2017 World Draughts Championship Explained

The 2017 World Draughts Championship at the international draughts held in Tallinn, Estonia. 79 players, who qualified through the championships of Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America competed in the tournament, which ran from October 1, 2017, to October 16, 2017. Among them was women's grandmaster Matrena Nogovitsyna from Russia. Three round played in hotel Europe, other in Paul Keres Chess House. The winning prize for the tournament is 30,000 euros. The tournament will be supervised by main referee Andriy Shcherbatyuk (Ukraine). At the same time the 2017 Women's World Draughts Championship was held.

Rules and regulations

In the first stage 79 participants played in three groups Swiss-system tournament with 9 rounds. To define the places with equal points used of Solkoff truncated coefficient. The first four from each group participated in the final, total twelve players.

The final is in the form of a round-robin tournament, with 11 rounds in total. The games played in the official FMJD time rate with 1 hour and 20 minutes for the game plus 1 minute per move.^[1]

The final classification is based on the total points obtained. If two or more players will have same total points to define the places:

1. the largest number of victories
2. the best results between this players
3. the best results obtained in order of the classification.

Schedule

Date	Time	Men	Women	Playing venue
1 October	11:00	Opening	Opening	Hotel Euroopa
1 October	15:00	Round 1	Round 1	Hotel Euroopa
2 October	9:00	Round 2	Round 2	Hotel Euroopa
2 October	16:00	Round 3		Hotel Euroopa
3 October	16:00	Round 4	Round 3	Hotel Euroopa
4 October	9:00	Round 5		Paul Keres Chess House
4 October	16:00	Round 6	Round 4	Paul Keres Chess House
5 October	16:00	Round 7	Round 5	Paul Keres Chess House
6 October	9:00	Round 8	Round 6	Paul Keres Chess House
6 October	16:00	Round 9	Round 7	Paul Keres Chess House
7 October		Day of rest	Day of rest	FMJD General Assembly 2017
8 October	9:00	Final 1 round		Paul Keres Chess House
8 October	16:00	Final 2 round	Round 8	Paul Keres Chess House
9 October	16:00	Final 3 round	Round 9	Paul Keres Chess House
10 October	16:00	Final 4 round	Round 10	Paul Keres Chess House
11 October	9:00	Final 5 round		Paul Keres Chess House
11 October	16:00	Final 6 round	Round 11	Paul Keres Chess House
12 October	16:00	Final 7 round	Round 12	Paul Keres Chess House
13 October	9:00	Final 8 round		Paul Keres Chess House
13 October	16:00	Final 9 round	Round 13	Paul Keres Chess House
14 October	9:00	Final 10 round	Round 14	Paul Keres Chess House
15 October	9:00	Final 11 round	Round 15	Paul Keres Chess House
15 October	17:00	Closing	Closing	Paul Keres Chess House

Results

Semifinal

GMI — international grandmaster

MI — international master

MF — master FMJD

GMIF — women's international grandmaster

Group A

Place	Name	Country	Title	Rating	Points	Coeff.
1			GMI	2394	12
2			GMI	2432	11
3			GMI	2379	11
4			GMI	2354	11
5			GMI	2334	11
6	N'Diaga Samb		GMI	2322	11
7	Ainur Shaibakov		GMI	2349	11
8	Souleymane Keita		MI	2282	11
9	Nikolai Gulyaev		MI	2299	10
10	Ron Heusdens		GMI	2331	10
11	Frank Teer		MI	2298	10
12	Manlai Ravjir		GMI	2174	10
13	Alexander Verkhovykh		MI	2227	10
14	Arnaud Cordier		GMI	2358	10
15	Guno Burleson		MI	2254	10
16	Derby Martes			2259	10
17	Martijn van Gortel		MF	2117	10
18	Jitse Slump		MI	2273	9
19	Raimonds Vipulis		GMI	2310	9
20	Arjan van den Berg			2178	9
21	Raivo Rist		MF	2149	8
22	Vaclav Krista		MI	2092	8
23	Piotr Paluch		MF	2119	8
24	Bryan Wollaert		MF	2127	8
25	Uno Plakk		MF	2024	6
26	Priit Lokotar			1902	6
27	Behcet Celebi			1900	2
28	Epherem Demessie			1901	0

