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Azerbaijan 3.5-0.5 Bulgaria. Veselin Topalov said in interview earlier in the event that something always goes wrong for the Bulgarian side late in team events and round 7 was that moment when they lost heavily to Azerbaijan.

The battle between Veselin Topalov and Teimour Radjabov was a high quality King's Indian which finished in a draw after 43 moves. Ivan Cheparinov's intiutive attacking style rather came off the rails against Vugar Gashimov who accepted most of the material thrown at him and traded to an endgame with a decisive material advantage. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov beat Aleksandar Delchev on the black side of a Blumenfeld Gambit. Mamedyarov looked to have equalised quite quickly and Delchev should probably have played e4 liquidating rather earlier than he did, as it was 26.e5 doesn't seem playable and his position quickly collapsed.

Finally Eltaj Safarli converted an extra pawn in a Rook and Pawn ending to beat Julian Radulski in the final game of the match to finish.

26... g4 27. hxg4 hxg4 28. Nh4 Qg5 29. g3 Bxe5 30. Rxe5 dxe5 31. Qxc5 fxg3 32. fxg3 Qd2 33. Qe3 Qxe3+ 34. Rxe3 Bxd5 35. Rxe5 Bb7 36. Nf5 Rd2 37. Nc4 Rd1+ 38. Kf2 Rd5 0-1

Germany beat Romania 2.5-1.5. Constantin Lupulescu drew with Arkadij Naiditsch on top board. Georg Meier drew with Mircea-Emilian Parligras and Mihail Marin held on against Rainer Buhmann. The only decisive game saw Daniel Fridman find a nice piece sacrifice on the black side of a French Defence to beat Levente Vajda.

21... O-O! 22. Qxc6 Be3 23. Kh3 Qxf4 24. Rhf1 Qh6+ 25. Kg3 Rac8 26. Qd7 Rc4 27. h4 Qf4+ 28. Kh3 Qg4+ 29. Kh2 Rxa4 30. g3 Rxa3 31. Ng5 Ra2+ 32. Kh1 Rf2 33. Rxf2 Bxf2 34. Qd6 Qxg3 0-1

Armenia 2.5-1.5 France. Etienne Bacrot drew quickly with Levon Aronian, Laurent Fressinet tried for a while against Vladimir Akopian but gave up after the first time control when he was in danger of being worse. Gabriel Sargissian against Christian Bauer was balanced throughout. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave sacrificed a pawn to free his position on the black side of a Sicilian against Sergei Movsesian but in the end he was ground down.

Hungary beat Slovenia 3-1 taking advantage of big ratings advantages on the lower boards. Peter Leko was better for much of the game against Alexander Beliavsky but an exchange sacrifice from Beliavsky weakened Leko's King position and the game eventually finished with a repetition. Luka Lenic draw Zoltan Almasi in 24 moves. Jure Borisek was just about equal as black before blundering an exchange against Ferenc Berkes. Csaba Balogh eventually won a very lively struggle against Matej Sebenik.

Netherlands 2.5-1.5 Greece. The Netherlands beat hosts Greece who couldn't keep on over-performing in this event. Anish Giri is undefeated but scored only his second win when he executed what turned out to be a very straight-forward kingside attack in a Sicilian. Dimitrios Mastrovasilis had a quick draw against Loek van Wely. Ivan Sokolov took advantage of Ioannis Papaioannou's lack of endgame technique to win a totally drawn position. Jan Smeets was ground down by Ioannis Nikolaidis.

23. Bh6+ Kxh6 24. Qd2+ Kxg6 25. Rxf6+ Kxf6 26. Nd5+ Qxd5 27. Qxd5 Be6 28. Qf3+ Ke7 29. Bxe6 fxe6 30. Qb7+ Kf6 31. Rf1+ Kg6 32. Qg2+ Kh5 33. Rg1 Rg8 34. Qh3# 1-0

Russia 3-1 Spain Russia's bottom boards finally came good as they beat Spain 3-1. Peter Svidler equalised reasonably quickly on the black side of a Gruenfeld against Francisco Vallejo Pons and a draw was agreed in 16 moves.

