Armenia or Germany?

Armenian stalwarts Akopian and Sargissian

Germany upset the apple-cart by beating the pre-round leaders Azerbaijan, due to Arkadij Naiditsch's victory over Teimour Radjabov. Armenia beat the Netherlands and lead by one game point. In the Women's event Russia are virtually assured of gold with Poland still in second place.

Here are the eighth round results.

Match/ Board	Seed/ Title	White team (on odds)	Rating	vs.	Seed/ Title	Black team (on odds)	Rating	Results
Bo.	3	Azerbaijan	Rtg	-	10	Germany	Rtg	1½:2½
1.1	GM	Radjabov Teimour	2781	-	GM	Naiditsch Arkadij	2712	0 - 1
1.2	GM	Gashimov Vugar	2757	-	GM	Meier Georg	2659	½ - ½
1.3	GM	Mamedyarov Shakhriyar	2733	-	GM	Fridman Daniel	2661	½ - ½
1.4	GM	Safarli Eltaj	2630	-	GM	Gustafsson Jan	2633	½ - ½
Bo.	4	Armenia	Rtg	-	9	Netherlands	Rtg	3 : 1
2.1	GM	Aronian Levon	2802	-	GM	Giri Anish	2714	1 - 0
2.2	GM	Movsesian Sergei	2710	-	GM	Van Wely Loek	2686	½ - ½
2.3	GM	Akopian Vladimir	2681	-	GM	Sokolov Ivan	2646	1 - 0
2.4	GM	Sargissian Gabriel	2671	-	GM	Stellwagen Daniel	2627	½ - ½
Bo.	17	Romania	Rtg	-	5	Hungary	Rtg	2 : 2
3.1	GM	Lupulescu Constantin	2657	-	GM	Leko Peter	2720	½ - ½
3.2	GM	Parligras Mircea-Emilian	2650	-	GM	Almasi Zoltan	2707	0 - 1
3.3	GM	Vajda Levente	2584	-	GM	Berkes Ferenc	2705	1 - 0
3.4	GM	Szabo Gergely-Andras-Gyula	2553	-	GM	Balogh Csaba	2662	½ - ½
Bo.	7	Bulgaria	Rtg	-	22	Italy	Rtg	3 : 1
4.1	GM	Topalov Veselin	2768	-	GM	Godena Michele	2548	1 - 0
4.2	GM	Cheparinov Ivan	2650	-	IM	Dvirnyy Daniyyl	2475	1 - 0
4.3	GM	Delchev Aleksander	2629	-	GM	Brunello Sabino	2575	½ - ½
4.4	GM	Georgiev Kiril	2666	-	IM	Rombaldoni Axel	2459	½ - ½
Bo.	1	Russia	Rtg	-	6	France	Rtg	2½:1½
5.1	GM	Grischuk Alexander	2752	-	GM	Bacrot Etienne	2714	1 - 0
5.2	GM	Karjakin Sergey	2763	-	GM	Vachier-Lagrave Maxime	2710	1 - 0
5.3	GM	Morozevich Alexander	2762	-	GM	Fressinet Laurent	2700	½ - ½
5.4	GM	Nepomniachtchi Ian	2730	-	GM	Bauer Christian	2641	0 - 1
Bo.	12	Czech Rep.	Rtg	-	18	Serbia	Rtg	2½:1½
6.1	GM	Navara David	2724	-	GM	Ivanisevic Ivan	2636	½ - ½
6.2	GM	Laznicka Viktor	2703	-	GM	Solak Dragan	2629	½ - ½
6.3	GM	Hracek Zbynek	2628	-	GM	Kovacevic Aleksandar	2563	½ - ½
6.4	GM	Stocek Jiri	2600	-	GM	Perunovic Milos	2576	1 - 0
Bo.	14	Poland	Rtg	-	19	Greece	Rtg	2 : 2
7.1	GM	Wojtaszek Radoslaw	2705	-	GM	Banikas Hristos	2620	½ - ½
7.2	GM	Socko Bartosz	2635	-	GM	Mastrovasilis Dimitrios	2621	½ - ½
7.3	GM	Bartel Mateusz	2653	-	GM	Halkias Stelios	2593	½ - ½
7.4	GM	Miton Kamil	2622	-	GM	Nikolaidis Ioannis	2554	½ - ½
Bo.	21	Slovenia	Rtg	-	26	Switzerland	Rtg	3 : 1
8.1	GM	Beliavsky Alexander G	2617	-	GM	Pelletier Yannick	2581	½ - ½
8.2	GM	Lenic Luka	2634	-	GM	Korchnoi Viktor	2567	½ - ½
8.3	GM	Borisek Jure	2541	-	IM	Kurmann Oliver	2451	1 - 0
8.4	GM	Skoberne Jure	2533	-	IM	Forster Richard	2458	1 - 0
Bo.	13	Spain	Rtg	-	27	Latvia	Rtg	3 : 1
9.1	GM	Vallejo Pons Francisco	2705	-	GM	Miezis Normunds	2547	½ - ½
9.2	GM	Shirov Alexei	2705	-	GM	Sveshnikov Evgeny	2514	½ - ½
