Olympiad R5

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

We are approaching the Labour Day weekend thus several polls will in advance.

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Re: Olympiad R5

Opponent:
6 53 CAN Canada 11½ 7 : 7 13 Azerbaijan AZE 7

About their results
http://results.chessolympiadistanbul...&flag=30&snr=7

1 GM Radjabov Teimour	2788	AZE
2 GM Safarli Eltaj	2620
3 GM Mamedyarov Shakh.	2729
4 GM Mamedov Rauf	2634
5 GM Guseinov Gadir

[Jack Maguire]

Re : Olympiad R5

Pairings are up and Canada will be on board 6 tomorrow against the #7 seed, Azerbaijan. Their top board, Radjabov, has a live rating of 2794.7 and has passed Kramnik (yet to win in Istanbul) for the #3 spot in the world.

[Bindi Cheng]

Re: Olympiad R5

Holy Crap Lol

[Vlad Dobrich]

Re: Olympiad R5

Canada plays Azerbaijan in round five. The only player on the Azerbaijan team who has not had a rest day is Safarli, Eltaj 2620
So likely the other four will be our match-up, namely >>>>

Radjabov, Teimour...........2788
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar..2729
Mamedov, Rauf................2634
Guseinov, Gadir................2613

A tough day for our guys tomorrow! Fight hard, play well!

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Re: Olympiad R5

Time for Bator enter into the CAN Olympian history with top-rating scalps :D

[Laurentiu Grigorescu]

Re: Olympiad R5

I will not make a prediction. I believe we all play with the goal of playing opponents better then us. Playing Azerbaijan in Round 5 is already an achievement. Best of luck, nothing to loose, anything can happen.

[Jack Maguire]

Re : Re: Olympiad R5

Time for Bator enter into the CAN Olympian history with top-rating scalps :D

Right up there with Pascal Charbonneau's win over Anand in 2006 and Mark Bluvshtein's win over Topalov in 2010. If I'm not mistaken, both Anand and Topalov were 2803 at the time.

[Jack Maguire]

Re : Re: Olympiad R5

Canada plays Azerbaijan in round five. The only player on the Azerbaijan team who has not had a rest day is Safarli, Eltaj 2620
So likely the other four will be our match-up, namely >>>>

Radjabov, Teimour...........2788
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar..2729
Mamedov, Rauf................2634
Guseinov, Gadir................2613

A tough day for our guys tomorrow! Fight hard, play well!

You were absolutely spot on, Vlad. Official board pairings are now up.

Bo. 53 Canada Rtg - 7 Azerbaijan Rtg 0 : 0
6.1 GM Sambuev, Bator 2523 - GM Radjabov, Teimour 2788
6.2 IM Gerzhoy, Leonid 2448 - GM Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar 2729
6.3 IM Noritsyn, Nikolay 2472 - GM Mamedov, Rauf 2634
6.4 IM Hansen, Eric 2472 - GM Guseinov, Gadir 2613

[Christopher Mallon]

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Games are in progress and Egis didn't seem to artificially close the poll...

2.5-1.5 Caesar Posylek, Vlad Dobrich
2 5.71% 2-2 Bill Evans
1 2.86% 1.5-2.5 Aman Hambleton, Eddie Urquhart, Peter Boross-Harmer, Terry Chaisson
4 11.43% 1-3 Egidijus Zeromskis, Felix Dumont, Forest-Mingjia Guo, Fred McKim, Jesse Wang, John Coleman, Kevin Chung, Mark S. Dutton, I.A., Paul Leblanc, Rene Preotu, Sanjiv Kalra, Vlad Rekhson
12 34.29% 0.5-3.5 Andy Shaw, Bindi Cheng, Bob Armstrong, Christopher Mallon, Geordie Derraugh, Gilles G. Jobin, Hikaru Nakamura, Hugh Brodie, Jason Lohner, Jason Manley, Ken Kurkowski, Kishor Ramaswamy, Larry Bevand, Larry Castle, Richard Chen
15 42.86% 0-4 Daniel Abrahams
1 2.86%

[Laurentiu Grigorescu]

Re: Olympiad R5

Right now, it does not look good...

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Re: Olympiad R5

Games are in progress and Egis didn't seem to artificially close the poll...

Thnx Chris.

[Christopher Mallon]

Re: Olympiad R5

Houdini gives a small plus to Sambuev and thinks Hansen has a draw. The other two have a moderate minus.

I got the live games working on Chessdom, not the official site, and I'm using Houdini at home not the 10-ply version they have on the live games.

The comments being posted on Bator's game are pretty funny though. There's one or two guys on there who are questioning a lot of Radjabov's moves... as if he weren't one of the top 5 rated players on the planet. :p

I can understand asking *why* he played a certain move... but they are actually calling them "weak" rather than seeking meaning, or "he should have played this..." lol.

[Laurentiu Grigorescu]

Re: Olympiad R5

Actually Bator has the best chances right now among our players. Both him and Radjabov are super experts in KID and this variation in particular, which makes the game very interesting. I have seen Bator playing this line with both White and Black with good results.
Eric's position seems equal, but easier to play with White in my opinion. The other two games seem worse for our players than the computer says, but I hope they prove me wrong.

[Christopher Mallon]

Re: Olympiad R5

Not to mention - check out the difference in the clocks in Bator's game. Radjabov has 3:37 right now while Bator has 1:14:30 with 8 moves until time control.