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6th, 7th round report & final ceremony
March 14, 2020 07:07 PM
On Wednesday afternoon in the 65+ category two teams of Germany played on first two tables. Israel beat Germany 1 3.5: 0.5, only GM Hort scored a half point for his team. Germany 2 also failed and lost to Russia 3: 1. On the third table, Hungary lost closely to another German team, Die Franken. On the fourth and fifth tables, the Czechs scored only half of the eight games. Czech Republic 1 lost to France 0: 4 and Czech Republic 3 lost to Schachfreunde Leipzig 3.5: 1.5. The ranking after the sixth round is very exciting in the first five places.
In the 50+ category, the USA team tied with the German Lasker Schachstiftung GK. Czech Republic 1 beat Scotland 3:1.
Dr. Gerhard Koehler - Team LASKER SCHACHSTIFTUNG
Thursday came and only one hour before the start of the 7th round, the government of the Czech Republic and the National Security Council have declared more preventive measures against spread of the coronavirus. As per the decision of the government and the National Security Council, which came in force on Tuesday 12th March, 2020, all cultural, sport, and social events with above 30 participants were banned. Therefore organisers decided to finish the tournament by 7th round on 12th March 2020.
Players started the games at 15:00 and some of them didn't last too long.
In the category +50 the match between USA1 and Island was tied after a few moves. Also on the second table Yamal and Czech republic 1 finished the games quickly in draw. USA TOO had to withdraw from the tournament, so Lasker Schachstiftung GK won 0:4 on the third table. Next two matches were played and Slovakia defeated Czech republic 2 2.5:1.5 and Czech Republic 1960-1961 beat SC Groebenzell 3.5:0.5.
Slovakia - Czech Republic 1
In the category 65+ Israel lost to France 2.5:1.5, Russia didnt lose even a point to Die Franken and Gemany 1 drew with Sweden 1.
Israel - France
The Final ceremony was moved to 12th March 2020, 10pm. Only the winners of each category were allowed to participate.
But is was later because of the playing the longest game in this tournament with 164 moves in the category 65+.
At the closing ceremony beside of the best teams, the best player were awarded according to the points on each board.
Category 50+:
1st board - Nemec Pavel CZE
2nd board - Plotkin Victor CAN
3rd board - Flear Glenn C ENG
4th board - Chudinovskikh Alexander M RUS
Category 65+:
1st board - Pruefer Friedbert, Dr. GER
2nd board - Sveshnikov Evgeny RUS
3rd board - Michenka Jozef CZE
4th board - Zhelnin Vladimir V RUS
Most wins in a row: Shabalov Alexander USA
best boards in 65+
In the category 50+ after 7 rounds World Champion is the USA with 12 points. Second place took Laskerschachstiftung GK and third place Czech Republic 1.
Men 50+ 1. USA 2. Team Lasker Schachstiftung 3. Czech Republic 1
The Women World Champions: 1st place Russia Women, 2nd Czech Republic Women and 3rd place Latvia Women.
Women 50+ 1. Russia 2. Czech Republic 3. Latvia
You can find all the results at Chess-Results.
In the category 65+ after 7 rounds World Champion is Russia with 12 points. Second place took France and third place Schachfreunde Leipzig.
Open 65+ 1. Russia 2. France 3. Schachfreunde Leipzig
The Women World Champions: 1st place Germany Women , 2nd place Czech Republic Women.
women 65+ 1. Germany 2. Czech Republic
You can find all the results at Chess-Results.
We are happy to finished the WSTCC 2020 with 7 rounds.
Congratulation to all winners and good health to the all participants and organisers.
organizer Jiří Petružálek and Ozgur Solakoglu
a great team of organizers
All photos are in Zonerama.
Authors: Marta Motuzova, Venuse Souralova
Photos: Vladimir Jagr