Round six: draws all around

Round six proved to be a real drawing round, in as far as match results are concerned, and many of the top players took a rest as well, it seems.

There were no changes at the top of the leaderboard. Hungary and Israel moved up after getting 3 team points each from the round.

The leading teams Germany and Russia faced each other. Artur Jussupov and Alexander Khalifman drew first, and other followed suit later.

Ukraine and Slovakia also drew all four games.

England had a "rest" day against Denmark: 4 extremely quick draws! Good strategy, I wonder?

Fedorov and van Wely drew on board one of the Belarus - Netherlands match, which the latter team won in the end by the narrowest of margins.

Judit Polgar beat Zbynek Hracek in the Hungary - Czech Republic match. Portisch secured the Hungarians' 3-1 win in his victorious board 3 game.

Veselin Topalov beat Vaganian in a rare top match Armenia - Bulgaria, where all games were decisive.

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