Group B

Place	Name	Country	Title	Rating	Points	Coeff.
1			GMI	2428	12
2			GMI	2374	12
3			GMI	2367	11
4	Martijn van IJzendoorn		GMI	2395	11
5			GMI	2266	11
6	Leopold Kouogueu Kouomou		GMI	2304	11
7			GMI	2350	10
8	Hein Meijer		GMI	2317	10
9			GMI	2351	10
10	Ivan Trofimov		GMI	2332	10
11	Adonis Joachim Ano		MI	2306	10
12	Alessio Scaggiante		MF	2119	10
13	Jean Marc Ndjofang		GMI	2333	9
14	Chengcheng Tian		MF	2132	9
15			MI	2228	9
16	Youssou NDiaye		MF	2183	9
17	Oscar Lognon		MI	2279	9
18	Kees Romijn		MF	2136	9
19	Mehmet Yöney		MF	2119	8
20	Vasyl Pikiniar		MF	2165	8
21	Janiston Ramirez			2251	8
22	Sergei Nosevitch		GMI	2262	7
23	Roep Bhawanibhiek		MF	2095	7
24	Andreas Tulva			2021	6
25	Argo Unnuk		MF	2204	6
26	Gerrit Alink			1909	2

Group C

Place	Name	Country	Title	Rating	Points	Coeff.
1			MI	2278	12
2			GMI	2409	11
3			GMI	2337	11
4			GMI	2329	11
5	Roel Boomstra		GMI	2400	11
5	Alexander Getmanski		GMI	2367	11
7	Kees Thijssen		GMI	2326	11
8	Macodou NDiaye		GMI	2336	11
9	Maksim Milshin		MF	2278	11
10	Wouter Sipma		GMI	2352	10
11	Daniele Macali		MF	2143	10
12			GMI	2314	9
13	Christian Niami		MF	2294	9
14	Miguel Almanzar		MF	2372	9
15	Evgeni Gurkov		MF	2178	9
16	Zhiyong Xiong		MF	2161	9
17	Carlos Lorevil		MF	2120	9
18	Piotr Chmiel		MI	2115	9
19	Igor Kirzner		GMI	2259	8
20			MF	2116	8
21	Gerelbold Ganbold		MF	2124	8
22	Frantz Forbin		MI	2230	8
23	Alexander Rudnitsky		MF	2194	8
24	Raido Värik			2247	6
25	Dan Isabirye			2000	3
26	Evert Wiskerke			1984	2

Final

Place	Name	Country	Title	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Points	Win	Draw	Lost
1			GMI	2432		1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	1	1	2	14	3	8	0
2			GMI	2409	1		1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	2	1	13	2	9	0
3			GMI	2374	1	1		1	1	1	1	2	1	2	1	1	13	2	9	0
4			GMI	2394	1	1	1		1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	12	1	10	0
5			GMI	2379	1	1	1	1		1	1	1	1	2	1	1	12	1	10	0
6			GMI	2337	1	1	1	0	1		1	1	2	1	1	1	11	1	9	1
7			GMI	2428	1	0	1	1	1	1		2	1	1	1	1	11	1	9	1
8			MI	2278	0	1	0	1	1	1	0		2	1	1	2	10	2	6	3
9	Martijn van IJzendoorn		GMI	2395	0	1	1	1	1	0	1	0		1	2	1	9	1	7	3
10			GMI	2329	1	1	0	1	0	1	1	1	1		1	1	9	0	9	2
11			GMI	2354	1	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	1		1	9	0	9	2
12			GMI	2367	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	1	1	1		9	0	9	2

Results by round

1 round

• Guntis Valneris – Alexander Schwarzman 1–1
• Alexei Chizhov – Artem Ivanov 1–1
• Alexander Georgiev – Vadim Virny 1–1
• Yuri Anikeev – Alexander Baljakin 1–1
• Evgeni Vatutin – Joel Atse 1–1
• Martijn van IJzendoorn – Wouter Wolff 0–2

