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Batumi Olympiad (2018) The 43rd FIDE World Chess Olympiad took place from 24 September to 5 October 2018 in Batumi, Georgia. The biennial tournament was an 11-round Swiss open, with one rest day on 29 September. The Open section featured 185 teams from 183 countries, with the 919 players including almost the whole world chess elite, and there was also a Women's section: Batumi Olympiad (Women) (2018). The time control was 90 minutes for 40 moves then 30 minutes to the end of the game, with a 30-second increment from move 1. Each team consisted of five players, with four playing each match. Draw offers were not allowed until move 30. The standings were determined by match points, with 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw; then modified Sonneborn-Berger scores (match points of each opponent, excluding the opponent who scored the lowest number of match points, multiplied by the number of game points in the match against the opponent); then game points. (1) The first ten rounds started at 15:00 local time (13:00 CEST; 11:00 UTC; 07:00 USA/Eastern); the final round began at 11:00 local time. China ended up taking double gold in this event by dominating the Women's section and edging out the United States with a tiebreak in the Open section, while Russia took third place. Official site: http://batumi2018.fide.com/ Pairings and results: http://chess-results.com/tnr368908.... (1) Chess24: Batumi Chess Olympiad https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-t...  page 1 of 161; games 1-25 of 4,003  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. M Al Kaoury vs Tiviakov   0-1 34 2018 Batumi Olympiad B73 Sicilian, Dragon, Classical 2. Harikrishna vs J E Giron   1-0 33 2018 Batumi Olympiad C10 French 3. M M Aithmidou vs C Li 1-0 87 2018 Batumi Olympiad B20 Sicilian 4. X Bu vs Y Saber 1-0 31 2018 Batumi Olympiad A07 King's Indian Attack 5. So vs R C Sanchez Alvarez 1-0 34 2018 Batumi Olympiad B90 Sicilian, Najdorf 6. C Burgos Figueroa vs Sasikiran ½-½ 52 2018 Batumi Olympiad A25 English 7. Vianney Archeveq Koualet-Bebondi vs J Dempsey   0-1 62 2018 Batumi Olympiad A45 Queen's Pawn Game 8. McShane vs S Miguel ½-½ 51 2018 Batumi Olympiad C50 Giuoco Piano 9. J Baules vs Nakamura 0-1 25 2018 Batumi Olympiad E32 Nimzo-Indian, Classical 10. Shankland vs O A Leon Archibaldo   1-0 39 2018 Batumi Olympiad D11 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 11. E A Ramos vs Robson   0-1 63 2018 Batumi Olympiad D02 Queen's Pawn Game 12. A Ssegwanyi vs Karjakin 0-1 31 2018 Batumi Olympiad E54 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Gligoric System 13. Nepomniachtchi vs P Kawuma 1-0 29 2018 Batumi Olympiad C11 French 14. W Okas vs Vitiugov   0-1 25 2018 Batumi Olympiad A07 King's Indian Attack 15. Jakovenko vs H Nsubuga 1-0 30 2018 Batumi Olympiad B12 Caro-Kann Defense 16. Y Yu vs M Tissir 1-0 44 2018 Batumi Olympiad E73 King's Indian 17. A Onkoud vs Wei Yi   0-1 30 2018 Batumi Olympiad A09 Reti Opening 18. A El Jawich vs L'Ami   0-1 27 2018 Batumi Olympiad C44 King's Pawn Game 19. J van Foreest vs A Kassis   1-0 28 2018 Batumi Olympiad B51 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack 20. Giri vs F Eid   1-0 28 2018 Batumi Olympiad D02 Queen's Pawn Game 21. F Berkes vs Faniry Rajaonarison   ½-½ 60 2018 Batumi Olympiad A49 King's Indian, Fianchetto without c4 22. M Andriamasoandro vs Z Almasi   0-1 36 2018 Batumi Olympiad B20 Sicilian 23. F Rakotomaharo vs V Erdos   ½-½ 18 2018 Batumi Olympiad C92 Ruy Lopez, Closed 24. Gledura vs M H Ralison   1-0 38 2018 Batumi Olympiad A05 Reti Opening 25. W Lorenzana vs K Dragun   0-1 45 2018 Batumi Olympiad B43 Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3  page 1 of 161; games 1-25 of 4,003    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)   < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 16 OF 38 ·  Later Kibitzing> Sep-30-18    offramp: 1/2 Sam Sloan writes: Batumi Chess Olympiad 2018 Round Six Press Report Azerbaijan virtually wiped out the Czech Republic 3-1 so Azerbaijan takes the lead and seems well on their way to winning the gold. Poland beat the Ukraine 2.5-1.5 with Duda of Poland beating Ivanchuk on top board. The USA almost wiped out Bosnia 3.5-0.5 but the Bosnian team was low rated. In the woman's event, on top board, the USA tied India 2-2 which was good for the USA as the Indian women out rated them by a hundred points on every board. Russian women lost badly again 1-3. Ukrainian women tied the Chinese women 2-2. Azerbaijan women beat the Latvian women 2.5-1.5. I keep wishing I could