2013 World Draughts Championship


The 2013 World Draughts Championship was an international draughts tournament held in Ufa, Russia. 40 players from 24 countries who qualified through the championships of Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America competed in the tournament, which began on June 2, 2013 and ended on June 20, 2013. Among them was women's Draughts World Champion Zoja Golubeva from Latvia.
Alexander Georgiev became the World Champion. Jean Marc Ndjofang took second place, and Roel Boomstra took third place.

Competition

In the first stage 40 participants played in four groups named after the well-known world champions Andris Andreiko, Baba Sy, Iser Kuperman, and Marcel Deslauriers round-robin tournament. The first three from each group participated in the final.
The final was held in the form of a round-robin tournament. Matches between people who had already played each other in the group stage did not take place, but the results of those group matches were taken into account. The final place was determined by total points. In the event of a tie, the tie-breaking criteria were greatest number of victories, the greatest difference between plus and minus draws, the largest number of plus draws*, and the result of the game between the players involved. Other sportsmen played in final B.
In the B final, the winner was Ndiaga Samb.
French champion Arnaud Cordier refused to participate. He was replaced by Artem Ivanov.

Semifinal

Group Andreiko

Group Baba Sy

Group Deslauriers

Group Kuperman

PlaceNameCountryTitulRating12345678910Pointswindrawlostdraw +draw -
1.Alexei ChizhovGMI24111+111+1+12221236030
2.Joel AtseGMI23041-11+1122121236011
3.Edvardas BužinskisGMI2341110111221+1026110
4.Pim MeursGMI237211-21112011026101
5.Allan SilvaGMI22931-1111-12111018001
6.Raimonds VipulisGMI22761-11111-0129171202
7.Yuriy LagodaMI2245101111+1+11808120
8.Farhad HuseynovMI22210000021-22731501
9.N'Diaga SambGMI2334010211101715300
10.Zhou Wei2133001-110101505401

Final

* draw is considered a draw with the «plus» sign, if one opponent on the board for three and a more ordinary pieces .

Final B

In final B three women played — Tamara Tansykkuzhina, Aygul Idrisova and Regina Ajupova.
PlaceNameCountrywindrawlostPoints
1.N'Diaga Samb36012
2.Evgueni Watoetin27011
3.Ainur Shaibakov27011
4.Thomy Mbongo27011
5.Murodoullo Amrillaev27011
6.Yuriy Lagoda35111
7.Edmond Beugre26110
8.Tamara Tansykkuzhina18010
9.Pim Meurs18010
10.Aleksej Domchev18010
11.Guntis Valneris18010
12.Oscar Lognon18010
13.Andrei Tolchykov26110
14.Allan Silva26110
15.Sergei Kalinov26110
16.Ganjargal Ganbaatar26110
17.Dickson Maughn2529
18.Oskar Budis2529
19.Aygul Idrisova3339
20.Alisher Artykow2438
21.Farhad Huseynov2438
22.Djoumber Berichvili2438
23.Mamoutou Mariko2438
24.Raimonds Vipulis0818
25.Angel Mejia3157
26.Nicolas Derival3157
27.Vitaliy Stumpf0727
28.Regina Ajupova1446
29.Airat Nurgaziyev0636
30.Yuriy Nossov0363

GMI — international grandmaster
MI — international master
MF — master FMJD
GMIF — women's international grandmaster