01/10/2010 14:28
Ukrainian national chess team in the lead
The Armenian men’s national chess team scoring 13 points in the World Chess Olympiad shares the 7-16th places with the national teams of Georgia, Poland, Spain, Hungary, Czech Republic, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Serbia, and Italy. The Ukrainian national team is in the lead. It beat Azerbaijan’s team 2.5:1.5 in the previous tour and now has 16 points. Russia-1 and France yield 0.5 point to Ukraine. National teams of Israel, China, and U.S. have scored 14 points.
The Armenian national team will compete with Czech Republic national team in the 10th tour to be held today. Ukraine will compete with France, Russia-1 with China, U.S. with Israel.