Roberto Hernandez, right, poses with 3 of the 5 members of Philippine women's team during the last few hours of the final round of 2012 World Chess Olympiad in Istanbul, Turkey.
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
ARMENIA, RUSSIA WIN GOLD MEDALS
IN THE 40TH CHESS OLYMPIAD
IN THE last round of the 40th World Chess Olympiad, Armenia was matched against Hungary. Levon Aronian secured a perpetual against Peter Leko, and the other games continued.
After the time control, Gabriel Sargissian drew the rook endgame against Ferenc Berkes, and Sergei Movsesian scored a crucial victory against Zoltan Almasi. Eventually, Vladimir Akopian held Judit Polgar to a draw to mark the start of huge celebration for Armenian gold medal. Congratulations!
Russia employed their trademark strategy and signed 2 quick draws with Germany -- both with black pieces. This worked perfectly as Vladimir Kramnik and Sergey Karjakin won with white to secure the overall 3-1 victory for Russia. Russia finished equal first on match points but with weaker tiebreaks and thus is awarded with the silver medal.
China was in good position to fight for the gold medal but a defeat in the match with Ukraine pushed them down in the standings to the 4th place. Vassily Ivanchuk won a nice attacking game against Wang Hao, while Pavel Eljanov outplayed Bu Xiangzhi. The other two games were drawn. With this victory Ukraine clims up and grabs the bronze medal!
In the Women's Section, Russia unexpectedly easily crushed the young team of Kazakhstan with 4-0. At the same time China was struggling to keep pace as Bulgaria proved to be a respectable opponent.
Hou Yifan and Antoaneta Stefanova drew, while Margarita Voiska beat Ju Wenjun. However, Zhao Xue and Huang Qian defeated their opponents to turn the tables and win the match.
Both Russia and China finished with 19 match points, but the tiebreak awarded the gold medal to Russia, while China team had to console themselves with silver.
The Palau team, rated 145th, finished 154 out of 161 countries. The consolation to the team was the acquiring of Candidate Master title to Bernard Garcia who scored 3.5 points in his first 7 games.
The Philippines lost to China 3.5-0.5 in the 9th round, drew with Vietnam in the 10th and lost to Romania in the final round to finish 21st. They finished 50th in the 2010 World Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia.
Source: Chessmate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Pages 12 & 13
Volume 21
Issue 69
October 01, 2012
Roberto Hernandez and Elizabeth Manuel of Palau Chess Team were able to have a single shot photo with the Turkish 2023 Youngest Chess Team in the 2012 World Chess Olympiad in Istanbul, Turkey. The young team is the core of numerous teams that will spearhead Turkey in future competitions. It is expected that in 2023, these 4 kids will become masters or Grandmasters in their peak. A very nice program of Turkey.
(Photo by Bernard Garcia)
One of rare loss for Hikaru Nakamura of USA against Poland's top player Radoslaw Wojtaszek, who has been Viswanathan Anand's second for several years.
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
Vladimir Kramnik of Russia defeated Arkadij Naiditsch of Germany at Board 1. Sergey Karjakin, standing in the middle, also won with the white pieces at board 2.
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine, in green t-shirt that he wore for 4 straight days, defeated China's board 1 player Wang Hao to dislodge China from the top 3 finish. Ukraine, the defending champion, settled for bronze while Russia, who last won in 2002 Bled, Slovenia, got the silver.
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
Judit Polgar, middle, drew with Vladimir Akopian.
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
SLOVENIA VS. CUBA
GM Lenic vs. GM Dominguez Perez
GM Beliavsky vs. GM Bruzon Batista
GM Borisek vs. GM Quesada Perez
GM Skoberne vs. GM Ortiz Suarez
CZECHOSLOVAKIA VS. ENGLAND
GM Laznicka vs. GM Adams
GM Navara vs. GM Jones
GM Babula vs. GM Short
GM Stocek vs. GM Howell
Sasikiran vs. Safarti
Harikrishna vs. Mamedyarov
Negi vs. Mamenov
Gopal vs. Guzeinov
GM Kasimdzhanov 1/2 vs. 1/2 GM Le
GM Dzhumaev vs. IM Nguyen, V.
IM Kvon vs. IM Nguyen, D.
IM Kramrabulov 0 vs. 1 GM Dao
NETHERLAND VS. ARGENTINA
USA VS. POLAND (All GM)
Nakamura 0 vs. 1 Wojtaszek
Kamsky vs. Bartel
Onishuk vs. Swiercz
Robson vs.
KAZAKSTAN VS. RUSSIA
GEORGIA VS. SPAIN
ISRAEL VS. USA
INDIA VS. FRANCE
GM Dronavalli vs. IM Skripchenko
IM Sachdev vs. IM Milliet
WGM Gomes vs. WGM Maisuradze
WGM Soumya vs. WIM Bollengier
GM Danielian vs. GM Socko
IM Mkrtchian vs. IM Rajlich
IM Galojan vs. WGM Zawodzka
WGM Kursova vs. WGM Szczepkowska
IM Polsor vs. WGM Cori Tello
WIM Bulmaga vs. WFM Allaga Fernandez
WGM Cosma vs. Casulsol Guzman
WGM L'arni vs. WFM Chumpitaz Carbajal
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
WGM Pourkashiyan vs. WIM Muminova
WIM Khademalsharieh vs. WFM Gevorgyan
WIM Hejazipour vs. WFM Tohirjanova
WIM Hakimfard vs. Nadijanova
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
USA VS. POLAND. One of the rare time that Hikaru Nakamura lost a match.
CHINA VS. UKRAINE
Vassily Ivanchuk won his game early against Wang. Ruslan Ponomariov drew his game against Wang. I gave Ruslan my card while he is walking around after he drew his game. I saw him twice watching our games in the 9th round.
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
Vladimir Akopian drew his long game vs. Judit Polgar as Armenia clinch the title, Russia is 2nd and Ukraine is 3rd.
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