Russia and USA increase their lead at the World Team Chess 2010

Greece brings yet another surprise

The teams of Russia and USA and convincingly leading the World Team Chess 2010 in Bursa, Turkey. After six rounds they have 10 match points each (5 wins and 1 loss), full three match points ahead of the chasing pack where 3rd-6th position is shared by Azerbaijan, Armenia, Israel, and India. The team of Greece is 7th after they created yet another surprise - after beating Russia at the start now they brought down the Olympic champions from Armenia with a 3:1 score.

Standings

1 RUSSIA 10 MP 15½ GP
2 UNITED STATES 10 MP 15½ GP
3 AZERBAIJAN 7 MP 13½ GP
4 ARMENIA 7 MP 13 GP
5 ISRAEL 7 MP 13 GP
6 INDIA 7 MP 12½ GP
7 GREECE 6 MP 13 GP
8 EGYPT 3 MP 9 GP
9 BRAZIL 2 MP 9 GP
10 TURKIYE 1 MP 6 GP

Results round 6

10 ARMENIA 1 - 3 8 GREECE

GM Aronian Levon 2781 ½ : ½ GM Kotronias Vasilios 2599
GM Akopian Vladimir 2678 0 : 1 GM Papaioannou Ioannis 2625
GM Sargissian Gabriel 2680 ½ : ½ GM Banikas Hristos 2608
GM Petrosian Tigran L 2627 0 : 1 GM Halkias Stelios 2566

9 UNITED STATES 3 - 1 7 BRAZIL

GM Nakamura Hikaru 2708 1 : 0 GM Leitao Rafael 2620
GM Onischuk Alexander 2670 ½ : ½ GM Fier Alexandr 2601
GM Shulman Yuri 2624 ½ : ½ GM Milos Gilberto 2618
GM Akobian Varuzhan 2628 1 : 0 GM Diamant Andre 2497

1 AZERBAIJAN 2 - 2 6 ISRAEL

GM Gashimov Vugar 2759 ½ : ½ GM Gelfand Boris 2761
GM Radjabov Teimour 2733 ½ : ½ GM Roiz Michael 2657
GM Mamedyarov Shakhriyar 2741 ½ : ½ GM Sutovsky Emil 2657
GM Mamedov Rauf 2640 ½ : ½ GM Rodshtein Maxim 2622

2 TURKIYE 2 - 2 5 EGYPT

GM Haznedaroglu Kivanc 2498 0 : 1 GM Adly Ahmed 2591
IM Erdogdu Mert 2513 0 : 1 GM Amin Bassem 2544
IM Can Emre 2442 1 : 0 IM Abdel Razik Khaled 2468
FM Firat Burak 2413 1 : 0 IM Abdelnabbi Imed 2448

3 INDIA 1½ - 2½ 4 RUSSIA

GM Sasikiran Krishnan 2653 ½ : ½ GM Grischuk Alexander 2736
GM Harikrishna P 2672 ½ : ½ GM Jakovenko Dmitry 2730
GM Ganguly Surya Shekhar 2654 ½ : ½ GM Malakhov Vladimir 2716
GM Arun Prasad S 2567 0 : 1 GM Vitiugov Nikita 2692