Chess Olympiad 2010 : Venue of Khanty Mansiysk 2010

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Chess Olympiad 2010 venue and information

Tennis Sport Development Center is the venue of Khanty Mansiysk 2010 Chess Olympiad

Mr. Israel Gelfer in front of
the venue of the Chess Olympiad 2010

Honorary FIDE Vice President Mr. Israel Gelfer paid a visit to Khanty-Mansiysk (Russia) during last year's World Cup on behalf of the WC OC (the commission for World Championship cycle and Olympiad) to follow and advise to the preparations for the 2010 Chess Olympiad.
During the visit he inspected the facilities at Khanty Mansiysk. The first stop was the Tennis Sport Development Center, which is the venue of the Olympiad. It has a capacity of 3500 spectators, with press conference center, and stable internet.
The Tennis Sport Development Center was inaugurated on September 24, 2008. The total area of the Center is 15558 sq.m and has seven courts with special cover. The central court (the playing hall of the Olympiad) has 3500 spectators seats.

The central court and venue of the Olympiad

The Tennis complex, general view

At the time of the visit, a meeting of the Organizing Committee of the World Chess Olympiad in 2010 and the Congress of the International Chess Federation was held. It was explained that guests will come to Khanty-Mansiysk by charter flights from Dubai, Milan, Moscow, Munich and Prague. Sportsmen of other countries will arrive at Ugra by transit flights via Moscow. About 2000 hotel rooms will be at service of the Olympiad participants - in the hotels "Tarei", "Yugorskaya dolina", "Seven hills", "Misne".

The meeting at Khanty Mansiysk during the World Cup

The campaign of Khanty Mansiysk during the Turin Olympiad
The bear was the mascot of the promotion, will we see it again at the Chess Olympiad 2010?
photo: newzealandchess.co.nz

In a press release in February FIDE.com announced that according to regulations official invitation will be sent to federations on April 20th. The prices of the charters with full information about it will be included in the official invitation. Charters are expected to be free of charge for all participants (5 players + captain for each team) who will be only charged for airport taxes (60 USD for each passenger).
Final compositions of teams + captains should be sent, also electronically, no later than July 15th and in case not all names were given before May 20th should include all details for visas purposes according to the list which will be included into the official invitation.

Chess Olympiad 2010 : History and facts of the Chess Olympiad

Chess Olympiad

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

35th Chess Olympiad, Bled 2002

The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams from all over the world compete against each other. The event is organised by FIDE, which selects the host nation.

Birth of the Olympiad

The first Olympiad was unofficial. For the 1924 Olympics an attempt was made to include chess in the Olympic Games but this failed because of problems with distinguishing between amateur and professional players. While the 1924 Summer Olympics was taking place in Paris, the 1st unofficial Chess Olympiad also took place in Paris. FIDE was formed on Sunday, July 20, 1924, the closing day of the 1st unofficial Chess Olympiad.
FIDE organised the first Official Olympiad in 1927 which took place in London. The Olympiads were occasionally held annually and at irregular intervals until World War II; since 1950 they have been held regularly every two years.

Growth of Chess Olympiads

There were 16 participating nations in the 1st Chess Olympiad, 1927.

By the 37th Chess Olympiad, 2006, there were 133 participating nations.

The olympiad was created by a Maltese man by the name of 
Joseph Pisani-Rossi

Recognised sport

Chess is a recognized sport by the International Olympic Committee  with FIDE being the recognized International Sports Federation for chess since June 1999. As a member of the International Olympic Committee, FIDE adheres to its rules, including controversially having doping tests. The prospects of chess becoming an Olympic sporting event at some future date remain unclear. The naming of FIDE's team championship as the "Chess Olympiad" is of historical origin and implies no connection between this event and the Olympic Games.

Competition

Each FIDE recognized chess association can enter a team into the Olympiad (for the UK one team for each of the four countries plus Guernsey and Jersey can enter a team separately). Each team is made of up to six players, four regular players and two reserves (changed to four regular and one alternate in Dresden 2008. Initially each team played all other teams but as the event grew over the years this became impossible. At first team seeding took place before the competition. Later certain drawbacks were recognized with seeding and in 1976 a Swiss tournament system was adopted.
The trophy for winning the men's team is the Hamilton-Russell Cup, which was offered by the English magnate Frederick Hamilton-Russell as a prize for the 1st Olympiad (London 1927). The cup is kept by the winning team until the next event, when it will be consigned to the next winner. The trophy for the winning women's team is known as the Vera Menchik Cup the first Women's World Chess Champion.
The 2008 Olympiad was held in Dresden, Germany. The 2010 Olympiad is going to be held in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, and the 2012 Olympiad in Istanbul, Turkey. The bids for the 2014 Olympiad include Tromso, Norway  and Albena, Bulgaria.

