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Chess At The 2011 Summer Universiade
Chess was contested at the 2011 Summer Universiade from August 15 to August 21 at the Meihua Hall of the Shenzhen Conference and Exhibition Center in Shenzhen, China. Men's and women's individual and mixed team competitions were held. It was the first time that chess was included in a Universiade. Medal summary Medal table Events References {{Universiade Chess Summer Universiade The Universiade is an international multi-sport event, organized for university athletes by the International University Sports Federation (FISU). The name is a portmanteau of the words "University" and " Olympiad". The Universiade is referred ... 2011 Summer Universiade events Summer Universiade 2011 2011 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chess
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games, such as xiangqi (Chinese chess) and shogi (Japanese chess). The recorded history of chess goes back at least to the emergence of a similar game, chaturanga, in seventh-century India. The rules of chess as we know them today emerged in Europe at the end of the 15th century, with standardization and universal acceptance by the end of the 19th century. Today, chess is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide. Chess is an abstract strategy game that involves no hidden information and no use of dice or cards. It is played on a chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. At the start, each player controls sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martyn Kravtsiv
Martyn Kravtsiv ( uk, Мартин Кравців; born 26 November 1990) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2013. Career Kravtsiv was taught how to play chess on his sixth birthday by his father. Later, he trained in a Lviv Chess Club. In the 2008 World Mind Sports Games in Beijing, Kravtsiv won the gold medal in the men's individual blitz event. In 2010, he tied for 1st-6th places with Dmitry Kokarev, Alexey Dreev, Maxim Turov, Baskaran Adhiban and Aleksej Aleksandrov in the 2nd Orissa Open tournament in Bhubaneshwar. In 2011, Kravtsiv won the 3rd Chennai Open. The following year, he tied for 1st–5th with Pentala Harikrishna, Parimarjan Negi, Tornike Sanikidze and Tigran Gharamian in the Cappelle-la-Grande Open. He tied for first with Andrei Volokitin and Zahar Efimenko in the 2015 Ukrainian Chess Championship, held in his native city of Lviv, finishing second on tiebreak. In 2016, Kravtsiv won the Riga Technical University Open e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 Summer Universiade Events
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2011 In Chess
Below is a list of events in chess during the year 2011: Events January * January 1 – Magnus Carlsen (NOR) reclaims the top position in the FIDE world rankings with an Elo rating of 2814. Viswanathan Anand (IND) falls to second with a rating of 2810. Sergey Karjakin (RUS) has the greatest rating change among the top 10, improving 16 points from 2760 to 2776. Hikaru Nakamura (USA) appears in the world top 10 for the first time with a rating of 2751, displacing Wang Yue (CHN). * January 5 – **Deep Sengupta (IND) and Arghyadip Das (IND) split first at the Hastings International Chess Congress. **Soumya Swaminathan (IND) wins the Indian Women's Championship. **Yannick Pelletier (SUI) wins the Basel Hilton Open at the Basel Chess Festival. * January 6 – Vugar Gashimov (AZE) wins the 53rd Reggio Emilia tournament with a score of 6/9. * January 9 – **Alexei Shirov (ESP) wins the Paul Keres Memorial Tournament. **Loek van Wely (NED) wins the Berkeley International. * Janu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luka Paichadze
Luka Paichadze (born 6 March 1991) is a Georgian chess player who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster in September 2012. Chess career Paichadze won the Nona Gaprindashvili Cup Open A in 2014, and has twice won the Georgian Chess Championship, in 2017 and 2020. He qualified for the Chess World Cup 2021, where he was defeated by Shamsiddin Vokhidov Shamsiddin Vokhidov is an Uzbekistani chess player who holds the title of Grandmaster, which he was awarded in 2020. Vokhidov won the U14 World Youth Chess Championship in 2015. At the age of 16, Vokhidov defeated world champion Magnus Carlse ... in the first round.https://worldcup.fide.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/20210609-WorldCupQualified.pdf References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Paichadze, Luka 1991 births Living people Chess players from Georgia (country) Chess Grandmasters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maka Purtseladze
