Bulgaria are the new leaders

Topalov and Cheparinov

Wins by Topalov and Cheparinov have enabled the Bulgarian team to move up to first place ahead of four countries, including third seed Azerbaijan who drew with France. In the Women's European Team Championship, Russia continue their domination as they have won all their matches.

Here are the full results from the fifth round:

Match/ Board	Seed/ Title	White team (on odds)	Rating	vs.	Seed/ Title	Black team (on odds)	Rating	Result
Bo.	3	Azerbaijan	Rtg	-	6	France	Rtg	2 : 2
1.1	GM	Radjabov Teimour	2781	-	GM	Bacrot Etienne	2714	½ - ½
1.2	GM	Gashimov Vugar	2757	-	GM	Vachier-Lagrave Maxime	2710	½ - ½
1.3	GM	Mamedyarov Shakhriyar	2733	-	GM	Fressinet Laurent	2700	½ - ½
1.4	GM	Safarli Eltaj	2630	-	GM	Bauer Christian	2641	½ - ½
Bo.	10	Germany	Rtg	-	7	Bulgaria	Rtg	1 : 3
2.1	GM	Naiditsch Arkadij	2712	-	GM	Topalov Veselin	2768	0 - 1
2.2	GM	Meier Georg	2659	-	GM	Cheparinov Ivan	2650	0 - 1
2.3	GM	Fridman Daniel	2661	-	GM	Delchev Aleksander	2629	½ - ½
2.4	GM	Gustafsson Jan	2633	-	GM	Georgiev Kiril	2666	½ - ½
Bo.	13	Spain	Rtg	-	19	Greece	Rtg	1½:2½
3.1	GM	Vallejo Pons Francisco	2705	-	GM	Banikas Hristos	2620	½ - ½
3.2	GM	Shirov Alexei	2705	-	GM	Mastrovasilis Dimitrios	2621	½ - ½
3.3	GM	Salgado Lopez Ivan	2621	-	GM	Papaioannou Ioannis	2600	½ - ½
3.4	GM	Arizmendi Martinez Julen Luis	2568	-	GM	Halkias Stelios	2593	0 - 1
Bo.	17	Romania	Rtg	-	9	Netherlands	Rtg	2½:1½
4.1	GM	Lupulescu Constantin	2657	-	GM	Giri Anish	2714	½ - ½
4.2	GM	Parligras Mircea-Emilian	2650	-	GM	Van Wely Loek	2686	½ - ½
4.3	GM	Vajda Levente	2584	-	GM	Sokolov Ivan	2646	1 - 0
4.4	GM	Marin Mihail	2534	-	GM	Smeets Jan	2615	½ - ½
Bo.	1	Russia	Rtg	-	2	Ukraine	Rtg	2½:1½
5.1	GM	Svidler Peter	2755	-	GM	Ivanchuk Vassily	2775	½ - ½
5.2	GM	Grischuk Alexander	2752	-	GM	Ponomariov Ruslan	2723	½ - ½
5.3	GM	Morozevich Alexander	2762	-	GM	Moiseenko Alexander	2715	1 - 0
5.4	GM	Nepomniachtchi Ian	2730	-	GM	Efimenko Zahar	2702	½ - ½
