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Thanks Wayne! I am glad you enjoy my work and I'll continue to do my best. I am still a newbie, just a year and a half in Canada :) But I am really happy to live here. I had to sit out for a year without being able to compete for Canada due to transfer regulations but starting this year I am fully eligible for the team ;) Had a long break in competitive playing though, but slowly returning to it. -
Yes, welcome to Canada Anna!!Comment
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Our candidates:
8 men (4 spots)
1. GM E.Bareev (2638)
2. GM A.Kovalyov (2631)
3. GM E.Hansen (2606)
4. GM B.Sambuev (2514)
5. IM N.Noritsyn (2512)
6. GM A.Lesiege (2510)
7. GM K.Spraggett (2495)
8. GM R.Preotu (2487)
4 juniors (2 spots)
1. FM R.Talukdar (2341+2453)/2=2397
2. FM I.Zhao (2380+2393)/2=2387
3. FM E.Hua (2336+2420)/2=2378
4. FM Y.Zhang (2330+2400)/2=2365
Women and Girls (6 spots)
1. WIM A.Matras-Clement (2297+2398)/2=2348
2. WGM A.Burtasova (2261+2274)/2=2267
3. WGM M.-J.Ouellet (2257+2275)/2=2266
4. WGM Q.Zhou (2229+2290)/2=2259
5. WFM O.Golubeva (2179+2257)/2=2218
6. WIM S.Demchenko (2071+2281)/2=2176
7. WFM A.Botez (2020+2280)/2=2150Last edited by Victor Plotkin; Thursday, 2nd July, 2020, 12:39 PM.Comment
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Board Order:
Category A (open, boards 1 and 2)
1. IM N.Noritsyn (FIDE 2512)
2. GM K.Yang (2481)
3. IM R.Panjwani (2448)
4. FM M.Plotkin (2435)
Category B (women, boards 3 and 4)
1. WIM A.Matras-Clement (2297)
2. WGM A.Burtasova (2261)
3. WGM Q.Zhou (2229)
4. WFM O.Golubeva (2179)
Category C (open U-20, board 5)
1. FM R.Talukdar (2341)
2. FM E.Hua (2336)
Category D (girl U-20, board 6)
1. WGM M.-J.Ouellet (2257)
2. WIM S.Demchenko (2071)Comment
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Thanks Victor, that's an exciting list of popular players!Comment
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Welcome to Canada Anna!
You are the third Canadian WGM, This opens up a lot of possibilities for the organization of Women norm tournaments. It should also make it possible to organize the Canadian Women Championship in non-zonal years because if all three WGM are present, the tournament would be offering WGM and WIM norms, that would be a good reason to play in this tournament.
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They take it seriously. Team Russia:
1. Nepo (2784)
2. Grischuk (2777)
3. Dubov (2699)
4. Artemiev (2716)
5. Lagno (2546)
6. Goryachkina (2582)
7. Kosteniuk (2471)
8. Gunina (2431)
9. Esipenko (2682)
10. Sarana (2654)
11. Shuvalova (2484)
12. Potapova (2270)Comment
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The team has been registered though we are missing many screen names on the various platforms that this could be played on including chess.com, chess24, playchess.com and lichess. Players are asked to register on all platforms and inform us of user names.Comment
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FIDE Online Olympiad 2020
July 18, 2020
Details of the teams can be found at:
http://chess-results.com/tnr530729.a...&art=0&flag=30
Team-Starting Rank (and captain)
