{"id":18671,"date":"2020-03-09T02:31:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T02:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1090.fide.com\/?p=18671"},"modified":"2023-10-30T07:36:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T07:36:56","slug":"wstcc-2020-favorites-make-a-prompt-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wstcc-2020-favorites-make-a-prompt-start\/","title":{"rendered":"WSTCC 2020: Favorites make a prompt start"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"18671\" class=\"elementor elementor-18671\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7cea845d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"7cea845d\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-41640d62\" data-id=\"41640d62\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-78698065 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"78698065\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor the first time ever Olympik and Olympik Tristar hotels belong\u00a0to chess. The participants of the World Senior\u00a0Team Chess Championship\u00a0(WSTCC 2020) sat down to the chessboards in two spacious halls with first-class facilities.\n\nThe teams in the 50+ category play under the luxurious\u00a0chandeliers that enhance the festive atmosphere of the tournament. After finishing their games, the participants can\u00a0analyze their encounters\u00a0in the adjacent areas, watch other ongoing games online on a screen, plan trips\u00a0or sit in the hotel caf\u00e9.\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/app.fide.com\/upload\/5009\/2de40e0d504f583cda7465979f958a98.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\n\n<strong>65+ category<\/strong>\n\nIn the first round only 4 teams confirmed the\u00a0status of favorites, whitewashing their opponents\u00a04:0. Russia, Israel, Germany 2 and Germany 3 did not allow their opponents even a half-point. In two cases their victims were the Czech teams Tanvald and Praha S-70.\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/app.fide.com\/upload\/5000\/3fb5ed13afe8714a7e5d13ee506003dd.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\n\nThe match between the Czech Republic 3 and the Czech Republic 1 was won by IM\u00a0<strong>Ivan Hausner<\/strong>\u00a0and GM\u00a0<strong>Ji\u0159\u00ed Lecht\u00fdnsk\u00fd<\/strong>. Players of the Czech Republic 2 \u2013 Coriolus CZ team managed to draw all their games, but since they had only three players the final score is\u00a02,5:1,5 in favor of the Swedish team. Two other Czech teams started the tournament with a draw, Polabiny Pardubice did not succumb to the selection of England 1 and Wallachia Seniors to a Danish team Norresundby. Remaining Czech teams lost their matches, worth mentioning that WFM Eva Mo\u017en\u00e1, playing for the Czech Republic Women team, scored half a point on the first board.\n\nIn the second round, the Czech Republic 1 will play on the eighth table against the German team Die Franken, Polabiny Pardubice on the thirteenth table with Scotland. The Czech Republic 2 &#8211; Coriolus CZ team encounters Golden Oldies from Norway and the Czech Republic 3 plays with Finland. The Czech Republic Women team will compete with the Austrian team Steiermark.\n\n<strong>50+ category<\/strong>\n\nAlso in this category, the vast majority of seeded teams swept their opponents aside.\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/app.fide.com\/upload\/5001\/f99687dd719c4e8bc6a39e946c3d9ef7.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\n\nOn the first table, the United States did not give a chance to the Welsh, on the second table the German team Lasker Schachstiftung GK allowed only one draw to England Women. The Czech Republic 1, however, did not give up to\u00a0\u00a0England 2 even a half-point. Both German women teams had too heavy rivals in the first round, Yamal and England 1. Slovakia also won over\u00a0Vyso\u010dina team with a clean score. The second team of the Czech Republic (2) defeated German Alb-Schwarzwald safely 0.5:3.5 and the same score and result was achieved by the Czech women team against the German Kaltenkirchen.\n\nOfficilal site:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wstcc2020.net\/\">http:\/\/www.wstcc2020.net\/<\/a>\n\nText: Venu\u0161e Souralov\u00e1\n\nPhoto: Vladim\u00edr J\u00e1gr\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6a7f1d2 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"6a7f1d2\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-607450d\" 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The participants of the World Senior\u00a0Team Chess Championship\u00a0(WSTCC 2020) sat down to the chessboards in two spacious halls with first-class facilities. The teams in the 50+ category play under the luxurious\u00a0chandeliers that enhance the festive atmosphere of the tournament. After finishing their games, the participants can\u00a0analyze their encounters\u00a0in the adjacent areas, watch other ongoing games online on a screen, plan trips\u00a0or sit in the hotel caf\u00e9. 65+ category In the first round only 4 teams confirmed the\u00a0status of favorites, whitewashing their opponents\u00a04:0. Russia, Israel, Germany 2 and Germany 3 did not allow their opponents even a half-point. In two cases their victims were the Czech teams Tanvald and Praha S-70. The match between the Czech Republic 3 and the Czech Republic 1 was won by IM\u00a0Ivan Hausner\u00a0and GM\u00a0Ji\u0159\u00ed Lecht\u00fdnsk\u00fd. Players of the Czech Republic 2 \u2013 Coriolus CZ team managed to draw all their games, but since they had only three players the final score is\u00a02,5:1,5 in favor of the Swedish team. Two other Czech teams started the tournament with a draw, Polabiny Pardubice did not succumb to the selection of England 1 and Wallachia Seniors to a Danish team Norresundby. Remaining Czech teams lost their matches, worth mentioning that WFM Eva Mo\u017en\u00e1, playing for the Czech Republic Women team, scored half a point on the first board. In the second round, the Czech Republic 1 will play on the eighth table against the German team Die Franken, Polabiny Pardubice on the thirteenth table with Scotland. The Czech Republic 2 &#8211; Coriolus CZ team encounters Golden Oldies from Norway and the Czech Republic 3 plays with Finland. The Czech Republic Women team will compete with the Austrian team Steiermark. 50+ category Also in this category, the vast majority of seeded teams swept their opponents aside. On the first table, the United States did not give a chance to the Welsh, on the second table the German team Lasker Schachstiftung GK allowed only one draw to England Women. The Czech Republic 1, however, did not give up to\u00a0\u00a0England 2 even a half-point. Both German women teams had too heavy rivals in the first round, Yamal and England 1. Slovakia also won over\u00a0Vyso\u010dina team with a clean score. The second team of the Czech Republic (2) defeated German Alb-Schwarzwald safely 0.5:3.5 and the same score and result was achieved by the Czech women team against the German Kaltenkirchen. Officilal site:\u00a0http:\/\/www.wstcc2020.net\/ Text: Venu\u0161e Souralov\u00e1 Photo: Vladim\u00edr J\u00e1gr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18680,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[222,157],"regular":[],"sticky-post":[],"class_list":["post-18671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chess-news","tag-czechrepublic","tag-senior-chess"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18671"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18683,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18671\/revisions\/18683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18671"},{"taxonomy":"regular","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regular?post=18671"},{"taxonomy":"sticky-post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sticky-post?post=18671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}