Azerbaijan first alone after big win

Shakhriyar Mamedyarov

A 3.5-0.5 drubbing of Bulgaria has seen Azerbaijan go first ahead of the Armenian and German teams. The big suprise in the seventh round was Switzerland beating Ukraine 3-1! Russia are still on course for the women's crown, with Poland in second place after their victory over Ukraine.

Germany is moving up in the world with the recent improvements made by their leading two players.

Germany: Meier and Naiditsch

Although they lost in the seventh round Romania are still well placed.

Romania 1,2 Lupulescu and Parligras

Here are the full results from the seventh round in the open section:

Match/ Board	Seed/ Title	White team (on odds)	Rating	vs.	Seed/ Title	Black team (on odds)	rating	Result
Bo.	7	Bulgaria	Rtg	-	3	Azerbaijan	Rtg	½ :3½
1.1	GM	Topalov Veselin	2768	-	GM	Radjabov Teimour	2781	½ - ½
1.2	GM	Cheparinov Ivan	2650	-	GM	Gashimov Vugar	2757	0 - 1
1.3	GM	Delchev Aleksander	2629	-	GM	Mamedyarov Shakhriyar	2733	0 - 1
1.4	GM	Radulski Julian	2565	-	GM	Safarli Eltaj	2630	0 - 1
Bo.	17	Romania	Rtg	-	10	Germany	Rtg	1½:2½
2.1	GM	Lupulescu Constantin	2657	-	GM	Naiditsch Arkadij	2712	½ - ½
2.2	GM	Parligras Mircea-Emilian	2650	-	GM	Meier Georg	2659	½ - ½
2.3	GM	Vajda Levente	2584	-	GM	Fridman Daniel	2661	0 - 1
2.4	GM	Marin Mihail	2534	-	GM	Buhmann Rainer	2612	½ - ½
Bo.	6	France	Rtg	-	4	Armenia	Rtg	1½:2½
3.1	GM	Bacrot Etienne	2714	-	GM	Aronian Levon	2802	½ - ½
3.2	GM	Vachier-Lagrave Maxime	2710	-	GM	Movsesian Sergei	2710	0 - 1
3.3	GM	Fressinet Laurent	2700	-	GM	Akopian Vladimir	2681	½ - ½
3.4	GM	Bauer Christian	2641	-	GM	Sargissian Gabriel	2671	½ - ½
Bo.	5	Hungary	Rtg	-	21	Slovenia	Rtg	3 : 1
4.1	GM	Leko Peter	2720	-	GM	Beliavsky Alexander G	2617	½ - ½
4.2	GM	Almasi Zoltan	2707	-	GM	Lenic Luka	2634	½ - ½
4.3	GM	Berkes Ferenc	2705	-	GM	Borisek Jure	2541	1 - 0
4.4	GM	Balogh Csaba	2662	-	IM	Sebenik Matej	2518	1 - 0
Bo.	9	Netherlands	Rtg	-	19	Greece	Rtg	2½:1½
5.1	GM	Giri Anish	2714	-	GM	Banikas Hristos	2620	1 - 0
5.2	GM	Van Wely Loek	2686	-	GM	Mastrovasilis Dimitrios	2621	½ - ½
5.3	GM	Sokolov Ivan	2646	-	GM	Papaioannou Ioannis	2600	1 - 0
5.4	GM	Smeets Jan	2615	-	GM	Nikolaidis Ioannis	2554	0 - 1
Bo.	13	Spain	Rtg	-	1	Russia	Rtg	1 : 3
6.1	GM	Vallejo Pons Francisco	2705	-	GM	Svidler Peter	2755	½ - ½
6.2	GM	Shirov Alexei	2705	-	GM	Grischuk Alexander	2752	½ - ½
6.3	GM	Salgado Lopez Ivan	2621	-	GM	Karjakin Sergey	2763	0 - 1
6.4	GM	Illescas Cordoba Miguel	2609	-	GM	Morozevich Alexander	2762	0 - 1
Bo.	22	Italy	Rtg	-	20	Moldova	Rtg	2½:1½
7.1	GM	Caruana Fabiano	2727	-	GM	Bologan Viktor	2665	½ - ½
7.2	GM	Godena Michele	2548	-	GM	Iordachescu Viorel	2648	½ - ½
7.3	GM	Brunello Sabino	2575	-	GM	Svetushkin Dmitry	2621	1 - 0
7.4	IM	Rombaldoni Axel	2459	-	IM	Vedmediuc Serghei	2465	½ - ½
Bo.	26	Switzerland	Rtg	-	2	Ukraine	Rtg	3 : 1
8.1	GM	Pelletier Yannick	2581	-	GM	Ivanchuk Vassily	2775	½ - ½
8.2	GM	Gallagher Joseph G	2500	-	GM	Ponomariov Ruslan	2723	½ - ½
8.3	IM	Kurmann Oliver	2451	-	GM	Eljanov Pavel	2691	1 - 0
8.4	IM	Forster Richard	2458	-	GM	Efimenko Zahar	2702	1 - 0