9.3	GM	Illescas Cordoba Miguel	2609	-	IM	Neiksans Arturs	2502	1 - 0
9.4	GM	Arizmendi Martinez Julen Luis	2568	-	GM	Starostits Ilmars	2456	1 - 0
Bo.	16	Croatia	Rtg	-	20	Moldova	Rtg	2½:1½
10.1	GM	Stevic Hrvoje	2612	-	GM	Bologan Viktor	2665	½ - ½
10.2	GM	Saric Ivan	2648	-	GM	Iordachescu Viorel	2648	1 - 0
10.3	GM	Palac Mladen	2580	-	GM	Svetushkin Dmitry	2621	½ - ½
10.4	GM	Brkic Ante	2605	-	IM	Vedmediuc Serghei	2465	½ - ½
Bo.	25	Sweden	Rtg	-	29	Montenegro	Rtg	2 : 2
11.1	GM	Tikkanen Hans	2586	-	GM	Djukic Nikola	2493	0 - 1
11.2	GM	Grandelius Nils	2543	-	GM	Blagojevic Dragisa	2514	1 - 0
11.3	GM	Carlsson Pontus	2502	-	GM	Drasko Milan	2478	1 - 0
11.4	IM	Semcesen Daniel	2490	-	GM	Kosic Dragan	2502	0 - 1
Bo.	23	Austria	Rtg	-	15	Georgia	Rtg	2 : 2
12.1	GM	Ragger Markus	2662	-	GM	Jobava Baadur	2678	½ - ½
12.2	GM	Kindermann Stefan	2519	-	GM	Pantsulaia Levan	2588	½ - ½
12.3	GM	Shengelia David	2551	-	GM	Gagunashvili Merab	2577	½ - ½
12.4	IM	Kreisl Robert	2415	-		Zarkua Davit	2443	½ - ½
Bo.	2	Ukraine	Rtg	-	32	Iceland	Rtg	3 : 1
13.1	GM	Ponomariov Ruslan	2723	-	GM	Danielsen Henrik	2542	1 - 0
13.2	GM	Eljanov Pavel	2691	-	FM	Gretarsson Hjorvar Steinn	2452	½ - ½
13.3	GM	Moiseenko Alexander	2715	-	IM	Thorfinnsson Bragi	2421	1 - 0
13.4	GM	Efimenko Zahar	2702	-	GM	Olafsson Helgi	2531	½ - ½
Bo.	11	Israel	Rtg	-	24	Denmark	Rtg	3½: ½
14.1	GM	Rodshtein Maxim	2645	-	GM	Hansen Sune Berg	2566	½ - ½
14.2	GM	Sutovsky Emil	2696	-	GM	Rasmussen Allan Stig	2541	1 - 0
14.3	GM	Smirin Ilia	2670	-	GM	Aagaard Jacob	2522	1 - 0
14.4	GM	Postny Evgeny	2640	-	IM	Glud Jakob Vang	2497	1 - 0
Bo.	8	England	Rtg	-	28	Finland	Rtg	3½: ½
15.1	GM	Adams Michael	2734	-	GM	Nyback Tomi	2631	½ - ½
15.2	GM	Short Nigel D	2698	-	IM	Sammalvuo Tapani	2492	1 - 0
15.3	GM	Jones Gawain C B	2635	-	IM	Agopov Mikael	2450	1 - 0
15.4	GM	Pert Nicholas	2563	-	IM	Karttunen Mika	2434	1 - 0
Bo.	31	Norway	Rtg	-	33	Lithuania	Rtg	2 : 2
16.1	GM	Lie Kjetil A	2560	-	GM	Sulskis Sarunas	2577	0 - 1
16.2	IM	Elsness Frode	2506	-	IM	Zagorskis Darius	2497	½ - ½
16.3	GM	Johannessen Leif Erlend	2515	-	IM	Sakalauskas Vaidas	2411	½ - ½
16.4	IM	Getz Nicolai	2369	-	IM	Labeckas Kestutis	2410	1 - 0
Bo.	37	Luxembourg	Rtg	-	30	FYROM	Rtg	2 : 2
17.1	IM	Berend Fred	2381	-	GM	Georgiev Vladimir	2553	1 - 0
17.2		Jeitz Christian	2171	-	GM	Nedev Trajko	2493	0 - 1
17.3	FM	Mossong Hubert	2119	-	IM	Colovic Aleksandar	2451	1 - 0
17.4	WIM	Steil-Antoni Fiona	2104	-	GM	Stanojoski Zvonko	2470	0 - 1
Bo.	34	Turkey	Rtg	-	36	Wales	Rtg	3½: ½
18.1	IM	Yilmaz Mustafa	2515	-	FM	Williams A Howard	2353	½ - ½
18.2	GM	Can Emre	2465	-	CM	Jones Iolo C	2282	1 - 0
18.3	IM	Firat Burak	2393	-		Kett Tim	2184	1 - 0
18.4	CM	Sanal Vahap	2275	-		Pleasants Allan J	2089	1 - 0
Bo.	35	Scotland	Rtg	-	38	Cyprus	Rtg	3 : 1
19.1	FM	Morrison Graham	2339	-		Bryan-Vissi Mark	1808	1 - 0
19.2	IM	Muir Andrew J	2311	-		Aristotelous Vassilis	1921	1 - 0
19.3	CM	Roberts Paul	2222	-		Boulos Vrachimis	0	½ - ½
19.4		Mitchell Martin	2215	-		Constantinou Pavlos	2068	½ - ½

