Championships

Yue Wang (CHN)    ZURICH – With an impressive display of mental power-play the 23-year-old Chinese grandmaster Wang Yue has clinched the World University Champion­ship 2010. The student of communication sciences at Nankai University showed admirable stubbornness and excellent technique in rounds 7 and 8, grinding down GM Momchil Nikolov (Bulgaria) and GM Rinat Jumbayev […]

Men’s Gold Medallist Wang Yue (CHN)ZURICH – The 11th World University Championships in Zurich finished with an incredibly combative 9th round. “Grandmaster draws” seemed to be forbidden and almost every game finished in a decisive result. In the men’s tournament GM Wang Yue led the way. Although he had secured a decisive 1½ point lead […]

    ZURICH – Tournament favourite Wang Yue (23, Elo 2,732) first had a rough time in round 5 of the 11th World University Chess Championship in Zurich. His opponent Bayarsaikhan Gundavaa (21, Elo 2,460) put him under strong pressure right from the beginning. In a quiet line of the Catalan Opening the untitled Mongolian […]

  Marijn Otte (NED)ZURICH – Two long fights between the leaders, but no decision – after round four nobody was left with a clean score in the World University Chess Championships in Zurich. Ilya Khmelniker from Israel had been the surprise of the first third of the men’s tournament. However, before round 4 his chances […]

ZURICH – The 11th World University Chess Championship started on Sunday morning in Zurich with a splendid musical opening ceremony. Bernhard Burkhardt (President of the Organising Committee), Hassan Chick (FISU Vice-President) and Andreas Fischer (Rector of the University of Zurich) welcomed the 150 participants and guests with brief and well-appreciated speeches. Felix Hindermann pronounced the […]

Yue Wang (CHN)   ZURICH – Day two of the 11th World University Chess Championship proved that students, not especially noted for early-birdlyness – in particular not if chess players -, can still be motivated to work in the morning hours. In fact, the second round was marked by such a singular determination and fighting […]

Heads of Delegation Meeting ZURICH – On September 4th, in Zurich were held the meetings (CISCA and General technical meeting) for the participants of the 11th World University Chess Championship. The Championship will start on today September 5th, 10 a.m., in the ‘Lichthof’ of the University of Zurich. In the name of FISU, EC member […]

 Illustration from the booklet “International Chess” (2009) illustrating the chess collection of Dr. Mario Gmür   ZURICH – In less than a week from now the 11th World University Chess Championship will start on the premises of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. Among the participants are twenty strong grandmasters. A number of […]