2014-12-11

World Mind Games 2014


Watch LIVE the World Mind Games 2014:
Rapid | Rapid Women | Blitz | Blitz Women | Basque | Basque Women

Official website | WMG 2014 at FIDE



banner accord2014 The prestigious SportAccord World Mind Games, starts on the 11th December 2014, a multi-sport event we all long waited for! In its 4th edition, taking place in the bustling capital of China, our Chess dedicated section is in for intense fights in the rapid, blitz and basque competitions.

In spite of the little time available on the clock and with the additional pressure of high prizes, top grandmasters like Levon Aronian, Alexander Grischuk or Humpy Koneru and Hou Yifan lined up to grab the coveted titles, while delivering a true feast for the local and worldwide public's eyes.

Players

MEN
NameTitleCountryRatingB-Year
Grischuk, AlexandergRUS28281983
Aronian, LevongARM28131982
Ivanchuk, VassilygUKR28111969
Nepomniachtchi, IangRUS28011990
Radjabov, TeimourgAZE27761987
Leko, PetergHUN27731979
Wang, YuegCHN27651987
Dominguez Perez, LeiniergCUB27631983
Mamedyarov, ShakhriyargAZE27391985
Ponomariov, RuslangUKR27381983
Bacrot, EtiennegFRA27311983
Vachier-Lagrave, MaximegFRA27281990
Gelfand, BorisgISR27191968
Wang, HaogCHN27191989
Harikrishna, P.gIND27011986
Wojtaszek, RadoslawgPOL26841987
WOMEN　　　　
NameTitleCountryRatingB-Year
Koneru, HumpygIND26111987
Hou, YifangCHN26001994
Stefanova, AntoanetagBUL25781979
Kosteniuk, AlexandragRUS25771984
Ju, WenjungCHN25551991
Gunina, ValentinagRUS25521989
Dzagnidze, NanagGEO25471987
Muzychuk, AnnagUKR25461990
Kosintseva, TatianagRUS25051986
Ushenina, AnnagUKR24891985
Paehtz, ElisabethmGER24851985
Zhao, XuegCHN24851985
Muzychuk, MariyamUKR24451992
Cramling, PiagSWE24431963
Dronavalli, HarikagIND24211991
Khotenashvili, BellagGEO24071988
　　　　　


Schedule

Rapid
Thur, 11 Dec, 14:00 - Rounds 1-4
Fri, 12 Dec, 14:00 - Rounds 5-7


Blitz
Sat, 13 Dec, 14:00 - Rounds 1-10
Sun, 14 Dec, 14:00 - Rounds 11-20
Mon, 15 Dec, 14:00 - Rounds 21-30


Basque
Tue, 16 Dec, 14:00 - Rounds 1-3
Wed, 17 Dec, 14:00 - Rounds 4-5










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Happy birthday to Vishy Anand!


Happy birthday to the 5-times World Chess Champion

VISWANATHAN ANAND

who turns 45 today!


Photo by FIDE.


We wish him a long chess career and many more successes in the future!


Other World Chess Champions born in December


Emanuel Lasker (December 24, 1868 - January 11, 1941)

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Emanuel Lasker, PhD, was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher who was World Chess Champion for 27 years (from 1894 to 1921). In his prime Lasker was one of the most dominant champions, and he is still generally regarded as one of the strongest players ever.

His contemporaries used to say that Lasker used a "psychological" approach to the game, and even that he sometimes deliberately played inferior moves to confuse opponents. Recent analysis, however, indicates that he was ahead of his time and used a more flexible approach than his contemporaries, which mystified many of them. Lasker knew contemporary analyses of openings well but disagreed with many of them. He published chess magazines and five chess books, but later players and commentators found it difficult to draw lessons from his methods.

Rustam Kasimdzhanov (born December 5, 1979)

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Rustam Kasimdzhanov is an Uzbekistani chess Grandmaster, best known for winning the FIDE World Chess Championship 2004. He was born in Tashkent, in the former Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. He is an ethnic Uzbek.

In the FIDE World Chess Championship 2004 in Tripoli, Libya, Kasimdzhanov unexpectedly made his way through to the final, winning mini-matches against Alejandro Ramírez, Ehsan Ghaem Maghami, Vasily Ivanchuk, Zoltán Almási, Alexander Grischuk and Veselin Topalov to meet Michael Adams to play for the title and the right to face world number one Garry Kasparov in a match.

In the final six-game match of the Championship, both players won two games, making a tie-break of rapid games necessary. Kasimdzhanov won the first game with black, after having been in a difficult position. By drawing the second game he became the new FIDE champion.
Happy birthday and many more great chess achievements!

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