There aren't too many leading players left prepared to enter the extreme theory and complications of the Botvinnik System with black. Alexei Shirov is one of them and he forced a draw by perpetual check against Alexander Grischuk after 44 moves, probably an important game in this line.

Sergey Karjakin scored his first win. He played quietly in the opening as black against Ivan Salgado Lopez before simply outcalculating his opponent as you might expect with a 142 rating point disparity.

23... Qxe2! 24. Bg4 h5 25. Bxh5 Nxh5 26. Nh4 Nf6 27. Nf5+ Kg8 28. Ne3 Qxa2 29. h4 Qxb3 30. h5 Qb1+ 31. Kh2 Qb2 32. hxg6 Qxf2+ 33. Kh1 Qf3+ 34. Kg1 Ne4 0-1

Alexander Morozevich had an even bigger rating advantage against the very experienced Miguel Illescas Cordoba and the sharp position in a King's Indian suited him down to the ground. Morozevich played a trivial combination (for him and of course he had to see the resource in advance) to end all resistance.

31. Qxe2 Qxe2 32. bxc7 1-0

32. bxc7 Qe6 33. c8=Q+ Qxc8 34. Ne7+ Kf8 35. Nxc8 is an easy win.

If the Russians have just about kept the show on the road with a win in round 7 the wheels completely came off the Ukraine effort with their 3-1 loss to Switzerland who they vastly outrated on every board. Vassily Ivanchuk looked to be getting a little something (maybe through 21...d5) but quickly the game became equal. Ruslan Ponomariov obviously can't wait for this to end and took a draw against Joe Gallagher on the white side of a King's Indian after just three original moves. Pavel Eljanov lost a pawn quite quickly out of the opening on the black side of a Caro-Kann against Olivier Kurmann and never came close to saving the position. Zahar Efimenko completely messed up a decisive advantage after missing a very clever tactic and went on to lose to Richard Forster.

27. Rf1?

27. Ne4 e2 28. Re1 Kg7 29. Qd4+ f6 30. Rxe2 Qf1+ 31. Ka2 Qf4 32. Rf2 Qe5 33. Qxe5 fxe5 34. Ng5 Rdxd7 35. Ne6+ Kh6 36. Rf3 is an example of a decisive line for white.

27... Rcxd7!! 28. Bxd7 Qxf1+ 29. Nxf1 e2

White has Queen, Bishop and Knight for a Rook but can't stop black getting a queen. Presumably Efimenko felt he had to play for a win in this position but black has the easier plan.

30. Qb5 e1=Q+ 31. Ka2 Qf2 32. c3 h5 33. Ng3 Qxh2 34. Ne4 Qf4 35. Bc6 h4 36. Qxb6 Rd1 37. Qxa5 h3 38. Qa8+ Kg7 39. Qa7?!

Definitely loses but even 39.Nc5 probably doesn't hold.

39...h2 40. Qf2 Qc7 41. Ng5 Qxc6 42.Qxf7+ Kh6 43. Qf4 Ra1+ 0-1

England lost 3-1 to Poland. Radoslaw Wojtaszek drew with Michael Adams and Mateusz Bartel with Gawain Jones. Nick Pert was ground down by Kamil Miton and the struggling David Howell lost the initiative on the white side of the Sicilian against Bartosz Socko and was well beaten in the end.

