2025 Chinese Chess League Division A(Final)

Chinese Chess League Division A (Final)

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2023 Chinese Chess League Division A（Regular）

2023 Chinese Chess League

2023 Chinese Chess League A started in Fuling Chongqing. Ding Liren, Yu Yangyi, Hou Yifan, Lei Tingjie and Tan Zhongyi are all abasent.

2023 Chinese Chess League A started today in Fuling Chongqing. Ding Liren, Yu Yangyi, Hou Yifan, Lei Tingjie and Tan Zhongyi are all abasent. GM Ye Jiangchuan played his first classical game after 2009 CCL due to his teammate Xue Haowen could not catch 1st round after Dubai Open. pic.twitter.com/MKLdRLwVSL

— Liang Ziming (@sinotahl) June 5, 2023

Rapid Women teams match «Kazakhstan vs World»

Blitz Women teams match «Kazakhstan vs World»

Kazakhstan vs the World: best female players will face off in Astana

KAZAKHSTAN VS WORLD WOMEN BLITZ 2023 — LIVE

One of the side events of the 2023 FIDE World Championship Match will be… another match, where best female players from Kazakhstan will face off with the team of the world.

Kazakhstan is known for the strength of its female players. They have conquered many pinnacles in the recent years. 19-year-old prodigy Bibisara Assaubayeva is the reigning two-time Women’s World Blitz Chess Champion. Dinara Saduakassova brought home silver from the 2022 FIDE Women’s World Rapid Chess Championship. Zhansaya Abdumalik won 2021 FIDE Women’s Grand Prix in Gibraltar with 8½/11, finishing in clear first by 1½ points and meeting the requirements for the Grandmaster title.

One of the measures of country’s strength is the average rating of its top-10 players. In the women’s list, Kazakhstan is currently number 10, led by an ambitions powerhouse of GM Zhansaya Abdumalik (2497), IM Bibisara Assaubayeva (2440), and IM Dinara Saduakassova (2434).

The time has come to test Kazakhstan’s muscles against the strongest female players from all over the world! The ladies will clash in rapid on 17-18 April and blitz on 19 April.
Each team will consist of eight players, a combination of youth and experience as four of them must fall into age groups of U20, U18, U16, and U14. Girls will play against girls in corresponding age groups, and four women will meet other four women in all-play-all Scheveningen format. The final result of the match is defined, counting all the individual points together. In case of an equal number of points the result is draw.

The lineups boast the strongest female players

TEAM WORLD (rapid rating)

GM Hou Yifan (China, 2618)
GM Nana Dzagnidze (Georgia, 2462)
GM Harika Dronavalli (India, 2447)
IM Gunay Mammadzada (Azerbaijan, 2348)
U20 IM Nurgyul Salimova (Bulgaria, 2347)
U18 WIM Zsoka Gaal or Savitha Shri B (Hungary, 2187/ India, 2281)
U16 WIM Zsoka Gaal or Savitha Shri B
U14 WFM Afruza Khamdamova (Uzbekistan, 2135)

Team Captain: WGM Dana Reizniece-Ozola, Deputy Chair of Management Board, International Chess Federation

TEAM KAZAKHSTAN (rapid rating)

GM Zhansaya Abdumalik (2454)
IM Dinara Saduakassova (2402)
IM Bibisara Assaubayeva (2359)
WIM Meruert Kamalidenova (2273)
U20 WIM Liya Kurmangaliyeva (2152)
U18 FM Kseniya Balabaeva (2111)
U16 WIM Alua Nurmanova (2193)
U14 WFM Zarina Nurgalieva (2070)

Team Captain: WGM Gulmira Dauletova, Executive Director, Kazakhstan Chess Federation
Kurmangaliyeva and Balabaeva came out on top of the special qualification event that was held to determine the spots in the team for this prestigious match.

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2022 Chinese Chess League Division A Regular-Standard

2022 Chinese Chess League Division A Regular-Rapid

2022 Chinese Chess League (Division A) is ongoing in Fuling, Chongqing.

Preliminary: 12 teams, double round robin, 1 classcial and 1 rapid.

Final: 8 teams, knockout, classical game

Top players: Ding Liren, Bu Xiangzhi, Wei Yi, Ni Hu, Li Chao, Hou Yifan, Ju Wenjun

Liang Ziming

Chinese League Div-A Standard 2022

Chinese League Div-A Rapid 2022

Live games: http://zhibo.zhisai.net/JJLS/

2022 Chinese Chess League (Division A) is ongoing in Fuling, Chongqing.

Preliminary: 12 teams, double round robin, 1 classcial and 1 rapid.