Bo.	24	Denmark	Rtg	-	4	Armenia	Rtg	½ :3½
6.1	GM	Hansen Sune Berg	2566	-	GM	Aronian Levon	2802	0 - 1
6.2	GM	Rasmussen Allan Stig	2541	-	GM	Movsesian Sergei	2710	½ - ½
6.3	GM	Aagaard Jacob	2522	-	GM	Akopian Vladimir	2681	0 - 1
6.4	IM	Glud Jakob Vang	2497	-	GM	Sargissian Gabriel	2671	0 - 1
Bo.	22	Italy	Rtg	-	11	Israel	Rtg	2½:1½
7.1	GM	Caruana Fabiano	2727	-	GM	Rodshtein Maxim	2645	1 - 0
7.2	GM	Godena Michele	2548	-	GM	Sutovsky Emil	2696	0 - 1
7.3	IM	Dvirnyy Daniyyl	2475	-	GM	Roiz Michael	2651	½ - ½
7.4	GM	Brunello Sabino	2575	-	GM	Postny Evgeny	2640	1 - 0
Bo.	5	Hungary	Rtg	-	30	FYROM	Rtg	3 : 1
8.1	GM	Leko Peter	2720	-	GM	Georgiev Vladimir	2553	1 - 0
8.2	GM	Berkes Ferenc	2705	-	GM	Nedev Trajko	2493	1 - 0
8.3	GM	Balogh Csaba	2662	-	IM	Colovic Aleksandar	2451	1 - 0
8.4	GM	Gyimesi Zoltan	2652	-	IM	Pancevski Filip	2442	0 - 1
Bo.	20	Moldova	Rtg	-	12	Czech Rep.	Rtg	2 : 2
9.1	GM	Bologan Viktor	2665	-	GM	Navara David	2724	½ - ½
9.2	GM	Iordachescu Viorel	2648	-	GM	Laznicka Viktor	2703	½ - ½
9.3	GM	Svetushkin Dmitry	2621	-	GM	Stocek Jiri	2600	½ - ½
9.4	IM	Hamitevici Vladimir	2428	-	GM	Babula Vlastimil	2565	½ - ½
Bo.	23	Austria	Rtg	-	14	Poland	Rtg	1 : 3
10.1	GM	Ragger Markus	2662	-	GM	Wojtaszek Radoslaw	2705	½ - ½
10.2	GM	Kindermann Stefan	2519	-	GM	Socko Bartosz	2635	0 - 1
10.3	GM	Shengelia David	2551	-	GM	Bartel Mateusz	2653	½ - ½
10.4	IM	Neubauer Martin	2431	-	GM	Miton Kamil	2622	0 - 1
Bo.	15	Georgia	Rtg	-	32	Iceland	Rtg	3 : 1
11.1	GM	Jobava Baadur	2678	-	FM	Gretarsson Hjorvar Steinn	2452	1 - 0
11.2	GM	Pantsulaia Levan	2588	-	IM	Thorfinnsson Bragi	2421	1 - 0
11.3	GM	Mchedlishvili Mikheil	2636	-	IM	Thorfinnsson Bjorn	2402	1 - 0
11.4	GM	Gagunashvili Merab	2577	-	GM	Olafsson Helgi	2531	0 - 1
Bo.	18	Serbia	Rtg	-	21	Slovenia	Rtg	1½:2½
12.1	GM	Ivanisevic Ivan	2636	-	GM	Beliavsky Alexander G	2617	½ - ½
12.2	GM	Solak Dragan	2629	-	GM	Lenic Luka	2634	0 - 1
12.3	GM	Kovacevic Aleksandar	2563	-	GM	Borisek Jure	2541	½ - ½
12.4	GM	Perunovic Milos	2576	-	GM	Skoberne Jure	2533	½ - ½
