World Mind Sports Games kick off today

3 October 2008, 13.30 CET | Last modified: 13:33 | By Peter Doggers  | Filed under: Reports | Tags: Blitz, FIDE, Rapid chess

A whole new and huge event starts today, and chess is involved: the World Mind Sports Games. After the Summer Olympics athletes and the Paralympics sportsmen now approximately 3,000 Bridge, Chess, Go, Draughts, and Xiangqi players from over 150 countries have travelled to Beijing.

The first World Mind Sports Games is held in Beijing, China from October 3 to 18, 2008. Twenty five to thirty gold medals will be vied for by more than 3000 competitors from over 150 countries. There will be five mind sports competitions: Bridge, Chess, Go, Draughts, and Xiangqi (Chinese Chess).

The Games will be under the aegis of the General Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF) and organized by the International Mind Sports Association (IMSA) of which FIDE is a founding member. Venues are the China National Convention Center and the Beijing International Convention Center.

For chess there are the following sections: Men’s Individual Blitz, Women’s Individual Blitz, Men’s Individual Rapid, Women’s Individual Rapid, Mixed Pairs Blitz, Mixed Pairs Rapid, Men’s Teams Blitz, Women’s Teams Blitz, Men’s Teams Rapid and Women’s Teams Rapid.

The rate of play for the ten events:
Blitz Chess: 3 minutes with increment of 2 seconds per move. Individual (Men & Women), Pair (Mixed Team), Team (Men & Women)
Rapid Chess: 25 minutes with increment of 5 seconds per move. Individual (Men & Women), Pair (Mixed Team), Team (Men & Women)

Here are the participants lists as published by FIDE on July 21st. They’re not definite and certainly not official lists (nothing about participants can be found on the official website!). As Chessdom reported, a Russian sponsor who should have been responsible for part of the air tickets seems to be withdrawing. They also stated that Topalov is not playing.

World Mind Sports Games | Chess | Participants List Men

SNo.	Title	Name	IRtg	Federation
1	GM	Topalov Veselin	2777	Bulgaria
2	GM	Bu Xiangzhi	2710	China
3	GM	Dominguez Perez Leinier	2708	Cuba
4	GM	Ni Hua	2705	China
5	GM	Wang Yue	2704	China
6	GM	Wang Hao	2691	China
7	GM	Sasikiran Krishnan	2684	India
8	GM	Harikrishna P	2668	India
9	GM	Naiditsch Arkadij	2665	Germany
10	GM	Khenkin Igor	2655	Germany
11	GM	Karpov Anatoly	2651	Russia
12	GM	Kazhgaleyev Murtas	2641	Kazakhstan
13	GM	Nyback Tomi	2639	Finland
14	GM	Fridman Daniel	2637	Germany
15	GM	Zhang Zhong	2632	Singapore
16	GM	Ganguly Surya Shekhar	2631	India
17	GM	Gurevich Mikhail	2631	Turkey
18	GM	Kryvoruchko Yuriy	2628	Ukraine
19	GM	Balogh Csaba	2624	Hungary
20	GM	Petrosian Tigran L	2624	Armenia
21	GM	Gustafsson Jan	2620	Germany
22	GM	Shabalov Alexander	2611	United States of America
23	GM	Akobian Varuzhan	2610	United States of America
24	GM	Rodshtein Maxim	2605	Israel
25	GM	Mchedlishvili Mikheil	2604	Georgia
26	GM	Zhou Jianchao	2604	China
27	GM	Ghaem Maghami Ehsan	2597	Iran
28	GM	Papaioannou Ioannis	2591	Greece
29	GM	Korobov Anton	2590	Ukraine
30	GM	Sandipan Chanda	2588	India
31	GM	Drozdovskij Yuri	2587	Ukraine
32	GM	Miton Kamil	2580	Poland
33	GM	Bartel Mateusz	2579	Poland
34	GM	Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son	2579	Vietnam
35	GM	Le Quang Liem	2577	Vietnam
36	GM	Gajewski Grzegorz	2575	Poland
37	GM	Banikas Hristos	2572	Greece
38	GM	Geetha Narayanan Gopal	2572	India
39	GM	Dziuba Marcin	2570	Poland
40	GM	Markos Jan	2568	Slovakia
41	GM	Rahman Ziaur	2564	Bangladesh
42	GM	Iturrizaga Eduardo	2561	Venezuela
43	GM	Gonzalez Zamora Juan Carlos	2559	Mexico
44	GM	Fier Alexandr	2558	Brazil
45	IM	Kravtsiv Martyn	2555	Ukraine
46	GM	Adianto Utut	2554	Indonesia
47	GM	Hernandez Guerrero Gilberto	2550	Mexico
48	GM	Djukic Nikola	2545	Montenegro
49	IM	Leon Hoyos Manuel	2543	Mexico
50	GM	Aveskulov Valeriy	2541	Ukraine
51	GM	Reinderman Dimitri	2537	Netherlands
52	IM	Moranda Wojciech	2533	Poland
53	GM	Filippov Anton	2531	Uzbekistan
54	GM	Baburin Alexander	2526	Ireland
55	IM	Friedel Joshua E	2524	United States of America
56	GM	Paragua Mark	2523	Philippines
57	GM	Abdulla Al-Rakib	2522	Bangladesh
58		Nolte Rolando	2522	Philippines
59	GM	Kraai Jesse	2513	United States of America
60	GM	Galego Luis	2506	Portugal

