FIDE Chess Olympiad: Azerbaijani Men's Team Share Points With Greece (PHOTO)

(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 21. The 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad in Budapest continues, Trend reports via Idman .

The games of the IX round will be held today.

The Azerbaijani men's team will face Greece. They finally shared the points with Italy (2:2).

The women's team will face Switzerland. Both men and women ended the last round with a draw with Italy (2:2).

FIDE Chess Olympiad
IX round
Men
Greece - Azerbaijan - 2:2
Nikolas Theodorou - Aydin Suleymanli - 1:0
Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis - Rauf Mammadov - 0:1
Ioannis Papaioannou - Shakhriyar Mamedyarov - 0.5:0.5
Andreas Kelires – Mohammad Muradli - 0.5:0.5

Tournament table: 1. India - 16 points, 2. Uzbekistan, 3. Hungary - 14 points, 20. Azerbaijan - 11 points.

Women
Switzerland - Azerbaijan - 0:4
Alexandra Kosteniuk - Gunay Mammadzada - 0:1
Lena Georgescu - Ulviyya Fataliyeva - 0:1
Sofia Khrizlova - Govhar Beydullayeva - 0:1
Maria Manko - Khanim Balajayeva - 0:1

Tournament table: 1. India, 2. Poland, 3. Kazakhstan - 14 points, 20. Azerbaijan - 11 points.

Both men's and women's national teams are ranked 20th with 11 points after the VIII round.

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