Here are the leading teams going into the last round.

Rank	Seed	Team	Games	+	=	-	Match points	Game points	Tie-Break
1	4	Armenia	8	6	1	1	13	21.0	132.0
2	10	Germany	8	6	1	1	13	20.0	143.5
3	3	Azerbaijan	8	5	2	1	12	20.0	146.5
4	7	Bulgaria	8	5	2	1	12	18.5	145.0
5	5	Hungary	8	4	3	1	11	19.0	132.0
6	17	Romania	8	5	1	2	11	19.0	124.0
7	1	Russia	8	5	1	2	11	18.5	141.0
8	12	Czech Rep.	8	3	4	1	10	17.0	138.5
9	9	Netherlands	8	4	2	2	10	16.5	144.5
10	21	Slovenia	8	4	2	2	10	16.5	140.5

Armenia have draw odds as the leaders meet head-to-head tomorrow. Azerbaijan and Bulgaria both downfloat and are in the running for medals. Despite a disappointing tournament, Russia still have a sporting chance of third place if they win heavily and the other results go in their favour.

In the Women's event Russia have already assured themselves of gold after beating France.

Match/ Board	Seed/ Title	White team (on odds)	Rating	vs.	Seed/ Title	Black team (on odds)	Rating	Result
Bo.	1	Russia	Rtg	-	12	France	Rtg	3 : 1
1.1	GM	Kosintseva Nadezhda	2546	-	IM	Milliet Sophie	2386	1 - 0
1.2	GM	Kosintseva Tatiana	2526	-	WGM	Maisuradze Nino	2315	½ - ½
1.3	IM	Gunina Valentina	2514	-	WGM	Guichard Pauline	2305	½ - ½
1.4	WGM	Pogonina Natalija	2451	-	IM	Collas Silvia	2287	1 - 0
Bo.	5	Poland	Rtg	-	18	Czech Rep.	Rtg	2½:1½
2.1	GM	Socko Monika	2479	-	WGM	Kulovana Eva	2297	½ - ½
2.2	WGM	Zawadzka Jolanta	2326	-	WGM	Nemcova Katerina	2276	1 - 0
2.3	WGM	Majdan Gajewska Joanna	2386	-	WIM	Havlikova Kristyna	2285	1 - 0
2.4	WIM	Toma Katarzyna	2297	-	WIM	Olsarova Tereza	2232	0 - 1
Bo.	3	Georgia	Rtg	-	8	Bulgaria	Rtg	3 : 1
3.1	GM	Dzagnidze Nana	2516	-	GM	Stefanova Antoaneta	2531	½ - ½
3.2	IM	Javakhishvili Lela	2475	-	WGM	Videnova Iva	2297	½ - ½
3.3	IM	Khurtsidze Nino	2440	-	WGM	Djingarova Emilia	2309	1 - 0
3.4	IM	Melia Salome	2392	-	WGM	Nikolova Adriana	2286	1 - 0
Bo.	2	Ukraine	Rtg	-	6	Hungary	Rtg	3 : 1
4.1	GM	Lahno Kateryna	2549	-	GM	Hoang Thanh Trang	2446	½ - ½
4.2	IM	Ushenina Anna	2463	-	IM	Madl Ildiko	2399	1 - 0
4.3	IM	Gaponenko Inna	2435	-	WGM	Gara Ticia	2375	½ - ½
4.4	IM	Muzychuk Mariya	2460	-	IM	Gara Anita	2340	1 - 0
Bo.	14	Serbia	Rtg	-	4	Armenia	Rtg	1½:2½
5.1	IM	Bojkovic Natasa	2396	-	GM	Danielian Elina	2507	½ - ½
5.2	WGM	Chelushkina Irina	2276	-	IM	Mkrtchian Lilit	2469	0 - 1
5.3	WGM	Stojanovic Andjelija	2280	-	IM	Galojan Lilit	2383	1 - 0
5.4	WIM	Drljevic Ljilja	2273	-	WGM	Kursova Maria	2315	0 - 1
Bo.	11	Slovenia	Rtg	-	9	Romania	Rtg	1 : 3
6.1	IM	Muzychuk Anna	2557	-	IM	Foisor Cristina-Adela	2418	1 - 0
