{"id":18737,"date":"2020-03-03T23:19:17","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T23:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1090.fide.com\/?p=18737"},"modified":"2023-10-30T07:36:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T07:36:50","slug":"prague-welcomes-world-senior-team-chess-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/prague-welcomes-world-senior-team-chess-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Prague welcomes World Senior Team Chess Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"18737\" class=\"elementor elementor-18737\" 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\t<p>World Senior Team Chess Championship starts in Prague on March 5. The competition is held in two age categories: 65+ with 61 registered teams and 50+ with 57 teams.\u00a0<\/p><p>Last year&#8217;s champions in the elder section, the Russian team is the rating favorite with 2452 average. GMs\u00a0<strong>Yuri Balashov<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Evgeny Sveshnikov<\/strong>\u00a0(who just celebrated his 70s anniversary) are the leaders of this squad.\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/app.fide.com\/upload\/4901\/88afd5aae31fa1f81318214dd9227487.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><em>Photo: Mark Livshitz<\/em><\/p><p>The defending champion and the rating favorite (2536) in the 50+ category is bringing to Prague its\u00a0winning lineup. All the players are 2500+ grandmasters:\u00a0<strong>Alexander Shabalov,<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Gregory Kaidanov,<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Larry Christiansen<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Joel Benjamin<\/strong>,\u00a0 and\u00a0<strong>Igor Novikov<\/strong>.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/app.fide.com\/upload\/4900\/4cbc3ff0ae43f99c9bb661102e2d1e43.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><em>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/new.uschess.org\/\">https:\/\/new.uschess.org<\/a><\/em><\/p><p>The tournament&#8217;s list of participants boasts of such legendary\u00a0names as\u00a0<strong>John Nunn<\/strong>,\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Ulf Andersson<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Anatoly Vaisser<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Vlastimil Hort<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Alexander Graf<\/strong>,\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Artur Jussupow<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Tamaz Giorgadze<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Jonathan\u00a0Speelman<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Zbynek Hracek,\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Lubomir Ftacnik<\/strong>\u00a0to name a few. Although this event does not have a separate women&#8217;s section, it traditionally attracts a perceptible number of female players. The 50+ team of Scotland has\u00a0<strong>Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant\u00a0<\/strong>at its helm; Russia, Mongolia, England, Germany, and the Czech Republic brought teams made up entirely of women. The Russian women&#8217;s team put the former world senior champion\u00a0<strong>Galina Strutinskaia\u00a0<\/strong>on board one.<\/p><p>Recently FIDE has made several important steps towards supporting\u00a0senior chess: starting in 2019,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fide.com\/news\/150\">all veteran fees were waived<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fide.com\/news\/147\">championships&#8217; prizes were increased<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p><p>Official website:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wstcc2020.net\/#chess%20#SeniorChess%20#ChessForAll%20#Prague\">http:\/\/www.wstcc2020.net\/#chess #SeniorChess #ChessForAll #Prague<\/a><\/p>\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<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Senior Team Chess Championship starts in Prague on March 5. The competition is held in two age categories: 65+ with 61 registered teams and 50+ with 57 teams.\u00a0 Last year&#8217;s champions in the elder section, the Russian team is the rating favorite with 2452 average. GMs\u00a0Yuri Balashov\u00a0and\u00a0Evgeny Sveshnikov\u00a0(who just celebrated his 70s anniversary) are the leaders of this squad.\u00a0 Photo: Mark Livshitz The defending champion and the rating favorite (2536) in the 50+ category is bringing to Prague its\u00a0winning lineup. All the players are 2500+ grandmasters:\u00a0Alexander Shabalov,\u00a0Gregory Kaidanov,\u00a0Larry Christiansen,\u00a0Joel Benjamin,\u00a0 and\u00a0Igor Novikov. Photo: https:\/\/new.uschess.org The tournament&#8217;s list of participants boasts of such legendary\u00a0names as\u00a0John Nunn,\u00a0\u00a0Ulf Andersson,\u00a0Anatoly Vaisser,\u00a0Vlastimil Hort,\u00a0Alexander Graf,\u00a0\u00a0Artur Jussupow,\u00a0Tamaz Giorgadze,\u00a0Jonathan\u00a0Speelman,\u00a0Zbynek Hracek,\u00a0and\u00a0\u00a0Lubomir Ftacnik\u00a0to name a few. Although this event does not have a separate women&#8217;s section, it traditionally attracts a perceptible number of female players. The 50+ team of Scotland has\u00a0Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant\u00a0at its helm; Russia, Mongolia, England, Germany, and the Czech Republic brought teams made up entirely of women. The Russian women&#8217;s team put the former world senior champion\u00a0Galina Strutinskaia\u00a0on board one. Recently FIDE has made several important steps towards supporting\u00a0senior chess: starting in 2019,\u00a0all veteran fees were waived\u00a0and the\u00a0championships&#8217; prizes were increased.\u00a0 Official website:\u00a0http:\/\/www.wstcc2020.net\/#chess #SeniorChess #ChessForAll #Prague<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18739,"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-18737","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\/18737","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=18737"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18742,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18737\/revisions\/18742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18737"},{"taxonomy":"regular","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regular?post=18737"},{"taxonomy":"sticky-post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sticky-post?post=18737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}