break my devoted daughter Julia out of the lunatic asylum and get her over to Latvia where she is easily strong enough at chess to make the Latvian woman's team and she would qualify, as her mother Anda was born in Riga, Latvia. Yesterday I reported that almost country of the world had a team here except for North Korea. I was mistaken. Surprisingly, Bulgaria is not here either. This is shocking because of their bid to hold this Olympiad in Albena, Bulgaria. I cannot imagine why they are not here. In addition, Daaim Shabazz, author of The Chess Drum, reports that there are 54 countries in Africa. However, only 47 of them are members of FIDE and have teams here. So, there are seven African countries who are not members of FIDE. In the 2016 Olympiad in Baku, Azerbaijan, 11 African countries arrived late and forfeited their first round match. This was a big error by the organizers because those 11 teams were paired and their opponents given forfeit wins. This messed up the whole Olympiad. This year, four teams came late including Nigeria, but they were not paired so there was no problem. Presumably this keeps happening because of visa and travel problems. But I spent almost the whole day attending FIDE meetings at the Sheraton Hotel where some shocking facts came out. First was a meeting for the Social Action Commission chaired and founded by Beatriz Marinello. It is devoted to bringing children into chess to help with their intellectual development. One of the members is Robert Katende of Uganda who taught and trained Phiona Mutesi, whose life was made into a Hollywood Movie, The Queen of Katwe. Phiona is here at the Olympiad but she took a rest day today. Then the FIDE Verification Commission met. Their job is to verify the FIDE financial accounting. Turns out there are a lot of problems, more than we could imagine. FIDE is almost broke. Those who attended the 2016 FIDE General Assembly in Baku will remember the presentation of Andrew Paulson of Agon who promised to pay 500,000 Euros immediately if he was given the right to organize the World Chess Championship. After much debate and discussion, it was voted to give him the World Championship.... [cont...] Sep-30-18    offramp: 2/2 Later Andrew Paulson died and today we were informed that FIDE never got the money, so it has been carried as a bad debt. But that is only the beginning. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov promised to give FIDE two Million Euros. FIDE never got that money either. We have always been told that Kirsan was an extremely wealthy man, a millionaire. But it turns out that FIDE has been supporting Kirsan, not the other way around. Worse than that, Kirsan is on the US Sanctions list and this has put FIDE itself on the USA Watch List. This means that FIDE cannot open a bank account anywhere in the world. Nobody will take our money. In a mad scramble to get the money out of the existing bank accounts before it was lost completely, the FIDE lawyers set up a trust without FIDE's name on it that is now hiding the money so that the US State Department cannot grab it. In two days, an election will be held and a new president will take over. It is hoped that the sanctions against FIDE will be lifted soon after the election so that FIDE can have a normal bank account. However, there is another problem. One of the candidates for election is Arkady Dvorkovich of Russia who is running for FIDE President and as an economist was Deputy Prime Minister in Dmitry Medvedev's Cabinet. Arkady Dvorkovich is on the pre-sanctions list, so it is far from certain that the US State Department will lift the sanctions if he is elected. The FIDE balance sheet carries an accounts receivable of EU 839211. This is money due from member federations who are behind in their dues. Most are expected to pay up soon but some have not paid for years, including Bhutan. The question is whether these member federations who are in arrears can vote in the election to be held two days. The decision on this will likely determine who wins the election because we assumed that those members who have paid their dues will probably vote for Short, but those that have not will probably vote for Dvorkovich. I was surprised at the amount of EUR 209,503 in legal costs. Almost all of this pertains to Kirsan Ilyumzhinov because at first he resigned and then tried to take back the presidency. So lawyers were consulted and this was their bill. I was surprised to see that Jorge Vega received EUR 30,000 for travel expenses as Americas President and Geoffrey Borg received EUR 25,251 as CEO for travel allowance. I was surprised