Rounds 8-11

Round 8 on 2010/09/29 at 15:00
Bo. 15   Poland (POL) Rtg - 6   Armenia (ARM) Rtg 1½:2½
3.1 GM Wojtaszek Radoslaw 2711 - GM Aronian Levon 2783 ½ - ½
3.2 GM Socko Bartosz 2657 - GM Akopian Vladimir 2691 ½ - ½
3.3 GM Macieja Bartlomiej 2651 - GM Sargissian Gabriel 2677 0 - 1
3.4 GM Miton Kamil 2629 - GM Pashikian Arman 2639 ½ - ½

Round 9 on 2010/09/30 at 15:00
Bo. 6   Armenia (ARM) Rtg - 1   Russia 1 (RUS1) Rtg 1½:2½
2.1 GM Aronian Levon 2783 - GM Kramnik Vladimir 2780 ½ - ½
2.2 GM Akopian Vladimir 2691 - GM Grischuk Alexander 2760 ½ - ½
2.3 GM Sargissian Gabriel 2677 - GM Svidler Peter 2731 0 - 1
2.4 GM Pashikian Arman 2639 - GM Karjakin Sergey 2747 ½ - ½

Round 10 on 2010/10/01 at 15:00
Bo. 17   Czech Republic (CZE) Rtg - 6   Armenia (ARM) Rtg 1½:2½
6.1 GM Navara David 2722 - GM Aronian Levon 2783 0 - 1
6.2 GM Laznicka Viktor 2690 - GM Akopian Vladimir 2691 ½ - ½
6.3 GM Hracek Zbynek 2633 - GM Sargissian Gabriel 2677 ½ - ½
6.4 GM Babula Vlastimil 2515 - GM Pashikian Arman 2639 ½ - ½

Round 11 on 2010/10/03 at 11:00
Bo. 10   France (FRA) Rtg - 6   Armenia (ARM) Rtg 2 : 2
4.1 GM Vachier-Lagrave Maxime 2721 - GM Aronian Levon 2783  0 - 1
4.2 GM Fressinet Laurent 2718 - GM Akopian Vladimir 2691  1 - 0
4.3 GM Tkachiev Vladislav 2632 - GM Sargissian Gabriel 2677 ½ - ½
4.4 GM Edouard Romain 2636 - GM Pashikian Arman 2639  ½ - ½

The national men’s team of Ukrain became gold medalist of the 39 th World Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk.

The last match of Ukraine against Israel ended in a draw and they finished one point ahead of their main opponent Russia – 1 that in the same round shared points with the national team of Spain. Russians won silver.

There are several runners for the title of bronze medalists. Apparently their results will be announced after all the games of the men’s section will be over and after the additional calculation of the scores.  (ugra-chess.com)

Armenia started well, but couldn´t win Georgia and everything went wrong, they lost to Azerbaijan and Russia 1, and finally drew with France today, in the last round.
Akopian did it well until this last round, losing against GM Fressinet Laurent (2718), a strong player, though it was his first defeat. Aronian is the only one who didnt loose any game, winnig 5 and drawing another 5. Gabrielian: +3 =6 -2. Pashikian: +4 =6-1. Grigoryan: +1. Finally, Akopian: +1 =9 -1.