World Mind Sports Games | Chess | Participants List Women

SNo.	Title	Name	IRtg	Federation
1	WGM	Hou Yifan	2557	China
2	GM	Stefanova Antoaneta	2550	Bulgaria
3	GM	Zhao Xue	2522	China
4	GM	Kosteniuk Alexandra	2510	Russia
5	IM	Danielian Elina	2495	Armenia
6	GM	Hoang Thanh Trang	2487	Hungary
7	GM	Xu Yuhua	2483	China
8	IM	Paehtz Elisabeth	2481	Germany
9	IM	Krush Irina	2470	United States of America
10	WGM	Pogonina Natalija	2469	Russia
11	IM	Gaponenko Inna	2468	Ukraine
12	GM	Peng Zhaoqin	2462	Netherlands
13	IM	Harika Dronavalli	2461	India
14	IM	Dzagnidze Nana	2458	Georgia
15	WGM	Shen Yang	2445	China
16	IM	Tania Sachdev	2432	India
17	IM	Dembo Yelena	2431	Greece
18	WGM	Huang Qian	2430	China
19	WGM	Li Ruofan	2425	Singapore
20	WGM	Zdebskaja Natalia	2422	Ukraine
21	IM	Rajlich Iweta	2417	Poland
22	WGM	Muzychuk Mariya	2413	Ukraine
23	WGM	Mongontuul Bathuyag	2406	Mongolia
24	IM	Houska Jovanka	2405	England
25	WGM	Zawadzka Jolanta	2389	Poland
26	IM	Vasilevich Tatjana	2365	Ukraine
27	WGM	Kovanova Baira	2359	Russia
28	WGM	Mohota Nisha	2354	India
29	WGM	Swathi Ghate	2351	India
30	IM	Dworakowska Joanna	2340	Poland
31	WIM	Dolzhikova Kateryna	2339	Ukraine
32	WGM	Krivec Jana	2337	Slovenia
33	WIM	Le Thanh Tu	2325	Vietnam
34	FM	Schuurman Petra	2324	Netherlands
35	WGM	Shahade Jennifer	2322	United States of America
36	WIM	Gomes Mary Ann	2316	India
37	WIM	Charochkina Daria	2309	Russia
38	WFM	Pham Le Thao Nguyen	2304	Vietnam
39	WIM	Worek Joanna	2293	Poland
40	WIM	Vojinovic Jovana	2289	Montenegro
41	WIM	Le Kieu Thien Kim	2286	Vietnam
42	WIM	Przezdziecka Marta	2281	Poland
43	WGM	Golubenko Valentina	2271	Croatia
44	WIM	Pourkashiyan Atousa	2269	Iran
45	WIM	Dauletova Gulmira	2267	Kazakhstan
46	WIM	Sukandar Irine Kharisma	2262	Indonesia
47	WGM	Igla Bella	2254	Israel
48	WFM	Borosova Zuzana	2254	Slovakia
49	WGM	Hoang Thi Bao Tram	2250	Vietnam
50	WIM	Ortiz Nadya Karolina	2249	Colombia
51	WIM	Topel Zehra	2240	Turkey
52	WIM	Hernandez Guerrero Yadira	2236	Mexico
53	WIM	Yildiz Betul Cemre	2236	Turkey
54	CM	Zenyuk Iryna	2233	United States of America
55	WIM	Aketaeva Dana	2221	Kazakhstan
56	WIM	Turebaeva A	2219	Kazakhstan
57	WIM	Chirivi C Yenny Astrid	2210	Colombia
58	WGM	Sanchez Castillo Sarai	2202	Venezuela
59	WIM	Leite Catarina	2202	Portugal
60	WIM	Glaz Lena	2200	Israel

