Chess Olympiad Dresden 2008: Round 8

Chess Olympiad Dresden 2008: Round 8 21 November 2008

Armenia is still leading! The main results of the day: Men: France – Armenia ½ – 3½ (Bacrot – Aronian – draw), Israel – Germany1 2½ – 1½ (Gelfand won Naiditsch), USA – Russia 1½ – 2½ (Grischuk and Jakovenko won but Svidler lost to Kamsky). Women: Ukraine – China 2 – 2(Zhao Xue and Gaponenko won), USA – Russia 3-1 (Irina Crush won World Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk and Zatonskih won T. Kosintseva). Round 8 with Rybka 3 Aquarium live comments All games of Round 8 [PGN] Below are the full standings after round 8:

Men

Rk	SNo	Team	+	=	–	TB1	TB2
1	9	Armenia	7	1	0	15	224,0
2	8	Israel	6	2	0	14	202,5
3	1	Russia	6	1	1	13	206,0
4	2	Ukraine	5	3	0	13	205,5
5	4	Azerbaijan	5	2	1	12	210,5
6	11	Germany1	5	2	1	12	190,0
7	3	China	5	2	1	12	187,0
8	37	Vietnam	5	2	1	12	169,5
9	7	France	5	2	1	12	168,0
10	25	Slovakia	6	0	2	12	168,0
11	15	England	5	2	1	12	161,0
12	21	Poland	6	0	2	12	136,5
13	22	Serbia	6	0	2	12	157,0
14	20	Netherlands	5	1	2	11	181,5
15	5	Hungary	5	1	2	11	176,5
16	6	Bulgaria	5	1	2	11	173,0
17	13	India	5	1	2	11	170,0
18	19	Norway	4	3	1	11	168,0
19	12	Spain	5	1	2	11	164,5
20	23	Belarus	4	3	1	11	160,0
21	30	Sweden	5	1	2	11	158,5
22	28	Slovenia	5	1	2	11	157,5
23	10	United States of America	5	1	2	11	154,5
24	16	Cuba	5	1	2	11	150,5
25	34	Kazakhstan	5	1	2	11	143,5
26	17	Georgia	5	0	3	10	172,5
27	14	Romania	5	0	3	10	167,0
28	50	Turkey	4	2	2	10	156,5
29	27	Greece	3	4	1	10	153,5
30	29	Bosnia & Herzegovina	5	0	3	10	149,0

Women

Rk	SNo	Team	+	=	–	TB1	TB2
1	3	China	6	2	0	14	232,0
2	7	United States of America	6	1	1	13	215,5
3	2	Ukraine	5	3	0	13	206,0
4	9	Poland	6	1	1	13	187,5
5	10	Serbia	6	1	1	13	178,0
6	4	Georgia	5	2	1	12	200,5
7	6	Armenia	6	0	2	12	182,0
8	14	Slovenia	5	2	1	12	170,5
9	16	Romania	6	0	2	12	168,0
10	1	Russia	4	3	1	11	191,0
11	8	Hungary	5	1	2	11	179,5
12	5	France	5	1	2	11	177,0
13	13	Bulgaria	5	1	2	11	167,0
14	11	India	5	1	2	11	164,5
15	43	Uzbekistan	5	1	2	11	145,0
16	24	Vietnam	5	1	2	11	143,5
17	29	Argentina	5	1	2	11	142,0
18	23	Lithuania	4	3	1	11	134,0
19	17	Netherlands	5	0	3	10	160,0
20	25	Cuba	5	0	3	10	159,0