(1266) ONLY IN THE 8th ROUND OF BAKU CHESS OLYMPIAD THAT ROBERTO IS ABLE TO HAVE PHOTOS

When Roberto Hernandez was able to learn that small digital camera is allowed, he was able to get a photo of USA top player Fabiano Caruana, left, and USA No. 2 Hikaru Nakamura, seated, who spearheaded their country's juggernaut and drew with top seed Russia in the 8th round of 2016 World Chess Olympiad in Baku, Azerbaijan.
                     (Photo by Roberto Hernandez)



     ONLY IN THE 8th ROUND OF
               BAKU, AZERBAIJAN CHESS
        OLYMPIAD THAT ROBERTO WAS
         ABLE TO TAKE PHOTOS

USA WHIPPED the 9th seed Indian team with a 3.5-.5 trumping in the 7th round, and then USA drew with top seed Russia in the resumption of action in the 2016 World Chess Olympiad in Baku, Azerbaijan.

It's only in the 8th round that Palau chess pioneer Roberto Hernandez was able to learn that small cameras are allowed inside the playing area. 

Before the start of the 8th round, he noticed that he didn't surrender the small camera in his belt bag. He went to the area where cell phones, watches and pens are surrendered for anti-cheating purposes to surrender that camera. To his surprise, the Azerbaijani lady volunteer said that it is allowed.

We don't have any photos from Round 1-7 because we thought that cameras are not allowed inside the playing area. They don't allow the big cameras and only official photographers are allowed to take photos. That's why in one of his comments, he said, "This is the most boring Olympiad in as far as taking photos is concerned."  

Sergey Karjakin, the contender to the world chess championship against defending champ Magnus Carlsen in the USA for the first time, drew at board 1 with Fabiano Caruana while on Board 2, former world champion Vladimir Kramnik also drew with Hikaru Nakamura. The turning point is the 3rd board pairing of Wesley So and Ian Nepomniachtchi, wherein So prevailed to put the load on Ray Robson at board 4. Eventually, Robson lost for a 2-2 draw.

 

Board Pairings - Open

Round 8 on 2016/09/10 at 15:00
Bo.	1	Russia (RUS)	Rtg	-	2	United States of America (USA)	Rtg	2 : 2
1.1	GM	Karjakin, Sergey	2769	-	GM	Caruana, Fabiano	2808	½ - ½
1.2	GM	Kramnik, Vladimir	2808	-	GM	Nakamura, Hikaru	2789	½ - ½
1.3	GM	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	2740	-	GM	So, Wesley	2782	0 - 1
1.4	GM	Grischuk, Alexander	2754	-	GM	Robson, Ray	2674	1 - 0

OTHER RESULTS OF THE TOP 21 BOARDS:

 Bo.