that Grandmaster William Lombardy was given money for “Veterans Support”. FIDE apparently did not realize that Lombardy also received $10,000 US from the “Professional Chess Players Health and Benefit Fund”. There is a report that Lombardy had nearly $100,000 in the bank when he died homeless last year, from donations he had received, but he had refused to pay his rent in New York out of pique. The big meeting was the Ethics Commission meeting. The subject of the meeting was a complaint by the Arkady Dvorkovich essentially that Georgios Makropoulos had stolen money from FIDE and therefore should be barred from running for FIDE President. The meeting was closed tight as a drum so we have no news about what happened but it seems unlikely that any meeting could prohibit Georgios Makropoulos from running. Georgios Makropoulos has been in a top leadership capacity in FIDE since at least 1982. Many consider him to be the favorite. Sam Sloan Sep-30-18    Billy Vaughan: <Count Wedgemore>, the historically extremely strict immigration policy of the US towards Asian countries specifically meant that Asian-Americans tended to come off the boat already richer and more educated than US-born populations. This is true, incidentally, of my own Chinese ancestry. This same effect is happening today with recent African immigrants, who are both more educated than the US-born population and than other immigrants. Legacies have a notorious advantage when applying to Ivies (almost a third of incoming Harvard undergrads, for instance). In addition to this direct advantage of ones ancestry, wealth (which is also a barrier to entry at elite schools) is also something that passes from generation to generation. In this light, I invite you to think about: - how many black legacies there are at a school like Harvard - how many black American families have a history of higher education going back more than two generations - how many black American families have a history of even adequate K-12 education given the segregation of the south - how many black families have a generational fortune dating back several generations that might allow them to access higher education or to access the kinds of K-12 opportunities that would prepare them for higher education - how many black families MIGHT have a generational fortune, but were denied opportunities that might allow their wealth to accrue (for instance, racist housing policies that deny them land; racist hiring practices - how many black families MIGHT have a generational fortune, but their wealth was stolen by white terrorism such as lynching and race riots Incidentally, I grew up in a rich white suburb, and many of my classmates had SAT and ACT tutors. I can see no way of construing such a practice except as a way to buy admittance to elite schools. How many poor kids' spots were stolen by my richer classmates? You call white privilege a "platitude" but it is not all that long ago that the explicit (let alone implicit) policies of our country and institutions barred most people of color from higher education. These things don't wash away in a generation. The white side of my family enjoys an upper-middle class lineage dating back to the Mayflower. They never had to endure slavery, terrorism, or caste exclusion, and lo, they managed to keep a fair amount of wealth as well as direct legacy access to a number of prestigious schools (including one Ivy and a few other important non-Ivy east coast schools). That level of access is not a "platitude"--it is something I and my siblings have used to create our livelihoods. We are grateful for these opportunities but we also recognize that they are opportunities other families don't have--hence, a privilege, and one that you ought to take much more seriously if you have any historical understanding of this country. Sep-30-18    Chessinfinite: <Naiditsch (and most the top German GMs) had a huge falling out with the Federation. At the same time, Gashimov passed away. So AZE replaced Gashimov with recruiting Naiditsch. Shortly there after... the ROU federation picked a fight with Nisipeanu... so the GER Federation used the opportunity to replace Naiditsch and recruited him.