39th Chess Olympiad
The Chess Olympiad 2010 was a team chess tournament, which was held in Khanty-Mansiysk from September 20 to October 3. It is the 39th Chess Olympiad, the World Chess Federation FIDE. For the fourth time after 1956, 1994 and 1998, she was held in Russia. During the Olympics, the election of the FIDE President took place, where the incumbent Kirsan Ilyumzhinov who beat former world champion Anatoly Karpov.
Prehistory
In order to host advertised next to Khanty-Mansiysk the towns Budva, Buenos Aires, Poznań, Riga and Tallinn had. The decision on the venue fell in the FIDE Congress in Turin in 2006.
The tournament was held in an indoor tennis center, which opened in September 2008, has a total area of 15,558 square meters and can accommodate 3500 spectators. In an interview on July 31, 2010 FIDE President Ilyumzhinov expressed concern that the promised hotels for accommodation of participants could not be completed on time. He had called for this in a letter to the provincial governor. Problems were found with the charter flights to Khanty -Mansiysk, whose times were postponed several times. The organizers finally managed to complete all the facilities in time.
Hosts Russia could participate with five teams in the open section. Russia 1 in the statement Vladimir Kramnik, Alexander Grishchuk, Pyotr Svidler, Sergey Karjakin and Vladimir Malakhov was a Elo average of 2749 # 1 in the seedings. A total of 142 federations participated with 242 Grandmasters and 123 International Masters. Main referee was Sava Stoisavljevic from Serbia.
They played eleven rounds Swiss system. For placement initially included the achieved team points, then the sum of Sonneborn -Berger points ( team points against an opponent, multiplied by the Board points against this opponent, excluding the opponent with the fewest team points ), after which the board points, then the sum of the team Points of the opponent ( except the worst enemy ). The thinking time was 90 minutes for 40 moves and 30 minutes for the rest of the game, plus 30 seconds per train from the beginning. The players had to be at the round starts on board, otherwise the game was considered lost. In contrast to previous Chess Olympiad draw offers were again allowed at any time.
With the German national issues stood out in advance to meet the financial demands of the best players. A call for donations in June 2010, which was initiated by Jan Gustafsson and supported by DSB President Robert K. von Weizsäcker was unsuccessful. Rainer Buhmann, Sebastian Bogner, Falko Bindrich, Martin Kramer and Niclas Huschenbeth were subsequently nominated for men on 13 July 2010. The team was thus in the seedings ranked 42nd national coach Uwe Bönsch admitted in an interview that there had been problems in communication with the top players, but their personal attacks against officials described as unacceptable. The women's team consisted of Elizabeth Pähtz, Elena Lewuschkina, Melanie Ohme, Sarah Hoolt and Judith fox. She was on rank 16 of the seedings, at 110 participating federations.
Because of financial problems their attendance said the Romanian team that had listened with an Elo average of 2633 to the extended circle of favorites, from short term.
Open section
In the Open section of the Ukraine won, led by the outstanding Vasyl Ivanchuk. Other members of the team were Ruslan Ponomariov, Pavel Eljanow, Sachar Jefymenko and Oleksandr Mojissejenko and team captain Volodymyr Tukmakow. The silver medal went to the favored team Russia 1, the bronze medal won Israel. The German team was only ranked 64, behind Austria (No. 38) and just ahead of Switzerland ( number 65 ).
Gold medals for the highest individual score went to Vasyl Ivanchuk (board 1, Ukraine), Emil Sutovsky (board 2, Israel), Vitaly Teterev (board 3, Belarus ), Sergey Karjakin (board 4, Russia) and Sebastien Feller (board 5, France ).
Sutovsky earned in 2895 with the best Elo performance of all participants. The biggest Elo - profit reached the on board 3 playing for Pakistan Wasim Akram with 84 points.
A total of 3240 games were played ( 1209 White Wins 1031 draw, Black 985 wins, 15 wins without a fight ).
Women
In the women's team Russia won 1, whose tournament victory had been decided before the last round. The second place went to China, at No. 3 came Georgia. Germany came in at number 25, Switzerland at No. 52 and Austria ranked 55th Very detailed information about the women are available on the websites of the Wiener Zeitung.
Gold medals for the highest individual score went to Tatjana Kossinzewa (board 1, Russia), Nadezhda Kossinzewa (board 2, Russia), Yaniet Marrero López (board 3, Cuba), Inna Gaponenko (board 4, Ukraine) and Marija Musytschuk (board 5, Ukraine).
A total of 2508 games were played ( White 1027 wins, 592 draws, 867 Black wins, 22 wins without a fight ).
Russia also won the Gaprindashvili Cup, for the best combined result in the open section and the women's section, ahead of China and Ukraine.
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- The team from Yemen did not happen in the first round due to a prohibition on by the former Yemeni Minister of Sports Hamoud UBAD against Israel.
- January Gustafsson was team captain of the team from Denmark.
- Thomas Luther played on top board for the International Physically Disabled Chess Association, FIDE Master Oliver Müller started to board 3 for the International Braille Chess Association, the International Committee of Silent Chess IM Sergei Salov on board 4 WCM and Annegret Mucha on board 2
- For the top player Magnus Carlsen and Veselin Topalov the tournament did not go well. Carlsen lost three games ( against Baadur Dschobawa, Michael Adams and Sanan Sjugirow ) and allowing 15 Elo points, but could its top position in the world rankings say anyway. Topalov lost with his score of 5 points from 9 games even 17 Elo points.
- The Chess Olympiad 2014 was awarded to Tromso.