Symbol of 6th Chess Olympiad in Warsaw 1935 by J.Steifer

Year	Event	Location	Gold
1924	1st unofficial Chess Olympiad The Chess Olympiad (individual)	Paris, France	Czechoslovakia 31
1926	2nd unofficial Chess Olympiad The Team Tournament (part of FIDE summit)	Budapest, Hungary	Hungary 9
1927	1st Chess Olympiad	London, United Kingdom	Hungary 40
1928	2nd Chess Olympiad	The Hague, Netherlands	Hungary 44
1930	3rd Chess Olympiad	Hamburg, Germany	Poland 48½
1931	4th Chess Olympiad	Prague, Czechoslovakia	USA 48
1933	5th Chess Olympiad	Folkestone, United Kingdom	USA 39
1935	6th Chess Olympiad	Warsaw, Poland	USA 54
1936	3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad non-FIDE unofficial Chess Olympiad	Munich, Germany	Hungary 110½
1937	7th Chess Olympiad	Stockholm, Sweden	USA 54½
1939	8th Chess Olympiad	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Germany 36
1950	9th Chess Olympiad	Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia	Yugoslavia 45½
1952	10th Chess Olympiad	Helsinki, Finland	USSR 21
1954	11th Chess Olympiad	Amsterdam, Netherlands	USSR 34
1956	12th Chess Olympiad	Moscow, Soviet Union	USSR 31
1958	13th Chess Olympiad	Munich, West Germany	USSR 34½
1960	14th Chess Olympiad	Leipzig, East Germany	USSR 34
1962	15th Chess Olympiad	Varna, Bulgaria	USSR 31½
1964	16th Chess Olympiad	Tel Aviv, Israel	USSR 36½
1966	17th Chess Olympiad	La Habana, Cuba	USSR 39½
1968	18th Chess Olympiad	Lugano, Switzerland	USSR 39½
1970	19th Chess Olympiad	Siegen, West Germany	USSR 27½
1972	20th Chess Olympiad	Skopje, Yugoslavia	USSR 42
1974	21st Chess Olympiad	Nice, France	USSR 46
1976	22nd Chess Olympiad *	Haifa, Israel	USA 37
1978	23rd Chess Olympiad	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Hungary 37
1980	24th Chess Olympiad	Valletta, Malta	USSR 39
1982	25th Chess Olympiad	Lucerne, Switzerland	USSR 42½
1984	26th Chess Olympiad	Thessaloniki, Greece	USSR 41
1986	27th Chess Olympiad	Dubai, UAE	USSR 40
1988	28th Chess Olympiad	Thessaloniki, Greece	USSR 40½
1990	29th Chess Olympiad	Novi Sad, Yugoslavia	USSR 39
1992	30th Chess Olympiad	Manila, Philippines	Russia 39
1994	31st Chess Olympiad	Moscow, Russia	Russia 37½
1996	32nd Chess Olympiad	Yerevan, Armenia	Russia 38½
1998	33rd Chess Olympiad	Elista, Russia	Russia 35½
2000	34th Chess Olympiad	Istanbul, Turkey	Russia 38
2002	35th Chess Olympiad	Bled, Slovenia	Russia 38½
2004	36th Chess Olympiad	Calviá, Spain	Ukraine 39½
2006	37th Chess Olympiad	Turin, Italy	Armenia 36
2008	38th Chess Olympiad	Dresden, Germany	Armenia 19
2010	39th Chess Olympiad	Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
2012	40th Chess Olympiad	Istanbul, Turkey

Best individual results in men's Olympiads

NOTES:
Only players participating to at least four Olympiads are considered in this table.

• Medals indicated are only individual ones (not team), in the order gold - silver - bronze.
• (1)  Kasparov played his first four olympiads for the USSR, the rest for Russia. Four gold   medals are for best-rating performance (first introduced at Thessaloniki 1984) and three for best score on first board.
• (2)  Keres played his first three Olympiads for Estonia, the rest for the USSR.

