World Teams 2019

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Roger de Coverly
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World Teams 2019

Post by Roger de Coverly » Fri Feb 01, 2019 9:07 am

The FIDE site has announced this to be held in Astana, Kazakhstan from March 4 (arrival) to March 15 (departure).

England are invited by virtue of their Olympiad result.

Otherwise the participating teams are

China
Azerbaijan
Iran
USA
Egypt
Russia
Poland
England
Kazakhstan
India

http://www.fide.com/component/content/a ... hstan.html

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Re: World Teams 2019

Post by Mick Norris » Fri Feb 01, 2019 9:26 am

That would be good, although presumably we haven't budgeted for this, although the International Director will no doubt get sponsorship for it
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Re: World Teams 2019

Post by NickFaulks » Fri Feb 01, 2019 11:32 am

Mick Norris wrote:
Fri Feb 01, 2019 9:26 am
That would be good, although presumably we haven't budgeted for this, although the International Director will no doubt get sponsorship for it.
Why bother, when it is so much easier simply to increase membership fees?
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Re: World Teams 2019

Post by Chris Rice » Sat Feb 16, 2019 11:57 pm

Laurent Fressinet reports that France got an invitation to play in this and turned it down.

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Re: World Teams 2019

Post by Mick Norris » Sun Feb 17, 2019 11:00 am

Chris Rice wrote:
Sat Feb 16, 2019 11:57 pm
Laurent Fressinet reports that France got an invitation to play in this and turned it down.
Which is strange, as they are down as 3rd reserve, suggesting more than 2 teams have turned down the chance to play

I see it clashes with the St Louis Spring chess classic (Le Quang Liem, Ivanchuk) and the Prague Chess Festival (Navara, Duda, Harikrishna, Shankland, Wojtaszek) and Vietnam's HDBank Open (Wang Hao) according to 2700 chess
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Re: World Teams 2019

Post by Artur Grodzicki » Sun Feb 17, 2019 9:36 pm

Poland has rejected the invitation due to its short notice. They pointed out that this tournament used to be played in June not March and that Polish top players had already accepted invitations to other events in March.

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Re: World Teams 2019

Post by Alex McFarlane » Thu Feb 21, 2019 5:46 pm

England
400041 1 Adams, Michael GM 2705
409561 2 Jones, Gawain C B GM 2689
404853 3 McShane, Luke J GM 2663
410608 4 Howell, David W L GM 2689
400033 5 Speelman, Jon S GM 2504
400289 6 Pein, Malcolm (C) IM 2313

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Re: World Teams 2019

Post by Roger de Coverly » Mon Feb 25, 2019 11:56 am

Artur Grodzicki wrote:
Sun Feb 17, 2019 9:36 pm
Poland has rejected the invitation due to its short notice.
replaced by Sweden, it would seem.