> Trust the federations to ruin the country's hopes for a medal. Oct-01-18    Count Wedgemore: <Billy Vaughan> Your post on this subject is an unoriginal collection of Cultural Marxist ideas. We've heard it all before. You mention slavery: There hasn't been any slaves in your country for the last 150+ years. Even the abolishment of the shameful segregationist policies in the American South are now running on 50+ years. Move on, start looking for other and better explanations. Stop this endless victimization of African-Americans. And you completely ignore all the factors running the other way: affirmative action and government programs designed to aid minorities, positively discriminating AGAINST whites. In fact, these programs seem to discriminate against Asians as well. I've read that Asians are often required to have HIGHER SAT scores than, say, black applicants. Here's from Newsweek: DO THE IVY'S DISCRIMINATE AGAINST ASIAN-AMERICANS? <In May, the Asian American Coalition for Education and 130 other Asian-American groups asked the U.S. Department of Education and the Justice Department to investigate Yale University, Brown University and Dartmouth College for their admissions policies, which they claim amount to “race-based quotas” that lock out well-qualified Asian-American applicants. They point to data from the Department of Education showing that Asian-American enrollment at Brown and Yale has been stagnant since 1995 and at Dartmouth since 2004, despite an increase in highly qualified Asian-American students applying to these schools during that time. The groups highlight in their complaint that Asian-American applicants with almost perfect SAT scores, GPAs in the top 1 percent and excellent extracurricular records have been routinely rejected from top schools, while similar candidates of other races are accepted.> https://www.newsweek.com/do-ivys-di... Stop being a victim of Groupthink and start to think for yourself. Question everything. <By the way, what are you trying to imply? Don't be cowardly, say it out loud> There can be any number of reasons. One obvious explanation may be that, on average, white parents (and to an even greater extent Asian parents) are more focused on the importance of their kids getting a good education than African-American parents are. A large percentage of Black families in the US are broken families with single-parent households. That may contribute to this also. But there may be any number of other reasons as well. Oct-01-18    Count Wedgemore: <BilIy Vaughn> I see that you deleted your last post. Who exactly is acting cowardly here, I wonder? Whatever. Can't say I'm surprised. Oct-01-18    HeMateMe: <How many poor kids' spots were stolen by my richer classmates?> a lot of the SAT drill books, pretty much the same thing that the Saturday afternoon tutors use, are available for free in public libraries. there might also be volunteers who lead such classes, no fee. The NYC mayor, Bill DiBlasio, wants the SAT prep classes provided at no cost for poorer kids. I think he's right, I hope that happens. I'm not sure how important money really is in getting into a good school. I think it's about motivation. If you play basketball and watch TV too much after school and on the weekends you won't be the superior student that the top 20 colleges are looking for. This isn't 1920--you can't 'buy' your way into Princeton or Harvard, based on your last name or a fat alumni donation. Three members of my high school chess team got accepted at one of the best schools in the country, and they did it on scholarship and debt. A fourth one got into MIT, but he didn't finish. A fifth one became an astrophysicist at a midwestern school. He still had a paper route while a high school senior, believe it or not. He got by on hard work too. Oct-01-18    perfidious: <zed>, that brings back memories--in another day, I would very likely have played in that blitz invitational. Today? Haven't played a blitz game in several years and have, as they say in sports, lost a step--at least as a chess player! Oct-01-18    Billy Vaughan: <I see that you deleted your last post. Who exactly is acting cowardly here, I wonder? Whatever. Can't say I'm surprised.> I deleted it because I thought it came off as cheap and distracting rhetoric. <Stop being a victim of Groupthink and start to think for yourself.