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Dates run23 September – 6 October 2018

Batumi, Georgia   

Competitors

Teams185 (Open)
151 (Women)

Nations180 (Open)
146 (Women)

VenueSport Palace Batumi

Batumi State Music Centre (closing ceremony)

 

 

Results /ranking 43rd Olympiad Batumi 2018 Open

Results/ranking 43rd Olympiad Batumi 2018 Women

 

 

 

 

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Women's World Chess Championship 2018

will start tomorrows 02/11

schedule

i guess she has no chance vs the number 2

 

	Humpy Koneru (2)
	Hayat Toubal (63)

 

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the LIVE

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Magnus Carlsen retains the Chess World title

 

Three-time defending champion  Magnus Carlsen and challenger  Fabiano Caruana did face a nerve-wracking showdown in the World Chess Championship in London on Wednesday, after 12 regular games failed to break the deadlock.

The two young masters face off in the tie-break, which consists of four rapid matches with 25 minutes for each player with an increment of 10 seconds after each move.

But the Norwegian only needed 3 of those 4 rapid matches, as he won all of them to successfully defend his crown.

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St.Petersburg hosted this week the 2018 FIDE Chess Rapid & Blitz World Championships

 

The titles went to Daniil Dubov in the men's Rapid class, Ju Wenjun in the women's Rapid class; Magnus Carlsen in the men's Blitz class and Kateryna Lagno in the women's Blitz class...

 

here you can find all details and results of both competitions:

 

Chess Rapid* World Championships

 

Chess Blitz** World Championships

 

* = time control of 15 minutes + 10-second increment per move (from move #1) per player

 

** = time control of 3 minutes + 2-second increment per move (from move #1) per player

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Enjoyed the tournaments, what I could've followed. One kid from Iran was pretty awesome in both formats.

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Iran had some interesting results in this World Blitz/Rapid Championship. Sara Khadem-al-Sharieh won two silver medals in both Rapid and Blitz competition. I assume that's Iran's  first ever medals in a FIDE senior World Championships.

 

but the most interesting result came from 15 years old Alireza Firouzja. he was leading the competition in both events for so many rounds. even though he blew out his lead in both of them but still a 6th place finish in Rapid event in such a high level competition was great for a teenager. (where he was somthing like 170th in the ranking order before the competition !!) watched his match against the great Magnus Carlsen and he was terrible. probably too nervous facing his idol

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Chess FIDE World Cup 2019

 

Khanty-Mansiysk (RUS) - 9 September 2019 - 4 October 2019

 

 

 

the semifinal for tomorrow:

 

 

after the decline of Magnus Carlsen  this is the chance for Maxime to win

France didn't win since 1937 while China ensured the final , maybe 2 Medals

 

 

 

[TomJa 64]

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Chess FIDE World Cup 2019

 

Khanty-Mansiysk (RUS) - 9 September 2019 - 4 October 2019

 

 

 

the semifinal for tomorrow:

 

 

after the decline of Magnus Carlsen  this is the chance for Maxime to win

France didn't win since 1937 while China ensured the final , maybe 2 Medals

 

 

 

I am not a chess expert, but my nose suggests the Chinese-French final - Ding Liren vs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave.

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Just now, TomJa said:

I am not a chess expert, but my nose suggests the Chinese-French final - Ding Liren vs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave.

 

their level is pretty similar :

 

Ding was undefeated in classical chess from August 2017 to November 2018, recording 29 victories and 71 draws

Maxime was The world Junior champion  in 2009 and is a three-time French champion 

 

Yu Yangyi He qualified for the Grandmaster title at 14 years , He was a member of the gold medal-winning Chinese team at the 41s chess olympiad  in 2014

 

Radjabov earned the title of grandmaster in March 2001 at the age of 14, making him the second-youngest grandmaster in history at the time , besides he gained international attention after beating the-then World No. 1Garry Kasparov 

 

 

their world ranking of september 2019, the adventage for Ding & Maxime as you say

 

Rank	Name	Title	Country	Rating	Games	B-Year
1	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	2876	11	1990
2	Caruana, Fabiano	g	USA	2812	11	1992
3	Ding, Liren	g	CHN	2811	11	1992
4	Giri, Anish	g	NED	2780	11	1994
5	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	g	RUS	2776	11	1990
6	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	g	FRA	2774	11	1990
7	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	g	AZE	2767	11	1985
8	So, Wesley	g	USA	2767	11	1993
9	Anand, Viswanathan	g	IND	2765	11	1969
10	Yu, Yangyi	g	CHN	2763	12	1994
11	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	g	USA	2763	0	1983
12	Karjakin, Sergey	g	RUS	2760	11	1990
13	Grischuk, Alexander	g	RUS	2759	0	1983
14	Aronian, Levon	g	ARM	2758	11	1982
15	Radjabov, Teimour	g	AZE	2758	0	1987