1. Russia- 2020 FIDE Online Olympiad Top Division - - No. - Team ;- RtgAv - Captain 1 Russia 2599 Motylev, Alexander 2 China 2595 Ye, Jiangchuan 3 USA 2535 Donaldson, John 4 Armenia 2453 Petrosian, Arshak B 5 Ukraine 2441 Sulypa, Oleksandr 6 Azerbaijan 2434 Safarli, Eltaj 7 India 2419 Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi 8 Cuba 2413 Perez Garcia, Rodney Oscar 9 Poland 2401 Socko, Bartosz 10 Kazakhstan 2395 Kotsur, Pavel 11 Vietnam 2359 Lam, Minh Chau 12 Georgia 2354 Gaprindashvili, Valeriane 13 Iran 2329 Shafiei, Alireza 14 Canada 2308 Plotkin, Victor 15 Egypt 2261 Elgendy, Hesham 16 Peru 2252 Soto Vega, Jorge 17 Mongolia 2190 Gundavaa, Bayarsaikhan 18 Uzbekistan 2159 Iuldachev, Saidali 19 Brazil 2134 Diamant, Andre 20 Paraguay 2114 Zarza, Ronald -
1. Russia
1. Grischuk, Alexander
2. Nepomniachtchi, Ian
2. Lagno, Kateryna
4. Goryachkina, Aleksandra
5. Esipenko, Andrey
6. Shuvalova, Polina
7. Dubov, Daniil
8. Artemiev, Vladislav
9. Kosteniu, Alexandra
10. Gunina, Valentina
11. Sarana, Alexey
12. Potapova, Margarita
2. China
1. Ding Liren
2. Wei Yi
3. Hou Yifan
4. Ju Wenjun
5. Liu Yan
6. Zhu Jiner
7. Yu Yangyi
8. Bu Xiangzhi
9. Tan Zhongyi
10. Lei Tingjie
11. Chen Qi
12. Ning Kaiyu
3. USA
1. So, Wesley
2. Shankland, Sam
3. Yip, Carissa
4. Zatonskih, Anna
5. Xiong, Jeffery
6. Wang, Annie
7. Robson, Ray
8. Abrahamyan, Tatev
4. Armenia
1. Aronian, Levon
2. Sargissian, Gabriel
3. Danielian, Elina
4. Mkrtchian, Lilit
5. Martirosyan, Haik
6. Sargsyan, Anna
7. Melkumyan, Hrant
8. Ter-Sahakyan, Samvel
9. Gevorgyan, Maria
10. Gaboyan, Susann
12. Avetisyan, Mariam
5. Ukraine
1. Ivanchuk, Vasyl
2. Korobov, Anton
3. Osmak, Iulija
4. Buksa, Nataliya
5. Shevchenko, Kirill
6. Berdynyk, Mariia
7. Onischuk, Vladimir
8. Shtembuliak Evgeny
9. Gaponenko, Inna
10. Zhukova, Natalia
11. Matviishen, Viktor
12. Shpanko, Nadia
6. Azerbaijan
1. Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar
2. Radjabov, Teimour
3. Mammadzada, Gunay
4. Mammadova, Gulnar
5. Asadii, Vugar
6. Balajayeva, Khanim
7. Mamedov, Rauf
8. Guseinov, Gadir
9. Mamedjarova, Turkan
10. Fataliyeva, Ulviyya
11. Suleymanli, Aydin
12. Beydullayeva, Govhar
7. India
1. Anand, Viswanathan
2. Vidit Gujrathi
3. Koneru, Humpy
4. Harika, Dronavalli
5. Nihal, Sarin
6. Divya, Deshmukh
7. Harikrishna, Pentala
8. Aravindh, Chithambaram
9. Kulkarni, Bhakti
10. Vaishali, R.
11. Praggnanadnhaa, R.
12. Vantika, Agrawal
8. Cuba
1. Quesada, Yassar
2. Ortiz, Reynaldo
3. Ordaz, Teresa
4. Miranda, Yerisbel
5. Albonrnoz, Daniel
6. Hernandez Ineymig
7. Quesada, Ernesto
8. Almeida, Omar
9. Forgas, Yaniela
10. Linares, Oleiny
11. Perez, Jesus
12. Obregon, Roxangel
9. Poland
1. Duda, Jan-Krzysztof
2. Wojtaszek, Radoslaw
3. Socko, Monika
4. Zawadzyka, Jolanta
5. Gumularz, Szymon
6. Sliwicka, Alicja
7. Bartel, Mateusz
8. Gajewski, Grzegorz
9. Cyfka, Karina
10. Rajlich, Iweta
11. Janik, Igor
12. Antolak, Julia
10. Kazakhstan
1. Jumabayev, Rinat
2. Kazhgaleyev, Murtas
3. Abdumalik, Zhansaya
4. Assaubayeva, Bibisara
5. Makhnev, Denis
6. Serikbay, Assel
7. Khusnutdinov, Rsutam
8. Ismagambetov, Anuar
9. Nakhbayeva, Guliskhan
10. Dauletova, Gulmira
11. Zhalmakhanov, Ramazan
12. Nurgali, Nazerke
14. Canada
1. Noritsyn, Nikolay
2. Yang, Kaiqi
3. Matras-Clement, Agnieszka
4. Burtasova, Anna
5. Talukdar, Rohan
6. Ouellet, Maili-Jade
7. Panjwani, Raja
8. Plotkin, Mark
9. Zhou Qiyu
10. Golubeva, Oksana
11. Hua, Eugene
12. Demchenko, Svitlana
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So, Canada made it to Top Division. Now we know 25 teams, other 15 teams will qualify from Div-2.
