World Mind Games Festival in China

Mind Games in China

The World Mind Games Festival in Beijing takes place from the 8th to the 16th of December in Beijing. Apart from Chess, there are also tournaments involving Bridge, Draughts, Go and Chinese Chess. There are three disciplines in the chess section, Quickplay, Blitz and Blindfold.

There are 32 players involving many of the World's best Men and Women. All sixteen men are above 2690 and the women are all in the top 50.

The rapid took place on the 9th to 11th of December.

The Blitz on the 12th and 14th, and the Blindfold will take place on the 14th to 16th.

The players in the Men's section:

Seed	Name	Age	Country	Elo	World rank
1	Vassily Ivanchuk	42	UKR	2775	6
2	Sergey Karjakin	21	RUS	2763	8
3	Vugar Gashimov	25	AZE	2757	11
4	Alexander Grischuk	28	RUS	2752	13
5	Wang Hao	22	CHN	2736	16
6	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	26	AZE	2733	18
7	Gata Kamsky	37	USA	2732	19
8	Ruslan Ponomariov	28	UKR	2723	33
9	Le Quang Liem	20	VIE	2714	25
10	Anish Giri	17	NED	2714	30
11	Leinier Dominguez Perez	28	CUB	2712	32
12	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	21	FRA	2710	37
13	Zoltan Almasi	35	HUN	2707	38
14	Francisco Vallejo Pons	29	ESP	2705	40
15	Wang Yue	24	CHN	2697	49
16	Peter Heine Nielsen	38	DEN	2693	53

The players in the Women's section:

Seed	Name	Age	Country	Elo	World rank
1	Hou Yifan	17	CHN	2578	3
2	Anna Muzychuk	21	SLO	2562	4
3	Kateryna Lahno	21	UKR	2549	5
4	Ju Wenjun	20	CHN	2543	7
5	Antoaneta Stefanova	32	BUL	2531	9
6	Nana Dzagnidze	24	GEO	2516	11
7	Dronavalli Harika	20	IND	2513	13
8	Anna Zatonskih	33	USA	2506	15
9	Viktorija Cmilyte	28	LTU	2503	16
10	Elina Danielian	33	ARM	2497	18
11	Pia Cramling	48	SWE	2495	20
12	Monika Socko	33	POL	2479	24
13	Yelena Dembo	28	GRE	2468	30
14	Almira Skripchenko	35	FRA	2468	31
15	Elisabeth Paehtz	26	GER	2457	35
16	Alexandra Kosteniuk	27	RUS	2439	44

Official site: http://sportaccord2011.fide.com/

Live games: http://sportaccord2011.fide.com/tournament-games.html