Senior World Chess Champions 2013: Congrats to Yelena Ankudinova and Anatoly Vaisser

Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013

Hello everyone,

The 23rd FIDE Individual World Senior Championships 2013 were held on 11-24th November, 2013, at the conference centre Tamaris in Grand Hotel 4.Opatijska Cvijeta in Opatija, Croatia.

Yelena Ankudinova

The Championships were organized by the Chess Club “Rijeka” in agreement with FIDE and Croatian Chess Federation, under the auspices of the Mountain-littoral County, the City of Rijeka and the City of Opatija.

The Women's Section had 25 players competing over nine rounds of Swiss system. The surprising winner is WFM Yelena Ankudinova from Kazakhstan (rated 2121) who edged the former champions Nona Gaprindashvili, Tamar Khmiadashvili, Elena Fatalibekova and Galina Strutinskaya. Ankudinova will be awarded with WGM title.

Anatoly Vaisser

The Open Section had 200 participants from 40 countries, including 10 Grandmasters and 25 International Masters. The playing format was 11-round Swiss.

The 2010 World Senior Champion GM Anatoly Vaisser from France and the 2012 World Senior Champion GM Jens Kristiansen from Denmark shared the first place with 8,5/11 points each. Vaisser took his second title thanks to the superior tie-break.

The 23rd World Senior Chess Championships for men and women were open to all players representing the FIDE Chess Federations, regardless of their title or rating, providing that the men are older than 60 (born in 1953 or earlier) and women are older than 50 years of age (born in 1963 or earlier). 

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Seniors Chess World Championships: Fide Releases Regulations

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Hi Everyone,

The World Chess Federation (FIDE) has announced the regulations for the 23st Individual World Senior Chess Championships to be held from November 11-24 2013 Opatija – Croatia. The organisers are the Chess club "Rijeka", Blaža Polica 2, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia in agreement with Croatian Chess Federation, Trg Krešimira Cosica 11, 10000 Zagreb, under the auspices of the Mountain-littoral County, the City of Rijeka and the City of Opatija. 

The Championship will be held in Opatija, Croatia, from November 11th 2013 (arrival of the participants) until November 24th (day of departure) 2013. Opening and closing ceremony and matches will take place in the conference centre Tamaris in Grand Hotel 4.Opatijska cvijeta in Opatija. 

PARTICIPATION
The 23rd World senior chess championship for men and women is open to all players representing the FIDE Chess Federations, regardless of their title or rating, providing that the men are older than 60 and women are older than 50 years of age. For example, each male participant in the 23rd World senior Championship must be born in 1953 or earlier (women -1963) to be allowed to participate. There is also no limit of participants per federation.

SYSTEM AND RATE OF PLAY
The championship will be based on Swiss system, 11 rounds, in accordance with the FIDE Tournament Rules and FIDE Rules of Chess. The playing time will be 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an increment of 30 seconds per move, starting from move one. The Article 6.6. of the Rules of Chess will be applied – each player being late at the beginning of his match will loose the match.

RANKING
Winner and Senior World Champion will be the person who, at the end of the tournament, has scored the highest number of points. If two or more players are tied the following tiebreaks will be used:
1.Result of direct encounters between the tied players
(applies only if all tied players have played each other) 2.The sum of progressive scores. The highest total wins.

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