz Mustafa | 2387 | – | GM | Bartel Mateusz | 2602 | |
| Bo. | 28 | Slovenia (SLO) |
Rtg | – | 13 | India (IND) |
Rtg | 0 : 0 |
| 11.1 | GM | Beliavsky Alexander G | 2619 | – | GM | Sasikiran Krishnan | 2694 | |
| 11.2 | GM | Pavasovic Dusko | 2597 | – | GM | Harikrishna P | 2659 | |
| 11.3 | GM | Lenic Luka | 2569 | – | GM | Geetha Narayanan Gopal | 2548 | |
| 11.4 | IM | Borisek Jure | 2548 | – | GM | Sandipan Chanda | 2579 | |
| Bo. | 14 | Romania (ROU) |
Rtg | – | 22 | Serbia (SRB) |
Rtg | 0 : 0 |
| 12.1 | GM | Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter | 2684 | – | GM | Ivanisevic Ivan | 2658 | |
| 12.2 | GM | Istratescu Andrei | 2633 | – | GM | Solak Dragan | 2595 | |
| 12.3 | GM | Parligras Mircea | 2611 | – | GM | Kovacevic Aleksandar | 2581 | |
| 12.4 | GM | Lupulescu Constantin | 2594 | – | GM | Perunovic Milos | 2580 | |
| Bo. | 5 | Hungary (HUN) |
Rtg | – | 44 | Italy (ITA) |
Rtg | 0 : 0 |
| 13.1 | GM | Leko Peter | 2747 | – | GM | Caruana Fabiano | 2640 | |
| 13.2 | GM | Polgar Judit | 2711 | – | GM | Godena Michele | 2517 | |
| 13.3 | GM | Almasi Zoltan | 2663 | – | IM | Brunello Sabino | 2455 | |
| 13.4 | GM | Berkes Ferenc | 2645 | – | IM | Rombaldoni Denis | 2436 | |
| Bo. | 20 | Netherlands (NED) |
Rtg | – | 38 | Philippines (PHI) |
Rtg | 0 : 0 |
| 14.1 | GM | Van Wely Loek | 2618 | – | GM | Villamayor Buenaventura | 2468 | |
| 14.2 | GM | Smeets Jan | 2604 | – | GM | So Wesley | 2610 | |
| 14.3 | GM | Stellwagen Daniel | 2605 | – | IM | Gomez John Paul | 2519 | |
| 14.4 | GM | Werle Jan | 2582 | – | GM | Laylo Darwin | 2507 | |
| Bo. | 19 | Norway (NOR) |
Rtg | – | 18 | Czech Republic (CZE) |
Rtg | 0 : 0 |
| 15.1 | GM | Carlsen Magnus | 2786 | – | GM | Navara David | 2633 | |
| 15.2 | GM | Agdestein Simen | 2588 | – | GM | Hracek Zbynek | 2613 | |
| 15.3 | GM | Johannessen Leif Erlend | 2545 | – | GM | Laznicka Viktor | 2591 | |
| 15.4 | IM | Hammer Jon Ludvig | 2522 | – | GM | Babula Vlastimil | 2608 | |
| Round 8 on 2008/11/21 at 15:00 | ||||||||
| Bo. | 2 | Ukraine (UKR) |
Rtg | – | 3 | China (CHN) |
Rtg | 0 : 0 |
| 1.1 | GM | Lahno Kateryna | 2488 | – | WGM | Hou Yifan | 2578 | |
| 1.2 | WGM | Zhukova Natalia | 2488 | – | GM | Zhao Xue | 2518 | |
| 1.3 | IM | Ushenina Anna | 2496 | – | WGM | Shen Yang | 2450 | |
| 1.4 | IM | Gaponenko Inna | 2473 | – | Ju Wenjun | 2397 | ||
| Bo. | 12 | Germany 1 (GER1) |
Rtg | – | 46 | Estonia (EST) |
Rtg | 0 : 0 |
| 2.1 | IM | Paehtz Elisabeth | 2471 | – | WIM | Tsiganova Monika | 2208 | |
| 2.2 | WGM | Michna Marta | 2399 | – | WFM | Gansvind Valeriya I | 2212 | |
| 2.3 | WFM | Ohme Melanie | 2237 | – | WIM | Bashkite Viktoria | 2129 | |
| 2.4 | WFM | Hoolt Sarah | 2274 | – | Vahtra Tuuli | 1961 | ||
| Bo. | 7 | United States of America (USA) |
Rtg | – | 1 | Russia (RUS) |
Rtg | 0 : 0 |
| 3.1 | IM | Krush Irina | 2452 | – | GM | Kosteniuk Alexandra | 2525 | |
| 3.2 | IM | Zatonskih Anna | 2440 | – | IM | Kosintseva Tatiana | 2513 | |
| 3.3 | WGM | Goletiani Rusudan | 2359 | – | IM | Kosintseva Nadezhda | 2468 | |
| 3.4 | WGM | Rohonyan Katerina | 2334 | – | IM | Korbut Ekaterina | 2459 | |
| Bo. | 9 | Poland (POL) |
Rtg | – | 8 | Hungary (HUN) |
Rtg | 0 : 0 |
| 4.1 | IM | Socko Monika | 2434 | – | GM | Hoang Thanh Trang | 2483 | |
| 4.2 | IM | Rajlich Iweta | 2404 | – | IM | Vajda Szidonia | 2380 | |
| 4.3 | WGM | Zawadzka Jolanta | 2378 | – | IM | Madl Ildiko | 2376 | |
| 4.4 | WIM | Majdan Joanna | 2284 | – | WGM | Rudolf Anna | 2318 | |
| Bo. | 11 | India (IND) |
Rtg | – | 10 | Serbia (SRB) |
Rtg | 0 : 0 |
| 5.1 | IM | Harika Dronavalli | 2462 | – | IM | Maric Alisa | 2405 | |
| 5.2 | IM | Tania Sachdev | 2425 | – | IM | Bojkovic Natasa | 2420 | |
| 5.3 | WGM | Swathi Ghate | 2320 | – | WGM | Stojanovic Andjelija | 2357 | |
| 5.4 | WGM | Gomes Mary Ann | 2298 | – | WGM | Chelushkina Irina | 2360 | |
