Top Boards Tie, U.S. Sweeps Rd. 5 in Dresden

Top boards tighten in Dresden.  Russia and Germany split and eight teams are within one point of the leaders.  Armenia and the Netherlands had a lot of good games.  Remember this year the no draw within 30 moves rule is in full effect.  There have been reports of people repeating the position way past the three moves, but you can't agree on a draw until after the 30 moves.  Here are the rest of the results for the top boards.

Round 5 on 2008/11/17 at 15:00
Bo.	9	Armenia (ARM)	Rtg	-	20	Netherlands (NED)	Rtg	2½:1½
1.1	GM	Aronian Levon	2757	-	GM	Van Wely Loek	2618	½ - ½
1.2	GM	Akopian Vladimir	2679	-	GM	Smeets Jan	2604	½ - ½
1.3	GM	Sargissian Gabriel	2642	-	GM	Stellwagen Daniel	2605	1 - 0
1.4	GM	Petrosian Tigran L	2629	-	GM	L'Ami Erwin	2610	½ - ½
Bo.	11	Germany 1 (GER1)	Rtg	-	1	Russia (RUS)	Rtg	2 : 2
2.1	GM	Naiditsch Arkadij	2678	-	GM	Kramnik Vladimir	2772	½ - ½
2.2	GM	Khenkin Igor	2647	-	GM	Grischuk Alexander	2719	½ - ½
2.3	GM	Gustafsson Jan	2634	-	GM	Morozevich Alexander	2787	½ - ½
2.4	GM	Fridman Daniel	2630	-	GM	Jakovenko Dmitry	2737	½ - ½
Bo.	5	Hungary (HUN)	Rtg	-	2	Ukraine (UKR)	Rtg	1½:2½
3.1	GM	Leko Peter	2747	-	GM	Ivanchuk Vassily	2786	0 - 1
3.2	GM	Polgar Judit	2711	-	GM	Karjakin Sergey	2730	0 - 1
3.3	GM	Almasi Zoltan	2663	-	GM	Eljanov Pavel	2720	1 - 0
3.4	GM	Balogh Csaba	2616	-	GM	Volokitin Andrei	2659	½ - ½
Bo.	19	Norway (NOR)	Rtg	-	4	Azerbaijan (AZE)	Rtg	1 : 3
4.1	GM	Carlsen Magnus	2786	-	GM	Mamedyarov Shakhriyar	2731	½ - ½
4.2	GM	Agdestein Simen	2588	-	GM	Gashimov Vugar	2703	0 - 1
4.3	GM	Lie Kjetil A	2526	-	GM	Huseynov Gadir	2650	½ - ½
4.4	IM	Hammer Jon Ludvig	2522	-	GM	Mammadov Rauf	2631	0 - 1
Bo.	15	England (ENG)	Rtg	-	44	Italy (ITA)	Rtg	2½:1½
5.1	GM	Adams Michael	2734	-	GM	Caruana Fabiano	2640	0 - 1
5.2	GM	Short Nigel D	2642	-	GM	Godena Michele	2517	1 - 0
5.3	GM	Howell David W L	2593	-	IM	Shytaj Luca	2472	1 - 0
5.4	GM	Jones Gawain C B	2548	-	IM	Brunello Sabino	2455	½ - ½
Bo.	13	India (IND)	Rtg	-	54	Austria (AUT)	Rtg	3 : 1
6.1	GM	Sasikiran Krishnan	2694	-	GM	Ragger Markus	2518	½ - ½
6.2	GM	Harikrishna P	2659	-	GM	Kindermann Stefan	2517	1 - 0
6.3	GM	Ganguly Surya Shekhar	2603	-	IM	Atlas Valery	2465	1 - 0
6.4	GM	Geetha Narayanan Gopal	2548	-	IM	Neubauer Martin	2422	½ - ½
