Full pairings for the Women Grand Prix in Skolkovo
The drawing for the first leg of the Women Grand Prix (Skolkovo, 10-23 September 2019) was made yesterday at our office in Lausanne. FIDE’s Chief Operating Officer, Willy Iclicki, picked the numbers, and the Chief Arbiter for the event, Andrzej Fillipowicz, conducted the round-by-round pairings accordingly. Round 1 Board S.No. White Result Black S.No. 1 1 Cramling, Pia – Ju, Wenjun 12 2 2 Stefanova, Antoaneta – Goryachkina, Aleksandra 11 3 3 Paehtz, Elisabeth – Kosteniuk, Alexandra 10 4 4 Gunina, Valentina – Kashlinskaya, Alina 9 5 5 Lagno, Kateryna – Sebag, Marie 8 6 6 Koneru, Humpy – Harika, Dronavalli 7 Round 2 Board S.No. White Result Black S.No. 1 12 Ju, Wenjun – Harika, Dronavalli 7 2 8 Sebag, Marie – Koneru, Humpy 6 3 9 Kashlinskaya, Alina – Lagno, Kateryna 5 4 10 Kosteniuk, Alexandra – Gunina, Valentina 4 5 11 Goryachkina, Aleksandra – Paehtz, Elisabeth 3 6 1 Cramling, Pia – Stefanova, Antoaneta 2 Round 3 Board S.No. White Result Black S.No. 1 2 Stefanova, Antoaneta – Ju, Wenjun 12 2 3 Paehtz, Elisabeth – Cramling, Pia 1 3 4 Gunina, Valentina – Goryachkina, Aleksandra 11 4 5 Lagno, Kateryna – Kosteniuk, Alexandra 10 5 6 Koneru, Humpy – Kashlinskaya, Alina 9 6 7 Harika, Dronavalli – Sebag, Marie 8 Round 4 Board S.No. White Result Black S.No. 1 12 Ju, Wenjun – Sebag, Marie 8 2 9 Kashlinskaya, Alina – Harika, Dronavalli 7 3 10 Kosteniuk, Alexandra – Koneru, Humpy 6 4 11 Goryachkina, Aleksandra – Lagno, Kateryna 5 5 1 Cramling, Pia – Gunina, Valentina 4 6 2 Stefanova, Antoaneta – Paehtz, Elisabeth 3 Round 5 Board S.No. White Result Black S.No. 1 3 Paehtz, Elisabeth – Ju, Wenjun 12 2 4 Gunina, Valentina – Stefanova, Antoaneta 2 3 5 Lagno, Kateryna – Cramling, Pia 1 4 6 Koneru, Humpy – Goryachkina, Aleksandra 11 5 7 Harika, Dronavalli – Kosteniuk, Alexandra 10 6 8 Sebag, Marie – Kashlinskaya, Alina 9 Round 6 Board S.No. White Result Black S.No. 1 12 Ju, Wenjun – Kashlinskaya, Alina 9 2 10 Kosteniuk, Alexandra – Sebag, Marie 8 3 11 Goryachkina, Aleksandra – Harika, Dronavalli 7 4 1 Cramling, Pia – Koneru, Humpy 6 5 2 Stefanova, Antoaneta – Lagno, Kateryna 5 6 3 Paehtz, Elisabeth – Gunina, Valentina 4 Round 7 Board S.No. White Result Black S.No. 1 4 Gunina, Valentina – Ju, Wenjun 12 2 5 Lagno, Kateryna – Paehtz, Elisabeth 3 3 6 Koneru, Humpy – Stefanova, Antoaneta 2 4 7 Harika, Dronavalli – Cramling, Pia 1 5 8 Sebag, Marie – Goryachkina, Aleksandra 11 6 9 Kashlinskaya, Alina – Kosteniuk, Alexandra 10 Round 8 Board S.No. White Result Black S.No. 1 12 Ju, Wenjun – Kosteniuk, Alexandra 10 2 11 Goryachkina, Aleksandra – Kashlinskaya, Alina 9 3 1 Cramling, Pia – Sebag, Marie 8 4 2 Stefanova, Antoaneta – Harika, Dronavalli 7 5 3 Paehtz, Elisabeth – Koneru, Humpy 6 6 4 Gunina, Valentina – Lagno, Kateryna 5 Round 9 Board S.No. White Result Black S.No. 1 5 Lagno, Kateryna – Ju, Wenjun 12 2 6 Koneru, Humpy – Gunina, Valentina 4 3 7 Harika, Dronavalli – Paehtz, Elisabeth 3 4 8 Sebag, Marie – Stefanova, Antoaneta 2 5 9 Kashlinskaya, Alina – Cramling, Pia 1 6 10 Kosteniuk, Alexandra – Goryachkina, Aleksandra 11 Round 10 Board S.No. White Result Black S.No. 1 12 Ju, Wenjun – Goryachkina, Aleksandra 11 2 1 Cramling, Pia – Kosteniuk, Alexandra 10 3 2 Stefanova, Antoaneta – Kashlinskaya, Alina 9 4 3 Paehtz, Elisabeth – Sebag, Marie 8 5 4 Gunina, Valentina – Harika, Dronavalli 7 6 5 Lagno, Kateryna – Koneru, Humpy 6 Round 11 Board S.No. White Result Black S.No. 1 6 Koneru, Humpy – Ju, Wenjun 12 2 7 Harika, Dronavalli – Lagno, Kateryna 5 3 8 Sebag, Marie – Gunina, Valentina 4 4 9 Kashlinskaya, Alina – Paehtz, Elisabeth 3 5 10 Kosteniuk, Alexandra – Stefanova, Antoaneta 2 6 11 Goryachkina, Aleksandra – Cramling, Pia 1
Levon Aronian wins Saint Louis Rapid and Blitz
