Daily News of Torino Olympiad May 31/2006. Ukraine (women) takes the lead he changement in lead by st Germany and is close to the top again. women, something which Th is group was joined by Slovenia as well. was in the air for some ti- Th ey won 3:1 against Slovakia. Netherlan- mes already, fi nally occu- ds continues its drop. Th is time they lost to red! Croatia because of the second loss in a row Russia was held by China on 1,5:1,5, whi- by Nijboer. A couple of days ago he was a le UkraineT smashed USA with 2,5:0,5 and so hero, now he is «Pedro». these two teams changed their positions in Italian derby ended in 2:2 aft er a big fi ght. the standing and will continue to chase each While Italy «B» lost to Kazakhstan 1,5:2,5. other in their run for gold medal. However, they are still half a point ahead of Once famous Georgian team took the other two italian teams. profi t from such scenario and is now on Th e situation on the top is now: Armenia third place. Th ey scored 2,5 points against 26,5, China 25,5, France 24,0, Ukraine, Rus- Hungary. sia and USA 23,5, Ccezh Republic, Cuba and Bulgaria, Romania, Armenia and Fran- Slovenia 23,0, India, Germany and Uzbeki- ce made the same result against Vietnam, stan 22,5 and so on. Cuba, Germany and Poland. Lithuania won Th e top pairings for round ten are: Ar- 2:1 against Slovenia. menia-China, France-USA, Ukraine-Russia, Italy «A» lost to Canada 0,5:2,5, but Italy Czech Republic-Slovenia, Cuba-India and «B» took all three points against Yemen. Uzbekistan-Germany. First three matches Th e situation on the top is now: Ukraine will be spectacular, I’m pretty sure, and if 21,0, Russia 20,5, Georgia 19,0, China and Armenia doesn’t loose today, I am ready to Bulgaria 18,5, Armenia 18,0, USA, Romania bet on their fi nal victory. and France 17,5 points and so on. In the run for «Nona Gaprindashvili» Top pairings for round ten are: Ukraine- trophy most successfull teams were yester- Georgia, Russia-Bulgaria, Armenia-China, day China with 5,5 points, followed by Fran- France-USA, Croatia-Romania and Greece- ce and Croatia (again!) with 5,0 points. Lithuania. Th ere is still one team with a perfect sco- By men Armenia keeps his lead with an re, at least according to the match points. I iron grip. Yesterday they defeated Ukraine am sure that by now You guess already that with 2,5:1,5. A decisive win was scored by it is UKRAINE (women)!!! Sargissian on bord number four. Other ga- (M.Cebalo) mes ended in a draw but aft er a long fi ght. Th eir lead is absolutely deserved. Russia lost again, this time to France. Th eir weak point was Antidoping controls again Rublevsky who lost his third game already, this time against Fressinet. Other games oday, May 30th, sees the start of anti-doping controls at the Chess Olym- were drawn. France is on third piad. place now. Th e doctors of CONI (the Italian Sports Committee), the IOC (Olympic It happens very rearly, maybe Committee) and FIDE (the international chess federation) will draw lots to just once in the history of mo- decide who will be controlled. dern Olympiads, that the match Th e fi rst drawing of lots will decide which tournament, the male or female Olympiad, will number three in round nine ends be Tcontrolled. Th e second will decide which match, the third which board and the last which with 4:0! Th is was the case ye- player (white or black). sterday, when China took all the For reasons of privacy the names of the players involved in the control will be kept secret. points from Georgia. Th ey are Th e Arbiter will inform the player selected only at the end of his game. Controls will be car- now second, one point behind ried out today and tomorrow and from Friday to Sunday. Two players each day, 8 players the Armenia. last day. It is possible that in the last round the the players of the teams that reach the medals USA and Czech Republic will be controlled. played 2:2, as did India and Uz- On the contrary of what we wrote yesterday the antidoping control is based on urine bekistan. Cuba won 2,5:1,5 again- test and not on blood test. The Italian teams See you taly, as host country, has had the right to appoint two teams in the general tourna- ment. Italy A sees the top italian players according to the last national champion- ship, that is GM Michele Godena, GM Carlos Garcia Palermo, IM Fabio Bellini, in Dresden! IM Carlo D’Amore, IM Ennio Arlandi and IM Daniel Contin. Italy