The 1996 Chess Olympiad held in Yerevan, Armenia, featured teams from over 100 countries. This page has the round 10 standings and results.
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For a description of the event format, location, and player biographies of the top teams, see our Hot Chess Feature Section.
The official event site at http://chess96.com/ offers live coverage with commentary from IM Jack Peters and IM Jeremy Silman, as well as photographs, standings, crosstables, and more.
If you're in a hurry, you'll find a round by round summary of the top team standings here.
For team profiles of the teams favored to medal at the start of the event, see Team Profiles.
Complete Team Standings
at the end of Round 10
As we enter the last quarter of the event, match-ups become more difficult for the organizers. More teams have already played each other, and so some individual matches may involve teams a point or more apart in the standings.
In the Russia-Bosnia-Herzegovina match-up, Bosnia-Herzegovina managed a 2-2 score against the Russian leaders. Although board #1 Sokolov fell to Kasparov in the PCA World Champion's first decisive game of the event, Board #4, Dizdarevic, managed to defeat the Russian #4, Bareev, for a 2-2 result, the best any team has done against Russia so far. Russia retained its sole possession of first when #2 Spain, suddenly in striking distance, was crushed by the Ukraine 3-1. None of the other top 10 teams managed better than an even score this round, and several fell back, so although there was again quite a bit of movement in and out of the 2nd-16th positions, Russia keeps a 3.5 lead on the rest of the teams.
Surprise medal contender China (ranked 30th at the start of the competition) manages a 2.5-1.5 victory over the much higher rated Swedish team, to stay in the group tied for 3rd place at 25 points. Hungary also defeated the USA 2.5-1.5 in this round. (USCF President Don Schultz reports that the USA team's fairly weak showing is due in part to traveler's illness in the form of a mild dysentery affecting several team members, including both Board #1 Boris Gulko and his wife Anna.) Meanwhile, Israel continued its strong surge with a 3-1 victory over the Netherlands. (Even with their disastrous 1-3 loss against the USA 3 rounds ago, Israel has now scored 11 out of a possible 16 for the last 4 rounds. Of course, Russia has scored 11.5/16 for the same four rounds...)
England and Armenia 1 followed the "draw with the strong teams" strategy and tied at 2-2.
Belarus had a perfect round with a 4-0 score against Tunisia. Lithuania also scored 4.0 this round, against Egypt and Barbados went 4-0 against Macao.
Note: Afghanistan, which just joined the tournament last round, has now won 7 out of a possible 8: a nice start, if a late one.
Teams shown in bold were considered good medal possibilities at the beginning of the event.
Teams scoring 4.0 in Round 10 ----------------------------------------- BARBADOS 4.0 Macao 0.0 BELARUS 4.0 Tunisia 0.0 LITHUANIA 4.0 Egypt 0.0
Teams scoring 3.5 in Round 10 ------------------------------------------ BAHRAIN 3.5 San Marino 0.5 ESTONIA 3.5 Peru 0.5 MALAYSIA 3.5 United Arab Emirates 0.5 MOROCCO 3.5 Paraguay 0.5 NICARAGUA 3.5 Guernsey 0.5 SLOVAKIA 3.5 Denmark 0.5 THAILAND 3.5 Lebanon 0.5 YEMEN 3.5 Netherland Antilles 0.5 ZIMBABWE 3.5 Mozambique 0.5
Teams scoring 3.0 in Round 10 ------------------------------------------ BANGLADESH 3.0 Switzerland 1.0 BELGIUM 3.0 South Africa 1.0 INDONESIA 3.0 Armenia 3 1.0 ISRAEL 3.0 Netherlands 1.0 LUXEMBOURG 3.0 Liechtenstein 1.0 QATAR 3.0 Uganda 1.0 UKRAINE 3.0 Spain 1.0
Teams scoring 2.5 in Round 10 ------------------------------------------ ANGOLA 2.5 El Salvador 1.5 ARGENTINA 2.5 Greece 1.5 AUSTRALIA 2.5 Italy 1.5 BERMUDA 2.5 Mauritius 1.5 BRASIL 2.5 Ireland 1.5 BULGARIA 2.5 France 1.5 CHINA 2.5 Sweden 1.5 CUBA 2.5 Viet Nam 1.5 FINLAND 2.5 Canada 1.5 GERMANY 2.5 Czech Repub. 1.5 GEORGIA 2.5 Iceland 1.5 IBCA 2.5 Syria 1.5 JAPAN 2.5 Colombia 1.5 HUNGARY 2.5 USA 1.5 MOLDOVA 2.5 India 1.5 NEW ZEALAND 2.5 Tajikistan 1.5 SLOVENIA 2.5 Kyrgystan 1.5 URUGUAY 2.5 Hong Kong 1.5
Teams scoring 2.0 in Round 10 ------------------------------------------ Andorra 2.0 Monaco 2.0 Armenia 1 2.0 England 2.0 Armenia 2 2.0 Norway 2.0 Botswana 2.0 Cyprus 2.0 Chile 2.0 Venezuela 2.0 Faroe Isl. 2.0 Wales 2.0 Kazakhstan 2.0 Latvia 2.0 Macedonia 2.0 Romania 2.0 Malta 2.0 Sri Lanka 2.0 Netherlands 2.0 Russia 2.0 Philippines 2.0 Poland 2.0 Puerto Rico 2.0 Singapore 2.0 Turkey 2.0 Turkmenistan 2.0
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