Final: 8 teams, knockout, classical game

Top players: Ding Liren, Bu Xiangzhi, Wei Yi, Ni Hu, Li Chao, Hou Yifan, Ju Wenjun pic.twitter.com/KhHzB6HF9C

— Liang Ziming (@sinotahl) September 7, 2022

Women’s no. 1 Hou Yifan will be the first female player to participate in the full Meltwater Champions Chess Tour when the Goldmoney Asian Rapid, the 7th stage on the $1.6 million tour, starts at 13:00 CEST on Saturday June 26th.

The earlier starting time should boost the chances of the players based in Asia, with no less than four Indian grandmasters taking part, including 15-year-old Gelfand Challenge winner Gukesh and 17-year-old Indian Qualifier winner Arjun Erigaisi. There are also tour debuts for Adhiban, Vladislav Artemiev and Salem Saleh.

What’s the format?

The games will be played online on chess24 at a time control of 15 minutes per player for all moves, plus a 10-second increment for each move made. The 3-day Preliminary stage sees all players play each once over 15 rounds, with the bottom 8 eliminated.

The remaining 8 players then go forward to a knockout, where each 2-day encounter consists of two 4-game matches. If the match score is tied on the second day we get two 5+3 blitz games, and if still tied there’s a final Armageddon game, where White has 5 minutes to Black’s 4, but a draw counts as a win for Black.

When does it start?

The action kicks off on June 26th at 13:00 CEST (16:30 IST), with the earlier than usual start time meaning that the players in Asia — and as many as 9 will play from the Asian continent — don’t need to stay up until the very early hours of the morning. It will, however, mean a bright and early 6am start for US Champion Wesley So!

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Завтра в Danzhou (China) начинается юбилейный 10-ый шахматный супер турнир.

Участники:

1 GM Artemiev Vladislav RUS 2761
2 GM Wei Yi CHN 2741
3 GM Yu Yangyi CHN 2738
4 GM Wang Hao CHN 2737
5 GM Rapport Richard HUN 2735
6 GM Amin Bassem EGY 2707
7 GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi IND 2707
8 GM Inarkiev Ernesto RUS 2693

Danzhou Super Chess Grandmaster Tournament

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Сегодня и завтра в Белграде пройдет первый Кубок Linglong Tire Cup, товарищеский матч между Китаем и Европой.

Команду Китая представляют: Bu Xangzgi, Hou Yifan, Wen Yang i Zhao Xue
Команду Европы представляют: Dmitry Andreikin, Mariya Muzychuk, Jovana i Richard Rapport

Первые два тура играют сегодня, 29 марта, а третий и четвертый завтра, 30 марта 2019 года. Стороны играют во Дворце Сербии.

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I had the pleasure of having a chat with Hou Yifan, the current Women’s World Champion in Almaty, Kazakhstan after the Eurasian Blitz. This is her answers to my questions.

Jamie Kenmure: Thank you for taking the time to have this interview before catching a flight back to China. I understand you learned chess at the age of 3, a very young age.

Yifan Hou: Actually, I started when I was 5 years old, not 3. There were many people talking about me starting at 3 but this is some sort of urban legend. I am not sure how this came about but I started chess in 1999.

JK: Who was the person that got you into chess?

YH: My father and grandfather can play Chinese chess (Xiangqi). I got inspired because I was playing chinese checkers with a small ball. I played with my friends who were older than me and who taught me how to play but I simply crushed them easily. Later on, my parents thought I probably should learn some mind games and they took me to the children’s palace and let me choose and I simply chose chess.

JK: Chess has obviously proven to be the sport for you Hou. In regards to your chess achievements, you have accomplished just about everything possible in women’s chess. You are the current Women’s World Champion, won Grand Prix tournaments, the highest rated player and even top 100 player.

YH: I am not now in the top 100 players of the world. I dropped 10-20 points and that makes a huge difference in the open section. Luckily, I might step back into the August list.

JK: You have been a top 50 and top 100 player before. What more is there for you to achieve now?

YH: I hope to be more stable. I should keep level or slowly increase and improve my rating to become more stronger. I want to be more stronger to compete for the invitational events or open tournaments. Here in Almaty it is strong event but if it was a standard event there should be more participants to fight for the places to make the tournament into a different situation. I also hope my rapid and blitz could be more higher. It is supposed to be not so bad but you know it contains luck and form. Many things can happen compared to the standard form of the sport. It might be more interesting so I am open for all three formats of chess.

