38th Chess Olympiad
The Chess Olympiad 2008 was a team tournament in chess, which until November 25, 2008 took place from 12th in Dresden. It was the 38th Chess Olympiad, the World Chess Federation FIDE.
Overview and Regulations of the " reform Olympics "
Patron of the Chess Olympiad 2008 was Federal President Horst Köhler, President of the Organizing Committee was mayor Winfried Lehmann, CEO Jörn publisher, chairman and tournament director Dirk Jordan.
Venue was the convention center. Since the end of February a banner advertised on the tower of the New Town Hall for the Chess Olympiad.
The Olympics brought a number of changes compared to previous tournaments with it, the speech was therefore a " reform Olympics ". Each team consisted of four players and one substitute player, formerly in the Olympics two substitute players were allowed. There were 11 discharged instead of the previous 13 or 14 rounds of Swiss system. The draw mode has been changed to avoid in the early rounds to blatant skill level differences. The teams in the first half of the seedings were two team points added in the first two rounds, only from the third round was drawn according to the actual score. For the first time the team points were Erstwertung as a basis, in a tie, the Olympiad - Sonneborn- Berger-Tie was used.
Players had to be present at the official start of the round on the board, otherwise the game was immediately seen as lost. As the tournament this happened five times. The scheme will apply to all future tournaments. Also new was that no draw during the first 30 trains may be agreed. The thinking time was 90 minutes for 40 moves and 30 minutes for the rest of the game, plus 30 seconds per train.
Main referee FIDE General Secretary Ignatius Leong from Singapore. A total of 110 referees in use.
Participant
It started a total of 1270 players ( 548 women and 722 men) from 141 countries. They entered 257 teams in which 111 women and 146 open teams ( also referred to as " men's teams ," although there also women may be installed ). Of these, 318 Grand Master ( GM 253 and 65 WGM ), 266 International Master ( IM 176 and 90 WIM ) and 175 FIDE Master (91 FM and 86 WFM). Germany appeared as a host with three teams each in men's and in the open area. In each case, a team was provided by the International Braille Chess Association ( IBCA, Blind Chess ), the International Committee of Silent Chess ( ICSC ) and the International Physical -Disabled Chess Association ( IPCA ).
The team with the highest average rating, ( 2756 ), Russia was in the lineup Vladimir Kramnik, Peter Svidler, Alexander Grischuk, Alexander Morozevich and Dmitry Yakovenko.
German teams
Players of the German national team under the national coach Uwe Bönsch were Arkady Naiditsch, Igor Khenkin Jan Gustafsson, Daniel Fridman and David Baramidze in the men's and Elisabeth Pähtz, Ketino Kachiani - Gersinska, Marta Michna, Melanie Ohme and Sarah Hoolt among women. For the opening preparation Christopher Lutz was responsible.
As host of the German Chess Federation could each have a second team to participate; here called Youth Olympic teams were nominated from talented young players: Georg Meier, Arik Braun, Falko Bindrich, Sebastian Bogner and Niclas Huschenbeth play as Germany 2 in the men's and Judith Fox, Maria Beautiful, Hanna Marie Klek, Anna Endress and Manuela Mader in the Tournament of women. To allow an even number of participants, could also play a third German team. It consisted of Rainer Buhmann, Michael Prusikin, Alexander Naumann, Julian Jorczik and Andreas Heimann for men and Elena Winkelmann, Claudia Steinbacher, Franziska Beltz, Sandra Ulm and Filiz Osmanodja among women.
For men, Germany came at No. 1 13, Germany 2 Germany 3 number 42 and number 35 in the women Germany occupied 1st place 21, Germany 2 Germany 3 34th and 47th place achieved the best Elo performance of all German assets Georg Meier with 2779th
Results and financial
The Open Tournament Armenia won the title - for the second time in its history after 2006 at the latest round traveled President Serzh Sargsyan to Dresden, also chairman of the local chess federation.. Second place went to Israel, the United States third place.
In the women's tournament sat in a tight decision Georgia because of the better secondary scoring against Ukraine by. The bronze medal winning team in the U.S..
Named after former World Champion Nona Gaprindashvili Gaprindashvilicup for the best combined result of the men's and women's teams won a country Ukraine.
Gold Medals for the best board result was obtained in the men Péter Lékó (Hungary, Board 1), Vladimir Hakobyan (Armenia, Brett 2), Gabriel Sargsyan (Armenia, Board 3), Dragiša Blagojevic (Montenegro, Board 4) and Dmitri Yakovenko (Russia, board 5). For women, the board prices Anna Zatonskih (USA, Brett 2), Nadezhda Kossinzewa (Russia, Brett 3), Joanna Maidan (Poland, Board 4) and Natalia Zdebskaja (Ukraine went to Maia Tschiburdanidse (Georgia, Board 1), Brett 5 ).
The cost of the Chess Olympiad amounted to about four million euros, of which 2.34 million euros were covered by sponsorship. More than 60,000 euros were taken through the sale of more than 13,000 spectators cards. Dresdner owner registered nearly 26,000 Olympiad nights.
Others
- On 13 March 2008, a supplement brand from the annually published in Germany stamp series issued "For Sports " with the motif of a chess position as honoring these Chess Olympiad.
- For the fifth time was the Chess Olympiad in Hamburg in 1930, Munich 1958, Leipzig 1960 and victories in 1970 in Germany. In October 2004, the city of Dresden sat in a competition FIDE against competitors as Ausrichtungsort by.
- The Taiwanese Ho Meng Wei with a current Elo rating of 1550 (as of October 2008) at the age of 7 years, 11 months and 12 days so far recent Chess Olympiad participants, but lost each of its seven games.
- Overall, at the Chess Olympiad 5485 games were played: 3095 ( 1220, = 865, -1010 ) in the Open section and 2390 ( 1031, = 506, -853 ) in women.