Bo.	14	Poland	Rtg	-	8	England	Rtg	3 : 1
9.1	GM	Wojtaszek Radoslaw	2705	-	GM	Adams Michael	2734	½ - ½
9.2	GM	Socko Bartosz	2635	-	GM	Howell David W L	2633	1 - 0
9.3	GM	Bartel Mateusz	2653	-	GM	Jones Gawain C B	2635	½ - ½
9.4	GM	Miton Kamil	2622	-	GM	Pert Nicholas	2563	1 - 0
Bo.	11	Israel	Rtg	-	12	Czech Rep.	Rtg	1½:2½
10.1	GM	Rodshtein Maxim	2645	-	GM	Navara David	2724	0 - 1
10.2	GM	Roiz Michael	2651	-	GM	Laznicka Viktor	2703	½ - ½
10.3	GM	Smirin Ilia	2670	-	GM	Hracek Zbynek	2628	½ - ½
10.4	GM	Postny Evgeny	2640	-	GM	Stocek Jiri	2600	½ - ½
Bo.	15	Georgia	Rtg	-	16	Croatia	Rtg	2 : 2
11.1	GM	Jobava Baadur	2678	-	GM	Stevic Hrvoje	2612	1 - 0
11.2	GM	Mchedlishvili Mikheil	2636	-	GM	Saric Ivan	2648	0 - 1
11.3	GM	Gagunashvili Merab	2577	-	GM	Palac Mladen	2580	½ - ½
11.4		Zarkua Davit	2443	-	GM	Jovanovic Zoran	2581	½ - ½
Bo.	32	Iceland	Rtg	-	18	Serbia	Rtg	1½:2½
12.1	GM	Danielsen Henrik	2542	-	GM	Ivanisevic Ivan	2636	½ - ½
12.2	FM	Gretarsson Hjorvar Steinn	2452	-	GM	Solak Dragan	2629	0 - 1
12.3	IM	Thorfinnsson Bragi	2421	-	GM	Damljanovic Branko	2597	1 - 0
12.4	IM	Thorfinnsson Bjorn	2402	-	GM	Perunovic Milos	2576	0 - 1
Bo.	24	Denmark	Rtg	-	23	Austria	Rtg	2 : 2
13.1	GM	Hansen Sune Berg	2566	-	GM	Ragger Markus	2662	½ - ½
13.2	GM	Rasmussen Allan Stig	2541	-	GM	Kindermann Stefan	2519	½ - ½
13.3	GM	Aagaard Jacob	2522	-	GM	Shengelia David	2551	0 - 1
13.4	IM	Glud Jakob Vang	2497	-	IM	Neubauer Martin	2431	1 - 0
Bo.	29	Montenegro	Rtg	-	31	Norway	Rtg	3 : 1
14.1	GM	Djukic Nikola	2493	-	GM	Lie Kjetil A	2560	½ - ½
14.2	GM	Drasko Milan	2478	-	IM	Elsness Frode	2506	1 - 0
14.3	GM	Kosic Dragan	2502	-	GM	Johannessen Leif Erlend	2515	1 - 0
14.4	IM	Kalezic Blazo	2461	-	IM	Getz Nicolai	2369	½ - ½
Bo.	25	Sweden	Rtg	-	34	Turkey	Rtg	2½:1½
15.1	GM	Tikkanen Hans	2586	-	IM	Yilmaz Mustafa	2515	1 - 0
15.2	GM	Grandelius Nils	2543	-	GM	Can Emre	2465	½ - ½
15.3	GM	Carlsson Pontus	2502	-	IM	Firat Burak	2393	½ - ½
15.4	IM	Semcesen Daniel	2490	-	FM	Ali Marandi Cemil Can	2275	½ - ½
Bo.	30	FYROM	Rtg	-	27	Latvia	Rtg	1 : 3
16.1	GM	Georgiev Vladimir	2553	-	GM	Miezis Normunds	2547	½ - ½
16.2	IM	Colovic Aleksandar	2451	-	GM	Sveshnikov Evgeny	2514	½ - ½
16.3	IM	Pancevski Filip	2442	-	IM	Neiksans Arturs	2502	0 - 1
16.4	GM	Stanojoski Zvonko	2470	-	GM	Starostits Ilmars	2456	0 - 1
Bo.	33	Lithuania	Rtg	-	35	Scotland	Rtg	3 : 1
17.1	GM	Sulskis Sarunas	2577	-	FM	Tate Alan	2334	1 - 0
17.2	IM	Zagorskis Darius	2497	-	FM	Morrison Graham	2339	1 - 0
17.3	IM	Labeckas Kestutis	2410	-	IM	Muir Andrew J	2311	½ - ½
17.4		Klabis Rokas	2100	-	CM	Roberts Paul	2222	½ - ½
Bo.	28	Finland	Rtg	-	38	Cyprus	Rtg	4 : 0
18.1	GM	Nyback Tomi	2631	-		Bryan-Vissi Mark	1808	1 - 0
18.2	IM	Sammalvuo Tapani	2492	-		Aristotelous Vassilis	1921	1 - 0
18.3	IM	Karttunen Mika	2434	-		Boulos Vrachimis	0	1 - 0
18.4	IM	Nyysti Sampsa	2345	-		Constantinou Pavlos	2068	1 - 0
Bo.	36	Wales	Rtg	-	37	Luxembourg	Rtg	2 : 2
19.1	FM	Williams A Howard	2353	-	IM	Berend Fred	2381	1 - 0
19.2	CM	Jones Iolo C	2282	-		Jeitz Christian	2171	½ - ½
19.3		Kett Tim	2184	-		Schartz Alain	2160	½ - ½
19.4		Young Alan	2042	-	FM	Mossong Hubert	2119	0 - 1