B players, instead, partly come from a selection tournament held in Fra- scati, partly were directly chosen by Italian Chess Federation (FSI) among the most promising he Chess Olympiad 2008 zing Committee of the Chess Olympiad 2008 youngI players: it is composed by FM Niccolo Ronchetti, FM Daniele Vocaturo, FM Sabino will take place in Dresden, which is preparing the Euro 2007 together Brunello, FM Denis Rombaldoni, FM Christian Cacco and FM Daniele Genocchio. Following the beautiful capital of Sa- with the German Chess Federation. Europe’s an already established tradition, the host region too could take part in the Olympiads, so that xony, in the south east of 500 best female and male players will chal- the Province of Turin sponsored a team of young players resident or student in the province. Germany. lenge each other over the Easter weekend at Th is team, Italy C, sees IM Spartaco Sarno, FM Pierluigi Piscopo, FM Roberto Mongranzini, In the Lingotto Oval you can fi nd an in- the International Congress Centre Dresden FM Folco Castaldo, FM formationT booth which presents the cultural the venue of the Chess Olympiad 2008. For Fabrizio Molina and and sport metropolis Dresden and detai- the players, this event is not only about qua- Alberto Pulito. ls about the preparation of the next Chess lifying for the World Chess Federation FIDE Also in the woman Olympiad. world championships, but also about com- tournament two italian Th e Sports Mayor of the Capital Dresden, peting for the highest amount of prize mo- teams participate: Italy Mr Winfi red Lehmann, will receive the sym- ney ever awarded at an individual European A has unquestionably bolic baton as next city for the Chess Olym- championship. Th e prize fund amounts to the strongest players piad 2008 during the Closing Ceremony on more than € 200,000 with the best female in the fi eld, IM Elena 4th June 2006 and male players in Europe determined to Sedina, WGM Olga Dresden 2008 is already highly interesting win their share. Zimina, WFM Eleono- now in 2006. Long before the ra Ambrosi and Maria Chess Olympiad is held, nu- Vincenza Santurbano, merous top-grade chess even- while Italy B composi- ts will take place. tion was decided by the Th e Women-Chess-Cup selection tournament will be played according to of Frascati and see the participation of Maria Teresa Arnetta, Veronika Goi, Marianna Chie- system of this year’s Football rici and Marina Brunello. Th e latter team has only young players, the mascotte being Marina World Cup in Germany from Brunello, aged 11. 6 to 9 July 2006. One player Italian teams has raised great interest among spectators, and in every round a crowd of is invited from each country onlookers gather as close to the chessboards as possible to follows the games live. Th is is es- which has qualifi ed for the pecially remarkable in a country where the popularity of chess is not as high as in other euro- World Cup. Th ere are 8 pre- pean countries and there isn’t a tradition of frequent top level chess events. But these Olympiad liminary groups according seems to have broken the rules, and also the web activity in the newsgroups shows an extraor- to those of the World Cup. A In the photo Dirk Jordan, General Manager of Dresden, received from dinary and unprecedented interest. Chess will never be same in Italy, aft er Turin Olympiads! round robin tournament will Roberto Rivello, member of Organising Committee of Turin, the an- be played in order to deter- them of Turin Olympiad composed by Ennio Morricone. mine the fi rst two players per group. Th ereaft er a knock out system will be Th e special programme section in Euro used. Th e venue is the Shopping Centre Kar- 2007 contains something for everyone: On stadt Dresden. 7th April a Youth Tournament is being held, Chess in Perù Concerning the special feature of this while on 9th April a Tandem Tournament is event many international Woman Grand- planned. One special highlight is the Blitz masters have given their acceptance of par- Tournament to be held on 15th April. Here he fi rst Grandmaster of Perù was Esteban Canal in the years of Capablanca, ticipation like Susan Polgar (USA), Monika the amateurs can test themselves against the while the present greatest and most famous grandmaster is Julio Granda Zu- Socko (Poland), Marie Sebag (France), Elisa- real Euro 2007 chess professionals. niga, rated 2631, who is the top board player.