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Olympiad, Round 7: Uzbekistan Keeps Rolling (opens the original)
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The Uzbek juggernaut plowed through another set of victims, handily dispatching another pre-tournament favorite as they defeated the Chinese team 3-1. It was the mighty Nodirbeks once again (“Nodirbekistan”?): Abdusattorov defeated former World Champion Ding Liren on board 1 and Yakubboev - who might have the highest performance rating in the Olympiad thus far - defeated Yu Yangyi. They won with White while their compatriots both drew with Black, and with four rounds to go their victory looks al
Highlights from Rounds 5 & 6 of the Olympiad (opens the original)
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Action resumes in a few hours with round 7; hopefully everyone - fans as well as the players and their entourages - enjoyed the rest day. That gave this blogger a chance to rest a bit too, and to catch up on the game analysis. Here, then, is a pretty decent selection of games from the last two rounds, featuring many of the most important games - typically wins - from the top matches (primarily Uzbekistan-Hungary, Germany-USA, and India-the Netherlands from round 5; and Uzbekistan-India, China-Ge
Olympiad, Rounds 5 & 6 (opens the original)
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In the 2022 Olympiad the battle for first came down to the match between India & Uzbekistan. Then future-World Champion Dommaraju Gukesh got off to a roaring start, but his team trailed the Uzbeks going into their match. A win for either side would not yet clinch overall victory, but that’s essentially how things worked out. That time around Praggnanandhaa won his game and Gukesh was winning his as well, against Nodirbek Abdusattorov, but a shocking error resulted in Abdusattorov winning the gam
Olympiad, Day 4 (opens the original)
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The favorites are still coming through, but the pairings are more interesting and the matches have their nervy moments.The top-seeded Americans looked like a convincing winner if you just look at the final score - they defeated Ukraine 3.5-0.5. But it was anything but a cakewalk: Levon Aronian was thoroughly lost against Roman Dehtiarov. Dehtiarov found the right idea, too, but it was a move too late. Even then the game had its ups and downs, but the trend was in Aronian’s favor and he pulled ou
Olympiad, Day 3: The Favorites March On (opens the original)
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The leading teams are still enjoying relatively comfortable pairings, but it should not be overstated. As we saw in round 2, the U.S. and India, the top two seeds by rating, won their matches by the narrowest of margins, and in round 3 the United States once again needed all hands on deck to scrape past their opponents. Despite outrating their Danish opponents by almost 200 points the Americans had a tough time of it. Wesley So won a nice attacking game against Jesper Thybo while Hans Niemann su
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