World Team Chess Championship 2011
The top players start the race this week
The 2011 World Team Chess Championship will be held in Ningbo China from July 15 2011(arrival) to July 27 2011 (Departure). Participants are the national teams of China (host country), Russia (winner 2009), Ukrine, Israel, and Hungary (medalists from Olympiad), Azerbaijan (Europe qualifier), India (Asia qualifier), USA (America’s qualifier), Egypt (African qualifier), and Armenia (nomination by the FIDE President).
Daily live games will be here, video reports will be available at Chessdom chess video section, and selected games will have live GM commentary.
Each team of the World Team Championship will consist of 5 athletes (4 players + 1 reserves) and one coach/captain of the team for a total of 6 persons. From the July rating list top players confirmed are the Candidates matches finalist Grischuk, the top Russian player Karjakin, India’s young stars from AAI Sasikiran and Negi, Azeibarjan’s permanent 2700 club players Radjabov, Mamedyarov, and Gashimov, Ukraine’s super star Ivanchuk, China’s Wang Yue and Wang Hao, Armenia’s 2800 player Levon Aronian, and Hungary’s Peter Leko and Zoltan Almasi.
Click on the following links for the deatils of each team announced so far:
World Team Championship rules
Among the rules, there is a no short draw recommendation, as the players are not allowed to shake hands before move 30. The championships will be played using a 9 round, round-robin system. Each team will play a match against all other teams. Colours and starting numbers will be drawn at the Opening Ceremony. The time control: 90’/40 moves + 30’/end + 30” increment per move, staring from move 1.
Each match will be scored by match points as used in the FIDE Olympiad. Winner will get 2 points, a draw will give each team 1 point, and a loss is scored as 0 points. If any teams finish with equal match points, the tie shall be resolved per match points, then direct match result, then Berger, and if a tie again results, it shall be decided by board count (that Berlin System: a win on Board 1 = 4 points, a win on Board 2 = 3 points, a win on Board 3 = 2 points, a win on Board 4 = 1 point). In the near imposible situation of a draw again, a rapid match will be played, and in case of a draw (again), then drawing of lots will decide the winner.
Chief Arbiter Mr. Panagiotis Nikolopoulos (Greece). One Deputy Chief Arbiter and three arbiters from China will also be assigned.
Three FIDE Vice Presidents will be in the appeals committee Mr. Israel Gelfer (ISR), Mr. Chu Bo (CHN), and Mr. Boris Kutin (SLO).
Venue
The players will be hosted in Ningbo, China in New Century Grand Hotel Ningbo (5 stars). The tournament Hall will be in the hotel. The 6 people from each participating team will be provided with full hospitality including lodging, accommodation in a single room in the 5-star hotel.
Day 1 15 July Arrival
Day 2 16 July Opening Ceremony 18:00
Day 3 17 July 15:00 Round 1
Day 4 18 July 15:00 Round 2
Day 5 19 July 15:00 Round 3
Day 6 20 July 15:00 Round 4
Day 7 21 July 15:00 Round 5
Day 8 22 July Rest Day
Day 9 23 July 15:00 Round 6
Day 10 24 July 15:00 Round 7
Day 11 25 July 15:00 Round 8
Day 12 26 July 10:00 Round 9, Closing Ceremony in the evening
Day 13 27 July Departure
Where’s team USA?
Relax, she only lists 8 of the teams. Since it’s a 9-round tournament, there are 2 links missing, one of which is for the USA team, which is listed below this story.
Dear Chess fans:
Ladies and gentlemen: Start your engines!!!
. 1st Hangzhou Women Grandmaster Chess Tournament (Hangzhou, China)
Participants include:
1. GM Hou Yifan CHN 2575
2. GM Nadezhda Kosintseva RUS 2560
3. GM Tatiana Kosintseva RUS 2557
4. GM Nana Dzagnidze GEO 2537
5. IM Anna Zatonskih USA 2522 <——-
6. WGM Ju Wenjun CHN 2515
7. IM Dronavalli Harika IND 2513
8. GM Marie Sebag FRA 2510
9. GM Zhu Chen QAT 2485
10. GM Zhao Xue CHN 2470
. World Team Championship (Ningbo, China)
Many top-flight grandmasters from 10 strong chess playing countries.
Some of the participants are:
From Russia: Grischuk, Nepomniachtchi, Karjakin, Svidler and Vitiugov
From India: Sashikiran, Negi, Harikrishna, Ganguly and Gopal
From Azerbajian: Mamedyarov, Gashimov, Radjabov, Mamedov and Guseinov
From Israel: Sutovsky, Roiz, Smirin, Postny and Nabaty
From Hungary: Leko, Almasi, J. Polgar, Balogh and Erdos
From Ukraine: Ivanchuk, Eljanov, Efimenko, Areshchenko and Moiseenko
From China: Wang Yue, Wang Hao, Li Chao b, Yu Yangyi and Ding Liren
From Armenia: Aronian, Movsesian, Akopian, Sargissian and Hovhannisyan.
. Biel Internation Chess Festival (Biel, Switzerland)
Participants in the ACCENTUS Grandmaster Tournament:
Magnus Carlsen <——
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Alexei Shirov
Fabiano Caruana
Alexander Morozevich
Yannick Pelletier
. Dortmunder Sparkassen (Dortmund, Germany)
Participants:
Wladimir Kramnik Russia
Ruslan Ponomariov Ukraine
Hikaru Nakamura USA
Le Quang Liem Vietnam
Anish Giri Netherlands
Georg Meier Germany
Combined Schedules (dates based on Pacific Time, USA)
July 14, Thursday
Hangzhou, Round 1
July 15, Friday
Hangzhou, Round 2
July 16, Saturday
Hangzhou, Round 3
July 17, Sunday
Hangzhou, Round 4
Ningbo, Round 1
July 18, Monday
Hangzhou, Round 5
Ningbo, Round 2
Biel, Round 1
July 19, Tuesday
Ningbo, Round 3
Biel, Round 2
July 20, Wednesday
Hangzhou, Round 6
Ningbo, Round 4
Biel, Round 3
July 21, Thursday
Hangzhou, Round 7
Ningbo, Round 5
Dortmund, Round 1
July 22, Friday
Hangzhou, Round 8
Biel, Round 4
Dortmund Round 2
July 23, Saturday (Are you ready for this day???)
Hangzhou, Round 9 (last round)
Ningbo, Round 6
Biel, Round 5
Dortmund Round 3
July 24, Sunday
Ningbo, Round 7
Dortmund, Round 4
July 25, Monday (Even if you survived Saturday, you won’t survive this day.)
Ningbo, Round 8 (early)
Biel, Round 6
Dortmund Round 5
Ningbo, Round 9 (late) final round
July 26, Tuesday
Biel, Round 7
July 27, Wednesday
Biel, Round 8
Dortmund, Round 6
July 28, Thursday
Biel, Round 9
Dortmund, Round 7
July 29, Friday
Biel, Round 10 (final round)
Dortmund, Round 9
July 30, Saturday
Dortmund, Round 9
July 31, Sunday
Dortmund, Round 10 (final round)
Somewhere in all of this is the British Championship (starts July 24). Britannia doesn’t rule anymore. Even if they have Stuart Conquest.
And on August 1st, the Women’s Grand Prix in Rostov begins. YES!!!!
Are you in training for all of this?????
Lucymarie