#	Player	Country	Olymp.	Games	Won	Drawn	Lost	%	Medals
1	Tal, MikhailMikhail Tal	Soviet Union	8	101	65	34	2	81.2	5 - 2 - 0
2	Karpov, AnatolyAnatoly Karpov	Soviet Union	6	68	43	23	2	80.1	3 - 2 - 0
3	Petrosian, TigranTigran Petrosian	Soviet Union	10	129	78	50	1	79.8	6 - 0 - 0
4	Kashdan, IsaacIsaac Kashdan	United States	5	79	52	22	5	79.7	2 - 1 - 2
5	Smyslov, VassilyVassily Smyslov	Soviet Union	9	113	69	42	2	79.6	4 - 2 - 2
6	Bronstein, DavidDavid Bronstein	Soviet Union	4	49	30	18	1	79.6	3 - 1 - 0
7	Kasparov, GarryGarry Kasparov	Soviet Union (1)	8	82	50	29	3	78.7	7 - 2 - 2
8	Alekhine, AlexanderAlexander Alekhine	France	5	72	43	27	2	78.5	2 - 2 - 0
9	Matulovic, MilanMilan Matulovic	Yugoslavia	6	78	46	28	4	76.9	1 - 2 - 0
10	Keres, PaulPaul Keres	Soviet Union (2)	10	141	85	44	12	75.9	5 - 1 - 1
11	Geller, EfimEfim Geller	Soviet Union	7	76	46	23	7	75.6	3 - 3 - 0
12	Tarjan, JamesJames Tarjan	United States	5	51	32	13	6	75.5	2 - 1 - 0
13	Fischer, BobbyBobby Fischer	United States	4	65	40	18	7	75.4	0 - 2 - 1
14	Botvinnik, MikhailMikhail Botvinnik	Soviet Union	6	73	39	31	3	74.7	2 - 1 - 2
15	Flohr, SaloSalo Flohr	Czechoslovakia	7	82	46	28	8	73.2	2 - 1 - 1

Fischer and Tal at the 1960 Olympiad  

Bobby Fischer's score card from his round 3 game against Miguel Najdorf in the 1970 Chess Olympiad.

Chess Olympiad 2010: The town Khanty Mansiysk Russia

Flag and Emblem of the town of Khanty-Mansiysk

The flag of the town of Khanty-Mansiysk is a rectangular width divided horizontally into three equal stripes (the upper stripe is blue; the central stripe is white; the lower stripe is green) with the element in the left upper part of the composition representing the white bird (white crane) with the outspread wings taken from the emblem of the town of Khanty-Mansiysk. Opposite the blue background, above the white bird there are three white flakes of snow.

History of Khanty Mansiysk

In 1637 the Samarovsky Yam was founded on the right bank of the Irtysh River not far from its falling into the Ob River. The settlement of Samarovo and then the town of Khanty-Mansiysk originated from that place. It was located in the picturesque place at the foot of steep mountains with the thick cedar forest growing on them. The first residents of Samarovo were 50 horse-drivers with their families moved from the Perm, Vologda and Olonetsky Regions. After them other emigrants moved to Samarovo.  For winter the local population salted mushrooms, picked up berries.

After the appearance of steamship company the settlement got the broad development. In the 60s of the XIX century Samarovo turned into a big quay where ways of steamers of the Tyumen-Tomsk system and vessels of fishermen of the Ob and Irtysh Rivers crossed. It became a big trade center.
In 1912 in the settlement there were 398 men and 427 women. There were three chapels, a church, a parochial school, a reading-house, three inns, a grog shop, a tea house, 6 trade shops, post and public stations, a small blacksmith’s shop.


In 1935 the road construction was developed in the Okrug center. The first tractor was received to stub up the road connecting Ostyako-Vogulsk with Samarovo. In 1938 the road was pebbled. In 1937-1941 the electric power station, a saw mill were put into operation in the settlement; in the southern part of Samarovo - mechanical shops. Air route Tyumen-Tobolsk-Samarovo-Beryezovo-Salekhard connected the Okrug center with other towns.



In March of 1936 the first elections to the local Soviet of Workers’ Deputies were held. It functioned till 1950.

In 1940 the settlement of Ostyako-Vogulsk was renamed and got the name of Khanty-Mansiysk, and in 1950 it gained the status of the town. Samarovo was joined to it. New houses grew, new streets appeared, enterprises developed in the town.

At present a little remind of those old days. The town is developing rapidly and is formed not only as a center of oil district, but is becoming a center of business activity, great sports, national culture.

The town of Khanty-Mansiysk has its own unique features: it has a lot of plants and trees, it is surrounded by forests and a wandering band of the Irtysh River, it has its specific architecture. The small town has a great history and great perspectives. In some places forestry touches the dwelling districts, creating the original look of the town landscape.


Khanty-Mansiysk, placed in the place of junction of two great rivers Ob and Irtysh and on seven hills, covered with coniferous forest is a peculiarity which is attractive for tourists.

At present Khanty-Mansiysk is developing as a center of economy management of the vast territory and huge natural resources potential. Centers of information processing, communication centers, financial institutions of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug are concentrated there.


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