40th Chess Olympiad
The Chess Olympiad 2012 was a team chess tournament, which was held in Istanbul from August 27 to September 10, 2012.
Prehistory
It was the 40th Chess Olympiad, the World Chess Federation FIDE. For the second time the Chess Olympiad 2000 was held in Turkey. Venue was the Istanbul Expo Center on the European side of Istanbul. They played 11 rounds.
The decision on the venue was the 78th FIDE Congress during the 38th Chess Olympiad in Dresden, November 2008. With 95 votes to 40, the offer of Turkey won against the other from Montenegro ( Budva ).
Since 2000, a chess boom is taking place in Turkey. There have since been organized more than 100 international tournaments, including European Championships, World Youth Championships and Chess Olympiads for children. The number of members of the Chess Federation grew in eight years from 3000 to over 250,000. Ali Nihat Yazıcı, President of the Turkish Chess Federation, due to its activities was the trigger of the boom. Yazıcı is now a vice president of FIDE.
More than two years after the decision on the venue of some of the allegations were raised. On 24 November 2010, the New York Times published a great article about the possibility of bribes.
In June 2012, Ali Nihat Yazıcı said that no referee from Germany, England, France, Georgia, Switzerland, Ukraine and the United States would be used at the Olympics because these countries added to the World Chess Federation in recent years due to legal disputes financial loss have. The federations concerned appealed against the exclusion of their referees a protest.
Reported were 159 teams in the Open section and 131 teams for women. For the German team Arkady Naiditsch, Igor Khenkin, Daniel Fridman, Georg Meier and Jan Gustafsson were nominated in the Open section and Elisabeth Pähtz, Marta Michna, Tatiana Melamed, Melanie Ohme and Elena Lewuschkina among women.
Results
Course
The opening ceremony took place in the WOW Convention Center on the evening of 27 August 2012.
In the Open section won after an exciting course of Armenia ( Levon Aronian, Sergei Movsesjan, Vladimir Hakobyan, Gabriel Sargsyan, Tigran L. Petrosian ) after scoring against the team finish equal on points team of Russia ( Vladimir Kramnik, Alexander Grishchuk, Sergei Karjakin, Yevgeny Tomaschewski, Dmitry Yakovenko ). The bronze medal went to Ukraine ( Vasyl Ivanchuk, Ruslan Ponomariov, Andrij Volokitin, Pawel Eljanow, Oleksandr Mojissejenko ). The German team came in 12th place, Austria (Mark Ragger, Stefan Kindermann, Dawit Shengelia, Milan Novkovic, Martin Neubauer ) number 41, Switzerland ( Yannick Pelletier, Joseph Gallagher, Oliver Kurmann, Richard Forster, Werner Hug ) to 70 square and Liechtenstein ( Fabian Ferster, Mario Kobler, Marcel man Hart, Kurt Mündle ) ranked 122 The board awards went to Aronian (board 1 ), David Navara (board 2), Şəhriyar Məmmədyarov (board 3, 2880 best Elo performance of all participants ), Vladislav Tkachiev (board 4) and Yakovenko (board 5).
In the women's Russia ( Tatiana Kossinzewa, Valentina Gunina, Nadezhda Kossinzewa, Alexandra Kosteniuk, Natalia Pogonina ) won ahead of China ( Hou Yifan, Zhao Xue, Ju Wenjun, Huang Qian, Ding Yixin ) and Ukraine ( Kateryna Lahno, Marija Musytschuk, Natalia Zhukova, Anna Uschenina, Inna Yanovskaya ). The German team reached # 11, Austria (Julia Novkovic, Veronika Exler, Anna -Christina Kopinits, Anna -Lena Maritschnegg, Catherine Newrkla ) # 37 and Switzerland ( Barbara dog, Monika Seps, Gundula Heinatz, Camille de Seroux, Laura Stoeri ) 60th place winners were Brett Hou Yifan (board 1), Zhao Xue (board 2), N. Kossinzewa (board 3), Huang Qian (board 4) and Pogonina (board 5).
The Gaprindashvili Cup for the best combined result of men's and women's team won against Russia, China and Ukraine.
Overall, at the Chess Olympiad 6148 games were played ( 2446 White Wins 1590 draw, 2050 Black wins and 62 without a fight decisive games).
With its 21 participating in a Chess Olympiad presented the Filipino grandmaster Eugenio Torre to a record. Torre came to 3.5 points from 7 games and was able to post victories against Ferenc Berkes and Nigel Short.
The German Sergei Salov and Annegret Mucha played for the teams of the International Chess Committee of the Deaf.
The Russian journalist Yevgeny Surov was by the organizers accreditation failed and he was not allowed to enter the hall as a spectator. This limitation of the freedom of the press has been criticized by the Russian Chess Federation and over 40 participants of the Olympiad in open letters.
At the FIDE Congress the Chess Olympiad in 2016 has been awarded to Baku.
Side events
During the Chess Olympiad also referred to as World Youth Chess Olympiad competition for national teams of the U16 age group took place. It won Russia against Iran and India. Teams from Germany, Austria and Switzerland were not at the start.