{"id":23544,"date":"2023-10-16T13:20:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T13:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1090.fide.com\/?p=23544"},"modified":"2023-10-31T14:48:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T14:48:58","slug":"2023-ibca-world-championship-tazbir-leads-magnusson-elected-as-new-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/2023-ibca-world-championship-tazbir-leads-magnusson-elected-as-new-president\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 IBCA World Championship: Tazbir leads, Magnusson elected as new President"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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After seven rounds played at the The 2023 IBCA World Chess Championship for the Blind and Visually Impaired in Rhodes, GM Marcin Tazbir of Poland is leading the race with 6.5 points. IM Predrag Nikac (Montenegro) is following closely with 6.0 points while FM Alexey Streltsov (Israel) and Yuriy Bibikov (Kazakhstan) are tied for third place on 5.5\/7.<\/p>

Top 10 after seven rounds<\/strong>:<\/p>

1<\/p><\/td>

GM<\/p><\/td>

Tazbir, Marcin<\/p><\/td>

POL<\/p><\/td>

2499<\/p><\/td>

6\u00bd<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

2<\/p><\/td>

IM<\/p><\/td>

Nikac, Predrag<\/p><\/td>

MNE<\/p><\/td>

2283<\/p><\/td>

6<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

3<\/p><\/td>

FM<\/p><\/td>

Streltsov, Alexey<\/p><\/td>

ISR<\/p><\/td>

2343<\/p><\/td>

5\u00bd<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

4<\/p><\/td>

\u00a0<\/td>

Bibikov, Yuriy<\/p><\/td>

KAZ<\/p><\/td>

2050<\/p><\/td>

5\u00bd<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

5<\/p><\/td>

IM<\/p><\/td>

Dukaczewski, Piotr<\/p><\/td>

POL<\/p><\/td>

2088<\/p><\/td>

5<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

6<\/p><\/td>

\u00a0<\/td>

Kolpakov, Vladyslav<\/p><\/td>

UKR<\/p><\/td>

2238<\/p><\/td>

5<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

7<\/p><\/td>

IM<\/p><\/td>

Stachanczyk, Jacek<\/p><\/td>

POL<\/p><\/td>

2066<\/p><\/td>

5<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

8<\/p><\/td>

\u00a0<\/td>

Grybas, Gintaras<\/p><\/td>

LTU<\/p><\/td>

1921<\/p><\/td>

5<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

9<\/p><\/td>

FM<\/p><\/td>

Magnusson, Jorgen<\/p><\/td>

SWE<\/p><\/td>

2240<\/p><\/td>

5<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

10<\/p><\/td>

IM<\/p><\/td>

Nizam, Rasim<\/p><\/td>

BUL<\/p><\/td>

2150<\/p><\/td>

5<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>


Complete standings and Round 8 pairings<\/a><\/p>

The IBCA Congress was also held in Rodos Palace hotel on Sunday morning and a new Presidential Board was elected for 2023-2025, in accordance with article 1.3 of the IBCA Electoral Regulations. More details about the elections procedure and the 2 nominated candidates can be found on the official website of IBCA:\u00a0https:\/\/ibca-info.org\/2023-ibca-elections<\/a><\/p>

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A total of 52 countries are members of IBCA and 34 countries casted their vote. The final results of the IBCA elections 2023 were:<\/p>

1. Ticket of Presidential candidate\u00a0J\u00f6rgen Magnusson<\/strong>\u00a0(Sweden):<\/p>

Votes: 23
Percentage:\u00a067.65%<\/p>

2. Ticket of Presidential candidate\u00a0Sergio Harnandan<\/strong>\u00a0(Netherlands):<\/p>

Votes: 11
Percentage:\u00a0\u00a032.35%<\/p>

The President of IBCA for the term 2023-2025 now is FM\u00a0J\u00f6rgen Magnusson<\/strong>\u00a0(pictured below). The new Presidential Board also includes IM\u00a0Piotr Dukaczewski<\/strong>\u00a0(Poland) and IM\u00a0Nikos Kalesis<\/strong>\u00a0(Greece) as Vice-Presidents,\u00a0Olivier Deville\u00a0<\/strong>(France) as General Secretary and\u00a0Thorsten M\u00fcller<\/strong>\u00a0(Germany) as Treasurer.<\/p>