	20	Georgia (GEO)	Rtg	-	5	Ukraine (UKR)	Rtg	1 : 3
2.1	GM	Jobava, Baadur	2665	-	GM	Ponomariov, Ruslan	2709	1 - 0
2.2	GM	Mchedlishvili, Mikheil	2609	-	GM	Kryvoruchko, Yuriy	2693	0 - 1
2.3	GM	Pantsulaia, Levan	2601	-	GM	Korobov, Anton	2675	0 - 1
2.4	GM	Gelashvili, Tamaz	2575	-	GM	Volokitin, Andrei	2647	0 - 1
Bo.	6	England (ENG)	Rtg	-	9	India (IND)	Rtg	1½:2½
3.1	GM	Adams, Michael	2738	-	GM	Harikrishna, P.	2752	½ - ½
3.2	GM	Howell, David W L	2665	-	GM	Adhiban, B.	2671	½ - ½
3.3	GM	Jones, Gawain C B	2635	-	GM	Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi	2669	½ - ½
3.4	GM	Short, Nigel D	2666	-	GM	Sethuraman, S.P.	2640	0 - 1
Bo.	4	Azerbaijan 1 (AZE)	Rtg	-	21	Latvia (LAT)	Rtg	2½:1½
4.1	GM	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	2761	-	GM	Shirov, Alexei	2673	½ - ½
4.2	GM	Radjabov, Teimour	2722	-	GM	Kovalenko, Igor	2651	½ - ½
4.3	GM	Mamedov, Rauf	2666	-	GM	Neiksans, Arturs	2628	½ - ½
4.4	GM	Safarli, Eltaj	2688	-	IM	Meskovs, Nikita	2476	1 - 0
Bo.	36	Italy (ITA)	Rtg	-	46	Iran (IRI)	Rtg	2 : 2
5.1	GM	Vocaturo, Daniele	2583	-	GM	Ghaem Maghami, Ehsan	2566	½ - ½
5.2	GM	Dvirnyy, Danyyil	2543	-		Maghsoodloo, Parham	2566	½ - ½
5.3	GM	Brunello, Sabino	2568	-	IM	Lorparizangeneh, Shahin	2478	½ - ½
5.4	FM	Moroni, Luca Jr	2459	-		Firouzja, Alireza	2463	½ - ½
Bo.	27	Greece (GRE)	Rtg	-	29	Slovenia (SLO)	Rtg	2 : 2
6.1	GM	Papaioannou, Ioannis	2631	-	GM	Beliavsky, Alexander G	2602	1 - 0
6.2	GM	Mastrovasilis, Dimitrios	2601	-	GM	Lenic, Luka	2622	0 - 1
6.3	GM	Mastrovasilis, Athanasios	2555	-	GM	Borisek, Jure	2558	0 - 1
6.4	GM	Halkias, Stelios	2565	-	GM	Skoberne, Jure	2562	1 - 0
Bo.	12	Norway (NOR)	Rtg	-	34	Peru (PER)	Rtg	3 : 1
7.1	GM	Carlsen, Magnus	2857	-	GM	Cordova, Emilio	2638	1 - 0
7.2	GM	Hammer, Jon Ludvig	2651	-	GM	Cori, Jorge	2609	0 - 1
7.3	GM	Tari, Aryan	2570	-	IM	Vera Siguenas, Deivy	2499	1 - 0
7.4	GM	Urkedal, Frode	2537	-	GM	Cruz, Cristhian	2519	1 - 0
Bo.	25	Canada (CAN)	Rtg	-	32	Vietnam (VIE)	Rtg	2 : 2
8.1	GM	Bareev, Evgeny	2675	-	GM	Le, Quang Liem	2723	½ - ½
8.2	GM	Kovalyov, Anton	2617	-	GM	Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son	2633	½ - ½
8.3	GM	Lesiege, Alexandre	2512	-	GM	Nguyen, Huynh Minh Huy	2435	½ - ½
8.4	GM	Hansen, Eric	2582	-	FM	Nguyen, Anh Khoi	2448	½ - ½
Bo.	11	Netherlands (NED)	Rtg	-	15	Cuba (CUB)	Rtg	2½:1½
9.1	GM	Giri, Anish	2755	-	GM	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	2720	½ - ½
9.2	GM	L'Ami, Erwin	2611	-	GM	Bruzon Batista, Lazaro	2623	1 - 0