18th European Team Porto Carras GRE Thu 3rd Nov 2011 - Fri 11th Nov 2011 Leading Round 7 (of 9) Standings:
Rk	SNo	Team	FED	Games	+	=	-	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	3	Azerbaijan	AZE	7	5	2	0	12	18.5	110.5
2	4	Armenia	ARM	7	5	1	1	11	18.0	101.5
3	17	Romania	ROM	7	5	1	1	11	17.5	90.0
4	10	Germany	GER	7	4	2	1	10	17.0	107.5
5	5	Hungary	HUN	7	4	2	1	10	17.0	98.5
6	7	Bulgaria	BUL	7	4	2	1	10	15.5	113.5
7	9	Netherlands	NED	7	4	2	1	10	15.5	111.0
8	6	France	FRA	7	3	3	1	9	16.0	109.0
9	1	Russia	RUS	7	4	1	2	9	16.0	108.0
10	22	Italy	ITA	7	4	1	2	9	15.5	99.0
11	18	Serbia	SRB	7	4	0	3	8	18.0	86.0
12	14	Poland	POL	7	3	2	2	8	16.5	96.5
13	26	Switzerland	SUI	7	3	2	2	8	16.0	81.5
14	19	Greece	GRE	7	4	0	3	8	15.5	101.0
15	12	Czech Rep.	CZE	7	2	4	1	8	14.5	103.5
16	21	Slovenia	SLO	7	3	2	2	8	13.5	110.5
17	15	Georgia	GEO	7	3	1	3	7	17.0	81.5
18	20	Moldova	MDA	7	3	1	3	7	16.5	96.0
19	27	Latvia	LAT	7	3	1	3	7	15.0	94.5
20	25	Sweden	SWE	7	3	1	3	7	14.5	91.5
21	29	Montenegro	MNE	7	3	1	3	7	14.5	90.0
22	13	Spain	ESP	7	3	1	3	7	14.0	116.5
23	16	Croatia	CRO	7	2	3	2	7	13.5	106.5
24	8	England	ENG	7	2	2	3	6	14.0	105.5
25	11	Israel	ISR	7	2	2	3	6	14.0	103.0
26	2	Ukraine	UKR	7	2	2	3	6	13.5	105.5
27	32	Iceland	ISL	7	3	0	4	6	13.0	96.5
28	23	Austria	AUT	7	2	2	3	6	13.0	94.5
29	24	Denmark	DEN	7	2	2	3	6	12.5	101.0
30	28	Finland	FIN	7	2	1	4	5	13.0	85.5
31	33	Lithuania	LTU	7	2	1	4	5	12.0	108.5
32	31	Norway	NOR	7	2	1	4	5	11.0	96.0
33	30	FYROM	MKD	7	2	0	5	4	12.5	89.0
34	34	Turkey	TUR	7	2	0	5	4	11.0	100.0
35	35	Scotland	SCO	7	1	1	5	3	10.5	84.0
36	37	Luxembourg	LUX	7	1	1	5	3	7.0	86.0
37	36	Wales	WLS	7	0	2	5	2	5.0	84.0
38	38	Cyprus	CYP	7	0	1	6	1	4.5	81.0