> The kind of cheap and distracting rhetoric I wanted to avoid. We have both taken conventional arguments in a conventional discussion, and us throwing stupid potshots at each other is a waste of everyone's time. I don't care to continue discussing in this way, so you may enjoy the final word. Oct-01-18    Tiggler: Cultural legacies are overwhelmingly superior to financial ones. It is absurd to suggest that most Asian immigrants have been wealthy. Most have being extremely hardworking and committed to their families and their education, however. Like Jewish immigrants before them, to name just one other group. African-American troubles are due to in large part to poverty, but that and many other problems can be traced to a broken community culture. And yes, it seemingly does take centuries to repair that. And it cannot be done by outside intervention. Oct-01-18    Count Wedgemore: <Billy Vaughan> I guess we can at least agree on one thing: we have gone WAY off-topic here. Best to get back to the Olympiad anyway. You are welcome to drop by any time in my forum to discuss these matters further, if you like. I will try to avoid throwing stupid potshots :) Oct-01-18    Count Wedgemore: The same goes for <HMM>, <Tiggler> and others interested. We can use my forum if you like (and there's always the Rogoff page, of course). This debate doesn't belong here. But it's an interesting topic. <Tiggler> Very good points. Oct-01-18    Sokrates: To <Billy Vaughan> and <Count Wedgemore>. I am a bit ashamed to admit that I occasionally go astray and submit political viewpoints - and they are, as CW says <WAY off-topic here>. But your discussion - or rather: exchange of viewpoints - urges me to restrict myself even harder. Those exchanges (unfortunately) lead to nowhere, in worst case they set a fierce tone which is uncalled for and may be a pain to witness by those who don't participate. Politically, I am a socialist, thus more on BW's "side", but it's completely irrelevant to the fact that I love to have conversations with CW, and well, both of you, since I regard you as thoughtful, erudite members of this very site. Oct-01-18    PhilFeeley: The two chessbrahs aren't doing so well. Not so easy going from the online world to the real world, I guess. Too much blitz perhaps? Oct-01-18    Count Wedgemore: <Sokrates: Politically, I am a socialist, thus more on BW's "side", but it's completely irrelevant to the fact that I love to have conversations with CW, and well, both of you, since I regard you as thoughtful, erudite members of this very site.> Likewise. Oct-01-18    moronovich: Good morning gents ! I am also a socialist,but have several friends and aquintances who are right-wingers.No problem,au contraire, as long as we respectfully listen to each other and dont get lost in endless discusssons that lead nowhere.Basicline:I am shure we enrichen each other.Because off and not despite off. As long as we dont support the childish approach,"Them and us",things will work out fine. Med ønsket om en god dag til både højre og venstre i Norge og i lille Danmark! Oct-01-18    offramp: 1/2 Sam Sloan writes: <Batumi Chess Olympiad 2018 Commission Meetings Press Report> Today October 1, 2018 there are meetings in the morning at the FIDE Congress in Batumi, Georgia. The main meeting was surprisingly short and only two people spoke, FIDE Deputy President Georgios Makropoulos and FIDE Vice-President Israel Gelfer, but a lot of important information was provided. The main issue was an explanation of why Bulgaria is not present at the Olympiad. It seems that Bulgaria paid a fee of more than one million Euros to a fake organization named ECU. That is also the initials of the European Chess Union. After years of trying to resolve this problem, it has not been resolved. So the decision has been made to recognize another organization called “Bulgarian Chess Federation 1928”. At the General Assembly in two days, the old Bulgarian Chess Federation will be expelled and a new one will be recognized to take its place. The next World Chess Olympiad and FIDE Congress will be held in Khanty-Mansiysk in Siberia in 2020. As some players had complaints about the last Olympiad there in 2010, Israel Gelfer addressed this issue. Because FIDE is now a lot larger than it was then with 30% more members, plus living space was short even during the 2010 Chess Olympiad, there were doubts that another Olympiad could be held there. Iseael Gelfer visited Khanty-Mansiysk sis months ago and spoke to the mayor there. It is to be recalled that two large twin-towers were built in 2010 to house the Olympiad players. However, since then, one of those towers is being occupied by workers and other residents so it cannot be used for the Olympiad. Instead, another building or buildings are being built to accommodate the players in the 2020 Olympiad. Mr. Gelfer was able to see that work has already started on these new buildings so he is confident that they will be completed by the 2020 Olympiad. The 2022 Olympiad will be held in Minsk, Belarus (White Russia). This will be decided at the General Assembly in two days but is certain to pass as they have the only bid. Tunisia and South Korea tried to submit bids but they were not accepted as valid because they did not have adequate financial