FIDE World Senior Championship - Live

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11/5/2023 – A very strong field, including many grandmasters, will be competing for the title of Senior World Champion in the age groups 50+ and 65+ (in an Open and a Women's tournament) from 25 October to 5 November in Terrasini, Sicily. The field includes renowned players such as Michael Adams, Klaus Bischoff, John Nunn, Rafael Vaganjan, Rainer Knaak, and Nona Gaprindashvili. The rounds start daily at 15.00 local time.
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The 2023 World Veterans Championships will be held at the "CDSHotels Terrasini - Città del Mare". The 11 rounds will start every day at 15.00 and there will be three tournaments: Open 50+, Open 65+ and the Women's Tournament, in which the women 50+ and 65+ play together, but in which both championship titles will be awarded. In all tournaments the time limit is 90 minutes for 40 moves and 30 minutes for the rest of the game. Players will receive a 30 second increment for each move. No draws are allowed in the first 30 moves without prior consultation with an arbiter.

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Live games - Women's tournament

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Starting list 50+ - Top 25

No. Name Elo
1 ADAMS, Michael 2670
2 STEFANSSON, Hannes 2529
3 DLUGY, Maxim 2520
4 STURUA, Zurab 2514
5 MOROVIC FERNANDEZ, Ivan 2488
6 DEGRAEVE, Jean-Marc 2479
7 BISCHOFF, Klaus 2473
8 HOLZKE, Frank 2473
9 MINASIAN, Artashes 2462
10 MATAMOROS FRANCO, Carlos S. 2455
11 GODENA, Michele 2441
12 MOHR, Georg 2430
13 ATALIK, Suat 2427
14 LIMA, Darcy 2416
15 SEUL, Georg 2383
16 NOVIK, Maxim 2375
17 MRVA, Martin 2366
18 VINTER-SCHOU, Uffe 2345
19 PASCHALL, William 2329
20 CUMMINGS, David H. 2325
21 CABE, Arlan 2303
22 VLASSOV, Nikolai 2283
23 NADANIAN, Ashot 2279
24 MAIER, Christian 2278
25 VALGMAE, Toomas 2270

...91 players

Starting list 65+ - Top 25

No. Name Elo
1 NUNN, John D M 2560
2 VAGANIAN, Rafael A 2493
3 FTACNIK, Lubomir 2451
4 KNAAK, Rainer 2451
5 BALASHOV, Yuri S 2390
6 FERNANDEZ GARCIA, Jose Luis 2379
7 JANSA, Vlastimil 2358
8 CHEVELEVITCH, Evgueni Dr. 2353
9 LEGKY, Nikolay A 2348
10 CAMPORA, Daniel H. 2343
11 BIRNBOIM, Nathan 2342
12 PIGOTT, John C 2337
13 RENMAN, Nils-Gustaf 2324
14 CHAPMAN, Terry P D 2284
15 STEBBINGS, Anthony J 2263
16 ROOS, Louis 2257
17 VAN RIEMSDIJK, Herman C. 2257
18 ROOZE, Jan 2245
19 POVAH, Nigel E 2235
20 WERNER, Clemens 2230
21 REPRINTSEV, Alexander 2227
22 SHNAIDER, David 2224
23 DJURIC, Stefan 2223
24 DONCEVIC, Dario 2219
25 VATTER, Hans-Joachim 2209

...155 players

Starting list - Women's tournament

No. Name Elo
1 GAPRINDASHVILI, Nona 2267
2 KLINOVA, Masha 2249
3 CALZETTA RUIZ, Monica 2239
4 MIKHAYLOVA, Irina 2216
5 TERELADZE, Sopio 2215
6 BURCHARDT, Brigitte 2124
7 STRUTINSKAIA, Galina 2114
8 KRASENKOWA, Elena 2089
9 MAKROPOULOU, Marina 2081
10 BOGUMIL, Tatiana 2080
11 KHROPOVA, Larisa 2054
12 WAGNER-MICHEL, Annett 2033
13 LAUTERBACH, Ingrid 2026
14 FOLKOVA, Martina 2022
15 SEIDEMANN, Ulricke 1973
16 MILLIGAN, Helen 1947
17 KIERZEK, Mira 1941
18 LESZNER, Liliana 1891
19 NI, Polina 1866
20 BALIUNIENE, Margarita 1865
21 PANCU, Aureliana-Eugenia 1865
22 ALEKSANDROVA, Aleksandra 1793
23 DUBOIS, Martine 1788
24 SOSNOWSKA, Elzbieta 1711
25 YAGUNOVA, Zinaida 1684
26 GOTTSCHALL, Ina 1664
27 SMITH, Vivian J 1587
28 HEID, Magdalene 1530
29 LOURENCO, Eva 1356
30 ILANBEKOVA, Nurgul 1318
31 BELASH, Lyudmila 1228
32 MOLCHANOVA, Olena 0

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