18th European Team Porto Carras GRE Thu 3rd Nov 2011 - Fri 11th Nov 2011 Leading Round 7 (of 9) Results:
Round 7 on 2011/11/09 at 15:00
Bo.	7	Bulgaria	Rtg	-	3	Azerbaijan	Rtg	½ :3½
1.1	GM	Topalov Veselin	2768	-	GM	Radjabov Teimour	2781	½ - ½
1.2	GM	Cheparinov Ivan	2650	-	GM	Gashimov Vugar	2757	0 - 1
1.3	GM	Delchev Aleksander	2629	-	GM	Mamedyarov Shakhriyar	2733	0 - 1
1.4	GM	Radulski Julian	2565	-	GM	Safarli Eltaj	2630	0 - 1
Bo.	17	Romania	Rtg	-	10	Germany	Rtg	1½:2½
2.1	GM	Lupulescu Constantin	2657	-	GM	Naiditsch Arkadij	2712	½ - ½
2.2	GM	Parligras Mircea-Emilian	2650	-	GM	Meier Georg	2659	½ - ½
2.3	GM	Vajda Levente	2584	-	GM	Fridman Daniel	2661	0 - 1
2.4	GM	Marin Mihail	2534	-	GM	Buhmann Rainer	2612	½ - ½
Bo.	6	France	Rtg	-	4	Armenia	Rtg	1½:2½
3.1	GM	Bacrot Etienne	2714	-	GM	Aronian Levon	2802	½ - ½
3.2	GM	Vachier-Lagrave Maxime	2710	-	GM	Movsesian Sergei	2710	0 - 1
3.3	GM	Fressinet Laurent	2700	-	GM	Akopian Vladimir	2681	½ - ½
3.4	GM	Bauer Christian	2641	-	GM	Sargissian Gabriel	2671	½ - ½
Bo.	5	Hungary	Rtg	-	21	Slovenia	Rtg	3 : 1
4.1	GM	Leko Peter	2720	-	GM	Beliavsky Alexander G	2617	½ - ½
4.2	GM	Almasi Zoltan	2707	-	GM	Lenic Luka	2634	½ - ½
4.3	GM	Berkes Ferenc	2705	-	GM	Borisek Jure	2541	1 - 0
4.4	GM	Balogh Csaba	2662	-	IM	Sebenik Matej	2518	1 - 0
Bo.	9	Netherlands	Rtg	-	19	Greece	Rtg	2½:1½
5.1	GM	Giri Anish	2714	-	GM	Banikas Hristos	2620	1 - 0
5.2	GM	Van Wely Loek	2686	-	GM	Mastrovasilis Dimitrios	2621	½ - ½
5.3	GM	Sokolov Ivan	2646	-	GM	Papaioannou Ioannis	2600	1 - 0
5.4	GM	Smeets Jan	2615	-	GM	Nikolaidis Ioannis	2554	0 - 1
Bo.	13	Spain	Rtg	-	1	Russia	Rtg	1 : 3
6.1	GM	Vallejo Pons Francisco	2705	-	GM	Svidler Peter	2755	½ - ½
6.2	GM	Shirov Alexei	2705	-	GM	Grischuk Alexander	2752	½ - ½
6.3	GM	Salgado Lopez Ivan	2621	-	GM	Karjakin Sergey	2763	0 - 1
6.4	GM	Illescas Cordoba Miguel	2609	-	GM	Morozevich Alexander	2762	0 - 1
Bo.	22	Italy	Rtg	-	20	Moldova	Rtg	2½:1½
7.1	GM	Caruana Fabiano	2727	-	GM	Bologan Viktor	2665	½ - ½
7.2	GM	Godena Michele	2548	-	GM	Iordachescu Viorel	2648	½ - ½
7.3	GM	Brunello Sabino	2575	-	GM	Svetushkin Dmitry	2621	1 - 0
7.4	IM	Rombaldoni Axel	2459	-	IM	Vedmediuc Serghei	2465	½ - ½
Bo.	26	Switzerland	Rtg	-	2	Ukraine	Rtg	3 : 1
8.1	GM	Pelletier Yannick	2581	-	GM	Ivanchuk Vassily	2775	½ - ½
8.2	GM	Gallagher Joseph G	2500	-	GM	Ponomariov Ruslan	2723	½ - ½
8.3	IM	Kurmann Oliver	2451	-	GM	Eljanov Pavel	2691	1 - 0
8.4	IM	Forster Richard	2458	-	GM	Efimenko Zahar	2702	1 - 0
Bo.	14	Poland	Rtg	-	8	England	Rtg	3 : 1
9.1	GM	Wojtaszek Radoslaw	2705	-	GM	Adams Michael	2734	½ - ½
9.2	GM	Socko Bartosz	2635	-	GM	Howell David W L	2633	1 - 0
9.3	GM	Bartel Mateusz	2653	-	GM	Jones Gawain C B	2635	½ - ½
9.4	GM	Miton Kamil	2622	-	GM	Pert Nicholas	2563	1 - 0
Bo.	11	Israel	Rtg	-	12	Czech Rep.	Rtg	1½:2½
