2010 Chess Olympiad - Round 2 Women

Getting right to it, USA and Canadian Women's R2 results:

Bo. 49 Estonia (EST) Rtg - 6 United States of America (USA) Rtg 1 : 3
6.1 WIM Fomina Tatjana 2256 - IM Krush Irina 2490 0 - 1
6.2 WFM Gansvind Valeriya I 2218 - IM Zatonskih Anna 2480 0 - 1
6.3 WIM Piarnpuu Leili 2111 - WGM Baginskaite Kamile 2328 ½ - ½
6.4 WFM Vahtra Tuuli 1991 - WGM Foisor Sabina-Francesca 2293 ½ - ½
(Despite winning the match, the two draws shoved the USA Women down in the standings).

Round 2 on 2010/09/22 at 15:00
Bo. 58 Canada (CAN) Rtg - 37 Kazakhstan (KAZ) Rtg 1½:2½
23.1 WIM Yuan Yuanling 2189 - WIM Dauletova Gulmira 2235 0 - 1
23.2 WIM Kagramanov Dina 2086 - WIM Nakhbayeva Guliskhan 2243 1 - 0
23.3 Lacau-Rodean Iulia 2024 - WFM Saduakassova Dinara 2142 ½ - ½
23.4 Kagramanov Dalia 1866 - WFM Ankudinova Yelena 2124 0 - 1

Women's Top Team Rankings After R2 - rather shocking!

Rk. SNo Team Team Games + = - TB1 TB2
1 15 Slovakia SVK 2 2 0 0 4 8,0
2 16 Germany GER 2 2 0 0 4 8,0
3 17 Serbia SRB 2 2 0 0 4 8,0
4 2 China CHN 2 2 0 0 4 8,0
5 3 Ukraine UKR 2 2 0 0 4 8,0
6 4 Georgia GEO 2 2 0 0 4 8,0
7 8 India IND 2 2 0 0 4 8,0
8 10 Poland POL 2 2 0 0 4 8,0
9 14 Romania ROU 2 2 0 0 4 8,0
10 6 United States of America USA 2 2 0 0 4 8,0
11 19 Netherlands NED 2 2 0 0 4 8,0
12 1 Russia 1 RUS1 2 2 0 0 4 8,0
13 5 Russia 2 RUS2 2 2 0 0 4 8,0
14 9 Hungary HUN 2 2 0 0 4 7,0
15 18 Cuba CUB 2 2 0 0 4 7,0

With the new scoring system it is now quite obvious to the players - if it was not before - that even one draw by a top team is being punished. As the pairings have been going, tomorrow USA, Russia 1 and Russia 2 will face tough opponents - tougher opponents than if they had taken their matches by 4 wins. Interesting, very interesting.

Meantime, Canada Women have move up to 40th place from a start of 58th. There are many days yet to play, but of course Canada Women's goal is to improve over their initial start as much as possible and get as close to the top 10 as they can. And if one or more of their players can score an upset or two, so much the better! The possibility to score an individual performance medal is also a motivating factor. Individual medal winners are often not from the top-finishing teams.

How did the chess femmes do who are playing on teams in the Open?

GM Judit Polgar, Hungary, Board 3, thanks to Judit's timely win, Hungary eeked out a win against Argentina. Come on dudes, look at the ELO differentials between the Hungarian players and the Argentines. All of the Hungarians should have won their games. It took Judit to show 'em how to do it. Way to go, Girl!

Round 2 on 2010/09/22 at 15:00
Bo. 26 Argentina (ARG) Rtg - 5 Hungary (HUN) Rtg 1½:2½
11.1 GM Flores Diego 2615 - GM Leko Peter 2724 ½ - ½
11.2 GM Felgaer Ruben 2597 - GM Almasi Zoltan 2707 ½ - ½
11.3 GM Peralta Fernando 2572 - GM Polgar Judit 2682 0 - 1
11.4 GM Lafuente Pablo 2565 - GM Berkes Ferenc 2678 ½ - ½

GM Viktorija Cmilyte, Lithuania, Board 3:

Bo. 22 Slovakia (SVK) Rtg - 39 Lithuania (LTU) Rtg 3 : 1
19.1 GM Movsesian Sergei 2723 - GM Rozentalis Eduardas 2611 1 - 0
19.2 GM Ftacnik Lubomir 2568 - GM Sulskis Sarunas 2544 ½ - ½
19.3 GM Markos Jan 2566 - GM Cmilyte Viktorija 2513 1 - 0
19.4 IM Jurcik Marian 2466 - IM Zagorskis Darius 2497 ½ - ½

GM Zhu Chen, Qatar, playing Board 2 today:

Round 2 on 2010/09/22 at 15:00
Bo. 50 Turkey (TUR) Rtg - 55 Qatar (QAT) Rtg 3 : 1
32.1 IM Esen Baris 2538 - GM Al-Sayed Mohammed 2495 ½ - ½
32.2 GM Haznedaroglu Kivanc 2483 - GM Zhu Chen 2480 ½ - ½
32.3 GM Can Emre 2500 - IM Nezad Husein Aziz 2394 1 - 0
32.4 IM Erdogdu Mert 2428 - Al-Tamimi Hamad 2250 1 - 0

GM Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant, Scotland, playing Board 2 today:

Round 2 on 2010/09/22 at 15:00
Bo. 2 Ukraine (UKR) Rtg - 63 Scotland (SCO) Rtg 4 : 0
1.1 GM Ivanchuk Vassily 2754 - GM McNab Colin A 2445 1 - 0
1.2 GM Eljanov Pavel 2761 - GM Arakhamia-Grant Ketevan 2451 1 - 0
1.3 GM Efimenko Zahar 2683 - GM Shaw John 2446 1 - 0
1.4 GM Moiseenko Alexander 2658 - IM Burns-Mannion Stephen R 2372 1 - 0

WIM Fiona Steil-Antoni, Luxembourg, playing Board 4 today:

Bo. 90 Luxembourg (LUX) Rtg - 144 Mali (MLI) Rtg 4 : 0
71.1 IM Wiedenkeller Michael 2431 - Traore Bakary 0 1 - 0
71.2 Linster Philippe 2264 - Toure Amadou 0 1 - 0
71.3 Jeitz Christian 2235 - Coulibaly Abdoulaye 0 1 - 0
71.4 WIM Steil-Antoni Fiona 2152 - Alhousseyni Hasseye 0 1 - 0