Bo.	8	England	Rtg	-	33	Lithuania	Rtg	3 : 1
13.1	GM	Adams Michael	2734	-	GM	Sulskis Sarunas	2577	1 - 0
13.2	GM	Howell David W L	2633	-	IM	Zagorskis Darius	2497	0 - 1
13.3	GM	Jones Gawain C B	2635	-	IM	Labeckas Kestutis	2410	1 - 0
13.4	GM	Pert Nicholas	2563	-		Klabis Rokas	2100	1 - 0
Bo.	25	Sweden	Rtg	-	16	Croatia	Rtg	1½:2½
14.1	GM	Tikkanen Hans	2586	-	GM	Stevic Hrvoje	2612	½ - ½
14.2	GM	Grandelius Nils	2543	-	GM	Saric Ivan	2648	½ - ½
14.3	GM	Carlsson Pontus	2502	-	GM	Brkic Ante	2605	½ - ½
14.4	GM	Brynell Stellan	2486	-	GM	Jovanovic Zoran	2581	0 - 1
Bo.	27	Latvia	Rtg	-	31	Norway	Rtg	2½:1½
15.1	GM	Miezis Normunds	2547	-	GM	Lie Kjetil A	2560	½ - ½
15.2	GM	Sveshnikov Evgeny	2514	-	IM	Elsness Frode	2506	1 - 0
15.3	IM	Neiksans Arturs	2502	-	GM	Johannessen Leif Erlend	2515	½ - ½
15.4	GM	Starostits Ilmars	2456	-	IM	Getz Nicolai	2369	½ - ½
Bo.	34	Turkey	Rtg	-	26	Switzerland	Rtg	1½:2½
16.1	IM	Yilmaz Mustafa	2515	-	GM	Pelletier Yannick	2581	½ - ½
16.2	IM	Firat Burak	2393	-	GM	Korchnoi Viktor	2567	½ - ½
16.3	FM	Ali Marandi Cemil Can	2275	-	GM	Gallagher Joseph G	2500	½ - ½
16.4	CM	Sanal Vahap	2275	-	IM	Forster Richard	2458	0 - 1
Bo.	29	Montenegro	Rtg	-	37	Luxembourg	Rtg	3½: ½
17.1	GM	Djukic Nikola	2493	-	IM	Berend Fred	2381	1 - 0
17.2	GM	Blagojevic Dragisa	2514	-		Jeitz Christian	2171	1 - 0
17.3	GM	Drasko Milan	2478	-		Schartz Alain	2160	1 - 0
17.4	IM	Kalezic Blazo	2461	-	WIM	Steil-Antoni Fiona	2104	½ - ½
Bo.	35	Scotland	Rtg	-	28	Finland	Rtg	1 : 3
18.1	FM	Tate Alan	2334	-	IM	Sammalvuo Tapani	2492	1 - 0
18.2	IM	Muir Andrew J	2311	-	IM	Agopov Mikael	2450	0 - 1
18.3	CM	Roberts Paul	2222	-	IM	Karttunen Mika	2434	0 - 1
18.4		Mitchell Martin	2215	-	IM	Nyysti Sampsa	2345	0 - 1
Bo.	36	Wales	Rtg	-	38	Cyprus	Rtg	2 : 2
19.1	FM	Williams A Howard	2353	-		Aristotelous Vassilis	1921	1 - 0
19.2	CM	Jones Iolo C	2282	-		Boulos Vrachimis	0	0 - 1
19.3		Kett Tim	2184	-		Constantinou Pavlos	2068	½ - ½
19.4		Young Alan	2042	-	FM	Klerides Paris	2162	½ - ½