10.1	GM	Rodshtein Maxim	2645	-	GM	Navara David	2724	0 - 1
10.2	GM	Roiz Michael	2651	-	GM	Laznicka Viktor	2703	½ - ½
10.3	GM	Smirin Ilia	2670	-	GM	Hracek Zbynek	2628	½ - ½
10.4	GM	Postny Evgeny	2640	-	GM	Stocek Jiri	2600	½ - ½
Bo.	15	Georgia	Rtg	-	16	Croatia	Rtg	2 : 2
11.1	GM	Jobava Baadur	2678	-	GM	Stevic Hrvoje	2612	1 - 0
11.2	GM	Mchedlishvili Mikheil	2636	-	GM	Saric Ivan	2648	0 - 1
11.3	GM	Gagunashvili Merab	2577	-	GM	Palac Mladen	2580	½ - ½
11.4		Zarkua Davit	2443	-	GM	Jovanovic Zoran	2581	½ - ½
Bo.	32	Iceland	Rtg	-	18	Serbia	Rtg	1½:2½
12.1	GM	Danielsen Henrik	2542	-	GM	Ivanisevic Ivan	2636	½ - ½
12.2	FM	Gretarsson Hjorvar Steinn	2452	-	GM	Solak Dragan	2629	0 - 1
12.3	IM	Thorfinnsson Bragi	2421	-	GM	Damljanovic Branko	2597	1 - 0
12.4	IM	Thorfinnsson Bjorn	2402	-	GM	Perunovic Milos	2576	0 - 1
Bo.	24	Denmark	Rtg	-	23	Austria	Rtg	2 : 2
13.1	GM	Hansen Sune Berg	2566	-	GM	Ragger Markus	2662	½ - ½
13.2	GM	Rasmussen Allan Stig	2541	-	GM	Kindermann Stefan	2519	½ - ½
13.3	GM	Aagaard Jacob	2522	-	GM	Shengelia David	2551	0 - 1
13.4	IM	Glud Jakob Vang	2497	-	IM	Neubauer Martin	2431	1 - 0
Bo.	29	Montenegro	Rtg	-	31	Norway	Rtg	3 : 1
14.1	GM	Djukic Nikola	2493	-	GM	Lie Kjetil A	2560	½ - ½
14.2	GM	Drasko Milan	2478	-	IM	Elsness Frode	2506	1 - 0
14.3	GM	Kosic Dragan	2502	-	GM	Johannessen Leif Erlend	2515	1 - 0
14.4	IM	Kalezic Blazo	2461	-	IM	Getz Nicolai	2369	½ - ½
Bo.	25	Sweden	Rtg	-	34	Turkey	Rtg	2½:1½
15.1	GM	Tikkanen Hans	2586	-	IM	Yilmaz Mustafa	2515	1 - 0
15.2	GM	Grandelius Nils	2543	-	GM	Can Emre	2465	½ - ½
15.3	GM	Carlsson Pontus	2502	-	IM	Firat Burak	2393	½ - ½
15.4	IM	Semcesen Daniel	2490	-	FM	Ali Marandi Cemil Can	2275	½ - ½
Bo.	30	FYROM	Rtg	-	27	Latvia	Rtg	1 : 3
16.1	GM	Georgiev Vladimir	2553	-	GM	Miezis Normunds	2547	½ - ½
16.2	IM	Colovic Aleksandar	2451	-	GM	Sveshnikov Evgeny	2514	½ - ½
16.3	IM	Pancevski Filip	2442	-	IM	Neiksans Arturs	2502	0 - 1
16.4	GM	Stanojoski Zvonko	2470	-	GM	Starostits Ilmars	2456	0 - 1
Bo.	33	Lithuania	Rtg	-	35	Scotland	Rtg	3 : 1
17.1	GM	Sulskis Sarunas	2577	-	FM	Tate Alan	2334	1 - 0
17.2	IM	Zagorskis Darius	2497	-	FM	Morrison Graham	2339	1 - 0
17.3	IM	Labeckas Kestutis	2410	-	IM	Muir Andrew J	2311	½ - ½
17.4		Klabis Rokas	2100	-	CM	Roberts Paul	2222	½ - ½
Bo.	28	Finland	Rtg	-	38	Cyprus	Rtg	4 : 0
18.1	GM	Nyback Tomi	2631	-		Bryan-Vissi Mark	1808	1 - 0
18.2	IM	Sammalvuo Tapani	2492	-		Aristotelous Vassilis	1921	1 - 0
18.3	IM	Karttunen Mika	2434	-		Boulos Vrachimis	0	1 - 0
18.4	IM	Nyysti Sampsa	2345	-		Constantinou Pavlos	2068	1 - 0
Bo.	36	Wales	Rtg	-	37	Luxembourg	Rtg	2 : 2
19.1	FM	Williams A Howard	2353	-	IM	Berend Fred	2381	1 - 0
19.2	CM	Jones Iolo C	2282	-		Jeitz Christian	2171	½ - ½
19.3		Kett Tim	2184	-		Schartz Alain	2160	½ - ½
19.4		Young Alan	2042	-	FM	Mossong Hubert	2119	0 - 1

