9th World Team Chess Championship: Antalya 2013

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Basic data

9th World Team Chess Championship
(see all-time tournament summary)
Date: 25th November - 5th December 2013
City: Antalya, Turkey
Venue: Limak Limra Hotel
Tournament Director: IO Ümit Küçükahmetoğlu (TUR)
Chief Arbiter: IA Anastasia Sorokina (AUS)
Teams participating: According to FIDE Regulations D.07.1.4.1.:
Armenia - winners of 2011 World Team Championship;
Germany - winners of 2011 European Team Championship;
China - winners of 2012 Asian Team Championship;
United States - winners of 2013 Panamerican Team Championship;
Egypt - winners of 2011 All-Africa Games;
Armenia, Russia, Ukraine, China, United States, Netherlands - top teams from 2012 Olympiad;
Azerbaijan - FIDE President's nominees;
Turkey - home team.
Players participating: 50 (incl. 46 GMs and 4 IMs)
Games played: 180
Competition format: Four board round robin.
Final order decided by: 1. Game points; 2. Match points
Time control: 40 moves in 90 minutes + 30 minutes for the rest of the game, 30 sec. increment starting from move
Website: http://wctc2013.tsf.org.tr
Other websites: ChessBase reports: r1, r2, r3, r4, r5, r6, r7, r8, r9
FIDE report
Downloadable game file: 13wtch.zip


Tournament review

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Best board results

1st Board
no. name flag code pts gms %
1. GM Aronian, Levon ARM 6 8 75.0
2. GM Nakamura, Hikaru USA 7 64.3
3. GM Ivanchuk, Vasyl UKR 5 8 62.5

2nd Board
no. name flag code pts gms %
1. GM Korobov, Anton UKR 8 68.8
2. GM Karjakin, Sergei RUS 8 68.8
3. GM Ding Liren CHN 5 8 62.5

3rd Board
no. name flag code pts gms %
1. GM Fridman, Daniel GER 7 64.3
2. GM Onischuk, Alexander USA 5 8 62.5
3. GM Wang Yue CHN 6 58.3

4th Board
no. name flag code pts gms %
1. GM Nepomnyaschy, Yan RUS 7 78.6
2. GM Bu Xiangzhi CHN 5 7 71.4
3. GM Kryvoruchko, Yuriy UKR 4 7 57.1

Reserve Board
no. name flag code pts gms %
1. GM Akobian, Varuzhan USA 4 6 66.7
2. GM Yu Yangyi CHN 7 64.3
3. GM Vitiugov, Nikita RUS 6 58.3


Interesting games


This crazy game contributed to US' win over Russia.
Vitiugov, Nikita (RUS) - Robson, Ray (USA) 0 - 1

Another Ray's brilliant win - a shocker on his 21st move.
Robson, Ray (USA) - Guseinov, Gadir (AZE) 1 - 0

Shortest decisive game.
Yılmaz, Mustafa (TUR) - Nepomnyaschy, Yan (RUS) 0 - 1