The leading teams:

After Bulgaria come four teams, Romania, Azerbaijan, France and the hosts Greece who beat Spain.

Rank	Seed	Team	+	=	-	Match points	Game points	Tie-break
1	7	Bulgaria	4	1	0	9	13.0	57.5
2	17	Romania	4	0	1	8	13.0	39.0
3	3	Azerbaijan	3	2	0	8	12.5	61.5
4	6	France	3	2	0	8	12.5	52.0
5	19	Greece	4	0	1	8	12.5	51.5
6	4	Armenia	3	1	1	7	13.0	51.0
7	10	Germany	3	1	1	7	12.0	55.0
8	22	Italy	3	1	1	7	12.0	44.5
9	13	Spain	3	1	1	7	11.5	59.5
10	1	Russia	3	1	1	7	11.5	56.0
11	15	Georgia	3	0	2	6	13.5	37.5
12	14	Poland	2	2	1	6	12.5	48.0
13	5	Hungary	2	2	1	6	11.5	51.0
14	9	Netherlands	2	2	1	6	10.5	54.0
15	21	Slovenia	2	2	1	6	10.0	56.5

Here are the details in the women's event:

Russia's win over Georgia, thanks to the bottom boards, is significant for the title as Russia have already brushed aside their main rivals.

Match/ Board	Seed/ Title	White team (on odds)	Rating	vs.	Seed/ Title	Black team (on odds)	Rating	Result
Bo.	3	Georgia	Rtg	-	1	Russia	Rtg	1½:2½
1.1	GM	Dzagnidze Nana	2516	-	GM	Kosintseva Nadezhda	2546	1 - 0
1.2	IM	Javakhishvili Lela	2475	-	GM	Kosintseva Tatiana	2526	½ - ½
1.3	WGM	Paikidze Nazi	2422	-	GM	Kosteniuk Alexandra	2439	0 - 1
1.4	IM	Melia Salome	2392	-	WGM	Pogonina Natalija	2451	0 - 1
Bo.	12	France	Rtg	-	5	Poland	Rtg	1 : 3
2.1	IM	Milliet Sophie	2386	-	GM	Socko Monika	2479	½ - ½
2.2	WGM	Maisuradze Nino	2315	-	WGM	Zawadzka Jolanta	2326	½ - ½
2.3	WGM	Guichard Pauline	2305	-	WGM	Majdan Gajewska Joanna	2386	0 - 1
2.4	IM	Collas Silvia	2287	-	WGM	Szczepkowska-H. Karina	2379	0 - 1
Bo.	9	Romania	Rtg	-	2	Ukraine	Rtg	1 : 3
3.1	IM	Foisor Cristina-Adela	2418	-	GM	Lahno Kateryna	2549	½ - ½
3.2	WGM	L'ami Alina	2364	-	GM	Zhukova Natalia	2427	0 - 1
3.3	WGM	Cosma Elena-Luminita	2335	-	IM	Ushenina Anna	2463	0 - 1
3.4	WIM	Bulmaga Irina	2334	-	IM	Gaponenko Inna	2435	½ - ½
Bo.	11	Slovenia	Rtg	-	4	Armenia	Rtg	2 : 2
4.1	IM	Muzychuk Anna	2557	-	GM	Danielian Elina	2507	1 - 0
4.2	WGM	Krivec Jana	2291	-	IM	Mkrtchian Lilit	2469	0 - 1
4.3	WGM	Srebrnic Ana	2219	-	IM	Galojan Lilit	2383	0 - 1
4.4	WIM	Rozic Vesna	2263	-	WGM	Kursova Maria	2315	1 - 0
Bo.	6	Hungary	Rtg	-	14	Serbia	Rtg	2 : 2
5.1	GM	Hoang Thanh Trang	2446	-	IM	Bojkovic Natasa	2396	0 - 1
5.2	IM	Madl Ildiko	2399	-	WGM	Chelushkina Irina	2276	½ - ½
5.3	WGM	Rudolf Anna	2347	-	WIM	Drljevic Ljilja	2273	1 - 0
5.4	IM	Gara Anita	2340	-	WIM	Eric Jovana	2236	½ - ½
Bo.	7	Germany	Rtg	-	18	Czech Rep.	Rtg	1½:2½
6.1	IM	Paehtz Elisabeth	2457	-	WGM	Kulovana Eva	2297	½ - ½
6.2	WGM	Michna Marta	2382	-	WGM	Nemcova Katerina	2276	0 - 1
6.3	WGM	Levushkina Elena	2307	-	WIM	Havlikova Kristyna	2285	1 - 0
6.4	WIM	Hoolt Sarah	2286	-	WIM	Olsarova Tereza	2232	0 - 1
Bo.	8	Bulgaria	Rtg	-	16	Greece	Rtg	2 : 2
7.1	GM	Stefanova Antoaneta	2531	-	IM	Dembo Yelena	2468	½ - ½
7.2	WGM	Videnova Iva	2297	-	WGM	Botsari Anna-Maria	2313	1 - 0
