In October 2007, China won the gold medal in the "classic chess mixed team" event of the 2nd Asian Indoor Games in Macau with 11 match points. India won the silver with 9 match points followed by Vietnam with 8 match points and 16.5 game points for the bronze.[1]
World Youth Olympiads (U16)
2002
The Malaysian Chess Federation (MCF) organised the World Youth Olympiad (U16) which took place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 20–28 August 2002. 2nd seeds China A took clear first on the back of an 85% score on board 1 by Wang Yue and an 80% score on board 2 by Zhao Jun. (Games in PGN.)
The China-Russia Chess Summit took place in Shanghai, China, September 7-12th 2001. The event borrowed ideas from the China-USA match, like that series this one will last four years, China will host the match in 2001 and 2003 while Russia will be the host in 2002 and 2004. They played for the Riverside Weicheng Estate Cup. Games in PGN
Venue: Shanghai International Cenvention Center
Sponsor: Weicheng Real Estate Corporation
Prizefund: Men's $30,000, Women's $10,000 and Juniors $6,000.
Format: Single Schveningen for Men, Double Schveningen for both Women and Junior sections.
Time control: 40 moves within 2 hours, then 1 hour for the remaining moves.
Day 6 12 September 2001
The final day 6 saw 4 of 12 games drawn. The Russian men won 3.5-2.5, the Chinese women won 2.5-0.5 and the Chinese juniors 2-1.
Final Standings: Men Russia 21½ - China 14½, Women Russia 9-9 China, Juniors Russia 11 - China 7.
There was a double-round Sheveningen system match which took place in Shanghai University of Finance and Economics called the "China-World All Stars Women's Summit". It featured the best Chinese women players against the rest of World, mainly Georgia. The time control was 25min/10sec. 2 or 3 games were played each day except June 3 which was a rest day. The 1st SUFE Cup featured GMs such as Krasenkow, Bologan and Ye Jiangchuan. This years was the turn of the women. The event received a lot of publicity. All games were transmitted live by Shanghai Cable TV but not on the Internet. Games in PGN
1 Chiburdanidze, Maia g GEO 2513 7.0 2571;
2 Maric, Alisa m YUG 2446 6.0 2514;
3 Alexandria, Nana wg GEO 2336 5.5 2485;
4 Ioseliani, Nana m GEO 2499 5.0 2457;
5 Gaprindashvili, Nona g GEO 2381 4.0 2389;
6 Zhukova, Natalia wg UKR 2463 3.0 2321;
USA-China Match
The Seattle Chess Foundation[4] ran the US-China Chess Summit Match March 14–18 in Seattle at the Norton Building's Harbor Club (Seattle) in downtown Seattle (second and Columbia). The four-round match had the top six players of each country facing each other in one game a day for four days. In addition, two leading women players and two junior players (under 18) from each country competed. China won the event 21-19 thanks to a brilliant day 3 (6.5-3.5), days 2 and 4 were drawn and the US edged day 1. Games in PGN
US team: Joel Benjamin, Boris Gulko, Yasser Seirawan, Gregory Kaidanov, Hikaru Nakamura, Alexander Ivanov, Larry Christiansen, Irina Krush, Camilla Baginskaite, Vinay S Bhat.
The US-China Chess Summit took place July 10-15th 2002 in Shanghai with games on the 11th, 12th, 14th, and 15th. Each round consisted of 10 games featuring six of the top male players, two of the top female players, and two of the top junior players from each country. The US led until the final round when a 6-4 loss led to China winning 20½ - 19½ overall. All Games in PGN
France and China played for the Trophée MULTICOMS in Paris 4–9 September 2006. This is a Scheveningen match with 6 men and 3 women in the teams. There are 20 000 Euros in prizes for the men's section. France edged out China 20-16 in the main men's event. The women's part was a complete mismatch in terms of ELO ratings in favour of the Chinese and so it proved in reality finishing 12.5-5.5. This left the final overall result as China 28.5 France 25.5.
The China - Russia Chess Summit saw two double round robin Scheveningen format events, one for men and one for women, taking place in Ergun, Mongolia 10–20 August 2006. Russia won the men's event 26.5-23.5 but China won the women's section winning 28-22 which meant that in the combined standings China beat Russia 51.5-48.5.