9.3	GM	Van Kampen, Robin	2640	-	GM	Quesada Perez, Yuniesky	2636	1 - 0
9.4	GM	Bok, Benjamin	2592	-	GM	Ortiz Suarez, Isan Reynaldo	2581	0 - 1
Bo.	3	China (CHN)	Rtg	-	10	Hungary (HUN)	Rtg	1½:2½
10.1	GM	Ding, Liren	2753	-	GM	Rapport, Richard	2752	½ - ½
10.2	GM	Yu, Yangyi	2725	-	GM	Berkes, Ferenc	2640	½ - ½
10.3	GM	Li, Chao b	2746	-	GM	Almasi, Zoltan	2684	0 - 1
10.4	GM	Wei, Yi	2717	-	IM	Gledura, Benjamin	2585	½ - ½
Bo.	17	Czech Republic (CZE)	Rtg	-	7	Poland (POL)	Rtg	2½:1½
11.1	GM	Navara, David	2742	-	GM	Wojtaszek, Radoslaw	2736	½ - ½
11.2	GM	Laznicka, Viktor	2651	-	GM	Duda, Jan-Krzysztof	2675	1 - 0
11.3	GM	Babula, Vlastimil	2540	-	GM	Bartel, Mateusz	2646	½ - ½
11.4	IM	Plat, Vojtech	2519	-	GM	Piorun, Kacper	2681	½ - ½
Bo.	47	Chile (CHI)	Rtg	-	59	Singapore (SIN)	Rtg	3 : 1
12.1	GM	Morovic Fernandez, Ivan	2554	-	GM	Zhang, Zhong	2637	0 - 1
12.2	GM	Vasquez Schroeder, Rodrigo	2546	-	IM	Goh, Wei Ming Kevin	2444	1 - 0
12.3	IM	Henriquez Villagra, Cristobal	2508	-	IM	Tin, Jingyao	2439	1 - 0
12.4	FM	Perez Gormaz, Matias	2444	-		Foo, Zhi Rong Benjamin	2233	1 - 0
Bo.	19	Turkey (TUR)	Rtg	-	30	Romania (ROU)	Rtg	2½:1½
13.1	GM	Solak, Dragan	2635	-	GM	Lupulescu, Constantin	2618	½ - ½
13.2	GM	Ipatov, Alexander	2652	-	GM	Parligras, Mircea-Emilian	2595	½ - ½
13.3	GM	Yilmaz, Mustafa	2616	-	GM	Marin, Mihail	2572	½ - ½
13.4	GM	Can, Emre	2565	-	GM	Jianu, Vlad-Cristian	2554	1 - 0
Bo.	54	Finland (FIN)	Rtg	-	28	Azerbaijan 2 (AZE2)	Rtg	1 : 3
14.1	GM	Nyback, Tomi	2580	-	GM	Durarbayli, Vasif	2612	½ - ½
14.2	IM	Ebeling, Daniel	2468	-	GM	Abasov, Nijat	2552	½ - ½
14.3	IM	Sipila, Vilka	2447	-	GM	Guseinov, Gadir	2625	0 - 1
14.4	FM	Luukkonen, Tommi	2354	-	GM	Guliyev, Namig	2577	0 - 1
Bo.	23	Belarus (BLR)	Rtg	-	26	Argentina (ARG)	Rtg	2½:1½
15.1	GM	Zhigalko, Sergei	2652	-	GM	Peralta, Fernando	2590	1 - 0
15.2	GM	Zhigalko, Andrey	2591	-	GM	Mareco, Sandro	2606	0 - 1
15.3	GM	Stupak, Kirill	2561	-	GM	Flores, Diego	2595	1 - 0
15.4	GM	Aleksandrov, Aleksej	2547	-	GM	Pichot, Alan	2536	½ - ½
Bo.	39	Paraguay (PAR)	Rtg	-	35	Moldova (MDA)	Rtg	½ :3½
16.1	GM	Delgado Ramirez, Neuris	2618	-	GM	Bologan, Victor	2648	½ - ½
16.2	GM	Bachmann, Axel	2641	-	GM	Iordachescu, Viorel	2584	0 - 1
16.3	GM	Cubas, Jose Fernando	2470	-	GM	Svetushkin, Dmitry	2543	0 - 1
16.4	GM	Franco Ocampos, Zenon	2496	-	IM	Vedmediuc, Serghei	2437	0 - 1
Bo.	24	Serbia (SRB)	Rtg	-	52	Colombia (COL)	Rtg	4 : 0
17.1	GM	Ivanisevic, Ivan	2650	-	IM	Arenas, David	2490	1 - 0
