28 Russian Teams to Take Part in FIDE Online World Corporate Chess Championship
The event will be held on February 19-21 on Chess.com.
The first FIDE Online World Corporate Chess Championship will be played on February 19-21 on Chess.com.
288 teams from 68 countries have already registered in the event. Russia is represented by 28 teams, which are headed by well-known players, such as Ian Nepomniachtchi (SBER), Vladislav Artemiev (Aeroflot), Dmitry Jakovenko (Yandex), Anton Korobov (Sberbank Trade Union), Vladimir Malakhov (Alrud Law Firm), Joel Lautier (Sovcombank), Anton Demchenko (Rosseti Kuban), and Polina Shuvalova (RFSO Lokomotiv).
The top seed is the Russian team SBER (captain – Vladimir Vorozheykin). The list of participating teams includes giants like Amazon, Samsung, Ford, Microsoft, Facebook, Siemens, Dell Technologies, Bosch, Airbus, IBM, Boeing, Sony, Intel, Twitter, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Vodafone, American Express, Deutsche Bank, UBS, Oracle, Credit Suisse, and Airbnb, to name a few.
And the line-ups are no less impressive, including such chess stars as Magnus Carlsen (Kindred), Anish Giri (Optiver), Radoslaw Wojtaszek (WASKO), Salem Saleh (Emirates), Nijat Abasov (SOCAR), and many others.
CFR President Andrey Filatov: "The Corporate Chess Championship is a great FIDE's initiative. More and more people worldwide are playing chess, and the figures show that our sport was highly demanded in the challenging year of 2020. As in chess, business requires certain qualities: the ability to make right strategic and tactical decisions, weigh risks and benefits, find candidate moves, and evaluate the situation precisely. I am sure that the idea of holding chess events among business people and corporations' employees will be developing, while the competition will become more and more serious. Now we can see a rise of a new phenomenon in chess. I wish success to the Russian teams!"
Each team has four main players, including at least one male player and at least one female player, one male reserve player and/or one female reserve player, and only one player may be “invited”. only one player can have standard rating higher than 2500 in the FIDE rating list for November 2020.
All the registered participating teams are divided into two pools (east & west), in which they play in the 6-round Swiss tournaments on February 19-20. Eight strongest teams qualify for the play-off stage on February 21.
Time control: 10 minutes + 2 seconds increment per move, starting from move 1.
Tournament on Chess-Results
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