GameKnot: Chess related, FIDE 22nd World Senior Championship Nov. 12 -25th

Chess related: FIDE 22nd World Senior Championship Nov. 12 -25th

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liam1260
13-Nov-12, 08:58

FIDE 22nd World Senior Championship Nov. 12 -25th

The 22nd FIDE World Senior Chess Championship is being held in Kamena Vourla, Greece.

Home website
worldseniors2012.chessdom.com

Participants include Evgeny Schvesnikov (Latvia)of Sicillian variation fame Sveshnikov and the later developed Kalashnikov. Milos Cebalo (Croatia), Mihai Suba (ROU) and Vastimil Jansa in the Open Section. I have a Dragan Markovic opening book with some of Cebalo,Suba and Jansa games embedded in it.
Nona Gaprindashvili (Georgia) pioneered Women's Chess in USSR and then part of a world beating Georgia team.

Open participants
worldseniors2012.chessdom.com

Women Participants
worldseniors2012.free-news.eu

Sorry there's no Anatoly Karpov or Evgenij Ermenkov.

coopershawk
13-Nov-12, 09:11

boomers rule

As the baby boomers like me head into their dotage, I am guessing we will see more "senior" events.

cairo
11-Jan-13, 17:03

And

the winner was: Jens Christiansen of Denmark, with a brilliant performance of 7/9, with no losses and he is now appointed as a new Grandmaster!

Denmark has now won the following World Championship titles:

- World Correspondence Championship 1980 by Jørn Sloth.
- World Junior Championship 1984 by Curt Hansen.
- World Senior Championship 2012 by Jens Christiansen.

Although we had a world class Grandmaster in the late Bent Larsen, (1935 - 2010) he never succeeded in winning the world title. I think our neighbor country Norway, will have a World Champion before us. (Magnus Carlsen)

Best wishes
Cairo

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