6.2	WGM	Krivec Jana	2291	-	WGM	L'ami Alina	2364	0 - 1
6.3	WGM	Srebrnic Ana	2219	-	WIM	Bulmaga Irina	2334	0 - 1
6.4	WIM	Rozic Vesna	2263	-	WGM	Voicu Jagodzinsky Carmen	2300	0 - 1
Bo.	7	Germany	Rtg	-	19	Croatia	Rtg	2½:1½
7.1	WGM	Michna Marta	2382	-	WGM	Golubenko Valentina	2293	½ - ½
7.2	WIM	Ohme Melanie	2361	-	WIM	Franciskovic Borka	2280	1 - 0
7.3	WGM	Levushkina Elena	2307	-	WIM	Saric Kristina	2255	1 - 0
7.4	WIM	Hoolt Sarah	2286	-	WIM	Jelica Mara	2234	0 - 1
Bo.	21	Austria	Rtg	-	17	Azerbaijan	Rtg	3 : 1
8.1	IM	Moser Eva	2448	-	WGM	Mamedjarova Zeinab	2314	1 - 0
8.2	WFM	Exler Veronika	2124	-	WIM	Kazimova Narmin	2241	0 - 1
8.3	WFM	Newrkla Katharina	2131	-	WGM	Mamedjarova Turkan	2277	1 - 0
8.4	WFM	Novkovic Julia	2089	-	WIM	Umudova Nargiz	2210	1 - 0
Bo.	16	Greece	Rtg	-	15	Israel	Rtg	1 : 3
9.1	IM	Dembo Yelena	2468	-	WIM	Porat Maya	2299	½ - ½
9.2	WGM	Makropoulou Marina	2201	-	WIM	Efroimski Marsel	2230	0 - 1
9.3	WIM	Fakhiridou Ekaterini	2180	-	IM	Borsuk Angela	2257	½ - ½
9.4	WIM	Pavlidou Ekaterini	2176	-	WIM	Vasiliev Olga	2305	0 - 1
Bo.	23	Italy	Rtg	-	13	Netherlands	Rtg	2 : 2
10.1	IM	Sedina Elena	2343	-	GM	Peng Zhaoqin	2379	1 - 0
10.2	IM	Zimina Olga	2338	-	IM	Lanchava Tea	2320	0 - 1
10.3	WIM	Brunello Marina	2221	-	WIM	Bensdorp Marlies	2242	1 - 0
10.4		Messina Roberta	1964	-	WIM	Haast Anne	2268	0 - 1
Bo.	20	Latvia	Rtg	-	27	Turkey	Rtg	1½:2½
11.1	WGM	Reizniece-Ozola Dana	2281	-	WIM	Yildiz Betul Cemre	2301	0 - 1
11.2	WGM	Berzina Ilze	2320	-	WIM	Ozturk Kubra	2239	0 - 1
11.3	WIM	Skinke Katrina	2227	-	WCM	Kaya Emel	2005	1 - 0
11.4	WGM	Erneste Inguna	2218	-		Cemhan Kardelen	1881	½ - ½
Bo.	24	Montenegro	Rtg	-	22	England	Rtg	1½:2½
12.1	WGM	Vojinovic Jovana	2346	-	IM	Houska Jovanka	2415	1 - 0
12.2	WFM	Milovic Aleksandra	2171	-	IM	Ciuksyte Dagne	2327	0 - 1
12.3	WFM	Stojanovic Marija R	2095	-	WFM	Yurenok Maria S	2106	½ - ½
12.4		Blagojevic Tijana	1925	-	WFM	Bhatia Kanwal K	2087	0 - 1
Bo.	25	Switzerland	Rtg	-	10	Spain	Rtg	1½:2½
13.1	WIM	Seps Monika	2198	-	IM	Alexandrova Olga	2423	0 - 1
13.2	WIM	Heinatz Dr Gundula	2205	-	WGM	Calzetta Ruiz Monica	2301	½ - ½
13.3		De Seroux Camille	2056	-	WIM	Hernandez Estevez Yudania	2284	0 - 1
13.4		Stoeri Laura	1939	-	WFM	Pascual Palomo Lucia	2104	1 - 0
Bo.	26	Lithuania	Rtg	-	28	Norway	Rtg	4 : 0
14.1	WGM	Daulyte Deimante	2238	-	WFM	Johnsen Sylvia	2028	1 - 0
14.2	WIM	Zaksaite Salomeja	2200	-		Reppen Ellisiv	1949	1 - 0
14.3		Batkovskyte Dominyka	2102	-		Carlsen Ellen Oen	1931	1 - 0
14.4		Vanagaite Giedre	1958	-		Hansen Erle Andrea Marki	1762	1 - 0