Levon Aronian is the sole winner of the Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz, the 4th leg of the Grand Chess Tour. He takes home $37.500 and 13 GCT points, jumping to the third spot in the overall series standings, after Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Magnus Carlsen. This is his second victory in this event, that he already won in 2017. Both Aronian and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave rocketed in rapid, which brings twice as many points, and slowed down in blitz. However, in the end, Aronian was just a little more solid (despite being defeated by the Frenchman in the very last round!). Ding Liren, Yu Yangyi, and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave finished tied for second, just half a point behind the winner. In the event where “everything went wrong” for him, Magnus Carlsen lost as many as 10 games in rapid and blitz. “My confidence is long gone. You’re probably going to see more of the same tomorrow”, said the world champion in the interview after the first day of blitz. That is indeed what happened: 4,5 out of 9 on the final day and the place in the lower part of the table. The World Champion will have barely two days to restore his confidence and heal his wounds, since the action in Saint Louis will resume on August 17th with the Sinquefield Cup. Games, video replays and other info at the official website: Grand Chess Tour Levon Aronian. Photo courtesy of Grand Chess Tour.
FIDE abolishes entry fees for the World Senior Championship
The Presidential Board received the proposal of waiving the entry fee for the participants in the World Senior Championships. This proposal was met with unanimous approval at the 2nd quarter of 2019 meeting. In view of this, the FIDE President has decided: 1. To abolish the aforementioned fee, starting from the World Senior Championship 2019. 2. To request from the General Assembly to confirm the above decision of the President, making the necessary amendments to the FIDE Financial Regulations. 3. To issue a full refund to all participants who had already registered. We would like to take the chance to remind you that the registration deadline for this event is September 11th, 2019. Below you will find more information. Bucharest will host the 29th edition of World Senior Championship, from November 11th (arrival day) to November 24th (departure day). The initial prize fund of 16,000 Euro offered by the organizers was increased by the International Chess Federation with another 30,000, as part of FIDE’s strategy of supporting senior chess. Hence, the prize fund amounts to a very attractive 46,000 Euro. The venue is the four-star Rin Grand Hotel, and the playing hall is the 950 sqm “Bucharest” conference hall, located within the hotel. The organizers are preparing side activities with the aim to make participants enjoy their stay in Bucharest: city tours and visits to interesting places, a blitz tournament, wine tastings, and others. The 2019 edition of World Senior Championship is a great occasion for senior players (amateurs, retired and successful active players alike), to take part in a top chess tournament, to explore an attractive city like Bucharest, and to share some good moments with other chess friends. The event is sponsored by Orange, Turkish Airlines, Aqua Carpatica, BIC and Promotop, and it counts with the support of Agerpress, the national press agency. Official website: www.worldseniors2019.comFacebook page: www.facebook.com/fideseniors2019
World Cup 2019 Pairings