Most of the details about entries, rules and regulations of the 1st World Mind Sports Games can be found here at the FIDE website. Below is the schedule of the chess part of the event:

Date	Time	Event	Round
October 3	12:00 hr	Arrival
		Opening Ceremony
October 4	10:00 hr	Technical Meeting
	15:00-19:00 hr	Blitz Individual (Men & Women)	Round 1 to 11
October 5	10:00-13:30 hr	Blitz Individual (Men & Women)	Semi-Finals & Finals
	15:00-19:00 hr	Rapid Individual (Men & Women)	Rounds 1 to 3
October 6	10:00-13:30 hr	Rapid Individual (Men & Women)	Rounds 4 to 5
	15:00-19:00 hr	Rapid Individual (Men & Women)	Rounds 6 to 7
October 7	10:00-13:30 hr	Rapid Individual (Men & Women)	Rounds 8 to 9
	15:00-19:00 hr	Rapid Individual (Men & Women)	Semi-Finals
October 8	10:00-13:30 hr	Rapid Individual (Men & Women)	Finals
	15:00-19:00 hr	Blitz Pair	Rounds 1 to 11
October 9	10:00-13:30 hr	Blitz Pair	Semi-Finals & Finals
	15:00-19:00 hr	Rapid Pair	Rounds 1 to 2
October 10	10:00-13:30 hr	Rapid Pair	Rounds 3 to 4
	15:00-19:00 hr	Rapid Pair	Rounds 5 to 6
October 11	10:00-13:30 hr	Rapid Pair	Round 7
	15:00-19:00 hr	Rapid Pair	Rounds 8 to 9
October 12	10:00-13:30 hr	Rapid Pair	Semi-Finals
	15:00-19:00 hr	Rapid Pair	Finals
October 13	10:00-13:30 hr	Blitz Team (Men & Women)	Rounds 1 to 5
	15:00-19:00 hr	Blitz Team (Men & Women)	Rounds 6 to 11
October 14	10:00-13:30 hr	Blitz Team (Men & Women)	Semi-Finals & Finals
	15:00-19:00 hr	Rapid Team (Men & Women)	Rounds 1 to 2
October 15	10:00-13:30 hr	Rapid Team (Men & Women)	Rounds 3 to 4
	15:00-19:00 hr	Rapid Team (Men & Women)	Rounds 5 to 6
October 16	10:00-13:30 hr	Rapid Team (Men & Women)	Round 7
	15:00-19:00 hr	Rapid Team (Men & Women)	Rounds 8 to 9
October 17	10:00-13:30 hr	Rapid Team (Men & Women)	Semi-Finals
	15:00-19:00 hr	Rapid Team (Men & Women)	Finals
October 18		Closing Ceremony & Departure

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