SportAccord Mind Games: Basque winners

Sergey Karjakin from Russia has dominated the Basque system chess tournament with a great score of 8,5 out of 10. His advantage over second Shahkryiar Memadyarov from Azerbaijan was up two points. Bronze went to Ruslan Ponomariov from Ukraine.

In women's section China got the ultimate thriump, as illustrated by the following standings:

Mind Games Day 6: Basque System starts

12/17/2013 – This unique style of chess has begun in China! The players face each other twice simultaneously, once with black and once with white. In the men's Karjakin has again taken an early lead with a devastating 5.0/6. In the women's it is the Chinese that are dominating as they hold the top three spots at the moment, with Hou Yifan and Ju Wenjun at the very top. Analysis of the basque!

 

SportAccord Mind Games will be held in Beijing, China between the 12th of December and 20th December 2012. The World Mind Games was held for the first time in 2008 and consisted of 5 disciplines: chess, bridge, draughts (checkers), go, and xiangqi (Chinese chess). SportAccord, the organizer of the Mind Games, is the umbrella organization for both Olympic and non-Olympic sports as well as for major organizers of conferences and sporting events.

SportAccord Mind Games: Day 1 of Basque

Blitz gold medalist Sergey Karjakin of Russia is sole leader after the first day of Basque system chess event. Basque system is an interesting idea, opponents are playing on two boards simultaneously, one with white pieces and one with black. It makes the matches really exciting. One of the most important parts is the time management.

Beijing: Aronian defeated by Karjakin

GM Levon Aronian was defeated by Russia’s Sergey Karjakin in Round 2 of the Basque system chess tournament kicked off Tuesday within the framework of the World Mind Games in Beijing. The first game ended in a draw, while the second brought victory to the Russian player.
Aronian has 2.5 points after two rounds, while Karjakin tops the standings with 3.5

Karjakin leads unusual form of chess at World Mind Games

Beijing: Aronian’s first-day results
December 17, 2013

The first day of the Basque system chess tournament wrapped Tuesday within the framework of the World Mind Games being held in Chinese capital city Beijing.

In his first and second matches in Round 3, Grandmaster (GM) Levon Aronian—who plays first board for the three-time World Chess Olympiad champions and the previous World Team Chess champions, Armenia, and who is ranked second in the FIDE ratings—played draws with GM Alexander Grischuk (Russia).

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Mind Games Day 5: Yifan, Karjakin gold

In two close blitz tournaments the final results came to the very last round. In the men's section Aronian and Karjakin tied at the top, but the Russian edged his opponent out on tiebreaks as he had bested the Armenian in the individual encounter. In the Women's section Gunina could have won if she defeated Hou Yifan in the last round, but she blundered and lost. Analysis of a blitz game!

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SportAccord Mind Games: Winners of Rapid

Friday, 13 December 2013 06:41
 

Wang Yue and Valentina Gunina became the winners of the rapid tournament SportAccord Mind Games in Beijing.

Rapid results - WOMEN

Rapid results - MEN

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SportAccord Mind Games started today in Beijing, China.

Day 1 of Rapid

At the end of day 1 of the rapid chess competitions, we have two clear leaders in the Men and Women events.

In men section, Peter Leko from Hungary has got 3.5 out of 4 by winning Vachier-Lagrave from France, Le Quang Liem from Vitnam and Sergey Karjakin from Russia in round 4. This game is quite decisive for today's final standing, after making few blunders in the middle game Karjakin was defending very well, but after almost 100 moves he eventually had to resign. Thanks to wins in first three rounds Karjakin is now on the second place.

With 100% score we find GM Valentina Gunina (current Women World Blitz Champion) from Russia who has managed to dispose of two former World Champions, Alexandra Kosteniuk also from Russia and Antoaneta Stefanova from Bulgaria. The latter is also the current Women World Rapid Champion. The field is tremendously strong and tomorrow we will see a power house match between the current Women World Champion and prodigy Hou Yifan.

Results after Round 4 MEN

Results after Round 4 WOMEN

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Schedule

December 12th		14:00-19:00	Rapid Event: 1-4 rounds (men), 1-4 rounds (women)
December 13th		14:00-19:00	Rapid Event: 5-7 rounds (men), 5-7 rounds (women)
December 14th		14:00-19:00	Blitz Event: 1-10 rounds (men), 1-10 rounds (women)
December 15th		14:00-19:00	Blitz Event: 11-20 rounds (men), 11-20 rounds (women)
December 16th		14:00-19:00	Blitz Event: 21-30 rounds (men), 21-30 rounds (women)
December 17th		14:00-19:00	Basque System: 1-3 rounds (men), 1-3 rounds (women)
December 18th		11:00-16:00	Basque System: 4-5 rounds (men), 4-5 rounds (women) & Closing Ceremony
December 19th		Departure

Players

	MEN							WOMEN
	Karjakin, Sergey	RUS						Koneru, Humpy	IND
	Grischuk, Alexander	RUS						Hou, Yifan	CHN
	Aronian, Levon	ARM						Muzychuk, Anna	SLO
	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	AZE						Dzagnidze, Nana	GEO
	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	CUB						Lagno, Kateryna	UKR
	Ponomariov, Ruslan	UKR						Kosteniuk, Alexandra	RUS
	Radjabov, Teimour	AZE						Gunina, Valentina	RUS
	Le, Quang Liem	VIE						Stefanova, Antoaneta	BUL
	Wang, Hao	CHN						Ju, Wenjun	CHN
	Wang, Yue	CHN						Sebag, Marie	FRA
	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	RUS						Zhao, Xue	CHN
	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	FRA						Kosintseva, Tatiana	RUS
	Kamsky, Gata	USA						Cramling, Pia	SWE
	Leko, Peter	HUN						Ushenina, Anna	UKR
	Ivanchuk, Vassily	UKR						Paehtz, Elisabeth	GER
	Giri, Anish	NED						Cmilyte, Viktorija	LTU

SportAccord World Mind Games - General information

RULES & REGULATIONS

SportAccord Mind Games will be held in Beijing, China between the 12th of December and 20th December 2012.

The World Mind Games was held for the first time in 2008 and consisted of 5 disciplines: chess, bridge, draughts (checkers), go, and xiangqi (Chinese chess).
Since the last year the World Mind Games organized and held by a famous and respectable organization called SportAccord. SportAccord is the umbrella organization for both Olympic and non-Olympic sports as well as a major organizers of conferences and sporting events.

The elite selection of invited participants and solid prizes are important features of the event. 

Official Site: http://sportaccord2013.fide.com/en/main-page