GUIMARAES – The 12th World University Chess Championship hosted in Guimarães, Portugal was dominated by the Chinese student-chess players. In the final round of the event, played on August 25th, the attention was focused on table one where Xiangzhi Bu (CHN) was facing Nikita Matinian (RUS). Bu, with seven points and current leader of the […]
GUIMARAES – The participants of the 10th WUC Chess returned to the trays on the 24th August around 4pm for the 8th round of the competition. On the 7th round, on 23rd August, everyone was surprised by the draw between the number one of the women’s classification Tan Zhongyi (CHN) and Marta Przezdziecka (POL). Although […]
GUIMARAES – Bu Xiangzhi (CHN) leads the WUC with a total of 5 points in 6 rounds. Yesterday, August 23rd, during the 7th round, all attention was turned to the game between Bu and Polish player Tazbir Marcin, who has 4.5 points. The men’s classification has the Chinese in the 1st place followed by Tazbir […]
KAZAN – With less than a week left to go until the 5th World University Canoe Sprint Championship, training for employees of the Kazan 2013 Executive Directorate kicked off in the Rowing Centre to get all functional areas ready for the test event. The Rowing Centre, the Kazan 2013 Rowing and Canoe Sprint venue, will […]
GUIMARAES – Yesterday was the last day at the 12th WUC Chess that the participants played double rounds. In the next days of competition, each day will have only one round during the afternoon. It will start at 4pm, except Saturday which will be the day of decisions and awards. At the end of the […]
GUIMARAES – At the 2nd day of the 12th WUC Chess, the concentration of the players can be read from their faces since early in the morning. Thinking about the mistakes they made on the last round or new strategies to “mate” their opponents. The 3rd round began with the usual serenity. The different cultures […]
GUIMARAES – About eleven centuries after the introduction of chess by the Arabs in Europe, the city of Guimarães is the stage of the 12th World University Chess Championship. Youngsters from eighteen different countries played on August 20th the first two rounds of the tournament. This sport is all about strategy. A game that demands […]
POR vs. ESP BRAGA – China and the Czech Republic started the match well: within the first two minutes of play, the score was 1-1. China scored their sixth goal only 5 seconds to the end of the match, for a final result of 6-4. Poland took on Thailand today, and ended the first half […]