7.3	WGM	Voiska Margarita	2328	-	WGM	Makropoulou Marina	2201	½ - ½
7.4	WGM	Djingarova Emilia	2309	-	WIM	Pavlidou Ekaterini	2176	0 - 1
Bo.	10	Spain	Rtg	-	13	Netherlands	Rtg	1 : 3
8.1	IM	Alexandrova Olga	2423	-	WIM	Schut Lisa	2284	½ - ½
8.2	WGM	Vega Gutierrez Sabrina	2327	-	IM	Lanchava Tea	2320	0 - 1
8.3	WGM	Calzetta Ruiz Monica	2301	-	WIM	Bensdorp Marlies	2242	½ - ½
8.4	WIM	Hernandez Estevez Yudania	2284	-	WIM	Haast Anne	2268	0 - 1
Bo.	20	Latvia	Rtg	-	15	Israel	Rtg	1 : 3
9.1	WGM	Reizniece-Ozola Dana	2281	-	IM	Klinova Masha	2316	1 - 0
9.2	WGM	Berzina Ilze	2320	-	WIM	Efroimski Marsel	2230	0 - 1
9.3	WGM	Erneste Inguna	2218	-	IM	Borsuk Angela	2257	0 - 1
9.4	WFM	Ungure Liga	2066	-	WIM	Vasiliev Olga	2305	0 - 1
Bo.	17	Azerbaijan	Rtg	-	24	Montenegro	Rtg	4 : 0
10.1	WGM	Mamedjarova Zeinab	2314	-	WGM	Vojinovic Jovana	2346	1 - 0
10.2	WIM	Kazimova Narmin	2241	-	WFM	Milovic Aleksandra	2171	1 - 0
10.3	WIM	Mammadova Gulnar	2290	-	WFM	Stojanovic Marija R	2095	1 - 0
10.4	WGM	Mamedjarova Turkan	2277	-		Blagojevic Tijana	1925	1 - 0
Bo.	27	Turkey	Rtg	-	25	Switzerland	Rtg	3 : 1
11.1	WIM	Yildiz Betul Cemre	2301	-	WIM	Heinatz Dr Gundula	2205	½ - ½
11.2	WIM	Ozturk Kubra	2239	-		De Seroux Camille	2056	1 - 0
11.3	WCM	Kaya Emel	2005	-		Stoeri Laura	1939	1 - 0
11.4		Cemhan Kardelen	1881	-		Thuerig Catherine	2049	½ - ½
Bo.	22	England	Rtg	-	19	Croatia	Rtg	1½:2½
12.1	IM	Houska Jovanka	2415	-	WGM	Golubenko Valentina	2293	½ - ½
12.2	IM	Ciuksyte Dagne	2327	-	WIM	Franciskovic Borka	2280	½ - ½
12.3	WFM	Bhatia Kanwal K	2087	-	WGM	Medic Mirjana	2236	½ - ½
12.4	WFM	Hegarty Sarah N	2060	-	WIM	Jelica Mara	2234	0 - 1
Bo.	26	Lithuania	Rtg	-	23	Italy	Rtg	2 : 2
13.1	WGM	Daulyte Deimante	2238	-	IM	Sedina Elena	2343	0 - 1
13.2	WIM	Zaksaite Salomeja	2200	-	IM	Zimina Olga	2338	0 - 1
13.3		Batkovskyte Dominyka	2102	-	WIM	Brunello Marina	2221	1 - 0
13.4		Vanagaite Giedre	1958	-		Panella Fiammetta	2014	1 - 0
Bo.	21	Austria	Rtg	-	28	Norway	Rtg	3½: ½
14.1	IM	Moser Eva	2448	-	WFM	Johnsen Sylvia	2028	1 - 0
14.2	WFM	Exler Veronika	2124	-		Reppen Ellisiv	1949	1 - 0
14.3	WIM	Kopinits Anna-Christina	2276	-		Carlsen Ellen Oen	1931	1 - 0
14.4	WFM	Newrkla Katharina	2131	-		Hansen Erle Andrea Marki	1762	½ - ½

In the Women's event, the question is who can stop Russia? Two points behind are Poland, Ukraine and Georgia.

Rank	Seed	Team	+	=	-	Match points	Game points	Tie-Break
1	1	Russia	5	0	0	10	15.0	54.0
2	5	Poland	4	0	1	8	14.0	48.5
3	2	Ukraine	4	0	1	8	13.5	54.0
4	3	Georgia	4	0	1	8	12.0	63.0
5	18	Czech Rep.	2	3	0	7	11.0	54.5
6	14	Serbia	2	2	1	6	13.0	38.0
7	11	Slovenia	2	2	1	6	12.5	36.5
8	12	France	3	0	2	6	11.5	47.5
9	6	Hungary	2	2	1	6	10.0	58.5
10	13	Netherlands	2	2	1	6	10.0	56.0
11	4	Armenia	2	2	1	6	10.0	55.5

Some useful information:

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!

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