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The 40th Chess Olympiad took place in the Turkish metropole of Istanbul, from August 27 to September 10th, 2012. A record of 158 national chess federations brought teams to Istanbul to participate in this prestigious event, which was staged in the WOW Hotel and Convention Center, just minutes away from the airport.
The victorious Armenian
team, with captain Arshak Petrosian on the right
Top seed at this Olympiad: Levon Aronian, board one for Armenia
Silver for the Russian
team, with captain Yuri Dokhoyan, Evgeny Tomashevsky,
Dmitry Jakovenko, Vladimir Kramnik, Alexander Grischuk and Sergey Karjakin
Bronze for the Ukrainian
team, with Andrei Volokitin, captain Alexander Sulipa,
Ruslan Ponomariov, Pavel Eljanov and Vassily Ivanchuk
No. | Ti. | Name | Rtg | Team | Perf | Pts. |
Gms |
% |
Bo. |
1 | GM | Mamedyarov Shakhriyar | 2729 | Azerbaijan | 2880 | 8.5 |
10 |
85.0 |
3 |
2 | GM | Navara David | 2691 | Czech Republic | 2869 | 9.5 |
11 |
86.4 |
2 |
3 | GM | Aronian Levon | 2816 | Armenia | 2849 | 7.0 |
10 |
70.0 |
1 |
4 | GM | Wojtaszek Radoslaw | 2717 | Poland | 2844 | 7.5 |
10 |
75.0 |
1 |
5 | GM | Filippov Anton | 2617 | Uzbekistan | 2820 | 6.5 |
8 |
81.3 |
2 |
6 | GM | Radjabov Teimour | 2788 | Azerbaijan | 2813 | 6.5 |
9 |
72.2 |
1 |
7 | GM | Akopian Vladimir | 2687 | Armenia | 2803 | 7.5 |
10 |
75.0 |
3 |
8 | GM | Kamsky Gata | 2746 | USA | 2796 | 8.5 |
11 |
77.3 |
2 |
9 | GM | Nakamura Hikaru | 2778 | USA | 2794 | 6.0 |
9 |
66.7 |
1 |
10 | GM | Le Quang Liem | 2693 | Vietnam | 2787 | 8.0 |
10 |
80.0 |
1 |
11 | GM | Dominguez Leinier | 2725 | Cuba | 2786 | 7.5 |
10 |
75.0 |
1 |
12 | GM | Karjakin Sergey | 2785 | Russia | 2784 | 7.0 |
10 |
70.0 |
3 |
13 | GM | Jakovenko Dmitry | 2722 | Russia | 2783 | 7.0 |
9 |
77.8 |
5 |
14 | GM | Kramnik Vladimir | 2797 | Russia | 2781 | 5.0 |
9 |
55.6 |
1 |
15 | GM | Amonatov Farrukh | 2610 | Tajikistan | 2780 | 8.5 |
10 |
85.0 |
1 |
16 | GM | Ivanchuk Vassily | 2769 | Ukraine | 2775 | 6.0 |
10 |
60.0 |
1 |
17 | GM | Ponomariov Ruslan | 2734 | Ukraine | 2769 | 7.0 |
10 |
70.0 |
2 |
18 | GM | Ding Liren | 2695 | China | 2764 | 7.5 |
10 |
75.0 |
3 |
19 | GM | Short Nigel | 2698 | England | 2761 | 7.5 |
10 |
75.0 |
3 |
20 | GM | Wang Hao | 2726 | China | 2761 | 6.0 |
10 |
60.0 |
1 |
21 | GM | Tkachiev Vladislav | 2644 | France | 2750 | 6.5 |
8 |
81.3 |
4 |
22 | GM | Volokitin Andrei | 2709 | Ukraine | 2750 | 6.0 |
9 |
66.7 |
3 |
23 | GM | Gupta Abhijeet | 2637 | India | 2746 | 7.0 |
9 |
77.8 |
4 |
24 | GM | Grischuk Alexander | 2763 | Russia | 2746 | 7.0 |
11 |
63.6 |
2 |
25 | GM | Polgar Judit | 2698 | Hungary | 2744 | 7.5 |
10 |
75.0 |
3 |
26 | GM | Vachier-Lagrave Maxime | 2686 | France | 2741 | 6.5 |
10 |
65.0 |
1 |
27 | GM | Felgaer Ruben | 2570 | Argentina | 2736 | 7.0 |
10 |
70.0 |
3 |
28 | GM | Topalov Veselin | 2752 | Bulgaria | 2725 | 7.0 |
10 |
70.0 |
1 |
29 | GM | Fridman Daniel | 2653 | Germany | 2722 | 7.0 |
10 |
70.0 |
4 |
30 | GM | Caruana Fabiano | 2773 | Italy | 2722 | 6.5 |
9 |
72.2 |
1 |
Gold for the Russian
Women's team: Natalija Pogonina, captain Sergei Rublevsky,
