Chessbase News, Germany
May 28 2006
Olympiad R6: Holland defeats Russia, Armenia in the lead
28.05.2006 The team from the Netherlands shocked Russia with a
2.5:1.5 victory, which put them in second and Russia in third.
Armenia beat Uzbekistan to jump to the top rank, with 18/24 points.
India defeated Germany 3:1, Sweden pulled off a 2.5:1.5 surprise over
Bulgaria. In the womens’ section Russia stays in the lead with
14.5/18 points. Report with pictorial impressions by Gabriele Grasso.
Turin 2006: After round six
The shock of the day was Russia’s 1.5:2.5 defeat at the hands of the
Netherlands. The three top boards enden in draws, while Sergey
Rublevsky went down in an inferno of a game against Friso Nijboer.
Rublevskiy Sergey (2687) – Nijboer,Friso (2584)
WCO 2006 Italy (6), 27.05.2006
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 e6 4.0-0 Nge7 5.c3 a6 6.Ba4 b5 7.Bc2 Bb7
8.Qe2 Ng6 9.d4 cxd4 10.cxd4 Be7 11.Nc3 0-0 12.g3 Rc8 13.Rd1 Na5
14.Bd3 f5 15.d5 Qe8 16.exf5 exf5 17.Nd4 Bc5 18.Nxf5 Qxe2 19.Nxe2 Ne5
20.Ne3 Nac4 21.Bxc4 bxc4 22.b4 Ba7 23.Bb2
23…Rxf2 24.Kxf2 Ng4+ 25.Ke1 Nxe3 26.Nc3 Re8 27.Kd2 Nxd1 28.Rxd1 Rf8
29.Kc2 Rf2+ 30.Kb1 Rxh2 31.a4 Rg2 32.b5 axb5 33.Nxb5 Rg1 34.Rxg1 Bxg1
35.d6 h5 36.a5 Bh2 37.Be5 h4 38.Nd4 h3 39.Ne2 Bf3 40.Nf4 Bxg3 0-1.
Armenia beat Uzbekistan 2½:1½ to take the sole lead with 18 points.
The sole full point came from Vladmir Akopian, who is currently the
national coach of the Qatar team. The Netherlands are just half a
point behind, while Russia has dropped to third with 17 points. The
Netherlands have lost only one individual game (by Sokolov) from the
24 games they have played so far. Loek van Wely has scored 3.5/4
games, Nijboer Friso 2.5/3 and Erwin L’ami 2/2.
India defeated Germany 3:1 to move to equal 5-8th place. Anand drew
with the black pieces against Naiditsch, as did Sasikiran against
Yussupow. The points came from Pentala Harikrishna and Surya Sekar
Ganguly against Christopher Lutz and Alexander Graf.
Sweden pulled off a 2.5:1.5 surprise over Bulgaria, while Ukraine
could only manager a mandatory 2.5:1.5 over Iran, with Pavel Elajanov
scoring the crucial win on board three. Belorussia scored a 3:1 win
over Spain with Alexei Alexandrov defeating Alexei Shirov and Andrey
Zhigalko doing the same to Marc Narciso Dublan.
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