Bo.	21	Poland (POL)	Rtg	-	66	Costa Rica (CRC)	Rtg	3½: ½
7.1	GM	Socko Bartosz	2631	-	GM	Ramirez Alejandro	2533	1 - 0
7.2	GM	Miton Kamil	2604	-	IM	Gonzalez Bernal	2432	½ - ½
7.3	GM	Wojtaszek Radoslaw	2599	-	IM	Valdes Leonardo	2401	1 - 0
7.4	GM	Bartel Mateusz	2602	-	IM	Hernandez Basante Francisco	2247	1 - 0
Bo.	3	China (CHN)	Rtg	-	46	Scotland (SCO)	Rtg	2½:1½
8.1	GM	Wang Yue	2736	-	GM	Rowson Jonathan	2596	½ - ½
8.2	GM	Bu Xiangzhi	2714	-	GM	Aagaard Jacob	2528	½ - ½
8.3	GM	Wang Hao	2696	-	GM	Shaw John	2469	1 - 0
8.4	GM	Li Chao B	2622	-	GM	McNab Colin A	2455	½ - ½
Bo.	37	Vietnam (VIE)	Rtg	-	16	Cuba (CUB)	Rtg	2 : 2
9.1	GM	Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son	2567	-	GM	Dominguez Perez Leinier	2719	½ - ½
9.2	GM	Le Quang Liem	2583	-	GM	Bruzon Batista Lazaro	2623	½ - ½
9.3	GM	Dao Thien Hai	2510	-	GM	Quezada Perez Yuniesky	2580	½ - ½
9.4	CM	Nguyen Van Huy	2422	-	GM	Hernandez Carmenates Holden	2580	½ - ½
Bo.	32	Denmark (DEN)	Rtg	-	8	Israel (ISR)	Rtg	½ :3½
10.1	GM	Hansen Lars Bo	2570	-	GM	Gelfand Boris	2719	0 - 1
10.2	GM	Nielsen Peter Heine	2662	-	GM	Avrukh Boris	2657	½ - ½
10.3	IM	Rasmussen Allan Stig	2513	-	GM	Postny Evgeny	2674	0 - 1
10.4	IM	Glud Jakob Vang	2444	-	GM	Rodshtein Maxim	2609	0 - 1
Bo.	12	Spain (ESP)	Rtg	-	23	Belarus (BLR)	Rtg	2 : 2
11.1	GM	Vallejo Pons Francisco	2664	-	GM	Azarov Sergei	2613	1 - 0
11.2	GM	Illescas Cordoba Miguel	2604	-	GM	Zhigalko Sergei	2592	0 - 1
11.3	GM	Khamrakulov Ibragim S	2580	-	GM	Aleksandrov Aleksej	2617	½ - ½
11.4	GM	San Segundo Carrillo Pablo	2564	-	GM	Fedorov Alexei	2584	½ - ½
Bo.	28	Slovenia (SLO)	Rtg	-	6	Bulgaria (BUL)	Rtg	½ :3½
12.1	GM	Beliavsky Alexander G	2619	-	GM	Topalov Veselin	2791	½ - ½
12.2	GM	Pavasovic Dusko	2597	-	GM	Cheparinov Ivan	2696	0 - 1
12.3	GM	Lenic Luka	2569	-	GM	Delchev Aleksander	2632	0 - 1
12.4	IM	Borisek Jure	2548	-	GM	Iotov Valentin	2532	0 - 1
Bo.	35	Lithuania (LTU)	Rtg	-	14	Romania (ROU)	Rtg	½ :3½
13.1	GM	Kveinys Aloyzas	2533	-	GM	Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter	2684	0 - 1
13.2	GM	Rozentalis Eduardas	2577	-	GM	Istratescu Andrei	2633	½ - ½
13.3	GM	Sulskis Sarunas	2572	-	GM	Lupulescu Constantin	2594	0 - 1
13.4	IM	Zagorskis Darius	2509	-	GM	Vajda Levente	2582	0 - 1