4th Russian-Chinese Chess Match at Nizhny Novgorod Fair, 2007 click to enlarge.
Russia vs China Match
The 4th China vs Russia Chess Match took place 18–31 August 2007 in Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia. China won the match overall 52.5-47.5 coming back to win the men's half with three wins in the final round and won the women's half 27-23 (almost entirely due to Elena Tairova's catastrophic 2.5/10, the other Russian players scored at least 50%).
Final Round 10 Standings:
IV RUS-CHN Match Nizhniy Novgorod RUS (RUS),
20-30 viii 2007
1 Alekseev, Evgeny g RUS 2689 7.0 2816
2 Inarkiev, Ernesto g RUS 2663 5.5 2703
3 Jakovenko, Dmitry g RUS 2735 5.0 2667
4 Tomashevsky, Evgeny g RUS 2654 3.5 2557
5 Timofeev, Artyom g RUS 2650 3.5 2557
24.5
1 Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina m RUS 2454 5.5 2469
2 Korbut, Ekaterina wg RUS 2445 5.0 2433
3 Kosintseva, Nadezhda m RUS 2475 5.0 2433
4 Kosintseva, Tatiana m RUS 2502 5.0 2433
5 Tairova, Elena wg RUS 2410 2.5 2240
23.0
47.5
1 Bu Xiangzhi g CHN 2685 5.0 2678
2 Wang Hao g CHN 2624 5.5 2714
3 Wang Yue g CHN 2696 5.5 2714
4 Zhang Pengxiang g CHN 2649 5.0 2678
5 Ni Hua g CHN 2681 4.5 2642
25.5
1 Ruan Lufei CHN 2433 6.0 2529
2 Zhao Xue wg CHN 2500 5.5 2493
3 Shen Yang wg CHN 2439 5.5 2493
4 Huang Qian wm CHN 2410 5.0 2457
5 Wang Yu wg CHN 2384 5.0 2457
27.0
52.5
The Liverpool Chess International took place 3–9 September 2007. China had a comfortable 28 - 20 win against a UK team, led by Michael Adams and Nigel Short, by 28-22 in Liverpool.[2][3] The Chinese team managed to do this without having a single player among the world's 20 highest-rated grandmasters. The average age of the British team was 29. For the Chinese it was 20.
UK - China Match Liverpool. Reports on Round 5-6 [9]
UK - China Match Liverpool. Reports on Round 4 [10]
UK - China Match Liverpool. Reports on Round 3 [11]
UK - China Match Liverpool. Reports on Round 2 [12]
UK - China Match Liverpool. Reports on Round 1 [13]
Round 6 (September 9, 2007)
Ding Yixin - Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan 1-0 52 B59 Sicilian Boleslavsky
Shen Yang - Houska, Jovanka 1/2 31 B12 Caro Kann Advanced
Wang Yue - Howell, David W L 1-0 57 A16 English Opening
Zhang Pengxiang - Jones, Gawain C B 1/2 50 A45 Trompowsky
Pert, Nicholas - Wang Hao 1/2 30 D45 Anti-Meran Variations
Bu Xiangzhi - Rowson, Jonathan 1/2 22 D36 QGD Exchange
Short, Nigel D - Ni Hua 1/2 44 B13 Caro Kann Exchange
Adams, Michael - Hou Yifan 1-0 39 B84 Sicilian Scheveningen
Final Round 6 Standings:
UK-CHN Match Liverpool ENG (ENG), 4-9 ix 2007
1 Adams, Michael g ENG 2724 3.5 2700
2 Short, Nigel D g ENG 2683 3.0 2643
3 Jones, Gawain C B m ENG 2526 2.5 2586
4 Howell, David W L g ENG 2519 2.0 2518
5 Pert, Nicholas g ENG 2536 1.5 2450
6 Rowson, Jonathan g SCO 2599 1.5 2450
14.0
UK Women
1 Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan m GEO 2418 4.0 2483
2 Houska, Jovanka m ENG 2401 2.0 2233
6.0
20.0
The event was in the following format: The 24 entrants were initially split into four groups of six players for the all-play-all preliminary sections which took place September 1-5th 2000. The top two players in each group went forward to the knockout stages (ties were resolved via playoffs on September 5). Knockout stages: Quarter Finals 7–8 September, Semi-Finals 9–10 September, Finals 12–13 September. Each knockout match was over two games with ties being resolved by playoff games at faster timerates. Link to the regulations on FIDE's site