JK: You mentioned how you wanted to improve your rapid and blitz, did you feel that you were playing good chess here in Almaty?

YH: Not really. Of course I am satisfied with the way it started. I was winning some games and I didn’t make many mistakes but later on I lost twice to the players who showed a very good performance here, but it could have been better for me. There were some chances missed so the quality could be improved but we know in blitz the quality cannot be perfect as classical chess. Even in the last rounds there were chances for me to improve which would have lead to a better result. We can see from my rating performance that I performed a bit lower than my original rating. The first day was kind of ok but the second day was not so good.

JK: What did you think of the organisation and the event itself?

YH: The tournament itself was good. The tournament situation regarding the venue and conditions was good. With only two days blitz it was a really fast routine and makes the tournament really exciting, probably more attractive for the spectators, to watch and follow, unlike a long tournament. This is not like a serious, serious tournament.

JK: Speaking of strong tournaments and performances, the tournament that comes to mind is 2012 Reykjavik Open where you won against many strong 2700 rated players. Did you feel this was the next step up in your playing career?

YH: In this tournament I played GM Fabiano Caruana and drew, but I did get a few winning positions. I did win against some other talented players in this tournament. Talking about this I remember playing in the Aeroflot Open in 2007 when I was rated around 2500. I felt I was improving but I was also stagnating at certain periods too. For example I was hasty at 2550 for a while, then 2600 and 2650. Now I am still stuck on 2650 and I now need to slowly, slowly increase. I hope to be going to a better and faster depth. This is why you need to be more stable.

JK: Women’s chess you have spoken about a lot recently in your interviews that you have done and about the women’s cycle. What do you think needs to be done to improve women’s chess?

YH: I think the interviews I have done show pretty clear my position on this. If you do events like this it is reasonable but if you continue to do this as a cycle for more than five or six years, I think it could be generated to a better way. Not only after six or seven months there is the knock out system. For example, the highest rated player won the match and is called the Women’s World Champion and it is very obvious advantage and then still FIDE gives no privilege to the World Champion and still put them to the knockout system. The knockout system is a very interesting format but you also need luck to win the tournament. I think the way the Men’s system is with the World Cup would be a better way. It would show the players strength, the psychological part and the technical part. If it is to find a World Champion, it has to be thought about. The men’s system is pretty good. They have the knockout as World Cup, the Candidates and then the Match which is quite reasonable.

JK: So do you think the Women’s cycle needs to be changed to the Men’s cycle?

YH: Of course. That is what we thought because most sports that are currently popular around the world have the same format for men and women, so I don’t see why chess has to be an exception. This is what I don’t understand. First, I started talking with FIDE officials and other people from the chess world many years ago. FIDE thought it was quite reasonable and the only thing they were worried about was the financial part. The financial part is not the first priority for players I think from what I understand. That’s why in my letter I reserved a few options so the budget could be more reasonable. It is true so far that men and women cannot be on the same level from an economic situation, but there can always be a more reasonable way to combine the financial part and the players’ situation.

JK: Do you see more women playing chess these days or less?

YH: I see more women playing chess and especially in some developing countries. For example, I did some promotion all over the world for different activities. In some places I remember there were more girls than boys. Of course, most places there are more boys playing but there are few girls who are more energetic/active and are fully concentrated. I think this is a phenomenon to see that women’s chess has a big potential in the future and it is the part that I want to work on in the future. I would not only just do this for chess, but for all sports to encourage more girls because girls can be sensitive. Sport can make girls feel more stronger, more stable and you can fight in the future when you enter the society. It is a really good quality for a girl and I think sports are a good way to generate your personality which is really important.

JK: Finally, do you see yourself opening up a chess school in China and perhaps a chess academy around the world to reach your goals and to get more women to play chess?

YH: Currently, I am not really ready to run my own chess academy but my parents run a chess club with our friends. Right now though what we are doing is focusing on the beginners, very young boys and girls. When they get developed we also are thinking of doing something for them with a focus on the girls. As a woman player and my future blueprint, I also hope to do something like encourage girls to combine chess studies and normal studies. All of this is connected and you don’t really need to have an academy or club and since this is a universal world it all can be connected through the internet.

JK: Thank you so much for time Hou Yifan and I wish you all the best for achieving all your goals.

YH: Thank you and you are welcome.

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