It's amazing to see how Team China fielded its chess players to the 3rd Asian Indoor Games in Vietnam.
Let's look at their line up:
MEN
GM Wang Yue (2736)
GM Bu Xiangzhi (2702)
GM Ni Hua (2692)
GM Wang Hao (2690)
GM Zhou Jianchao (2623)
GM Ding Liren (2530)
WOMEN
GM Hou Yifan (2585)
GM Zhao Xue (2542)
WGM Shen Yang (2453)
WGM Ju Wenjun (2443)
Tan Zhongyi (2435)
WGM Huang Qian (2424)
Now let's take a look at the Chinese rating list based on FIDE's ratings as of September 2009:
For the Men's team, China fielded its Top 5 players.
For the Women's team, it fielded six of its Top 9 players.
I don't think the China Team employed any elimination system to choose its players for this event.
Considering that it is not yet the Chess Olympiad makes China's style more amazing. It's easy to read their philosopy in sending their team: send the best and only the best.
What about the Philippine system? Your comments please . . .
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Chinese style
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3 Comments:
the top five players of China were quite young and active producing an ELO rating that is quite precise relative to their playing strength, Li Chao could have made it the strongest possible team for China had he not opted to play in the world jrs.
In our case, this system would not be applicable as some of our top players are either not active or their playing strength were not reflected on their ELO rating.
Good point Resty, hope NCFP gets the concept!
MATATALINO KASI INTSIK..kaya rating based ang ginamit..
BWAHAHA
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