Event Info
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Lichess will probably be masking the Chess Olympiad with stay digital camera feeds and rotating commentators: GM Illia Nyzhnyk, IM Eric Rosen, and FM Gauri Shankar! Make certain to tune in tomorrow September 20 at 13:00 UTC for Spherical 9 with our host GM Illia Nyzhnyk.
Schedule
Leaderboard (Open)
Overview (Open)
With three extra rounds to go, India has saved up its blistering begin and pulled off a powerful victory towards Iran. Hungary, Uzbekistan, and the USA of America have been in a position to narrowly win towards Armenia, Serbia, and France, respectively. Vietnam held Norway to a draw, whereas China bounced again with a 2.5-1.5 win towards Romania. On the person entrance, GM Arjun Erigaisi, GM Gukesh Dommaraju, and GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov are nonetheless gaining ranking. One different participant who has additionally gained some ranking is none apart from world #1 GM Magnus Carlsen, who’s going on his 14th 12 months as world #1.
You will discover extra outcomes right here.
The High Groups
On paper, India vs. Iran was a really shut match. The Indian staff is in great type, nevertheless, and has been slicing by the event with precision and dominance. Merely put, every little thing that might go fallacious went fallacious for staff Iran. Certainly, India’s 3.5-0.5 rating just isn’t wholly reflective of what was occurring within the match. GM Parham Maghsoodloo was marginally worse towards GM Gukesh Dommaraju, however he was in a position to claw his method again. Simply as he did so, although, he blundered a chunk able the place he had three pawns for the piece:
https://lichess.org/research/embed/cAN0gyPi/4xVVeotf#0
GM M. Amin Tabatabaei was additionally higher towards GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, however Praggnanandhaa put up very stiff resistance and it was tough to show something particular for Tabatabaei. On board 3, GM Bardiya Daneshvar went for a doubtful positional determination in 20. Be3 and the juggernaut, GM Arjun Erigaisi, transformed with great accuracy:
https://lichess.org/research/embed/cAN0gyPi/yHPVVI1g#0
To make issues worse for Iran, even after they’d mathematically misplaced the match, GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi was finessing his successful place towards GM Pouya Idani. He transformed quickly sufficient, and GM Idani might not be ecstatic to study that the very fascinating materials imbalance sacrifice beginning with 15…Nxe4 would have saved him within the recreation:
https://lichess.org/research/embed/cAN0gyPi/HVJdL8qB#0
In distinction to the storm on board 1, the board 2 match between Hungary and Armenia was a a lot calmer affair. The primary three boards noticed moderately quick and quiet attracts, however GM Benjamin Gledura was in a position to safe the win for Hungary after he was in a position to artificially fortress his not-so-unsafe king and made use of rolling pawns within the heart of the board:
https://lichess.org/research/embed/cAN0gyPi/9MZKYwm8#0
Uzbekistan vs. Serbia was nowhere close to as calm, however the three attracts on the underside boards meant that GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov needed to win a moderately unwinniable endgame — which he, after all, received:
https://lichess.org/research/embed/cAN0gyPi/0vj25pOL#0
If you wish to see engine-like precision, look no additional than the primary three boards of the USA vs. France match. The odd one out was board 4, the place GM Maxime Lagarde and GM Levon Aronian performed barely extra difficult chess, and Aronian was in a position to navigate the problems with alacrity:
https://lichess.org/research/embed/cAN0gyPi/rCxH3mMX#0
GM Ding Liren continues to be selecting to sit down out; the decisive drive for staff China in spherical 8 was GM Yu Yangyi, who defeated GM Kirill Shevchenko in a moderately uncommon line of the Ruy Lopez:
https://lichess.org/research/embed/cAN0gyPi/R5Ag461Z#0
Vietnam has continued to impress because it drew the higher-rated Norway. Regardless of GM Magnus Carlsen’s higher evaluation of the fabric imbalance towards GM Le Quang Liem:
https://lichess.org/research/embed/cAN0gyPi/W6FSYTud#0
, Norway was nonetheless unable to win as content material creator GM Tuan Minh Le positionally dominated GM Aryan Tari:
https://lichess.org/research/embed/cAN0gyPi/xygnUtLn#0
The Greatest Upsets (Video games)
Kaieem Elizee of Saint Lucia precipitated a giant ranking upset as he received towards FM Haruna Nsubuga after the latter blundered a double assault:
https://lichess.org/research/embed/VRWVETBs/LxIBWAkd#0
Upsets (Groups)
Cuba (vs. Israel), Brazil (vs. Bulgaria), Scotland (vs. Latvia), Kyrgyzstan (vs. Colombia), Turkmenistan (vs. Iceland), United Arab Emirates (vs. Egypt), Angola (vs. Hungary C), Tunisia (vs. Kosovo), Sri Lanka (vs. Sudan), Myanmar (vs. Barbados), Kuwait (vs. Netherlands Antilles), and Cambodia (vs. Gabon) scored upset wins, whereas Moldova (vs. Czech Republic), Belgium (vs. Hungary B), Eire (vs. Australia), Faroe Islands (vs. Switzerland), Algeria (vs. Mexico), Pakistan (vs. Morocco), and Libya (vs. Dominican Republic) scored upset attracts.
Of explicit significance are Krgyzstan’s win towards Colombia, Angola’s win towards Hungary C, Tunisia’s win towards Kosovo, Kuwait’s win towards Netherlands Antilles, Cambodia’s win towards Gabon, in addition to Algeria’s draw towards Mexico and Libya’s draw towards Dominican Republic.
The subsequent recreation is strikingly harking back to the King’s Indian Protection!
https://lichess.org/research/embed/VRWVETBs/lsexQNfo#0
Sensible Video games
GM Osvaldo Zambrana of Bolivia performed a completely scintillating assault towards GM Cristobal Henriquez Villagra of Chile and completed it off with the beautiful 34…Rd4!!
https://lichess.org/research/embed/awIPGXjh/V7vuX6qc#0
Spherical 9 Pairings
| Group | Group |
|---|---|
| India | Uzbekistan |
| United States of America | Hungary |
| China | Iran |
| Norway | Slovenia |
| Armenia | Germany |
| England | Vietnam |
| Turkiye | Spain |
All eyes will probably be on the India vs. Uzbekistan match because the rising Uzbek staff hopes to cease India’s sweep. A key encounter will probably be GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov vs. GM Gukesh Dommaraju, two uncompromising juniors who’re knocking on the door of 2800. It would even be intriguing to see if GM Ding Liren will play towards Iran, and, in that case, what he has in retailer towards GM Parham Maghsoodloo. Different fascinating superGM video games embody GM Fabiano Caruana vs. GM Richard Rapport and GM Magnus Carlsen vs. GM Vladimir Fedoseev.
Leaderboard (Ladies’s)
Overview (Ladies’s)
Only one spherical is sufficient to overturn the robust labor of earlier rounds. India nonetheless leads the ladies’s part, however now it shares the lead with Poland, who beat it in spherical 8, and Kazakhstan, who narrowly received towards France in a topsy-turvy match. Ukraine continues to be in rivalry because it defeated Hungary, and so too are the USA and Armenia, who each received towards Uzbekistan and Mongolia with a giant 3.5-0.5 margin.
You will discover extra outcomes right here.