17.2	GM	Markus, Robert	2662	-	IM	Rios, Cristhian Camilo	2489	1 - 0
17.3	GM	Indjic, Aleksandar	2548	-	GM	Barrientos, Sergio E	2465	1 - 0
17.4	GM	Markovic, Miroslav	2459	-	FM	Valderrama Quiceno, Esteban Alb	2427	1 - 0
Bo.	14	Spain (ESP)	Rtg	-	53	Philippines (PHI)	Rtg	2½:1½
18.1	GM	Vallejo Pons, Francisco	2716	-	GM	Sadorra, Julio Catalino	2560	1 - 0
18.2	GM	Salgado Lopez, Ivan	2662	-	GM	Torre, Eugenio	2447	0 - 1
18.3	GM	Anton Guijarro, David	2630	-	GM	Barcenilla, Rogelio	2455	1 - 0
18.4	GM	Ibarra Jerez, Jose Carlos	2566	-	IM	Bersamina, Paulo	2408	½ - ½
Bo.	49	Slovakia (SVK)	Rtg	-	44	Iceland (ISL)	Rtg	1½:2½
19.1	GM	Ftacnik, Lubomir	2548	-	GM	Stefansson, Hannes	2574	½ - ½
19.2	GM	Pacher, Milan	2499	-	GM	Hjartarson, Johann	2545	0 - 1
19.3	IM	Jurcik, Marian	2484	-	IM	Kjartansson, Gudmundur	2442	½ - ½
19.4	GM	Petrik, Tomas	2464	-	IM	Thorfinnsson, Bragi	2430	½ - ½
Bo.	8	France (FRA)	Rtg	-	13	Germany (GER)	Rtg	3 : 1
20.1	GM	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	2813	-	GM	Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter	2687	1 - 0
20.2	GM	Edouard, Romain	2635	-	GM	Meier, Georg	2654	½ - ½
20.3	GM	Fressinet, Laurent	2664	-	GM	Bluebaum, Matthias	2626	1 - 0
20.4	GM	Bauer, Christian	2623	-	GM	Fridman, Daniel	2618	½ - ½
Bo.	56	Venezuela (VEN)	Rtg	-	60	Portugal (POR)	Rtg	1½:2½
21.1	GM	Iturrizaga Bonelli, Eduardo	2650	-	IM	Ferreira, Jorge Viterbo	2511	½ - ½
21.2	IM	Gascon Del Nogal, Jose Rafael	2436	-	GM	Galego, Luis	2458	½ - ½
21.3	IM	Pulvett Marin, Daniel	2434	-	IM	Damaso, Rui	2444	½ - ½
21.4	FM	Romero Barreto, Jaime Jose	2245	-	GM	Fernandes, Antonio

2413 In the meantime, Roberto took a rest in the eight round of Palau vs. Guernsey...  Bo. 163   Palau (PLW) Rtg - 143   Guernsey (GCI) Rtg 1 : 3 76.1 Suringa Jr, Paquito 1712 - CM Kirby, Peter J. 2014 0 - 1 76.2 Alcid, Allan 1750 - CM Rowe, Peter 1966 0 - 1 76.3 AFM Balbalosa, Jeffrey 1768 - CM Brookfield, Toby 1909 0 - 1 76.4 Gonzales, Dennis 1651 - Bateman, Kerry 1785 1 - 0 Sources: Chess Mate by Roberto Hernandez Tia Belau Newspaper December 29, 2002 -- September 14, 2016 The History of Chess in Palau  By Roberto Hernandez June 09, 2002 -- September 14, 2016 Chess and Music (Perfect Combination) The Beginning of Chess in Palau By Roberto Hernandez To be published as a book in the future Music and Me by Roberto Hernandez Tia Belau Newspaper March 15, 2012 -- April 18, 2013 http://palau-chess.blogspot.com April 25, 2013 -- September 14, 2016