18th European Team w Porto Carras GRE Thu 3rd Nov 2011 - Fri 11th Nov 2011 Leading Round 7 (of 9) Standings:
Rk	SNo	Team	FED	Games	+	=	-	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	1	Russia	RUS	7	6	1	0	13	19.5	107.5
2	5	Poland	POL	7	5	1	1	11	18.5	109.5
3	2	Ukraine	UKR	7	5	0	2	10	17.5	109.0
4	3	Georgia	GEO	7	5	0	2	10	17.0	116.5
5	12	France	FRA	7	5	0	2	10	17.0	97.5
6	8	Bulgaria	BUL	7	4	1	2	9	15.5	106.0
7	18	Czech Rep.	CZE	7	3	3	1	9	15.5	104.0
8	14	Serbia	SRB	7	3	2	2	8	16.5	85.5
9	11	Slovenia	SLO	7	3	2	2	8	15.5	84.5
10	4	Armenia	ARM	7	3	2	2	8	14.5	110.0
11	6	Hungary	HUN	7	3	2	2	8	14.0	105.0
12	7	Germany	GER	7	3	1	3	7	16.0	97.5
13	17	Azerbaijan	AZE	7	3	1	3	7	14.5	94.5
14	15	Israel	ISR	7	3	1	3	7	14.0	100.5
15	21	Austria	AUT	7	3	1	3	7	13.5	80.0
16	19	Croatia	CRO	7	3	1	3	7	13.0	101.5
17	9	Romania	ROM	7	3	1	3	7	12.0	114.0
18	16	Greece	GRE	7	1	4	2	6	13.5	101.5
19	13	Netherlands	NED	7	2	2	3	6	13.0	104.0
20	20	Latvia	LAT	7	2	1	4	5	14.0	74.0
21	10	Spain	ESP	7	2	1	4	5	13.5	97.0
22	22	England	ENG	7	2	1	4	5	13.5	88.0
23	23	Italy	ITA	7	2	1	4	5	13.5	75.0
24	27	Turkey	TUR	7	2	1	4	5	13.0	95.5
25	24	Montenegro	MNE	7	2	1	4	5	10.5	89.0
26	26	Lithuania	LTU	7	0	4	3	4	11.0	98.0
27	25	Switzerland	SUI	7	1	2	4	4	10.0	102.0
28	28	Norway	NOR	7	0	0	7	0	2.5	97.0

