The Daily Update: ETC, World Juniors
In the European Team Championship, Azerbaijan defeated Georgia in the battle of the last unbeaten teams, and is the only team with 10 points after round 5. Georgia thus has 8, and they are tied for second with rating-favorite Russia, who beat Israel in round 5 and will play Azerbaijan in round 6.
In the World Junior Championship, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Sergei Zhigalko lead with 5 points out of 6, half a point ahead of Li Chao, Maxim Rodshtein, Eduardo Iturrizaga, Dmitry Andreikin, Falko Bindrich, Yangyi Yu and Michal Olszewski. Americans Alex Lenderman and Ray Robson have 4 and 3.5 points, respectively.
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