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Olympiad Dresden - Round 7

In a titanic struggle that ebbed and flowed, Armenia stated unequivocally that they will not give up their title without a fight by beating the first seeds Russia. Armenia now move to the top of the leader board and are the only team to have drawn only once. With the Ukraine and China drawing and good wins for Germany, France and Israel the top of the leader board has an unusual look about it. Round 8 should once again provide entertaining chess with France against Armenia, Israel against Germany and the USA against Russia.

Just when one was saying that China could not be stopped they were held to a draw by the USA ladies team. If this is enough remains to be seen. The 3rd placed team from the Netherlands suffered a heavy defeat at the hands of the Ukraine while the 1st seeded Russian team were held to their 3rd draw by Poland. So we now have the first 3 seeds in the medal places but in reverse order and separated by 1 point each. The next 2 rounds will most probably decide the title starting with round 8 tomorrow where Ukraine is up against China and the USA against Russia.

Amongst the African countries in the men's section Egypt came to life again by defeating Malaysia 4/0, as did Kenya over Madagascar and Libya over Ethiopia. The Namibians also had a big win over the U.S. Virgin Islands. The South African's will be very disappointed with their loss to the Faroe Islands.

In the ladies section there was a nice 4/0 win for the Seychelles over Afghanistan, as well as win's for Angola, Tunisia and Botswana. I am sure that the South African ladies will be a little disappointed with their draw against Guatemala.

Full results open section, ladies section.

View the latest African team and top 10 standings.

Africa Results - Open

No.	SNo	Team	Pts.	MP	Res.	:	Res.	MP	Pts.	Team	SNo
31	88	Tunisia	12½	6	1	:	3	6	12	Denmark	32
32	49	Egypt	13	6	4	:	0	6	10	Malaysia	73
38	77	Turkmenistan	14	6	3½	:	½	6	13½	Algeria	79
40	72	Faroe Islands	10½	6	2½	:	1½	6	12½	South Africa	84
47	94	Uruguay	10	5	2½	:	1½	5	11½	Botswana	108
49	134	Nigeria	10	5	2	:	2	5	11	Albania	122
54	150	Ghana	7	4	1½	:	2½	4	11	Mozambique	144
58	102	Angola	10½	4	1½	:	2½	4	7½	Nicaragua	101
59	119	Mauritius	10½	4	2	:	2	4	7½	South Korea	127
62	141	Honduras	10½	4	2	:	2	4	8½	Malawi	152
63	115	Libya	8	4	3	:	1	4	7½	Ethiopia	145
64	126	Zambia	8½	4	2	:	2	4	8½	Luxembourg	95
65	138	Fiji	7	3	2½	:	1½	3	9½	Uganda	110
68	154	U.S. Virgin Islands	2½	2	½	:	3½	2	8½	Namibia	137
69	151	Madagascar	5½	2	0	:	4	2	6	Kenya	114
70	149	Gabon	7	2	3	:	1	2	6	Surinam	118
71	148	Rwanda	5½	2	2	:	2	2	5½	British Virgin Islands	136
73	142	Chinese Taipei	6½	2	2½	:	1½	1	4½	Seychelles	147

Africa Results - Ladies

No.	SNo	Team	Pts.	MP	Res.	:	Res.	MP	Pts.	Team	SNo
30	75	Guatemala	11½	6	2	:	2	6	12	South Africa	73
37	63	Turkmenistan	10	5	3½	:	½	5	7½	Nigeria	111
44	99	Ireland	7	4	1	:	3	4	10	Angola	101
45	103	Tunisia	9½	4	3½	:	½	4	7½	Qatar	91
47	82	Egypt	9½	4	1½	:	2½	4	9½	Botswana	100
48	74	Algeria	10½	4	0	:	4	4	10	IBCA	64
49	85	Lebanon	9	4	3	:	1	4	8½	Libya	110
51	97	Macau	7½	3	3	:	1	3	7	Kenya	109
55	105	Afghanistan	3	1	0	:	4	1	2½	Seychelles	113