Teams of Morocco and Yemen will participate in the Olympiad

Teams of Morocco and Yemen will participate in the Olympiad upon FIDE approval. In total there will be 120 women and 160 men (158 + 2 Russian teams) teams from 158 countries playing in Khanty-Mansiysk.

Chess Problems and Combinations Contest

FIDE has held the contest for creating chess problems and combinations in the eve of the 39 th World Chess Olympiad. The contest was held on 8 nominations: two-move problem, three-move problem, multipass problem, sketches, challenges for the cooperative mate, the challenges in reverse mate, fairy-problems and retro-problems. Here you can know more about results and the winners of the contest!

Please download the full report (Russian and English partly).

The President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev welcomed the participants of the 39th World Chess Olympiad

The 39th World Chess Olympiad will be opened today in Khanty-Mansiysk. The President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev welcomed the participants of this event. The welcoming speech of the Russian President will be broadcast tonight at the Opening Ceremony.

“Today Khanty-Mansiysk is hosting the representatives of 160 states. The leading world chess players are to perform their professionalism and strong character in the tense competition to be the best. FIDE delegates representing each national chess federation will get together to discuss their burning issues and to elect FIDE leadership for the next 4 coming years. Hosting of such an important sport event once again proves the high reputation of the Russian national chess school.      

I am confident that the outcome of the 39^th Chess Olympiad and the 81^st FIDE Congress will contribute to the popularization of chess in the world and further development of sport alliances as an important part of international cooperation. Let me wish all of you success and all the best’”- says the message of the Russian President.

Let us remind you that this World Olympiad will be a record-breaking one in terms of participants as well the equal number of men and women players in each team. There will be 160 men and 120 women teams. 

The favorite of the tournament is the Russian team with its leader Ex World Champion Vladimir Kramnik. The spirit and the results of their games will depend much on the performance of the leader. At the 38^th Chess Olympiad in Dresden Kramnik showed strong result “+1” and in 2006 in Torino he brilliantly defeated his opponents at the 1^stboard.”We stake everything on the victory”, - declared Kramnik.

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The Olympiad participants arrived to Khanty-Mansiysk

Players, honored guests, arbiters, journalists and FIDE Congress delegates arrived today to Khanty-Mansiysk on 11 charter flights. They were welcomed according to Russian tradition with bread and salt, which created a festive mood. They were accommodated in hotels in Khanty-Mansiysk, and will join the opening ceremony of the 39th Chess Olympiad in a few hours.
Below is the photographic report about the first day of the Olympiad in Ugra land.

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The Opening ceremony of the 39th World Chess Olympiad will remain in the heart of its guests and participants

The official opening ceremony of the 39th World Chess Olympiad took place late Monday evening in Complex “Arena Ugra” of Khanty-Mansiysk. It united about 5000 guests on its stands. They witnessed an astonishingly beautiful and from time to time even breath-taking performance. A bright laser show, national dances and finally its top moment – the legendary game Andersen –Kizeritsky, that was played on a huge chess board with “alive pieces”, was presented to the spectators of the show.
It was followed by the welcoming video message of the Russian Federation President Dmitry Medvedev that was broadcast for the attention of all the guests from a huge screen. After the participants and the organizers of the Olympiad were welcomed by the FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the Assistant to the Russian Federation President and the Russian Chess Federation Supervisory Council Chairman Arkady Dvorkovich and the Head of Khanty-Mansiysk Municipality Andrey Bukarinov.
The Chief Arbiter of the Olympiad Sava Stoisavljevic conducted the official procedure of drawing of colors for the first round assisted by “alive kings and queens”.
The 39th World Chess Olympiad is open! Good luck!

Photo gallery of the Opening Ceremony.

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Merdeka Individual Rapid 2010 final result.

29 August 2010, Kuala Lumpur – The Final Ranking table that has just been received from the arbiter of the event, Najib Wahab, by email early this morning for the information of participating players and their prize money won indicated in the right hand side of the table.





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