Men's and Women's Finals
Day 1 (September 12, 2000)
Bareev, Evgeny - Anand, Viswanathan 1/2 0-1
Zhukova, Natalia - Xu Yuhua 1/2 0-1
Semi-Final Results Men:
Day 2 (September 10, 2000)
Anand, Viswanathan - Gelfand, Boris 1/2 1/2 Anand won the Playoff 2.5-1.5
Milos, Gilberto - Bareev, Evgeny 1/2 1/2 Bareev won the Playoff 1.5-0.5
Semi-Final Results Women:
Zhukova, Natalia - Hoang Thanh Trang 1/2 1-0
Cramling, Pia - Xu Yuhua 1-0 0-1 Xu Yuhua won the Playoff 2-1
Quarter Final Results Men:
Day 2 (September 7, 2000)
Top Half
Milos, Gilberto - Movsesian, Sergei 1/2 1/2 Milos won the Playoff 2-1
Bareev, Evgeny - Azmaiparashvili, Zurab 0-1 1-0 Bareev won the Playoff 1.5-0.5
Bottom Half
Gelfand, Boris - Ye Jiangchuan 1-0 0-1 Gelfand won the Playoff 1.5-0.5
The Chess World Cup 2007 ($1.92 million prize fund) took from November 23 to December 16, 2007 in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia. The FIDE World Cup was played on the elimination knockout system, with a total of 128 players competing. If Vladimir Kramnik had won the 2007 World Chess Championship in Mexico City he would have been expected to face Veselin Topalov in a World Championship match format. As Kramnik did not win, he will, instead, have the right to play a match against FIDE's Mexico 2007 world champion Viswanathan Anand, and the 2007 FIDE World Cup's winner (Gata Kamsky) will play a match against Veselin Topalov. The winners of the two matches will face each other in a match to determine the ultimate undisputed world chess champion.[4]
Qualification
Qualification for the FIDE World Cup 2007 for Chinese players occurred in two stages.
First stage
The first stage was the Chinese Zonal (Zone 3.5) Championship 2007 held in Shandong, 28 April - 6 May 2007. (Event.) China [14] is a member of the Asian Chess Federation (ACF) and competes in Zone 3.5 by itself because it is a relatively strong chess nation in Asia.[15]
The top two places in the Chinese Zonal qualified. (Results.) They were Wang Yue (first) and Bu Xiangzhi (second).
Xu Yuhua also managed to qualify for the men's World Cup as she had been the reigning women's world champion.
Those who did not qualify (as the top 2) in the Chinese Zonal entered the second stage, the Asian Individual Championship. By competing at the Asian Continental Championship tournament more Chinese players could qualify for the World Cup. A total of 72 Asian players competed, and the top 10 places qualified for the World Cup.
Thirteen Chinese players competed in this event (seeded in brackets).
Five qualified by finishing in the top 10 (Results):
The 6th Tan Chin Nam Cup & 2nd Hua Yuan Hotel Cup GM Chess Tournament took place in Beijing, China July 9 - 18th 2000. The Category XVI event (2644) had 10 players. There was a four-way tie for first between Viktor Bologan, Nigel Short, Alexei Dreev, Alexander Onischuk with Bologan winning on tie-break. Bologan was the last player to finish attempting to win his final round game against Wang Zili.
Round 9 Standings: 1. Bologan, Viktor g MDA 2641 5.5; 2. Dreev, Alexey g RUS 2676 5.5; 3. Short, Nigel D g ENG 2677 5.5; 4. Onischuk, Alexander g UKR 2627 5.5; 5. Ye Jiangchuan g CHN 2670 5.0; 6. Peng Xiaomin g CHN 2657 4.5; 7. Zhang Zhong g CHN 2636 4.5; 8. Xu Jun g CHN 2668 3.5; 9. Wang Zili g CHN 2603 3.0; 10. Adianto, Utut g INA 2583 2.5;
The Zhong Hong Real Estate Cup took place Beijing, China 20–30 July 2001. IM Zhang Pengxiang took first place and his final GM norm.