18th European Team w Porto Carras GRE Thu 3rd Nov 2011 - Fri 11th Nov 2011 Leading Round 7 (of 9) Results:
Round 7 on 2011/11/09 at 15:00
Bo.	4	Armenia	Rtg	-	1	Russia	Rtg	1½:2½
1.1	GM	Danielian Elina	2507	-	GM	Kosintseva Nadezhda	2546	½ - ½
1.2	IM	Mkrtchian Lilit	2469	-	GM	Kosintseva Tatiana	2526	½ - ½
1.3	IM	Galojan Lilit	2383	-	GM	Kosteniuk Alexandra	2439	½ - ½
1.4	WGM	Kursova Maria	2315	-	WGM	Pogonina Natalija	2451	0 - 1
Bo.	5	Poland	Rtg	-	2	Ukraine	Rtg	2½:1½
2.1	GM	Socko Monika	2479	-	GM	Lahno Kateryna	2549	1 - 0
2.2	WGM	Zawadzka Jolanta	2326	-	GM	Zhukova Natalia	2427	1 - 0
2.3	WGM	Majdan Gajewska Joanna	2386	-	IM	Ushenina Anna	2463	½ - ½
2.4	WGM	Szczepkowska-H. Karina	2379	-	IM	Muzychuk Mariya	2460	0 - 1
Bo.	3	Georgia	Rtg	-	11	Slovenia	Rtg	3½: ½
3.1	GM	Dzagnidze Nana	2516	-	IM	Muzychuk Anna	2557	½ - ½
3.2	IM	Javakhishvili Lela	2475	-	WGM	Krivec Jana	2291	1 - 0
3.3	IM	Khurtsidze Nino	2440	-	WGM	Srebrnic Ana	2219	1 - 0
3.4	IM	Melia Salome	2392	-	WIM	Rozic Vesna	2263	1 - 0
Bo.	12	France	Rtg	-	14	Serbia	Rtg	3 : 1
4.1	IM	Milliet Sophie	2386	-	IM	Bojkovic Natasa	2396	1 - 0
4.2	WGM	Maisuradze Nino	2315	-	WGM	Chelushkina Irina	2276	1 - 0
4.3	WGM	Guichard Pauline	2305	-	WGM	Stojanovic Andjelija	2280	½ - ½
4.4	WGM	Leconte Maria	2282	-	WIM	Eric Jovana	2236	½ - ½
Bo.	8	Bulgaria	Rtg	-	7	Germany	Rtg	2½:1½
5.1	GM	Stefanova Antoaneta	2531	-	IM	Paehtz Elisabeth	2457	1 - 0
5.2	WGM	Videnova Iva	2297	-	WGM	Michna Marta	2382	0 - 1
5.3	WGM	Djingarova Emilia	2309	-	WIM	Ohme Melanie	2361	½ - ½
5.4	WGM	Nikolova Adriana	2286	-	WIM	Hoolt Sarah	2286	1 - 0
Bo.	17	Azerbaijan	Rtg	-	18	Czech Rep.	Rtg	1 : 3
6.1	WGM	Mamedjarova Zeinab	2314	-	WGM	Kulovana Eva	2297	0 - 1
6.2	WIM	Kazimova Narmin	2241	-	WGM	Nemcova Katerina	2276	½ - ½
6.3	WIM	Mammadova Gulnar	2290	-	WIM	Havlikova Kristyna	2285	½ - ½
6.4	WIM	Umudova Nargiz	2210	-	WIM	Olsarova Tereza	2232	0 - 1
Bo.	13	Netherlands	Rtg	-	6	Hungary	Rtg	1½:2½
7.1	GM	Peng Zhaoqin	2379	-	GM	Hoang Thanh Trang	2446	½ - ½
7.2	IM	Lanchava Tea	2320	-	IM	Madl Ildiko	2399	½ - ½
7.3	WIM	Bensdorp Marlies	2242	-	WGM	Rudolf Anna	2347	½ - ½
7.4	WIM	Haast Anne	2268	-	IM	Gara Anita	2340	0 - 1
