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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
GUIMARAES – Largo da Oliveira in Guimarães hosted the opening ceremony of the 12th World University Chess Championship. As a protocol procedure, the Portuguese national flag came up on stage accompanied with the national anthem. After this official action, all the teams of the eighteen different countries paraded with a musical group of Minho’s University […]
GUIMARAES – The 12th World University Championship of Chess is about to start. On 19th August all the participants took part in a technical meeting to establish all the rules of the tournament and to be introduced to the major names of the organization such as Eugen Fleischer, chair of FISU Chess Technical Committee, Kadirhan […]
Women’s Relay Podium ALICANTE – Relay is the most popular team competition in orienteering. The Relay Race took place in Santa Pola It was a very though relay competition for all teams with a number of three legs finished. All competitors struggled very hard to win the gold medal. In the women’s competition, the Swedish […]
LIBEREC – Yesterday, July 5th, once again stormy weather came spoiling the fun delaying the competition. Men’s Competition Philip Ericsson from Sweden cut through the Spanish domination in the men’s individual competition of the 14th WUC Golf in Liberec, Czech Republic. With his result of 64 and a total score of 200 Ericsson moves up […]
LIBEREC – The second competition day of the 14th World University Golf Championship awoke to the foggy weather, that was the reason for a 20 minutes delay of teetimes in the women’s competition. Despite the bad weather, after this small delay the first flights of women in the second round were released. Together with thirty […]
