SportAccord Mind Games 2012
The SportAccord Mind Games will take place from 12-20 December in Beijing, China.
SportAccord is an international association of sports federations whose stated mission is to unite, support and promote its members common aims and interests, while conserving and respecting their autonomy.
The event will include 8 days of competitions in 5 mind sports: Bridge, Chess, Draughts, Go, and Xiangqi.
More information and live coverage is at the official website.
[UPDATE - Official FIDE coverage of the chess events is available here]
CHESS PARTICIPANTS:
| Men | Women | |||||
| Rank | Name | Nat | Rank | Name | Nat | |
| 2 | Aronian, Levon | ARM | 2 | Hou, Yifan | CHN | |
| 4 | Radjabov, Teimour | AZE | 3 | Muzychuk, Anna | SLO | |
| 5 | Karjakin, Sergey | RUS | 4 | Koneru, Humpy | IND | |
| 7 | Nakamura, Hikaru | USA | 5 | Zhao, Xue | CHN | |
| 9 | Morozevich, Alexander | RUS | 7 | Lahno, Kateryna | UKR | |
| 10 | Ivanchuk, Vassily | UKR | 10 | Cmilyte, Viktorija | LTU | |
| 11 | Grischuk, Alexander | RUS | 14 | Zatonskih, Anna | USA | |
| 12 | Topalov, Veselin | BUL | 15 | Stefanova, Antoaneta | BUL | |
| 14 | Kamsky, Gata | USA | 16 | Khotenashvili, Bela | GEO | |
| 16 | Leko, Peter | HUN | 17 | Harika, Dronavalli | IND | |
| 18 | Bologan, Viktor | MDA | 18 | Paehtz, Elisabeth | GER | |
| 21 | Jobava, Baadur | GEO | 19 | Zhu, Chen | QAT | |
| 22 | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | AZE | 20 | Cramling, Pia | SWE | |
| 23 | Wang, Hao | CHN | 22 | Socko, Monika | POL | |
| 35 | Giri, Anish | NED | 23 | Danielian, Elina | ARM | |
| 49 | Ding, Liren | CHN | 24 | Kosteniuk, Alexandra | RUS |
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| CHESS SCHEDULE | ||||||
| Wednesday | 12th December 2012 | OPENING CEREMONY | ||||
| Thursday | 13th December 2012 | Rest Day | ||||
| Friday | 14th December 2012 | 15:00 - Rounds 1-3 | Rapid Chess | |||
| Saturday | 15th December 2012 | 15:00 - Rounds 4-7 | Rapid Chess | |||
| Sunday | 16th December 2012 | 15:00 - Rounds 1-15 | Blitz Chess | |||
| Monday | 17th December 2012 | 15:00 - Rounds 16-30 | Blitz Chess | |||
| Tuesday | 18th December 2012 | 15:00 - Rounds 1-4 | Blindfold Chess | |||
| Wednesday | 19th December 2012 | 15:00 - Rounds 5-7 | Blindfold Chess | |||
| Thursday | 20th December 2012 | DEPARTURE |