FIDE published the pairings for the World Cup 2019 which will be held in Khanty-Mansiysk from September 9 to October 4. PAIRINGS (pdf) Official website: khantymansiysk2019.fide.com/en FIDE World Cup 2019 Round 1 (No Color) 1 GM Ding, Liren CHN – 128 FM Press, Shaun PNG 2 GM Giri, Anish NED – 127 FM Mohammad Fahad, Rahman BAN 3 GM Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime FRA – 126 IM Anwuli, Daniel NGR 4 GM So, Wesley USA – 125 IM Duran Vega, Sergio CRC 5 GM Nepomniachtchi, Ian RUS – 124 Gan-Erdene, Sugar MGL 6 GM Aronian, Levon ARM – 123 GM El Gindy, Essam EGY 7 GM Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar AZE – 122 IM Rakotomaharo, Fy Antenaina MAD 8 GM Dominguez Perez, Leinier USA – 121 GM Escobar Forero, Alder COL 9 GM Grischuk, Alexander RUS – 120 IM Pultinevicius, Paulius LTU 10 GM Radjabov, Teimour AZE – 119 GM Ziska, Helgi Dam FAI 11 GM Artemiev, Vladislav RUS – 118 GM Iljiushenok, Ilia RUS 12 GM Yu, Yangyi CHN – 117 GM Ghaem Maghami, Ehsan IRI 13 13 GM Karjakin, Sergey RUS – 116 GM Megaranto, Susanto INA 14 GM Nakamura, Hikaru USA – 115 GM Bellahcene,Bilel ALG 15 GM Andreikin, Dmitry RUS – 114 GM Mekhitarian, Krikor Sevag BRA 16 GM Wojtaszek, Radoslaw POL – 113 GM Christiansen, Johan-Sebast NOR 17 GM Harikrishna, Pentala IND – 112 GM Gonzalez Vidal, Yuri CUB 18 GM Duda, Jan-Krzysztof POL – 111 GM Henriquez Villagra, Cristo CHI 19 GM Svidler, Peter RUS – 110 GM Albornoz Cabrera, Carlos D CUB 20 GM Vitiugov, Nikita RUS – 109 GM Urkedal, Frode Olav Olsen NOR 21 GM Wei, Yi CHN – 108 GM Santos Ruiz, Miguel ESP 22 GM Le, Quang Liem VIE – 107 GM Aleksandrov, Aleksej BLR 23 GM Navara, David CZE – 106 GM Yuffa, Daniil RUS 24 GM Bu, Xiangzhi CHN – 105 GM Xu, Xiangyu CHN 25 GM Wang, Hao CHN – 104 GM Pridorozhni, Aleksei RUS 26 GM Shankland, Sam USA – 103 GM Safarli, Eltaj AZE 27 GM Matlakov, Maxim RUS – 102 GM Abdusattorov, Nodirbek UZB 28 GM Tomashevsky, Evgeny RUS – 101 GM Petrov, Nikita RUS 29 GM Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi IND – 100 GM Pichot, Alan ARG 30 GM Jakovenko, Dmitry RUS – 99 GM Martinez Alcantara, Jose E PER 31 GM Xiong, Jeffery USA – 98 GM Lysyj, Igor RUS 32 GM Firouzja, Alireza IRI – 97 GM Pashikian, Arman ARM 33 GM Dubov, Daniil RUS – 96 GM Cordova, Emilio PER 34 GM Amin, Bassem EGY – 95 GM Tabatabaei, M.amin IRI 35 GM Jones, Gawain C B ENG – 94 GM Flores, Diego ARG 36 GM Grandelius, Nils SWE – 93 GM Rakhmanov, Aleksandr RUS 37 GM Adams, Michael ENG – 92 GM Aravindh, Chithambaram VR. IND 38 GM Gelfand, Boris ISR – 91 GM Lu, Shanglei CHN 39 GM Cori, Jorge PER – 90 GM Nihal Sarin IND 40 GM Rodshtein, Maxim ISR – 89 GM Bartel, Mateusz POL 41 GM Inarkiev, Ernesto RUS – 88 GM Karthikeyan, Murali IND 42 GM McShane, Luke J ENG – 87 GM Delgado Ramirez, Neuris PAR 43 GM Korobov, Anton UKR – 86 GM Gupta, Abhijeet IND 44 GM Anton Guijarro, David ESP – 85 GM Narayanan.S.L IND 45 GM Naiditsch, Arkadij AZE – 84 GM Huschenbeth, Niclas GER 46 GM Ponomariov, Ruslan UKR – 83 GM Esipenko, Andrey RUS 47 GM Nabaty, Tamir ISR – 82 GM Sethuraman, S.P. IND 48 GM Fedoseev, Vladimir RUS – 81 GM Ganguly, Surya Shekhar IND 49 GM Alekseenko, Kirill RUS – 80 GM Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son VIE 50 GM Berkes, Ferenc HUN – 79 GM Jumabayev, Rinat KAZ 51 51 GM Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter GER – 78 GM Parligras, Mircea-Emilian ROU 52 GM Sevian, Samuel USA – 77 GM Tari, Aryan NOR 53 GM Adhiban, B. IND – 76 GM Iturrizaga Bonelli, Eduard VEN 54 GM Cheparinov, Ivan GEO – 75 GM Adly, Ahmed EGY 55 GM Sjugirov, Sanan RUS – 74 GM Mareco, Sandro ARG 56 GM Saric, Ivan CRO – 73 GM Bok, Benjamin NED 57 GM Piorun, Kacper POL – 72 GM Abasov, Nijat AZE 58 GM Kasimdzhanov, Rustam UZB – 71 GM Bareev, Evgeny CAN 59 GM Maghsoodloo, Parham IRI – 70 GM Chigaev, Maksim RUS 60 GM Sarana, Alexey RUS – 69 GM Predke, Alexandr RUS 61 GM Demchenko, Anton RUS – 68 GM Hovhannisyan, Robert ARM 62 GM Kovalenko, Igor LAT – 67 GM Lupulescu, Constantin ROU 63 GM Gledura, Benjamin HUN – 66 GM Najer, Evgeniy RUS 64 GM Movsesian, Sergei ARM – 65 GM Oparin, Grigoriy