The High Groups
To start out, issues seemed difficult within the Poland vs. India match. IM Alina Kashlinskaya had a slight benefit towards GM Harika Dronavalli, however so too did all the opposite gamers enjoying White. Out of the opening, the 4 boards have been in a position to retain their beginning transfer opening benefit and pressed on. Boards 2 and three, although, noticed White blundering away the benefit within the late middlegame, and the White gamers on these two boards then blundered additional and allowed a Black victory:
https://lichess.org/research/embed/pzvhDeRe/IZPiQgSX#0
and
https://lichess.org/research/embed/pzvhDeRe/7X0X0Oyv#0
Tragically for India, IM Vantika Agrawal was unable to offset IM Alina Kashlinskaya’s chaotic endgame victory towards GM Harika Dronavalli:
https://lichess.org/research/embed/pzvhDeRe/TLKTo3wx#0
GM Harika Dronavalli swarmed by media earlier than the beginning of her recreation
Photograph: Mark Livshitz / FIDE
Only one mistake by Vantika, in an advanced place and with energetic time hassle, was all it took for India to lose the match:
https://lichess.org/research/embed/pzvhDeRe/cq6r9AxF#0
Within the Hungary vs. Ukraine match, GM Anna Ushenina‘s textbook positional dominance in a Queen’s Gambit Declined was one thing to admire. Her conversion within the endgame was much less stellar, although, however she was nonetheless in a position to get the job achieved:
https://lichess.org/research/embed/pzvhDeRe/CD886heG#0
One other heartbreaking match for the losers was France’s loss to Kazakhstan. The primary two boards noticed moderately logical outcomes from begin to end, however board 3 noticed a troublesome loss for IM Pauline Guichard, who immediately discovered herself in a “who’s mating whom” sort of state of affairs:
https://lichess.org/research/embed/pzvhDeRe/nsQpQnfh#0
Simply as in India’s match, WIM Natacha Benmesbah was unable to save lots of the match for France as she couldn’t convert towards WIM Amina Kairbekova:
https://lichess.org/research/embed/pzvhDeRe/hGuhTQuR#0
The Greatest Upsets (Video games)
Sylvi Cabral of Aruba received towards WIM Silvia Carolina Mazariegos in a barely higher place when the latter misplaced on time:
https://lichess.org/research/embed/neyH2atp/Xjt7Cb40#0
Upsets (Groups)
Iran (vs. Greece), Bangladesh (vs. Sweden), Mexico (vs. Norway), Moldova (vs. Hungary B), Costa Rica (vs. Luxembourg), Tajikistan (vs. Ecuador), Jamaica (vs. Denmark), Cyprus (vs. Puerto Rico), Aruba (vs. Guatemala), Maldives (vs. Kosovo), Tanzania (vs. Guam), Bahrain (vs. Bermuda), and Cayman Islands (vs. Brunei Darussalam) scored upset wins, whereas Italy (vs. Azerbaijan), Eire (vs. Cuba), Chile (vs. Croatia), Panama (vs. Monaco), Thailand (vs. Dominican Republic), Morocco (vs. Nicaragua), and Hong Kong, China (vs. Uganda) scored upset attracts.
Bangladesh’s win towards Sweden and Moldova’s win towards Hungary B have been spectacular; so too have been Eire’s draw towards Cuba and Chile’s draw towards Croatia.
WFM Ana Petricenco needed to win towards WIM Dorina Demeter to safe victory for her staff. She insisted on successful the endgame and her exhausting work ultimately paid off:
https://lichess.org/research/embed/pzvhDeRe/sdw5wmph#0
Sensible Video games
Lourdes Lorena Vasquez Jaen of Panama sacrificed her knight towards WIM Marija Zvereva of Monaco and was decided on holding it there:
https://lichess.org/research/embed/6LF2Kytd/848zipk4#0
Spherical 9 Pairings
| Group | Group |
|---|---|
| Kazakhstan | Poland |
| Canada | Hungary |
| United States of America | India |
| Ukraine | Armenia |
| France | Georgia |
| China | Turkiye |
| Germany | England |
The event has been opened up and plenty of groups can conceivably win the complete Olympiad now. Kazakhstan vs. Poland and the USA of America vs. India (foreshadowing the match within the Open?!) will probably be essential matches. Be aware that the match on board 2, Canada vs. Hungary, is a fixed-board match because the host nation all the time performs on board 2.
Olympiad Ways
The Turkish chess coach and FM Nazmi Can Doğan alias @NaSil is taking tactical snippets from the Olympiad:
https://lichess.org/research/5hA2EwVT
Olympiad Miscellany
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu all the time has time for followers.
Photograph: Mark Livshitz / FIDE
