Tromso Chess Olympiad 2014 Venue Preview!
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Here is a nice preview of the venue for the upcoming Chess Olympiad 2014 in Norway. According to the official website, "This August the 2014 Chess Olympiad in Tromsø will bring together 1500 players from all around the world. Hosting such a huge event is a challenge, but the organisers have found the perfect venue – the 7,000 square foot Mackhallen in central Tromsø. We bring you 30 images of how the venue will look for the Olympiad."
The spectacular venue used to belong to Mack, the world’s most northerly brewery, which was established in 1877. After the brewery moved to more modern facilities the old premises became available in an ideal location, close to all the official Olympiad hotels in the city centre.
The gallery of 30 images gives an impression of how the venue will look when the Olympiad begins in a little over 100 days’ time!
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World Chess Cup Round 5, Game 1: Kramnik Beats Korobov, Others Draw
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The hall at the World Chess Cup in Tromso is virtually empty if you compare with the fact that 128 players had battled for luck a few days back. Only eight of those players are still "standing".
Results of Round 5, Game 1Andreikin Dmitry 2727 – Svidler Peter 2746 ½-½
Kramnik Vladimir 2784 – Korobov Anton 2720 1-0
Tomashevsky Evgeny 2709 – Kamsky Gata 2763 ½-½
Vachier-Lagrave Maxime 2719 – Caruana Fabiano 2796 ½-½
Playing with White Vladimir Kramnik defeated Anton Korobov and took the lead in their match. The other games finished in draws.
Tomashevsky and Kamsky left the playing hall quite quickly as their game finished after 16 moves. Peter Svidler drew with Black against Dmitry Andreikin, while Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, who had the white pieces against Fabiano Caruana, didn’t manage to convert his material advantage into a full point.
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Vladimir Kramnik came to the playing hall less than 3 minutes before the game. Photo: Anastasiya Karlovich (Replay the Kramnik - Korobov game with Chess King)
The Russian player got a very promising position because Korobov “chose the wrong strategy in the opening”. “The plan with 16...f6 and 17...Bf7was clearly unsuccessful“, Vladimir Kramnik pointed out. Nevertheless, the former World Champion was unhappy with his play as he didn’t play precisely and gave his opponent chances. White let all of his advantage slip by playing 29.Rb7 but in time trouble the Ukrainian player didn’t take the pawn on c6 and weakened his kingside by playing 32…g6. The game lasted for another 20 moves but Anton couldn't change the evaluation or the outcome. “It was torture today”, said the Ukrainian player.
Evgeny Tomashevsky didn’t get anything with White against the Slav Defence chosen by Gata Kamsky and after 16 moves the players signed a peace agreement. After the “craziest match” in his career against Alexander Morozevich, Tomashevsky definitely wasn't in a mood to fight to bare kings today.
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave managed to put some pressure on his opponent and Fabiano Caruana preferred to give up a pawn and develop his pieces. The French player traded a few pieces in the hope of exploiting his material advantage but Black was in time to get enough activity to hold the balance.
Dmitry Andreikin chose the same variation as in the rapid game against Sergey Karjakin but Peter Svidler was prepared and didn’t allow his opponent to achieve anything in the opening. The spectators were worried about Black’s pawn structure but it seems Peter Svidler was never in danger. On the contrary, he could have tried to play for more in the final position due to the activity of his pieces, but the game finished in a draw by repetition.
The time control for each two-game match is 90 minutes for the first 40 moves followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game, with an increment of 30 seconds per move starting from move one. If the score is equal there are two rapid chess tiebreak games, played at a rate of 25 minutes for each player with an increment of 10 seconds per move. If the score is still equal then two accelerated games will be played, with a time control of 10 min + 10 sec. If the score is still equal two more games will be played at 5 min + 3 sec. If the winner is still not determined then a final Armageddon game with 5 minutes for White and 4 minutes for Black, with a 3 sec increment after move 60, will be played. In this game Black has draw odds (i.e. he wins if the game is drawn).
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World Chess Cup 2013 Aug 10-Sept 3 : Official Video and Officials
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The time has come for some great chess once again. It's the FIDE World Chess Cup 2013. Here is the official video for the event followed by the list of officials for this tournament.
The chief arbiter is IA Ignatius Leong from Singapore. He is FIDE Secretary-General and has been one of Asia's leading organizers for more than 20 years. At 23, he became one of the world’s youngest International Arbiters.
Arbiters:
Chief Arbiter: IA Ignatius Leong – Singapore
Deputy Chief Arbiter: IA Karl-Johan Rist - Norway
Arbiters:
Rounds 1-5:
IA Faik Gasanov - Azerbaijan
IA Husan Turdialiev - Uzbekistan
IA Sava Stoisavlijevic - Serbia
IA Ashot Vardapetian – Armenia
Arbiters, Rounds 1-2:
IA Anatoliy Byhovsky - Russia
IA Eduard Duchovny - USA
IA Amiram Kaplan - Israel
IA Jesus Mena - Spain
IA Sainbayar Tserendorj - Mongolia
Appeals Committee:
Deputy President of FIDE, Mr. Georgios Makropoulos – Greece
Vice president of FIDE, Mr. Ali Nihat Yazici - Turkey
Vice president of FIDE, Mr. Boris Kutin - Slovenia
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World Chess Cup 2013 Tromso Official Fide Website goes Online
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Hi everyone,
The FIDE World Cup is one of the highlights of the chess calendar – a month of intense knockout action that uses 7 quick-fire rounds to whittle 128 players down to one. At stake is not only a cool $1.6 million prize fund ($120,000 for the winner) but qualification for next year’s World Championship “Candidates” tournament – a chance to earn the right to a match against the World Champion, either India’s Viswanathan Anand or Norway’s own Magnus Carlsen.
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While those two players will be deep in preparation for their match in India this November the line-up for the World Cup in Tromsø is set to be spectacular, featuring the world numbers 2 and 3, Levon Aronian and Vladimir Kramnik. Although they'll be the favourites when the games start on August 11 if there's one thing the World Cup can be guaranteed to provide it's surprises!
Two Years Ago
Victory in the 2011 FIDE World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk was a career-best performance for Peter Svidler. The six-time Russian Champion didn’t lose a game as he overcame Fabiano Caruana, Gata Kamsky, Judit Polgar, Ruslan Ponomariov and Alexander Grischuk on his way to the title.
Labels: levon aronian, Magnus Carlsen, norway chess, peter svidler, tromso chess, Viswanathan Anand, vladimir kramnik, world chess cup 2013
World Chess Cup from August 10-September 4, 2013
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013Hi everyone,
Fide is publishing the players' contract for the World Chess Cup 2013 to be held in Tromso, Norway from 10 August (arrivals / opening ceremony) to 4 September 2013 (departures). The qualified players are expected to fax or email scanned original document of their signed contract to the Fide Secretariat's fax number +30 2109212859 or email office@fide.com no later than Tuesday 11 June 2013.
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