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| Malcolm Pein of the Daily Telegraph commentates on
round 4. Victories for Peter Svidler and Alexander Grischuk in round four gave Russia a 3-1 win over China and kept them at the head of the field at the 38th Chess Olympiad in Turin. Russia led on tie break from Armenia who defeated a decent Norwegian team 4-0 and in the fifth round the teams met and drew 2-2 as Vladimir Kramnik scored a significant win over the rising star of world chess Levon Aronian. The English tale of woe continued as the team lost to Turkey, albeit a Turkey with Mikhail Gurevich their Russo-Belgian import. Michael Adams won again, defeating Gurevich but Danny Gormally and Nick Pert both lost. However in round five England defeated Kazakhstan 3-1. It seems to be another case of Michael Adams playing very well, Nigel Short playing reasonably well, Jon Speelman being solid and reliable and the rest underperforming. England miss Luke McShane who is at university and of course Matthew Sadler who has retired and Julian Hodgson who I hope can be convinced to return to the board at the forthcoming Smith and Williamson British Championships in Swansea. The USA made their move up the table in round four beating a very strong Polish team 3-1. Gata Kamsky and Hikaru Nakamura both won. Kamsky won again defeating Baadur Jobava in a round five 2.5-1.5 win over Georgia. Scotland beat Kyrgystan 3-1 to move ahead of England and they remained the top British team after a 3-1 win over Egypt in round five. Leaders: Russia, Armenia 15.5; Netherlands 15; Uzbekistan 14.5; Spain, Ukraine, USA, Bulgaria, Belarus, Iran, Sweden, 14; 27th Scotland 13 31st England 12.5 35th Ireland 12.5 80th Wales 9.5 129th Guernsey 6.5 135th Jersey 5.5 A draw for a former Welsh champion against a Belarussian GM. R Jones (2072) - V Dydyshko (2550) 36th Olympiad Turin (1) King’s Gambit 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.h4 g4 5.Ne5 d6 6.Nxg4 Nf6 7.Nxf6+ Qxf6 8.Nc3 Nc6 9.Nd5 Qg6 10.d3 Qg3+ 11.Kd2 Ne7 12.Nxc7+ Kd8 13.Nxa8 Qe3+ 14.Kc3 Qc5+ 15.Kd2 Qe3+ 16.Kc3 Qc5+ draw Philip Corbin of Barbados played a nice miniature against Hong Kong. P Corbin (2212) - Chau Sau Ming (2196) 36th Olympiad Turin (2) French Advance 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.c3 Nc6 5.Nf3 Bd7 6.Bd3 f6 7.0-0 fxe5 8.Nxe5 Nxe5 9.dxe5 Qe7 10.c4 Bc6 11.Nc3 g6 12.cxd5 exd5 13.Nb5 Qd8 14.Qg4 c4 15.Qe6+ Qe7 16.Nd6+ Kd8 17.Bg5! 1-0 Chau Sau Ming  Corbin Final position after 17.Bg5! and if 17. ...Qxg5 18.Nf7+ winning the queen. |
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