24 Teams in 2nd Asian Indoor Games Print
Saturday, 29 September 2007 00:00
Chinese Taipei has joined, bringing the total to 24 teams seeing action in the 2nd Asian Indoor Games scheduled 26th October to 3rd November 2007 in Macau. Competition shall be in Standard, Rapid and Blitz Chess. For each category there will be mixed team competitions and individual competitions for both men and women with 9 gold medals at stake. Download List of entries. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >Asian Chess Federation President Sheikh Sultan bin Khalifah Al Nahyan has designated This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >Ignatius Leong as Technical Delegate. Read schedule. Chinese Taipei has joined, bringing the total to 24 teams seeing action in the 2nd Asian Indoor Games scheduled 26th October to 3rd November 2007 in Macau.Competition shall be in Standard, Rapid and Blitz Chess. For each category there will be mixed team competitions and individual competitions for both men and women with 9 gold medals at stake. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >Asian Chess Federation President Sheikh Sultan bin Khalifah Al Nahyan has designated This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >Ignatius Leong as Technical Delegate. For more information, contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >Deputy President Casto Abundo. Download List of entries.

 Date

 Time

 Event

 Gender

 Phase

 Oct. 25

 20:00

 Technical Meeting

 

 

 Oct. 26

 09:00-17:00

 Rapid Chess Team

 Mixed

 Rds. 1 -4

 Oct. 27  10:00-12:30  Rapid Chess Team  Mixed  Rds. 5-6
   15:30-18:00  Rapid Chess Individual  M W  Semis 1 & 2
   18:30-21:00  Rapid Chess Individual  M W  Final Games
 Oct. 28  09:00-20:00  Classical Chess Team  Mixed  Rds 1 & 2
 Oct. 29  09:00-20:00  Classical Chess Team  Mixed  Rds 3 & 4
 Oct. 30  09:00-20:00  Classical Chess Team  Mixed  Rds 5 & 6
 Oct. 31  09:00-20:00  Classical Chess Individual  M W  Semis 1 & 2
 Nov. 1  09:00-20:00  Classical Chess Individual  M W  Finals 1 & 2
 Nov. 2  09:00-13:00  Blitz Chess Individual  M W  Rds. 1-9
   16:00-18:00  Blitz Chess Individual  M W  Semis & Final
 Nov. 3  09:00-13:00  Blitz Chess Team  Mixed  Rds. 1-9


Time controls are 90 minutes for whole game with increment of 30 seconds per move in Standard chess; 25 minutes with increment of 10 seconds per move in Rapid chess; and 3 minutes with increment of 2 seconds per move in blitz chess.

The Team Competitions in Rapid and Classical Chess shall be held as a Swiss system of six rounds. Each match shall be over four boards (Men 1, Men 2, Women 1 and Women 2.

From the team event, the best two scores on each board shall qualify for the individual event provided they must have played all six rounds.

The blitz chess team and individual (M & W) shall be 9-round Swiss system events.

Venue is the Macau International Shooting Range, six km. from the Macau city center with a seating capacity of over 400.

Each team representing their National Olympic Committees for the chess competition may be represented by ten persons, one Head of Delegation, one Coach, not more than four men athletes and not more than four women athletes.

For all the team events, each team shall be composed of two men athletes and two women athletes with one man reserve and one woman reserve.

For the individual events except blitz chess, each NOC is allowed to register more than one athlete. For blitz chess individual, not more than two athletes can be registered.

Entry forms by name must be received by MAIGOC by 14th September 2007.

There shall be 19 sports disciplines: Aerobic gymnastics, bowling, chess, xianggi, billiards, dancesport, dragon and lion dance, electronic sports, extreme sports, finswimming, futsal, hoop sepaktakraw, indoor athletics, indoor cycling, indoor hockey, kabaddi, muay, short course swimming, and demonstration sports kickboxing and kurash.
 
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