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The Chinese Chess Association with the patronage and support of the Ningbo Municipal Government and Ningbo Sports Bureau is staging the 2011 World Team Chess Championship in Ningbo, China. The event is being held from July 15 2011 (arrival) to July 26 2011 (Departure) at the playing venue in the five-star New Century Grand Hotel Ningbo.
According to FIDE Regulations the following Federations are entitled to send a team:
Each team consists of five players (including one reserve) and one coach/captain of the team, for a total of six participants, who are provided with full hospitality including lodging, accommodation in a single room of in the five-star hotel. The team composition for each round must be delivered to the arbiters at 9:00 am in the morning.
The championships is a round robin, with each team playing a match against all other teams. The time control is: 90 min for 40 moves, then 30 min for the rest of the game, with a 30 second increment per move, staring from move one. The scoring is as in the FIDE Chess Olympiads: the winner gets two points, a draw gives each team one point, and a loss is scored as 0 points. If any teams finish with equal match points, the tie is resolved as follows:
Chief Arbiter is Panagiotis Nikolopoulos (Greece). One Deputy Chief Arbiter and three arbiters are from China.
Friday | 15 July | Arrival | |
Saturday | 16 July | 18:00h | Opening Ceremony |
Sunday | 17 July | 15:00h | Round 1 |
Monday | 18 July | 15:00h | Round 2 |
Tuesday | 19 July | 15:00h | Round 3 |
Wednesday | 20 July | 15:00h | Round 4 |
Thursday | 21 July | 15:00h | Round 5 |
Friday | 22 July | Rest Day | |
Saturday | 23 July | 15:00h | Round 6 |
Sunday | 24 July | 15:00h | Round 7 |
Monday | 25 July | 15:00h | Round 8 |
Tuesday | 26 July | 10:00h | Round 9, closing ceremony |
Wednesday | 27 July | Departure |
Digitaries and players during the national anthem at the opening ceremony
Costume and dance performance Chinese style
At this we excel: Chinese gymnastics
Chinese GM Wang Yue singing!
Then a musical recital by US GM Ben Finegold and Tony Rich
of the St. Louis Chess Club
and one with Tian Hongwei, a.k.a. Abigail, Vice General Secretary
of the Chinese Chess Association (we will try to get videos!)
A well-known collector of musical instruments, playing the world's largest flute...
...and then the world's
smallest (less than 3 cm) – check out the faces of the guests!
Yan Fuxing is one of China’s most acclaimed folk musician and artist. Since his youth, he has performed songs on the finger whistle, and imitated the calls of birds. He is skilled in flute, cow horn flute, the xun (hollow wind instrument), the gourd zither and more than 40 Chinese musical instruments. Not only has he performed on the 3.6 meter long flute, but he can also play on the tiny 3 cm bone flute, the shortest in the world. He can converse with birds, and is thus dubbed Chinese Culture’s Remarkable Man; children refer to him as “Bird Uncle”, “Multi-skilled player of flutes”, “Bird king” and other flattering titles. [Source: Arboretum]
Drawing of lots with Chinese fans: Ivanchuk drew eight for the Ukrainian
team
The pairings put up on the scoreboard
Defending champion Russia beat the US team 3-1 to celebrate a great opening round; the Armenian team went even higher and scored 3.5-0.5 against the Israeli team (sans Gelfand); Ukraine beat Egypt 1.5-2.5, Hungary (with Leko on board one – welcome back Peter!) drew against India 2-2, while the host Chinese team scored the same against Azerbaijan. Here's what happened on board four in the match Ukraine vs Egypt:
The hero of round one: IM Samy Shoker, rated 2475, playing for Egypt
The Russians, above with captain Evgeny Bareev, 2010 European champion Ian Nepomniachtchi, Nikita Vitiugov, Sergey Karjakin and Alexander Grischuk, are taking the tournament very seriously. The players and team arrived a week early to acclimatize and prepare.
Bo. | 1 | USA | Rtg | 1 : 3 |
10 | Russia | Rtg |
1.1 | GM | Kamsky Gata | 2741 | ½ - ½ |
GM | Karjakin Sergey | 2788 |
1.2 | GM | Onischuk Alexander | 2675 | 0 - 1 |
GM | Nepomniachtchi Ian | 2711 |
1.3 | GM | Shulman Yuri | 2617 | ½ - ½ |
GM | Svidler Peter | 2739 |
1.4 | GM | Hess Robert | 2609 | 0 - 1 |
GM | Vitiugov Nikita | 2733 |
Bo. | 2 | Armenia | Rtg | 3½: ½ |
9 | Israel | Rtg |
2.1 | GM | Aronian Levon | 2805 | 1 - 0 |
GM | Sutovsky Emil | 2700 |
2.2 | GM | Movsesian Sergei | 2700 | ½ - ½ |
GM | Roiz Michael | 2669 |
2.3 | GM | Akopian Vladimir | 2667 | 1 - 0 |
GM | Postny Evgeny | 2618 |
2.4 | GM | Sargissian Gabriel | 2663 | 1 - 0 |
GM | Nabaty Tamir | 2584 |
Bo. | 3 | Egypt | Rtg | 1½:2½ |
8 | Ukraine | Rtg |
3.1 | GM | Adly Ahmed | 2631 | 0 - 1 |
GM | Ivanchuk Vassily | 2768 |
3.2 | GM | Amin Bassem | 2609 | ½ - ½ |
GM | Efimenko Zahar | 2706 |
3.3 | GM | El Gindy Essam | 2510 | 0 - 1 |
GM | Moiseenko Alexander | 2715 |
3.4 | IM | Shoker Samy | 2475 | 1 - 0 |
GM | Areshchenko Alexander | 2682 |
Bo. | 4 | China | Rtg | 2 : 2 |
7 | Azerbaijan | Rtg |
4.1 | GM | Wang Hao | 2718 | ½ - ½ |
GM | Radjabov Teimur | 2744 |
4.2 | GM | Wang Yue | 2709 | 1 - 0 |
GM | Gashimov Vugar | 2760 |
4.3 | GM | Li Chao B | 2669 | ½ - ½ |
GM | Mamedov Rauf | 2679 |
4.4 | GM | Yu Yangyi | 2672 | 0 - 1 |
GM | Mamedyarov Shakhriyar | 2765 |
Bo. | 5 | India | Rtg | 2 : 2 |
6 | Hungary | Rtg |
5.1 | GM | Harikrishna Pentala | 2669 | ½ - ½ |
GM | Leko Peter | 2717 |
5.2 | GM | Sasikiran Krishnan | 2681 | 1 - 0 |
GM | Almasi Zoltan | 2726 |
5.3 | GM | Ganguly Surya | 2627 | 0 - 1 |
GM | Polgar Judit | 2699 |
5.4 | GM | Gopal G.N. | 2576 | ½ - ½ |
GM | Balogh Csaba | 2643 |
Rank table
Rk. | Team | Gms |
+ |
= |
– |
Pts |
BPts |
TB3 |
1 | Armenia | 1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
3.5 |
0 |
2 | Russia | 1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
3.0 |
0 |
3 | Ukraine | 1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
2.5 |
0 |
4 | China | 1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
2.0 |
1 |
5 | India | 1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
2.0 |
1 |
6 | Hungary | 1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
2.0 |
1 |
7 | Azerbaijan | 1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
2.0 |
1 |
8 | Egypt | 1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1.5 |
0 |
9 | USA | 1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1.0 |
0 |
10 | Israel | 1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0.5 |
0 |
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