Alexandra Kosteniuk, Valentina Gunina, Tatiana Kosintseva
Silver for the Chinese
women: Ju Wenjun, Ding Yixin, captain Yu Shaoteng, Hou Yifan, Zhao Xue
Bronze for the Ukrainian
team: with Natalia Zhukova, Mariya Muzychuk, Inna
Yanovska, Kateryna Lahno and Anna Ushenina
In fourth place the Indian
Women's team, with Tania, Mary Ann, Eesha, Harika and
Soumya (that's Sachdev, Gomes, Karavade, Dronavalli and Swaminathan)
No. | Title | Name | Rtg | Team | Perf | Pts. |
Gms |
% |
Bo. |
1 | GM | Kosintseva Nadezhda | 2524 | Russia | 2693 | 8.0 |
9 |
88.9 |
3 |
2 | GM | Hou Yifan | 2599 | China | 2645 | 6.5 |
9 |
72.2 |
1 |
3 | GM | Dzagnidze Nana | 2547 | Georgia | 2625 | 6.0 |
8 |
75.0 |
1 |
4 | GM | Lahno Kateryna | 2542 | Ukraine | 2608 | 7.0 |
10 |
70.0 |
1 |
5 | GM | Zhao Xue | 2549 | China | 2574 | 8.0 |
10 |
80.0 |
2 |
6 | WGM | Huang Qian | 2449 | China | 2547 | 8.0 |
10 |
80.0 |
4 |
7 | WGM | Zawadzka Jolanta | 2377 | Poland | 2538 | 9.0 |
11 |
81.8 |
3 |
8 | IM | Munguntuul Batkhuyag | 2434 | Mongolia | 2534 | 7.0 |
9 |
77.8 |
1 |
9 | IM | Muzychuk Mariya | 2466 | Ukraine | 2526 | 6.0 |
9 |
66.7 |
2 |
10 | GM | Dronavalli Harika | 2503 | India | 2524 | 7.0 |
10 |
70.0 |
1 |
11 | IM | Sachdev Tania | 2379 | India | 2522 | 9.0 |
11 |
81.8 |
3 |
12 | GM | Stefanova Antoaneta | 2502 | Bulgaria | 2505 | 6.0 |
9 |
66.7 |
1 |
13 | WGM | Yildiz Betul Cemre | 2341 | Turkey | 2502 | 9.5 |
11 |
86.4 |
2 |
14 | GM | Socko Monika | 2467 | Poland | 2499 | 7.0 |
11 |
63.6 |
1 |
15 | WGM | Pogonina Natalija | 2448 | Russia | 2487 | 6.5 |
8 |
81.3 |
5 |
16 | WIM | Nakhbayeva Guliskhan | 2291 | Kazakhstan | 2483 | 6.5 |
10 |
65.0 |
1 |
17 | IM | Milliet Sophie | 2411 | France | 2480 | 6.5 |
9 |
72.2 |
2 |
18 | GM | Zhukova Natalia | 2442 | Ukraine | 2480 | 6.5 |
9 |
72.2 |
3 |
19 | GM | Kosintseva Tatiana | 2530 | Russia | 2480 | 5.5 |
9 |
61.1 |
1 |
20 | GM | Danielian Elina | 2476 | Armenia | 2477 | 6.5 |
10 |
65.0 |
1 |
21 | GM | Hoang Thanh Trang | 2464 | Hungary | 2476 | 6.0 |
10 |
60.0 |
1 |
22 | IM | Collas Silvia | 2261 | France | 2469 | 7.5 |
9 |
83.3 |
4 |
23 | GM | Kosteniuk Alexandra | 2489 | Russia | 2468 | 7.0 |
9 |
77.8 |
4 |
24 | GM | Cmilyte Viktorija | 2520 | Lithuania | 2464 | 8.0 |
10 |
80.0 |
1 |
25 | IM | Ushenina Anna | 2433 | Ukraine | 2460 | 7.0 |
10 |
70.0 |
4 |
26 | IM | Khotenashvili Bela | 2509 | Georgia | 2455 | 6.5 |
10 |
65.0 |
2 |
27 | IM | Lujan Carolina | 2368 | Argentina | 2455 | 6.0 |
9 |
66.7 |
1 |
28 | WGM | Voiska Margarita | 2281 | Bulgaria | 2454 | 7.5 |
9 |
83.3 |
4 |
29 | IM | Paehtz Elisabeth | 2483 | Germany | 2453 | 6.5 |
11 |
59.1 |
1 |
30 | IM | Gunina Valentina | 2507 | Russia | 2449 | 6.0 |
9 |
66.7 |
2 |
The musical program included Sertab Erener, a Turkish pop music singer and a crossover soprano, best known for winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 with her hit song "Every Way That I Can".
Sertab Erener: Somewhere Over The Rainbow
She won the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 with her hit "Every Way That
I Can"
Photos by David Llada, Arman Karakhanyan, Anastasiya Karlovich
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