Maka Purtseladze ( ka, მაკა ფურცელაძე; born 18 February 1988) is a Georgian chess player. She received the FIDE titles of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) and International Master (IM) in 2005. Biography From 1997 to 2006, Maka Purtseladze represented Georgia in the World Youth Chess Championships and European Youth Chess Championships, in which she won five medals: gold (in 2005, in World Youth Chess Championship in the U18 girls group), 2 silver (in 2003, in the European Youth Chess Championship in the U16 girls group and in 2005, in European Junior Chess Championship in the U18 girls group) and 2 bronzes (in 2004, in World Youth Chess Championship in the U16 girls group and in the European Youth Chess Championship in the U16 girls group). In 2005, she shared with Sopiko Khukhashvili the first place in the Georgian Junior Chess Championship in the U20 girls group. In 2006, she shared with Lela Javakhishvili and Maia Lomineishvili 3rd place in the Georgian Wom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nino Batsiashvili
Nino Batsiashvili ( ka, ნინო ბაციაშვილი; born 1 January 1987) is a Georgian chess grandmaster and 4-time and the current Georgian women's chess champion. In 2012, she won the Group E (women's section of the RSSU Student Grandmaster Cup) of the Moscow Open. In 2013 Batsiashvili won the 3rd Krystyna Hołuj-Radzikowska Memorial in Wrocław, Poland on tiebreak over Joanna Majdan-Gajewska. In 2015, she won the Women's Georgian Chess Championship and finished second in the Women's European Individual Chess Championship. She was a member of the Georgian team that won the gold medal in the Women's World Team Chess Championship 2015, held in Chengdu, China. Batsiashvili also won the individual bronze medal on board four. In December 2015 she drew against reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen in the opening round of the Qatar Masters Open. In 2016 Batsiashvili took part in the FIDE Women's Grand Prix series. She finished second in the last stage, held in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olha Kalinina
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Huang Qian
Huang Qian (; born July 18, 1986) is a Chinese chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She won the Chinese Women's Chess Championship in 2012 and the Asian Women's Chess Championship in 2013. Huang competed in the Women's World Chess Championship in 2001, 2004, 2010, 2012, 2015 and 2017. Career Huang was a member of the gold medal-winning Chinese team at the 2004 Women's Chess Olympiad in Calvià. In 2007, along with Zhao Xue, Hou Yifan, Ruan Lufei and Shen Yang, she also won with the Chinese team the first Women's World Team Chess Championship in Yekaterinburg. She scored of 4/4 (despite this 100% result she did not win reserve board prize due to the limited number of games played). Huang was awarded the Woman Grandmaster title in March 2008. Her three norms required for the title were achieved at: * 36th Chess Olympiad (Women) in Calvià, Spain October 14–31, 2004; score 7.5/10 * China Women's Individual Championship Group A in Cho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 Summer Universiade
The 2011 Summer Universiade ( zh, c=2011年夏季世界大学生运动会, p=Èr líng yī yī Nián xiàjì shìjiè dàxuéshēng yùndònghuì), the XXVI Summer Universiade ( zh, c=第二十六届夏季世界大学生运动会, p=Dì Èrshíliù jiè xiàjì shìjiè dàxuéshēng yùndònghuì) also Shenzhen 2011 ( zh, c=深圳 2011, p=Shēnzhèn Èr líng yī yī), was hosted in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. Bid selection The cities of Kazan, Russia, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Shenzhen, China, Murcia, Spain, and Poznań, Poland were in contention for the Games. On 16 January 2007, FISU announced at the conference prior to the 2007 Winter Universiade, that the host would be Shenzhen. With five candidates, it was the most competitive race to host a Universiade. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada was also posed to make a serious bid, but withdrew. Shenzhen was not considered a favorite, as several other sporting competitions have been assigned to China in recent years, including the 2008 Sum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Batkhuyagiin Möngöntuul
Batkhuyagiin Möngöntuul (; born 8 October 1987) is a Mongolian chess player who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She competed in the Women's World Chess Championship in 2008 and 2010. Möngöntuul took part in the FIDE Women's Grand Prix series in 2009–2010 as host city nominee, and 2011–12 as FIDE president nominee. Her best results were sharing fifth place in Nalchik in 2010 and finishing in sixth place at Ankara in 2012. She won the 2010 Women's World University Chess Championship in Zurich. In 2011, she won the silver medal in the women's individual chess event at the Summer Universiade in Shenzhen. Möngöntuul has played for the Mongolian team in the Women's Chess Olympiad, the Women's Asian Nations Cup and the 2006 Asian Games 6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