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The previous President of IBCA\u00a0Dr. Jadhav Charudatta\u00a0<\/strong>(India) has been approved unanimously by the Congress as Honorary President in recognition of his tremendous work for IBCA.<\/p>

Photo highlights of the event:\u00a0https:\/\/facebook.com\/media\/set\/?vanity=chessingreece&set=a.802210368367921<\/a><\/p>

IBCA official website:\u00a0ibca-info.org<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>

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After seven rounds played at the The 2023 IBCA World Chess Championship for the Blind and Visually Impaired in Rhodes, GM Marcin Tazbir of Poland is leading the race with 6.5 points. IM Predrag Nikac (Montenegro) is following closely with 6.0 points while FM Alexey Streltsov (Israel) and Yuriy Bibikov (Kazakhstan) are tied for third place on 5.5\/7. Top 10 after seven rounds: 1 GM Tazbir, Marcin POL 2499 6\u00bd 2 IM Nikac, Predrag MNE 2283 6 3 FM Streltsov, Alexey ISR 2343 5\u00bd 4 \u00a0 Bibikov, Yuriy KAZ 2050 5\u00bd 5 IM Dukaczewski, Piotr POL 2088 5 6 \u00a0 Kolpakov, Vladyslav UKR 2238 5 7 IM Stachanczyk, Jacek POL 2066 5 8 \u00a0 Grybas, Gintaras LTU 1921 5 9 FM Magnusson, Jorgen SWE 2240 5 10 IM Nizam, Rasim BUL 2150 5 Complete standings and Round 8 pairings The IBCA Congress was also held in Rodos Palace hotel on Sunday morning and a new Presidential Board was elected for 2023-2025, in accordance with article 1.3 of the IBCA Electoral Regulations. More details about the elections procedure and the 2 nominated candidates can be found on the official website of IBCA:\u00a0https:\/\/ibca-info.org\/2023-ibca-elections A total of 52 countries are members of IBCA and 34 countries casted their vote. The final results of the IBCA elections 2023 were: 1. Ticket of Presidential candidate\u00a0J\u00f6rgen Magnusson\u00a0(Sweden): Votes: 23Percentage:\u00a067.65% 2. Ticket of Presidential candidate\u00a0Sergio Harnandan\u00a0(Netherlands): Votes: 11Percentage:\u00a0\u00a032.35% The President of IBCA for the term 2023-2025 now is FM\u00a0J\u00f6rgen Magnusson\u00a0(pictured below). The new Presidential Board also includes IM\u00a0Piotr Dukaczewski\u00a0(Poland) and IM\u00a0Nikos Kalesis\u00a0(Greece) as Vice-Presidents,\u00a0Olivier Deville\u00a0(France) as General Secretary and\u00a0Thorsten M\u00fcller\u00a0(Germany) as Treasurer. The previous President of IBCA\u00a0Dr. Jadhav Charudatta\u00a0(India) has been approved unanimously by the Congress as Honorary President in recognition of his tremendous work for IBCA. Photo highlights of the event:\u00a0https:\/\/facebook.com\/media\/set\/?vanity=chessingreece&set=a.802210368367921 IBCA official website:\u00a0ibca-info.org\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[74,182,73],"regular":[],"sticky-post":[],"class_list":["post-23544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chess-news","tag-chess-for-impaired","tag-greece","tag-ibca"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23544","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=23544"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23549,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23544\/revisions\/23549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23544"},{"taxonomy":"regular","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regular?post=23544"},{"taxonomy":"sticky-post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sticky-post?post=23544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}