In addition the Tian Lian Ann Cup (A) and (B) event took place 12–28 July 2001 in Tianjin China. The Category 5, round robin had 12 players. The winners were IM Yu Shaoteng (A) 8.5/11 and IM Wang Rui (B) 7.5/11.
Zhong Hong Real Estate Cup Beijing CHN (CHN), 20-30 vii 2001cat. X (2476)
The Beijing Chess Challenge Match took place September 22-23rd 2003, in China Resources Hotel, Beijing between Chinese teams and an International team. On day 1 the international team won 5-4 against a Chinese A team, on day 2 the international team was held 4.5-4.5 by the Chinese B team.
There are three games a day, each Chinese player take a player of International Team, the game start from 14:00 to 18:00 Beijing time, the time controls are 25 minutes, each move with a 10 seconds increment, 30 minutes rest after each game.
22 September International team - Chinese Team A 14:00 - 18:00 Beijing time
Xu Jun - Nigel Short 0.5, Zhang Zhong - Engeny Bareev 0-1, Yasser Seirawan - Ye Jiangchuan 1-0 Chinese Team A - International Team 0.5-2.5 Round 2 Nigel Short - Zhang Zhong 1-0, Engeny Bareev - Ye Jiangchuan 0.5, Xu Jun - Yasser Seirawan 0.5 Chinese Team A - International Team 1-2 Round 3 Ye Jiangchuan - Nigel Short 0.5, Engeny Bareev - Xu Jun 0-1, Yasser Seirawan - Zhang Zhong 0-1 Chinese Team A - International Team 2.5-0.5 Final standings come soon¡¡ Chinese Team A - International Team 4-5
23 September International Team - Chinese Team B 14:00 - 18:00 Beijing time
Round 1 Nigel Short - Ni Hua 0-1, Evgeny Bareev - Bu Xiangzhi 0.5, Zhang Pengxiang - Yasser Seirawan 1-0. Chinese Team B - International Team 2.5-0.5 Round 2 Ni Hua - Evgeny 0.5, Bu Xiangzhi - Yasser Seirawan 0.5, Nigel Short - Zhangpeng 1-0 Chinese Team B - International Team 1-2 Round 3 Yasser Seirawan - Ni hua 1-0, Bu Xiangzhi - Nigel Short 1-0, Zhang Pengxiang - Evgeny Bareev 0-1, Chinese Team B - International Team 1-2. Day 2 total Chinese Team B - International Team 4.5 - 4.5
Alternating moves in the games the players drew a number to choose their partners. There were 3 games a day, time controls were 25 minutes, each move with a 10 seconds increment.
Round 1 (September 13, 2003)
Zhao Xue/Nigel Short - Zhu Chen/Yasser Seirawan 1-0 39 A62 Benoni
Xu Yuhua/Ye Jiangchuan - Xie Jun/Evgeny Bareev 1-0 51 B19 Caro Kann
Zhao Xue/Nigel Short - Xie Jun/Evgeny Bareev 0-1 34 A04 Dutch System
Zhu Chen/Yasser Seirawan - Xu Yuhua/Ye Jiangchuan 1/2 49 E32 Nimzo Indian 4.Qc2
Final Standings:
Zhao Xue/Nigel Short 4.0
Zhu Chen/Yasser Seirawan 3.0
Xie Jun/Evgeny Bareev 2.5
Xu Yuhua/Ye Jiangchuan 2.5
3 Arrows Cup
The 3 Arrows (San Jian) Cup took place in Jinan 17–20 September 2003. A team of Chinese women (Queens) took on a men's team (Kings). Final Score Kings 12.5 - Queens 3.5.
The Tigran Petrosian Memorial Internet Tournament took place December 18-23rd 2004 with games starting at 12:00 noon in Paris, 14:00 in St. Petersburg. 15:00 in Yerevan and 19:00 in Beijing. Each country faced each of the other three countries two times for a total of six rounds. Fischer time control will be used (1 hour 30 minutes plus 15 minutes added at move 40; 30 second increments are added after every move). The event took place on ICC.
