Not much going on, Olympiad The Big News!

With the 2008 Chess Olympiad going on in Dresden, Germany, TransWarp has lost many of it's regular players. It's been 4 days without a blitz game, however yesterday Saint89 (IM Sergei Yudin RUS) played 4 bullet games. GM Rustemov (Goldmund) is busy watching his team (Russia) holding the lead after 5 rounds in the Olympiad. Who can blame him! It's pretty exciting, I try to watch a game or two, usually the USA team, GM Nakamura had a scary game against South African IM Watu Kobese, however Kobese crumbled under the pressure and Hikaru schooled him in the endgame.

Here are the top 10 teams as provided by the official site:

http://schachlive.dresden2008.de/results.m.eng.html

Rank after Round 5

Rk. SNo Team Team Pts.
1 1 Russia RUS 82.5
2 9 Armenia ARM 80.5
3 11 Germany 1 GER1 77.5
4 4 Azerbaijan AZE 74.0
5 2 Ukraine UKR 73.0
6 15 England ENG 62.0
7 21 Poland POL 72.5
8 13 India IND 68.0
9 30 Sweden SWE 68.0
10 17 Georgia GEO 67.0