Among these 25, 5 top teams from last Olympiad according to Gaprindashvili cup (number of match points for Open team + number of match points for Women). All very strong teams - China, Russia, USA, India, Ukraine.
5 teams from each continent. Australia is a part of Asia for FIDE. Like in soccer World Cup and chess individual World Cup, it's much easier to qualify from Africa and America compare to Europe. Many strong European teams will start from Division 2 (Germany, England, Spain, Hungary, Israel and many others).
FIDE uses rapid rating for ranking. They take the average of 6 starters (2 Open boards, 2 Women, 1 Junior, 1 Girl). In our case, many players have FIDE rapid rating relatively close to FIDE standard. K.Yang's rapid rating is about 100 points lower, M.Plotkin has a gap of 250 points, S.Demchenko - more than 500 points.
Canada is expected to play RR with 9 other teams from Aug 19 to Aug 23. Top-3 teams advance to play-off. The winner of each group (4 groups of 10 team total) advances directly to 1/4-final. Runner-up will play against 3rd place in other group, the winner of this duel advances to 1/4-final as well.
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FIDE Online Olympiad 2020
July 18, 2020
Gazprom becomes General Partner of FIDE Online Olympiad
On July 22, 2020, the International Chess Federation (FIDE) and Gazprom PJSC signed a partnership agreement. Under this agreement, Gazprom becomes the General partner of the FIDE Online Chess Olympiad, the largest online chess event in 2020.
FIDE Online Chess Olympiad will be held from July 25 to August 30, 2020. This massive tournament is a digital twin of the XLIV World Chess Olympiad, which was postponed to the summer, 2021 (due to the spread of coronavirus infection).
Chess matches will be held on the world's largest online platform Chess.com. 163 teams representing national chess federations - members of FIDE - will take part in the Olympiad. Commentary by chess experts will be conducted in multiple languages, including English, Russian, Spanish, German, French, and Chinese.
The FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich: "Today, when the world is in the epicenter of a crisis caused by a pandemic, events whose mission is to unite people and give hope, are particularly significant. Over the past few months, we have seen explosive growth in interest in chess – tens, and perhaps hundreds of millions of people around the world play at a real or virtual chess board every day. We are very grateful to our partner, Gazprom, for supporting the FIDE Online Chess Olympiad and for the opportunity to bring together chess fans from all over the world at this truly global sporting event."
https://www.fide.com/news/643
About Gazprom
Gazprom is a global energy company focused on geological exploration, production, transportation, storage, processing and sales of gas, gas condensate and oil, sales of gas as a vehicle fuel, as well as generation and marketing of heat and electric power.
Gazprom is the global leader measured by the amount of reserves and volumes of gas production. Gazprom sells gas to Russian consumers and exports gas to over 30 countries within and beyond the former Soviet Union. Gazprom is the biggest gas supplier to Europe. Gazprom is among the top three oil and gas condensate producers in the Russian Federation, ranking number one in Russia in terms of electricity generation among thermal generation companies and in terms of thermal energy generation.
More info: www.gazprom.com
Contact: pr@gazprom.ru
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FIDE Online Olympiad 2020
July 23, 2020
The teams are profiled on the official site. Canada is at:
https://olymp-results.fide.com/team/can
See also: https://olymp.fide.com
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Yesterday we play a training match with Paraguay. 9 boards, 2 games (1 white, 1 black). We won 11-7. It should be a valuable experience.Comment
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