The table shows the lead of Azerbaijan, who also have superior game points to their closest rivals.

The swiss will remember their seventh round result for a long time.

Switzerland versus Ukraine

The medalists will probably come from the first seven.

Rank	Seed	Team	Games	+	=	-	Match points	Game points	Tie-Bbreak
1	3	Azerbaijan	7	5	2	0	12	18.5	110.5
2	4	Armenia	7	5	1	1	11	18.0	101.0
3	10	Germany	7	5	1	1	11	17.5	107.0
4	5	Hungary	7	4	2	1	10	17.0	99.0
5	17	Romania	7	5	0	2	10	17.0	90.5
6	7	Bulgaria	7	4	2	1	10	15.5	114.5
7	9	Netherlands	7	4	2	1	10	15.5	111.0
8	6	France	7	3	3	1	9	16.0	109.0
9	1	Russia	7	4	1	2	9	16.0	108.0
10	22	Italy	7	4	1	2	9	15.5	99.5
11	18	Serbia	7	4	0	3	8	18.0	86.0
12	14	Poland	7	3	2	2	8	17.0	96.0
13	26	Switzerland	7	3	2	2	8	16.0	81.5
14	19	Greece	7	4	0	3	8	15.5	100.0
15	12	Czech Rep.	7	2	4	1	8	14.5	103.0
16	21	Slovenia	7	3	2	2	8	13.5	111.0

Germany beat the pre-round leaders Romania, who drop to fifth, and Armenia broke France's unbeaten record.

In the women's section Russia edged out Armenia and Poland beat Ukraine.

