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Olympiad Dresden - Round 4

A third of the tournament has been completed and now it starts to get interesting. In both the open and ladies sections there are 2 teams leading on the match point tie-break.

In the men's section it is Germany, perhaps a little surprisingly, and Russia who are in the lead. However, it is still all to play for as in the top 10 positions only India have lost a match.

In the ladies section it is China and Poland in the lead with the top 6 teams not having lost a match. Round 5 promises to provide entertaining chess as all teams jockey for position before the first rest day on Tuesday.

As far as the African countries are concerned there were a number of lopsided results and a number of African match-ups. In the men's section the South African team will be disappointed with their draw against Pakistan seeded 46 places below them. Tunisia scored a good win over Angola, Libya defeated Sri Lanka and Namibia dominated the Seychelles.

The Kawama brothers are playing manfully on for Uganda and have scored 5.5 points out of 8 between them. Whether Zambia has also been affected by visa problems is not known at this stage, but apart from arriving only in time for round 2 they also only have 2 players in Amon Simutowe and Daniel Jere.

In the ladies section South Africa suffered a heavy loss to Norway while the Nigerian and Angolan ladies had very good wins.

As far as the race for African bragging rights is concerned South Africa is just ahead of Egypt in the men's section while Nigeria is ahead of South Africa in the ladies section.

Full results open section, ladies section.

View the latest African team and top 10 standings. Remember that you can still vote on who you think is going to be the top performing African country until just before round 5.

Africa Results - Open

No.	SNo	Team	Pts.	MP	Res.	:	Res.	MP	Pts.	Team	SNo
16	8	Israel	7½	4	2½	:	1½	4	7	Egypt	49
36	130	Pakistan	7	3	2	:	2	3	6	South Africa	84
39	64	Paraguay	5½	3	3½	:	½	3	7	Botswana	108
43	79	Algeria	6½	2	4	:	0	2	2½	Ghana	150
46	145	Ethiopia	4½	2	0	:	4	2	4½	Albania	122
47	114	Kenya	3½	2	0	:	4	2	6	Kyrgyzstan	80
48	88	Tunisia	6	2	2½	:	1½	2	5	Angola	102
53	119	Mauritius	4½	2	1	:	3	2	4½	Lebanon	87
57	144	Mozambique	5	2	1	:	3	2	5	Hongkong	131
58	134	Nigeria	4½	2	2	:	2	2	3	South Korea	127
62	115	Libya	4½	2	3	:	1	2	4½	Sri Lanka	112
64	152	Malawi	4	2	½	:	3½	2	5	Wales	98
68	126	Zambia	2½	1	2	:	2	1	3½	Cyprus	116
69	110	Uganda	3½	1	2	:	2	0	2½	Papua New Guinea	140
71	137	Namibia	2½	0	3½	:	½	0	½	Seychelles	147
72	138	Fiji	2	0	2	:	2	0	1	Rwanda	148
73	149	Gabon	2	0	2	:	2	0	1½	Madagascar	151

 

Africa Results - Ladies

No.	SNo	Team	Pts.	MP	Res.	:	Res.	MP	Pts.	Team	SNo
25	40	Norway	8	4	4	:	0	3	7½	South Africa	73
37	82	Egypt	4	2	1	:	3	2	5	Syria	83
39	63	Turkmenistan	4	2	3	:	1	2	5½	Algeria	74
40	103	Tunisia	5	2	1½	:	2½	2	5½	United Arab Emirates	84
43	107	Barbados	3	2	1	:	3	2	2½	Nigeria	111
48	109	Kenya	2	1	0	:	4	2	5	Chinese Taipei	96
49	113	Seychelles	2	1	0	:	4	1	4½	Argentina	29
50	100	Botswana	2	1	2	:	2	1	3	Tajikistan	86
53	106	Aruba	2½	1	0	:	4	1	3	Angola	101
54	93	Japan	2½	1	2	:	2	1	3	Libya	110