Bo.	9	Romania	Rtg	-	20	Latvia	Rtg	2½:1½
8.1	IM	Foisor Cristina-Adela	2418	-	WGM	Reizniece-Ozola Dana	2281	1 - 0
8.2	WGM	L'ami Alina	2364	-	WGM	Berzina Ilze	2320	0 - 1
8.3	WIM	Bulmaga Irina	2334	-	WIM	Skinke Katrina	2227	1 - 0
8.4	WGM	Voicu Jagodzinsky Carmen	2300	-	WFM	Ungure Liga	2066	½ - ½
Bo.	10	Spain	Rtg	-	21	Austria	Rtg	1½:2½
9.1	WGM	Vega Gutierrez Sabrina	2327	-	IM	Moser Eva	2448	0 - 1
9.2	WGM	Calzetta Ruiz Monica	2301	-	WFM	Exler Veronika	2124	½ - ½
9.3	WIM	Hernandez Estevez Yudania	2284	-	WIM	Kopinits Anna-Christina	2276	1 - 0
9.4	WFM	Pascual Palomo Lucia	2104	-	WFM	Newrkla Katharina	2131	0 - 1
Bo.	27	Turkey	Rtg	-	15	Israel	Rtg	1½:2½
10.1	WIM	Yildiz Betul Cemre	2301	-	IM	Klinova Masha	2316	½ - ½
10.2	WIM	Ozturk Kubra	2239	-	WIM	Porat Maya	2299	0 - 1
10.3		Cemhan Kardelen	1881	-	WIM	Efroimski Marsel	2230	1 - 0
10.4		Menzi Nezihe Ezgi	1911	-	WIM	Vasiliev Olga	2305	0 - 1
Bo.	19	Croatia	Rtg	-	23	Italy	Rtg	2½:1½
11.1	WGM	Golubenko Valentina	2293	-	IM	Zimina Olga	2338	½ - ½
11.2	WGM	Medic Mirjana	2236	-	WIM	Brunello Marina	2221	0 - 1
11.3	WIM	Saric Kristina	2255	-		Messina Roberta	1964	1 - 0
11.4	WIM	Jelica Mara	2234	-		Panella Fiammetta	2014	1 - 0
Bo.	22	England	Rtg	-	16	Greece	Rtg	2 : 2
12.1	IM	Houska Jovanka	2415	-	IM	Dembo Yelena	2468	0 - 1
12.2	IM	Ciuksyte Dagne	2327	-	WGM	Botsari Anna-Maria	2313	1 - 0
12.3	WFM	Yurenok Maria S	2106	-	WGM	Makropoulou Marina	2201	1 - 0
12.4	WFM	Hegarty Sarah N	2060	-	WIM	Fakhiridou Ekaterini	2180	0 - 1
Bo.	25	Switzerland	Rtg	-	26	Lithuania	Rtg	2 : 2
13.1	WIM	Seps Monika	2198	-	WGM	Daulyte Deimante	2238	½ - ½
13.2	WIM	Heinatz Dr Gundula	2205	-	WIM	Zaksaite Salomeja	2200	½ - ½
13.3		De Seroux Camille	2056	-		Batkovskyte Dominyka	2102	1 - 0
13.4		Stoeri Laura	1939	-		Vanagaite Giedre	1958	0 - 1
Bo.	24	Montenegro	Rtg	-	28	Norway	Rtg	2½:1½
14.1	WGM	Vojinovic Jovana	2346	-	WFM	Johnsen Sylvia	2028	1 - 0
14.2	WFM	Milovic Aleksandra	2171	-		Reppen Ellisiv	1949	1 - 0
14.3	WFM	Stojanovic Marija R	2095	-		Carlsen Ellen Oen	1931	½ - ½
14.4		Blagojevic Tijana	1925	-		Hansen Erle Andrea Marki	1762	0 - 1

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