Match/ Board	Seed/ Title	White team (on odds)	Rating	vs.	Seed/ Title	Black team (on odds)	Rating	Result
Bo.	4	Armenia	Rtg	-	1	Russia	Rtg	1½:2½
1.1	GM	Danielian Elina	2507	-	GM	Kosintseva Nadezhda	2546	½ - ½
1.2	IM	Mkrtchian Lilit	2469	-	GM	Kosintseva Tatiana	2526	½ - ½
1.3	IM	Galojan Lilit	2383	-	GM	Kosteniuk Alexandra	2439	½ - ½
1.4	WGM	Kursova Maria	2315	-	WGM	Pogonina Natalija	2451	0 - 1
Bo.	5	Poland	Rtg	-	2	Ukraine	Rtg	2½:1½
2.1	GM	Socko Monika	2479	-	GM	Lahno Kateryna	2549	1 - 0
2.2	WGM	Zawadzka Jolanta	2326	-	GM	Zhukova Natalia	2427	1 - 0
2.3	WGM	Majdan Gajewska Joanna	2386	-	IM	Ushenina Anna	2463	½ - ½
2.4	WGM	Szczepkowska-H. Karina	2379	-	IM	Muzychuk Mariya	2460	0 - 1
Bo.	3	Georgia	Rtg	-	11	Slovenia	Rtg	3½: ½
3.1	GM	Dzagnidze Nana	2516	-	IM	Muzychuk Anna	2557	½ - ½
3.2	IM	Javakhishvili Lela	2475	-	WGM	Krivec Jana	2291	1 - 0
3.3	IM	Khurtsidze Nino	2440	-	WGM	Srebrnic Ana	2219	1 - 0
3.4	IM	Melia Salome	2392	-	WIM	Rozic Vesna	2263	1 - 0
Bo.	12	France	Rtg	-	14	Serbia	Rtg	3 : 1
4.1	IM	Milliet Sophie	2386	-	IM	Bojkovic Natasa	2396	1 - 0
4.2	WGM	Maisuradze Nino	2315	-	WGM	Chelushkina Irina	2276	1 - 0
4.3	WGM	Guichard Pauline	2305	-	WGM	Stojanovic Andjelija	2280	½ - ½
4.4	WGM	Leconte Maria	2282	-	WIM	Eric Jovana	2236	½ - ½
Bo.	8	Bulgaria	Rtg	-	7	Germany	Rtg	2½:1½
5.1	GM	Stefanova Antoaneta	2531	-	IM	Paehtz Elisabeth	2457	1 - 0
5.2	WGM	Videnova Iva	2297	-	WGM	Michna Marta	2382	0 - 1
5.3	WGM	Djingarova Emilia	2309	-	WIM	Ohme Melanie	2361	½ - ½
5.4	WGM	Nikolova Adriana	2286	-	WIM	Hoolt Sarah	2286	1 - 0
Bo.	17	Azerbaijan	Rtg	-	18	Czech Rep.	Rtg	1 : 3
6.1	WGM	Mamedjarova Zeinab	2314	-	WGM	Kulovana Eva	2297	0 - 1
6.2	WIM	Kazimova Narmin	2241	-	WGM	Nemcova Katerina	2276	½ - ½
6.3	WIM	Mammadova Gulnar	2290	-	WIM	Havlikova Kristyna	2285	½ - ½
6.4	WIM	Umudova Nargiz	2210	-	WIM	Olsarova Tereza	2232	0 - 1
Bo.	13	Netherlands	Rtg	-	6	Hungary	Rtg	1½:2½
7.1	GM	Peng Zhaoqin	2379	-	GM	Hoang Thanh Trang	2446	½ - ½
7.2	IM	Lanchava Tea	2320	-	IM	Madl Ildiko	2399	½ - ½
7.3	WIM	Bensdorp Marlies	2242	-	WGM	Rudolf Anna	2347	½ - ½
7.4	WIM	Haast Anne	2268	-	IM	Gara Anita	2340	0 - 1
Bo.	9	Romania	Rtg	-	20	Latvia	Rtg	2½:1½
8.1	IM	Foisor Cristina-Adela	2418	-	WGM	Reizniece-Ozola Dana	2281	1 - 0
8.2	WGM	L'ami Alina	2364	-	WGM	Berzina Ilze	2320	0 - 1
8.3	WIM	Bulmaga Irina	2334	-	WIM	Skinke Katrina	2227	1 - 0
8.4	WGM	Voicu Jagodzinsky Carmen	2300	-	WFM	Ungure Liga	2066	½ - ½
Bo.	10	Spain	Rtg	-	21	Austria	Rtg	1½:2½
9.1	WGM	Vega Gutierrez Sabrina	2327	-	IM	Moser Eva	2448	0 - 1
9.2	WGM	Calzetta Ruiz Monica	2301	-	WFM	Exler Veronika	2124	½ - ½
9.3	WIM	Hernandez Estevez Yudania	2284	-	WIM	Kopinits Anna-Christina	2276	1 - 0
9.4	WFM	Pascual Palomo Lucia	2104	-	WFM	Newrkla Katharina	2131	0 - 1
Bo.	27	Turkey	Rtg	-	15	Israel	Rtg	1½:2½
10.1	WIM	Yildiz Betul Cemre	2301	-	IM	Klinova Masha	2316	½ - ½
10.2	WIM	Ozturk Kubra	2239	-	WIM	Porat Maya	2299	0 - 1
10.3		Cemhan Kardelen	1881	-	WIM	Efroimski Marsel	2230	1 - 0
10.4		Menzi Nezihe Ezgi	1911	-	WIM	Vasiliev Olga	2305	0 - 1
Bo.	19	Croatia	Rtg	-	23	Italy	Rtg	2½:1½
11.1	WGM	Golubenko Valentina	2293	-	IM	Zimina Olga	2338	½ - ½
11.2	WGM	Medic Mirjana	2236	-	WIM	Brunello Marina	2221	0 - 1
11.3	WIM	Saric Kristina	2255	-		Messina Roberta	1964	1 - 0
11.4	WIM	Jelica Mara	2234	-		Panella Fiammetta	2014	1 - 0
Bo.	22	England	Rtg	-	16	Greece	Rtg	2 : 2
12.1	IM	Houska Jovanka	2415	-	IM	Dembo Yelena	2468	0 - 1
12.2	IM	Ciuksyte Dagne	2327	-	WGM	Botsari Anna-Maria	2313	1 - 0
12.3	WFM	Yurenok Maria S	2106	-	WGM	Makropoulou Marina	2201	1 - 0
12.4	WFM	Hegarty Sarah N	2060	-	WIM	Fakhiridou Ekaterini	2180	0 - 1
Bo.	25	Switzerland	Rtg	-	26	Lithuania	Rtg	2 : 2
13.1	WIM	Seps Monika	2198	-	WGM	Daulyte Deimante	2238	½ - ½
13.2	WIM	Heinatz Dr Gundula	2205	-	WIM	Zaksaite Salomeja	2200	½ - ½
13.3		De Seroux Camille	2056	-		Batkovskyte Dominyka	2102	1 - 0
13.4		Stoeri Laura	1939	-		Vanagaite Giedre	1958	0 - 1
Bo.	24	Montenegro	Rtg	-	28	Norway	Rtg	2½:1½
14.1	WGM	Vojinovic Jovana	2346	-	WFM	Johnsen Sylvia	2028	1 - 0
14.2	WFM	Milovic Aleksandra	2171	-		Reppen Ellisiv	1949	1 - 0
14.3	WFM	Stojanovic Marija R	2095	-		Carlsen Ellen Oen	1931	½ - ½
14.4		Blagojevic Tijana	1925	-		Hansen Erle Andrea Marki	1762	0 - 1