The table after the penultimate round is as follows. Poland, Ukraine and Georgia will be fighting it out for silver and bronze.

Rank	Seed	Team	Games	+	=	-	Match points	Game points	Tie-Break
1	1	Russia	8	7	1	0	15	22.5	143.5
2	5	Poland	8	6	1	1	13	21.0	140.5
3	2	Ukraine	8	6	0	2	12	20.5	139.5
4	3	Georgia	8	6	0	2	12	20.0	147.5
5	12	France	8	5	0	3	10	18.0	136.5
6	4	Armenia	8	4	2	2	10	17.0	141.5
7	7	Germany	8	4	1	3	9	18.5	127.5
8	18	Czech Rep.	8	3	3	2	9	17.0	138.0
9	15	Israel	8	4	1	3	9	17.0	128.0
10	8	Bulgaria	8	4	1	3	9	16.5	143.0
11	21	Austria	8	4	1	3	9	16.5	108.5
12	9	Romania	8	4	1	3	9	15.0	145.0

Some useful information:

The ninth round will begin at 1pm.

1pm in Greece is equivalent to 12 noon in Paris and Madrid, 11am in London, 3pm in Moscow.

Other world starting times include New York 7am, Los Angeles 4am and Sydney at midnight!

Official site: http://euro2011.chessdom.com/

You can also find the team composition, results and statistics here: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr57856.aspx?art=8&lan=1&turdet=YES&flag=30

And for the women event's: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr57855.aspx?art=8&lan=1&turdet=YES&flag=30