FIDE signs a sponsorship agreement with SILA International Lawyers
Neuchâtel, Switzerland, August 7th 2019. The International Chess Federation is pleased to announce a new partnership with SILA International Lawyers. FIDE and SILA signed an agreement for a period of 1 year, from August 2019 to August 2020, with the possibility of further extension. From now on, SILA will act as an official legal partner of FIDE and in this capacity will advise the International Chess Federation on various legal issues. SILA International Lawyers is an international firm with offices in Switzerland, Russia, Turkey, Kazakhstan, and Bulgaria. The firm’s trademark is the sports law practice – SILA represents numerous famous athletes, coaches, agents and clubs. The firm has extensive experience of representing clients in the Court of arbitration for sport (CAS). SILA is also widely experienced in legal advising for international sports competitions, including the 2018 FIFA World Cup, and the 2020 UEFA European Football Championship. Arkady Dvorkovich, FIDE President: — We are looking forward to this cooperation with SILA. This firm’s professionalism is well known in the field of sports law, and we are confident that their support will be essential in the legal development of FIDE. I am also particularly pleased to note that the contract is of sponsorship nature, which confirms that FIDE has become an attractive possibility for brands with a global scope in any sector. Alexandre Zen-Ruffinen, Head of the Switzerland office of SILA International Lawyers: — We are proud that FIDE has chosen our firm as its official legal partner. For SILA, this is a big step forward and a source of particular pride. We hope to live up to the trust FIDE administration has placed into us, and we are confident that together we will be able to improve the quality of normative regulation of chess. More info about SILA Lawyers:http://silalawyers.com@LawyersSILA(Announcement at the SILA lawyers website) Announcement at the SILA LAWYERS WEBSITE
Russian Championships Superfinals Begin in Udmurtia on August 9
The Superfinals of the 72nd Russian Championship and the 69th Russian Women’s Championship will be held in the Udmurt Republic on August 9-23 The Museum Estate of Pyotr Tchaikovsky will be the venue for the Superfinals in Votkinsk on August 9-12, while the International Friendship Centre in Izhevsk will host the event on August 13-23. Line-up, men: Vladislav Artemiev (2757)Nikita Vitiugov (2728)Maxim Matlakov (2710)Evgeny Tomashevsky (2706)Dmitry Jakovenko (2704)Ernesto Inarkiev (2682)Vladimir Fedoseev (2671)Kirill Alekseenko (2668)Alexander Motylev (2668)Aleksey Dreev (2662)Alexey Sarana (2655)Alexandr Predke (2650). Line-up, women: Aleksandra Goryachkina (2564)Alexandra Kosteniuk (2507)Valentina Gunina (2497)Alina Kashlinskaya (2491)Olga Girya (2462)Natalija Pogonina (2457)Anastasia Bodnaruk (2429)Polina Shuvalova (2419)Elena Tomilova (2376)Daria Charochkina (2352)Margarita Potapova (2335)Zarina Shafigullina (2332). The opening ceremony will take place on the premises of the Museum Estate of Pyotr Tchaikovsky in Votkinsk. The organizers are the Russian Chess Federation, Elena and Gennady Timchenko Charitable Foundation, and the Government of the Udmurt Republic. The competition is also supported by Renault Russia Company, Federal Grid Company of Unified Energy System (Rosseti Group), and PhosAgro, the RCF’s partner since 2010. Logistics partner of the Russian Chess Federation is Russian Post. The tournament is a part of the Chess in Museums program, carried out by the RCF together with Timchenko Foundation since 2012. Photos: Press service of the Museum Estate of Pyotr TchaikovskyOfficial website of the Russian Chess Federation – http://ruchess.ru/en/Contact information:Eteri Kublashvili, Press service of the Russian Chess Federation