China won the Tigran Petrosian Memorial Internet Tournament. Their final round match against Russia came down to the wire. The Russians led 2-1 but Wang Yue beat Vadim Zvjaginsev to tie the match and win the event for the Chinese. Final Scores: China 14.0 - France 13.0 - Russia 13.0 - Armenia 8.0
The Tai Yuan GM tournament took place in China 17–26 July 2004. Prizes $20,000. Time control 90 minutes for 40 moves, plus 15 minutes for the remaining moves with 30 seconds increment from move 1. Play started 2pm local time (GMT+8) except the last round which is at 10am. Nigel Short won the event by a clear point from Ni Hua. Games in PGN
Round 9 (July 26, 2004)
Ni Hua - Xu Jun 1/2 23 B92 Sicilian Najdorf with 6.Be2
Lautier, Joel - Bu Xiangzhi 1-0 40 A29 English Four Knights
Xie Jun - Short, Nigel D 1/2 17 C08 French Tarrasch
Ye Jiangchuan - Lputian, Smbat G 1/2 27 C09 French Tarrasch
Zhang Zhong - Dreev, Alexey 1/2 64 A07 Barcza System
Final Round 9 Standings: 1. Short, Nigel D g ENG 2684 6.5; 2. Ni Hua g CHN 2583 5.5; 3. Lautier, Joel g FRA 2666 5.0; 4. Dreev, Alexey g RUS 2690 5.0; 5. Bu Xiangzhi g CHN 2620 4.5; 6. Xie Jun g CHN 2564 4.0; 7. Lputian, Smbat G g ARM 2634 4.0; 8. Ye Jiangchuan g CHN 2681 4.0; 9. Zhang Zhong g CHN 2603 3.5; 10. Xu Jun g CHN 2617 3.0;
The 2nd Sanjin Hotel Cup took place in Tiayuan, China 8–20 July 2005. Pentala Harikrishna wins with 8.5/11 a point clear of Motylev who was defeated in the final round. Games in PGN
Final Round 11 Standings: 1. Harikrishna, P g IND 2645 8.5; 2. Motylev, Alexander g RUS 2675 7.5; 3. Wang Yue g CHN 2576 6.5; 4. Bu Xiangzhi g CHN 2632 6.5; 5. Ni Hua g CHN 2629 6.0; 6. Karjakin, Sergey g UKR 2645 5.5; 7. Petrosian, Tigran L g ARM 2581 5.5; 8. Zhang Pengxiang g CHN 2616 5.0; 9. Zhang Zhong g CHN 2608 4.5; 10. Wang Hao CHN 2512 4.5; 11. Zhao Xue wg CHN 2470 3.0; 12. McShane, Luke J g ENG 2625 3.0;
The Taiyuan double round Scheveningen tournament took place July 10-22nd 2006, with one rest day on 16th. The total prize fund was US$18000 which was distributed according to the individual scores. Game started at 13:00 Beijing Time. The Chinese team won 36.5-35.5 against a foreign side.
1 Ni Hua 2607 7.0/12
2 Bu Xiangzhi 2664 7.0/12
3 Zhang Pengxiang 2622 7.0/12
4 Wang Yue 2626 6.5/12
5 Wang Hao 2610 6.0/12
6 Zhang Zhong 2639 3.0/12
36.5
1 Jobava, Ba 2651 8.0/12
2 Timofeev, Arty 2657 7.0/12
3 Jakovenko, D 2667 6.0/12
4 Asrian, K 2635 6.0/12
5 Berkes, F 2601 4.5/12
6 Vescovi, G 2619 4.0/12
35.5
Team A Average Rating 2638
Jakovenko, Dmitry g RUS 2667 1983 M
Timofeev, Artyom g RUS 2657 1985 M
Jobava, Baadur g GEO 2651 1983 M
Asrian, Karen g ARM 2635 1980 M
Vescovi, Giovanni g BRA 2619 1978 M
Berkes, Ferenc g HUN 2601 1985 M
Team B Average Rating 2628
Bu, Xiangzhi g CHN 2664 1985 M
Zhang, Zhong g CHN 2639 1978 M
Wang, Yue g CHN 2626 1987 M
Zhang, Pengxiang g CHN 2622 1980 M
Wang, Hao g CHN 2610 1989 M
Ni, Hua g CHN 2607 1983 M
2007
2007 Miscellaneous Events
4th Taiyuan GM March
The Taiyuan Tournament Scheveningen tournament saw a foreign team beat a Chinese team 17-15. Vadim Zvjaginsev scored 5.5/8 to top score in the event, Wang Yue made 5/8 to top score for the Chinese team.
