The 2022 FISU World University Championship Mind Sports (12-17 September) has started in the 16th-century Hof van Liere building, located in the heart of the University of Antwerp City Campus (Belgium).
While 16 teams have registered for the bridge competition, several grandmasters (GM) and international masters (IM) are participating in the chess tournament.
In the men section, the favorites are GM Jingyao Tin (Singapore), the highest ranked player in Antwerp with 2561 Elo points, and the strong Polish GM Igor Janik (2533).
In the Women tournament, as the only grandmaster, Julia Antolak (Poland) is the top candidate for the gold medal, but she might well be challenged by IM Mobina Alinasab (Iran) and IM Anastasia Avramidou (Greece).
All chess games can be followed live on www.chess24.com
The tournaments at a glance:
Chess
71 players from 15 countries (Belgium, Brazil, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Mongolia, Poland, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Switzerland, Uganda)
33 women: 1 Woman Grandmaster (WGM), 7 Woman International Master (WIM), 10 Woman FIDE Master (WFM), 15 unranked
38 men: 3 Grandmaster (GM), 6 International Master (IM), 10 FIDE Master (FM), 1 Candidate Master (CM), 18 unranked
Bridge
16 teams, 88 Players from 11 countries (Belgium, Chinese Taipei, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Latvia, Poland, Serbia, Thailand, Türkiye, Uganda