August 2019 FIDE Rating List
FIDE publishes August 2019 FIDE Rating List. The list of top players is published at Top lists page of FIDE ratings website. All players can check new ratings on the main page of FIDE ratings website.
Chilean authorities welcome FIDE in Santiago
FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich, Executive Director Victor Bologan, and the councillor for chess in education Leontxo Garcia continue their Latin America tour visiting Chile. Together with Damaris Abarca, the President of the Chile Chess Federation, the FIDE representatives met the Departmental Director of the Chilean Ministry of Sports, Claudio Basualto, to discuss the development of chess in the country and the required steps to allow chess to regain the status of member of the Chilean Olympic Committee. Chess in schools and the benefits of chess in education were discussed at the meeting with the General Director for Education at the Ministry of Education (MINEDUC), Raimundo Larrain. FIDE representatives also met Congresswoman Camila Rojas, who expressed her will to support chess. Previously, the FIDE party had visited the installations of “Chile Chess Club”, and took part in the prize-giving ceremony of the tournament that was being held during their visit. Besides, a cooperation agreement was signed between FIDE and the Chilean Chess Federation.
2019 2nd Quarter FIDE Presidential Board Meeting
FIDE officials gathered in Baku, where 2019 2nd Quarter FIDE Presidential Board Meeting is taking place on June 28-29. The agenda of the two-day meeting includes a number of important issues. The proposal of reducing the membership fees for the federations, dress code topic, the hosts of the future FIDE events and the membership of the three countries will be discussed at the meeting among the other questions. The list of the final decisions will be published within 10 days.The agreement of the cooperation between FIDE and the Chess Federation of Azerbaijan is planned to be signed. It will mainly cover children’s chess and social projects.Arkady Dvorkovich expressed his gratitude to the organizers of the Presidential Board meeting in Azerbaijan: “I would like to thank the organizers for their hospitality. They created all conditions for holding a meeting at a high level. We would be glad to see more intense chess life and more tournaments in Baku in the future”.
FIDE and ODESUR discuss the inclusion of Chess in the South American Games 2022
Yesterday, July 26th, a top-level meeting was held in Lima (Peru) FIDE and the Organizacion Deportiva Suramericana (ODESUR), the multi-sports organization in charge of organizing the South American Games. ODESUR was represented by its President, Camilo Pérez, as well as its Secretary-General and President of the Technical Commission, Mario Moccia. On behalf of FIDE, our President Arkady Dvorkovich, Executive Director Victor Bologan, and the Councillor of the FIDE Events Commission and President of the Panama Chess Federation, Jose Carrillo. Also present were Sports Secretary for Argentina, Diógenes de Urquiza, the President of the Argentinian Chess Federation Mario Petrucci (who organized the meeting), the President of the Venezuelan Chess Federation, Fidel González, and the Councillor for Chess in Education, Leontxo Garcia. During the meeting, Arkady Dvorkovich expressed his interest in having chess included in the main program of the South American Games to be held in Asuncion (Paraguay) in 2020. The proposal was well-received by Camilo Perez, how expressed his respect and admiration for our sport. Mario Moccia went on to explain what would be the next steps to make a formal proposal. More information in the following press-release (SPANISH)