| Bo. | 32 | Moldova (MDA) |
Rtg | – | 4 | Georgia (GEO) |
Rtg | 0 : 0 |
| 6.1 | IM | Petrenko Svetlana | 2285 | – | GM | Chiburdanidze Maia | 2489 | |
| 6.2 | WGM | Smokina Karolina | 2235 | – | IM | Dzagnidze Nana | 2503 | |
| 6.3 | WGM | Partac Elena | 2168 | – | IM | Javakhishvili Lela | 2473 | |
| 6.4 | WIM | Bulmaga Irina | 2287 | – | IM | Khukhashvili Sopiko | 2409 | |
| Bo. | 5 | France (FRA) |
Rtg | – | 43 | Uzbekistan (UZB) |
Rtg | 0 : 0 |
| 7.1 | IM | Skripchenko Almira | 2455 | – | Muminova Nafisa | 2240 | ||
| 7.2 | IM | Collas Silvia | 2352 | – | WIM | Sabirova O | 2185 | |
| 7.3 | WGM | Milliet Sophie | 2366 | – | Tokhirjanova Hulkar | 2106 | ||
| 7.4 | WGM | Leconte Maria | 2349 | – | Nodirjanova Nodira | 2118 | ||
| Bo. | 16 | Romania (ROU) |
Rtg | – | 17 | Netherlands (NED) |
Rtg | 0 : 0 |
| 8.1 | WGM | Cosma Elena Luminita | 2340 | – | GM | Peng Zhaoqin | 2455 | |
| 8.2 | WGM | Voicu Carmen | 2239 | – | FM | Schuurman Petra | 2324 | |
| 8.3 | WIM | Paulet Iozefina | 2307 | – | WIM | Van Weersel Arlette | 2209 | |
| 8.4 | WGM | Motoc Alina | 2313 | – | Schut Lisa | 2153 | ||
| Bo. | 14 | Slovenia (SLO) |
Rtg | – | 37 | Ecuador (ECU) |
Rtg | 0 : 0 |
| 9.1 | IM | Muzychuk Anna | 2508 | – | WIM | Vasquez Ramirez Rocio | 2284 | |
| 9.2 | WGM | Krivec Jana | 2345 | – | WIM | Moncayo Romero Evelyn | 2142 | |
| 9.3 | WIM | Rozic Vesna | 2293 | – | Heredia Serrano Carla | 2105 | ||
| 9.4 | WFM | Novak Ksenija | 2163 | – | Rojas Solano Jessenia | 1959 | ||
| Bo. | 28 | Azerbaijan (AZE) |
Rtg | – | 6 | Armenia (ARM) |
Rtg | 0 : 0 |
| 10.1 | WGM | Mamedjarova Zeinab | 2351 | – | IM | Danielian Elina | 2513 | |
| 10.2 | WGM | Mamedjarova Turkan | 2269 | – | IM | Mkrtchian Lilit | 2443 | |
| 10.3 | WIM | Umudova Nargiz | 2219 | – | WGM | Aginian Nelly | 2325 | |
| 10.4 | Kazimova Narmin Nizami qizi | 2171 | – | WIM | Galojan Lilit | 2305 | ||
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
“Russia vs USA”? If not for Nakamura, it would’ve been “Russia vs. ex-Russia” 🙂
lol
naka the only non-russian at the table..
hi Susan,
Some photos of the New Zealand Team please, for all us Kiwi’s back home here.
Best ever result by a Kiwi (New Zealand) team !!!
go Kiwi’s
best wishes from New Zealand
Justin Davis
Except of course for the fact that Onischuk is originally from Ukraine, Akobian from Armenia, and the U.S.A. is a country of immigrants. Otherwise it’s hilarious. 😉
Kamsky is not Russian either.
‘Kamsky is not Russian either.’
According to latest discoveries by bloggers worldwide, Kamsky originates from Japan and Kramnik from the American Indians.
Arem men round 8 live? I cant get the screen.
Go Poland!!!
“‘Kamsky is not Russian either.’
According to latest discoveries by bloggers worldwide, Kamsky originates from Japan and Kramnik from the American Indians.”
Kamsky is NOT Russian. He is Tatar.
In case you don’t know, there are a lot of people who are living on Russian soil but are not Russian.
P.S.: You are a moron.
Go North Korea!
Go to hell!
Russian is someone who is born and raised in Russia. Otherwise Safin isn’t Russian either. Neither is Kasparov. Or Grischuk for that matter!
Judith out of rating above 2700.
Disaster ! LOL
Since when was Kasparov born in Russia???
Citizenship and nationality are two completely different things. There are many ethnic groups living in Russia or any other country. I don’t think there is a country on this world where avery single of it’s citizens would be the same nationality.
Open
USA – Russia 1,5-2,5
Women
USA – Russia 3-1
Looks like the US Womens team is still benefiting from Susans influence when she led the silver medal team.
Well Done.
“Looks like the US Womens team is still benefiting from Susans influence when she led the silver medal team.
Well Done.”
Mike, what is that red scribble picture about?