Olympiad - Men's Pairings - Round One

  Yup, Russia is up two games in the first match.

Yeah I read it wrong I'm going so fast over here. Svidler DID win.

   UPDATE:

   Vladimir Malakhov of Russia 1 just won against Colm Daly of Ireland. 3 games of their match to Russia. WOOHOO!! (trying to show objectivity )

UPDATE:

Yue Wang and Hao Wang of China just recorded their first wins!!!

UPDATE:

   Nakamura and Shulman recorded wins for the United States in their games against the Faroer Islands

UPDATE:

  Graham Morrison and John Shaw of Scotland have won their respective games against Burundi

UPDATE:

  Russia 4 runs over Palestine 4-0 in round 1

Thanks Ketchup..I feel very overwhelmed trying to do this for everyone. LOL

EDIT: Hammer wins his game against Warren Elliot of Jamaica

Where can we check results as they happen ?

   Reb - I'm going to this page here:(clicking on each little green square next to the team matchups)

http://ugra-chess.com/results.php

AND here:(needs to be refreshed every so often)

http://reports.chessdom.com/news-2010/olympiad/chess-olympiad-round-1-live

UPDATE:

   The Ukraine rolls over Iraq  4-0

Thanks !

There are no fair matches.

It's allways a very strong team/with at least one GM against a medium/with no GMs or even IMs team.

   Yes, there are matches that look off-balanced. Hopefully in the next rounds it will be more fair

   -Mark

 In swiss system events the first few rounds are always like this.... as the event goes on the match ups will be grow more competitive.

   LOL what Reb just said. The more powerful teams will just roll over their opponents in the opening stages.

Geez, team South Africa seems to  be tied 1.5/1.5 with 1 game still in progress?

I think I'll get drunk now. :)

LOL rooperi, it's not over yet

Ah, and I looked wrong anyway. 3.5-0.5 to Azerbaijan.

But Kenny Solomon Got a draw with Black against a 27something, that's still good....

Yes that is something, it should be a good motivator at least