Only India, Ukraine and the Netherlands are on a perfect score after five rounds

>only India, Ukraine and the Netherlands are on a perfect score after five rounds
>the pre-tournament favourites Russia, USA and China have all yielded points

How does this table make you feel?

what sport is this?

Chess.

Your team isn't that strong on paper, but that doesn't mean so much. The match against India tomorrow is going to be the real test.

ah yeah
anish giri is really our only good player I think
I couldn't name a single other dutch grand master unless loek van wely is still playing

Loek van Wely is still playing well.

>sport

You're just mad because they absolutely destroyed your team the other day.

>it's that one Norwegian chessposter

Admire the tenacity m8, keep it up. Who should I root for?

>>>r/atheism

>azerbaijan have two teams
>neither of them good
what did they mean by this

New Zealand, of course.

Unless you're thinking about teams with a decent chance of winning the event, in which case you pick your favourite country out of Russia, USA, China, Azerbaijan and the three teams on 10/10.

They're the host nation, and the host is allowed to field two or three teams, depending on whether the number of participating federations is even or odd. Azerbaijan 1 is one of the strongest teams on paper, led by world-class players Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Teimour Radjabov.

Is a Rook a Athlete?

>Caruana
>Nakamura
>So

Can the US produce ANY homegrown talents?

Sam Shankland scored 9/10 last time, when the Olympiad was held in my home town.

No, but a knight is.

Cheers lad

Will bandwagon based Netherlands

Also, did you know that Bulgaria was held to a draw by Sudan in round 1?

Are we good?

No.

So this is paraolympics?

are WE good?

You are even worse than Greece.

Almost

Is Topalov still a thing. Wasn't he in top 5 like a year ago?

He was #2 in the world last year, and is still a top player, but the rest of your team is consistently mediocre, especially when Ivan Cheparinov is sitting this one out. Norway is in something of a similar situation.

>Implying anyone would have the slightest clue this had happened

No one gives a shit

hahaha how does a team match in chess even work? fucking nerds need multiple people to move the pieces or what LMAO?

is a chess sport?

There's something weird about seeing a Swiss do ausie shitposting.

First player plays against first player on the other team, second against second, third against third, fourth against fourth, and then the results are added up.

Club events use six-player teams with two reserves, but the standard for national teams is four players and one reserve.

>whitewinslol

>There's a plug going into That chessboard

It's for the live feed. The moves are recorded and transferred directly.

Shit man, look at this guy.

You know, physical sports athletes are pretty interesting, partying hard enjoying their shit.

But that dude, you know he probably could smash every uptight snobby orientated driven high collar chick with a brain like that and the level of class Chess has as a sport.

Like, attend some high end secret society shit.

Don't say that. He's a married man.

>he probably could smash every uptight snobby orientated driven high collar chick

Looks like he found one he liked smashing and decided to keep smashing. She's pretty QT

A french, wow nice

wait we have a chess team? what the actual fuck

why do indians dominate this sport (or at least are pervasive in it)
shit, there was a 2nd generation indian american from my high school that was ranked top 50 (under the US flag of course) back in the early 2000's

Round 6 begins in 35 minutes.