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Olympiad Finale
The tiny chess-mad nation of Armenia clinched the gold medal at the 38th Olympiad in Dresden, as they successfully defended their title by retaining the Hamilton Russell Cup with a final score of 19/22.
But in a moment of high-drama at the Olympiad, a spectacular last round meltdown from Ukraine - - who were joint overnight leaders with Armenia - saw the silver medal going to Israel. Second seeds Ukraine were routed 3.5-0.5 by the USA in their worst Olympiad score ever, as the USA snatched the bronze medal on tiebreak from the 2004 Olympiad champions.
And for the third Olympiad running, top seeds Russia finished out of the medal hunt, despite sending their strongest-ever Olympiad squad.
In the women's section, Georgia rolled back the years to pull off a first victory since 1996 in Yerevan. Led by former world champion GM Maya Chiburdanidze - who also took the individual gold medal for her performance on top board - the Georgians clinched gold and the Gaprindashvili Cup on tiebreak, ahead of defending champions Ukraine, with the big surprise of a double joy for USA as they took bronze on tiebreak from top-seeds Russia and Poland.
You can read more about the Olympiad in ICC's new Chess.FM blog! Anyone can read the blog, but ONLY ICC members can login to leave comments. Other features in the blog include Macauley Peterson's video reporting direct from Dresden, where he's given Chess.FM scoops on the Kamsky-Topalov match. There's also audio and video from Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria), Magnus Carlsen (Norway), Boris Gelfand (Israel) , Hikaru Nakamura (USA), Boris Spassky (France), Fabiano Caruana (Italy), Varuzhan Akobian (USA), Irina Krush (USA), Alejandro Ramírez Álvarez (Costa Rica), David Smerdon (Australia), Baadur Jobava (Georgia), Wang Hao and Hou Yifan (China), and Georg Meier (Germany).
Game of the Day (1st Video - Free to all, All Videos - ONLY FREE TO MEMBERS)
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Olympiad Finale
November 28, 2008
Tournament Sleepless - 3 tourneys - 5 rounds of 3 0