according to the FIDE website

Open Teams
Azerbaijan
4650891 1 Naiditsch, Arkadij GM 2732
13401653 2 Mamedov, Rauf GM 2703
13402129 3 Safarli, Eltaj GM 2681
13401378 4 Guseinov, Gadir GM 2664
13402960 5 Abasov, Nijat GM 2630
13400150 6 Sideifzade, Fikret (C) IM 2391
Egypt
10601457 1 Amin, Bassem GM 2710
10601619 2 Adly, Ahmed GM 2611
10600183 3 Hesham, Abdelrahman GM 2448
10613129 4 Fawzy, Adham IM 2447
10600035 5 Abdelnabbi, Imed IM 2444
4152417 6 Oleksiyenko, Mykhaylo (C) GM 2592
England
400041 1 Adams, Michael GM 2705
409561 2 Jones, Gawain C B GM 2689
404853 3 McShane, Luke J GM 2663
410608 4 Howell, David W L GM 2689
400033 5 Speelman, Jon S GM 2504
400289 6 Pein, Malcolm (C) IM 2313
Russia
14109603 1 Karjakin, Sergey GM 2753
4168119 2 Nepomniachtchi, Ian GM 2771
4126025 3 Grischuk, Alexander GM 2771
4158814 4 Andreikin, Dmitry GM 2725
24101605 5 Artemiev, Vladislav GM 2709
4121830 6 Motylev, Alexander (C) GM 2644
India
5018471 1 Adhiban, B. GM 2689
5004985 2 Sasikiran, Krishnan GM 2678
5021596 3 Sethuraman, S.P. GM 2651
5072786 4 Aravindh,Chithambaram VR. GM 2601
5002150 5 Ganguly, Surya Shekhar GM 2636
5018420 6 Narayanan, Srinath (C) GM 2572
Iran
12539929 1 Maghsoodloo, Parham GM 2666
12573981 2 Firouzja, Alireza GM 2618
12510130 3 Idani, Pouya GM 2604
12521213 4 Tabatabaei, M.amin GM 2590
12500739 5 Ghaem Maghami, Ehsan GM 2540
14400030 6 Sokolov, Ivan (C) GM 2590
Kazakhstan
13702661 1 Jumabayev, Rinat GM 2604
13700316 2 Kazhgaleyev, Murtas GM 2587
13701525 3 Ismagambetov, Anuar GM 2545
13707647 4 Makhnev, Denis IM 2495
13700669 5 Kostenko, Petr GM 2466
13700278 6 Kotsur, Pavel (C) GM 2527
China
8603677 1 Ding, Liren GM 2812
8603820 2 Yu, Yangyi GM 2764
8601445 3 Bu, Xiangzhi GM 2731
8601160 4 Ni, Hua GM 2683
8603405 5 Wei, Yi GM 2733
8600031 6 Xu, Jun (C) GM 2487
Sweden
1710400 1 Grandelius, Nils GM 2679
1709437 2 Blomqvist, Erik GM 2483
1706446 3 Tikkanen, Hans GM 2518
1707930 4 Smith, Axel GM 2487
1711113 5 Johansson, Linus IM 2479
United States of America
1126881 1 Swiercz, Dariusz GM 2655
14101025 2 Onischuk, Alexander GM 2647
2040506 3 Sevian, Samuel GM 2642
2021285 4 Lenderman, Aleksandr GM 2637
13601733 5 Izoria, Zviad GM 2603
2000709 6 Donaldson, John (C) IM 2412

The American team seems to be "USA B"

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Re: World Teams 2019

Post by Jonathan Rogers » Tue Feb 26, 2019 9:52 am

How did Sweden qualify? (or perhaps more realistically, did they qualify?)

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Re: World Teams 2019

Post by Mick Norris » Tue Feb 26, 2019 10:31 am

Jonathan Rogers wrote:
Tue Feb 26, 2019 9:52 am
How did Sweden qualify? (or perhaps more realistically, did they qualify?)
The 4 listed reserves on the FIDE site are Vietnam, Armenia, France & Ukraine who finished in positions 7-10 at the Olympiad; presumably, they all said no

Sweden were 11th, and thus next in line
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Re: World Teams 2019

Post by David Sedgwick » Mon Mar 04, 2019 3:01 pm

See http://chess-results.com/tnr420428.aspx?lan=1&art=2 and http://chess-results.com/tnr420408.aspx?lan=1&art=2 for the draws and pairings.

England start against hosts Kazakhstan and then play Azerbaijan, USA and Russia in successive rounds. :shock:

The time difference is six hours, so play is at 0900 UK time each day from Tuesday 5th March (Rest Day on Sunday 10th March; last round on Thursday 14th March at 0600).

Chess24: https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tourn ... 2019/1/1/1 and https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tourn ... 2019/1/1/1
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Re: World Teams 2019

Post by Reg Clucas » Mon Mar 04, 2019 4:33 pm

Those two links are the same.
David Sedgwick wrote:
Mon Mar 04, 2019 3:01 pm
Rest Day on Saturday 10th March
Rest Day is Sunday 10th March

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Re: World Teams 2019

Post by David Sedgwick » Mon Mar 04, 2019 4:54 pm

Reg Clucas wrote:
Mon Mar 04, 2019 4:33 pm
Those two links are the same.
They look the same, but they are not. Try them and see.

Reg Clucas wrote:
Mon Mar 04, 2019 4:33 pm
David Sedgwick wrote:
Mon Mar 04, 2019 3:01 pm
Rest Day on Saturday 10th March
Rest Day is Sunday 10th March
Thank you. I have corrected my original post.

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Re: World Teams 2019

Post by Leonard Barden » Tue Mar 05, 2019 12:07 pm

Way to go, but hopefully heading for 2.5-1.5 against Kazakhstan, with Howell a knight for two pawns up and the others level.

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Re: World Teams 2019

Post by Leonard Barden » Tue Mar 05, 2019 12:29 pm

Spoke too soon. The other three boards have all deteriorated, with Adams in a worse ending and McShane in zeitnot.