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Top Women's Event Results Sl No/Seeding/Team/Team Short/Score/Score 1 11 Germany 1 GER1 0 2 : 2 0 RUS Russia 1 2 9 Armenia ARM 0 2.5 : 1.5 0 NED Netherlands 20 3 5 Hungary HUN 0 1.5 : 1.5 0 UKR Ukraine 2 4 19 Norway NOR 0 1 : 3 0 AZE Azerbaijan 4 5 15 England ENG 0 2.5 : 1.5 0 ITA Italy 44 6 13 India IND 0 3 : 1 0 AUT Austria 54 7 21 Poland POL 0 3.5 : 0.5 0 CRC Costa Rica 66 8 3 China CHN 0 2.5 : 1.5 0 SCO Scotland 46 9 37 Vietnam VIE 0 2 : 2 0 CUB Cuba 16 10 32 Denmark DEN 0 0.5 : 3.5 0 ISR Israel 8 11 12 Spain ESP 0 2 : 2 0 BLR Belarus 23 12 28 Slovenia SLO 0 0.5 : 3.5 0 BUL Bulgaria 6 13 35 Lithuania LTU 0 0.5 : 3.5 0 ROU Romania 14 14 22 Serbia SRB 0 1.5 : 2.5 0 FRA France 7 15 24 Croatia CRO 0 1 : 3 0 SWE Sweden 30

While we wait for the first games of the Chess Olympiad 2008 to be beamed, here's a game from the past. Kasparov was in his peak form and Topalov was a pesky challenger at best, over 150 ELO below the giant. Yet, Topalov outfoxed the genius with some provocative play. Key Moments: * Kasparov keeps an edge in the middle game until he makes a mistake on move 25 with ...Rh3. Kd8 was required. Topalov missed the winning line - 26 Rfe7+ Kd8 27 Nd4 Kc8 28 Nc6 or 26 Ra7 Rh1+ 27 Kf2 Nb6 28 Rae7+ * Kasparov blundered on move 26 with ... Re3+. After 27 Kf1 Kasparov has nothing and the attack is all Topalov's from here on. With Bg3 he had a fighting chance to survive. Watch the game here: Topalov - Kasparov 1-0

The 2008 Chess Olympiad starts at Dresden on 12th November. The first rounds will be played on the 13th. A record number of Federations and players have signed up for participation. This edition of the Olympiad promises to be a spectacular one with 152 nations participating in the Open team event and 119 in the Women's team event. The fresh World Champion Vishwanathan Anand will be missed. He will not be playing for India in this edition. In some of the previous Olympiads, Anand lost valuable rating points. Also, there is also a lot of pressure to perform in a team that does not have a world class second player. Topalov may also opt out of the Olympiad. Kramnik is expected to play for Russia. He will be joined by Morozevich, Svidler, Grischuk, and Jakovenko.