guarantees. (Personally I would like to have the Olympiad held in South Korea because they have girls over there.) I have a suggestion. The Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino in Las Vegas Nevada USA has enough space to hold three World Chess Olympiads there all in one playing hall. This year all sections of the World Table Tennis Championships was held in The Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino. That is a much bigger event than the World Chess Olympiad. Here is Batumi the games take place in two playing halls which is inconvenient for the players. We found out that the result of the Ethics Committee meeting yesterday was only that Serbia cannot vote in the FIDE Election due to conflicts of interest. The bigger issues were either dismissed or not passed upon... <[Continues...]> Oct-01-18    offramp: 2/2 ...The FIDE election will be held in two days. Those in the know claim to know that Arkady Dvorkovich of Russia will be elected. The FIDE Treasurer Mr. Siegel said again that there are pre-sanctions against Arkady Dvorkovich, so the US State Department might keep the Sanctions against FIDE in place. However, when Siegel said this, Makropoulos said this remark was inappropriate and ordered it stricken from the record. Zsuzsa Polgar claims to be the chairwoman of the FIDE Woman's Commission. The website says she represents the USA. We do not know how this can be as she has been permanently expelled and banned from the USCF. Her consort claims to represent Cambodia and the FIDE website says he does. However, Zsuzsa was not at the meeting today or on the dais. Who was on the dais today was Martha Fierro of Ecuador, who is the REAL chairwoman of the FIDE Woman's Commission Other Americans here include Walter Brown, USCF Technical and Ratings Expert (not to be confused with Walter Browne (with e at the end), a deceased chess grandmaster) and Grandmaster Nick De Firmian. We always thought that Kirsan Ilyumzhinov was a wealthy man, who got his millions from trading in oil from the Caspian Sea. He said he was giving $2 million Euros to FIDE. But now we have found out that Kirsan gave no money to FIDE. Rather FIDE gave money to Kirsan. We have the same problem in the USA. Our president claims to be a wealthy man. He has all the trappings of wealth. He has buildings, hotels, golf courses, an airplane, even a university named after him. But does he have real money? Or does he just rent an old airplane and have his name painted on it in big letters? Does he have a business that manufactures a product that people want to buy? Nobody knows of one. We know that his campaign manager borrowed $40 million from the Ukrainians and never paid it back. He spent the money on clothing for himself. The Ukrainians thought he was going to have the sanctions lifted against them. This never happened. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov told FIDE that his lawyers were having the sanctions lifted against him. That never happened either. Now we find out that his lawyers never even filed a case to get the sanctions lifted. Sam Sloan Oct-01-18    Tabanus: There are only two ways of achieving <erudite> status in CG. They are 1) to produce a good player bio, and 2) add an enjoyable event to the Tournament Index. Anything else is just <kibbutzing>. Oh, to stay on topic: Norway lost to Croatia by 1 to 3. Oct-01-18    HeMateMe: what are the chances of the Nige becoming FIDE president? I'm hoping the job comes back to western Europe and away from korrupt Kirsan. Oct-01-18    Sokrates: I lige måde, moro! Min omgangskreds er i øvrigt også ret bredspektret. Oct-01-18    Sally Simpson: D. Navara - B. Gelfand. Olympiad round 7. Black to play. click for larger view Gelfand played 31....f5 OOPS! Black resigned two move later. Oct-01-18    parmetd: USA should play AZE next round. US is 2-0 so far and AZE is 1.5-1.5 if Mamedyarov wins then AZE is 1st and USA second and so we are paired. If Mamedyarov draws then POL, USA and AZE are all tied for 1st which means USA plays AZE. Oct-01-18    Joseph Blackcape: Poland draws Azerbaijan with 4 draws, while USA looks to be beating Croatia 3:1 (2:0 as of right now with two other games being drawish Rook endings). Ukraine is also most likely to beat China if Eljanov can convert his passer against Wei Yi. Oct-01-18    Marmot PFL: Wei badly blundered a good ending. (I mentioned a few months ago that his endings still seemed relatively weak for a 2700+ GM). The big surprise was that Ding Liren skipped the match which raises some concerns about his health. 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