Now the top two are clearly ahead with Ukraine, Georgia and France also competing for medals.

French board 1: Sophie Milliet

High scoring Karina Szczepkowska for Poland

Here is the table:

Rank	Seed	Team	Games	+	=	-	Match points	Game points	Tie-Break
1	1	Russia	7	6	1	0	13	19.5	107.5
2	5	Poland	7	5	1	1	11	18.5	109.5
3	2	Ukraine	7	5	0	2	10	17.5	109.0
4	3	Georgia	7	5	0	2	10	17.0	116.5
5	12	France	7	5	0	2	10	17.0	97.5
6	8	Bulgaria	7	4	1	2	9	15.5	106.0
7	18	Czech Rep.	7	3	3	1	9	15.5	104.0
8	14	Serbia	7	3	2	2	8	16.5	85.5
9	11	Slovenia	7	3	2	2	8	15.5	84.5
10	4	Armenia	7	3	2	2	8	14.5	110.0
11	6	Hungary	7	3	2	2	8	14.0	105.0

Some useful information:

The eighth round is at 3pm

3pm in Greece is equivalent to 2pm in Paris and Madrid, 1pm in London, 3pm in Moscow.

Other world starting times include New York 9am, Los Angeles 6am and Sydney 2am the next morning!

The ninth round will begin two hours earlier.

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