2 round

• Alexander Schwarzman – Wouter Wolff 2–0
• Joel Atse – Martijn van IJzendoorn 2–0
• Alexander Baljakin – Evgeni Vatutin 1–1
• Vadim Virny – Yuri Anikeev 1–1
• Artem Ivanov – Alexander Georgiev 1–1
• Guntis Valneris – Alexei Chizhov 1–1

3 round

• Alexei Chizhov – Alexander Schwarzman 1–1
• Alexander Georgiev – Guntis Valneris 1–1
• Yuri Anikeev – Artem Ivanov 1–1
• Evgeni Vatutin – Vadim Virny 1–1
• Martijn van IJzendoorn – Alexander Baljakin 1–1
• Wouter Wolff – Joel Atse 1–1

4 round

• Alexander Schwarzman – Joel Atse 1–1
• Alexander Baljakin – Wouter Wolff 1–1
• Vadim Virny – Martijn van IJzendoorn 0–2
• Artem Ivanov – Evgeni Vatutin 1–1
• Alexei Chizhov – Alexander Georgiev 2–0
• Guntis Valneris – Yuri Anikeev 1–1

5 round

• Alexander Georgiev – Alexander Schwarzman 1–1
• Yuri Anikeev – Alexei Chizhov 1–1
• Evgeni Vatutin – Guntis Valneris 0–2
• Martijn van IJzendoorn – Artem Ivanov 1–1
• Wouter Wolff – Vadim Virny 1–1
• Joel Atse – Alexander Baljakin 0–2

6 round

• Alexander Georgiev – Yuri Anikeev 1–1
• Alexei Chizhov – Evgeni Vatutin 1–1
• Guntis Valneris – Martijn van IJzendoorn 1–1
• Artem Ivanov – Wouter Wolff 0–2
• Vadim Virny – Joel Atse 1–1
• Alexander Schwarzman – Alexander Baljakin 1–1

7 round

• Yuri Anikeev – Alexander Schwarzman 1–1
• Evgeni Vatutin – Alexander Georgiev 1–1
• Martijn van IJzendoorn – Alexei Chizhov 1–1
• Wouter Wolff – Guntis Valneris 0–2
• Joel Atse – Artem Ivanov 1–1
• Alexander Baljakin – Vadim Virny 1–1

8 round

• Alexander Schwarzman – Vadim Virny 1–1
• Artem Ivanov – Alexander Baljakin 1–1
• Guntis Valneris – Joel Atse 1–1
• Alexei Chizhov – Wouter Wolff 1–1
• Alexander Georgiev – Martijn van IJzendoorn 1–1
• Yuri Anikeev – Evgeni Vatutin 2–0

9 round

• Alexander Schwarzman – Vadim Virny 1–1
• Artem Ivanov – Alexander Baljakin 1–1
• Guntis Valneris – Joel Atse 1–1
• Alexei Chizhov – Wouter Wolff 1–1
• Alexander Georgiev – Martijn van IJzendoorn 1–1
• Yuri Anikeev – Evgeni Vatutin 2–0

10 round

• Alexander Schwarzman – Artem Ivanov 2–0
• Guntis Valneris – Vadim Virny 1–1
• Alexei Chizhov – Alexander Baljakin 1–1
• Alexander Georgiev – Joel Atse 1–1
• Yuri Anikeev – Wouter Wolff 1–1
• Evgeni Vatutin – Martijn van IJzendoorn 1–1

11 round

• Martijn van IJzendoorn – Alexander Schwarzman 0–2
• Wouter Wolff – Evgeni Vatutin 1–1
• Joel Atse – Yuri Anikeev 1–1
• Alexander Baljakin – Alexander Georgiev 1–1
• Vadim Virny – Alexei Chizhov 0–2
• Artem Ivanov – Guntis Valneris 1–1

See also

• List of Draughts World Championship winners

External links

• List of players
• Offiсial site
• Results of final
• Results of final on site KNDB
• Results semifinal A
• Results semifinal B
• Results semifinal C
• Results semifinal A on site KNDB
• Results semifinal B on site KNDB
• Results semifinal C on site KNDB

Notes and References

1. http://wc2017.kabeliit.ee/images/2017_10_WC_Tallinn_rr.pdf World Championship. Rules and Regulations