Friday 21 December 2012

World Cities Team Championship

   Today starts the World Cities Team Championship for the Sheikh Zayed Cup in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates.It's scheduled to take place from 21-29 December. The championship has a knock-out format,with the overall prize fund of 150,000 $.

   The championship in UAE joins qualifiers from the World Team Championship, Continental Teams and 25 top zonal teams from the Istanbul Oplympiad. Teams will be grupped by rating in 8 groups of 4 teams each who will play a single round robin. The top 2 qualify into the knockout round of 16 followed by exciting Quarterfinal and Semifinal matches and a breathtaking Final show.
   Here are the qualified federations:

1Olympiad ChampionArmenia
2World Team ChampionHungary - 5th (after Armenia, China, Ukraine, Russia)
3European ChampionGermany
4American ChampionBrazil
5Asian Cities ChampionKazakhstan - 2nd (after China)
6African ChampionEgypt
7Host CountryUAE
8Zone 1.1Netherlands - 6th
9Zone 1.2Slovenia - 25th
10Zone 1.3Sweden - 16th
11Zone 1.4Romania - 8th
12Zone 1.5Serbia - 14th 
13Zone 1.6Russia
14Zone 1.7Latvia - 28th
15Zone 1.8Azerbaijan - 10th
16Zone 1.9Ukraine
17Zone 2.1United States Of America
18Zone 2.2Canada
19Zone 2.3Cuba - 11th
20Zone 2.4Peru - 55th
21Zone 2.5Argentina - 22nd
22Zone 3.1Iran - 61st
23Zone 3.2Bangladesh - 33rd
24Zone 3.3Vietnam - 7th
25Zone 3.4Uzbekistan - 24th
26Zone 3.5China
27Zone 3.6Australia - 32nd
28Zone 3.7India
29Zone 4.1Tunisia - 75th
30Zone 4.2Uganda - 90th (after Egypt)
31Zone 4.3South Africa - 62nd
32New Zone 4.4Nigeria - 96th

Romania's team has also qualified and it will be represented by the team of the city of Timisoara:

1 GM Lupulescu Constantin 2618 ROU 0.0

2 GM Parligras Mircea-Emilian 2628 ROU 0.0

3 GM Marin Mihail 2564 ROU 0.0

4 GM Nevednichy Vladislav 2545 ROU 0.0

5 GM Manolache Marius 2541 ROU 0.0


Here's the list of the registered teams I found on http://chess-results.com/tnr87210.aspx?art=32&lan=11:

Paris 2677
Hoogeveen 2666
Lviv 2659
Baku 2626
Saratov 2626
Novi Sad 2611
Ptuj 2594
London 2594
Timisoara 2589
10 Athens 2558
11 Chicago 2548
12 Astana 2544
13 Lund-Linkoping 2540
14 Riga 2528
15 Tehran 2499
16 Tashkent 2499
17 Cairo 2465
18 Manila 2448
19 Istanbul 2440
20 Dhaka 2437
21 Wu Xi 2391
22 Al Ain 2371
23 Chennai 2321
24 Kampala 2234
25 Canberra 2220

   The 4 categories of teams has been drawn yesterday:

1st Category
2nd Category
Paris (FRA)
2677
Novi Sad (SRB)
2611
Hoogeveen (NED)
2666
London (ENG)
2594
Lviv (UKR)
2659
Ptuj (SLO)
2594
Baku (AZE)
2626
Timisoara (ROM)
2589
Saratov (RUS)
2626
Athens (GRE)
2558
Alain (UAE)
2371
Chicago (USA)
2548


3rd Category
4th Category
Lund Linkoping (SWE)
2540
Istanbul (TUR)
2440
Riga (LTU)
2528
Dhaka (BAN)
2437
Astana (KAZ)
2520
Wu Xi (CHN)
2391
Tehran (IRI)
2499
Chennai (IND)
2321
Tashkent (UZB)
2499
Kampala (UGA)
2234
Cairo (EGY)
2465
Canberra (AUS)
2220

   A total of 150,000$ in cash prizes shall be awarded for the World Cities Championship for Sheikh Zayed Cup as follows:

  • 16 eliminated from Round Robin Groups receive $2,500 each
  • 8 qualifiers to Round of 16 receive $4,000 each
  • 4 Quarterfinalists receive $5,000 each
  • Fourth Place receives $10,000
  • Third Place receives $12,000
  • Second Place receives $15,000
  • Champion receives $21,000


   I would like to wish good luck to our team and we'll keep our fingers crossed for them!

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