Nanjing Pearl Spring Chess Tournament and Women's FIDE Grand-Prix, Nanjing closed by the pearl spring in Pukou. Six male grand masters and twelve female grand masters fought intensely for twelve days. In the end, Carlsen ranked 4 from NOR and the Chinese player Xu Yuhua respectively became the champion of man and woman. Topalov, Wang Yue, Jakovenko, Radjabov and Leko separately ranked from second to sixth. Zhao Xue is the second behind the top in the Women's FIDE Grand-Prix. Dzagnidze, Ju Wenjun, Sebag, Mrktchian, Shen Yang Munguntuul, Zhu Chen, Fierro and Yidiz are respectively from forth to twelfth.
The closing ceremony of the Nanjing Pearl Spring Chess Tournament and Women's FIDE Grand-Prix, Nanjing was held at 18:00pm.
The Chinese officials : The chairman of the organizing committee ,Deputy Mayor of Nanjing Municipal People's Government , Wang Yonghong, The Deputy chairman of the organizing committee , the deputy chairman of Chinese Chess Association , Deputy Director of Chess and Card Management Center of General Administration of Sports of China , Fan Guangsheng , Secretary General of Chinese Chess Association , Director of the Chess Department of Chess and Card Management Center of the General Administration of Sports of China , Ye Jiang Chuan.
The consultant , chairman of Beijing Big Dipper Investment CO,Ltd. Wu Shu, Director-General of Nanjing Sports Bureau, Shu Jianping; Executive Director , Head of Pukou District People's Government Cheng Yuxiang . The foreign guests : Nobel Laureate in Economics , Professor of Columbia University , Robert Mundell, the Deputy-chairman of FIDE , Azmaiparashvili the Secretary General of FIDE Leong chee weng ignatius, the executive official of the Grand Slam Chess Association , Executive Director of Sofia Tournament Danainuofu.
The closing ceremony was hosted by Secretary of CPC Pukou District Committee, Director of Pukou NPC Standing Committee Qi Lu. The male Chief Arbiter of tournament Nikolopoulos and the female Chief Arbiter Leong chee weng Ignatius separately announced the results of male and female tournaments. The chairman of the organizing committee, Wang Yonghong and The Deputy chairman of the organizing committee, Fan Guang sheng respectively published the awards for male and female players. Carlsen and Xu Yuhua respectively claimed the speech. Secretary General of Chinese Chess Association, Ye Jiang Chuan announced the best Theoretical Innovation and best board. The Secretary-General, Standing Member of CPC Pukou District Committee, Director of Pukou Publicity Department Dong Wei prized for volunteers of this tournament. Nanjing University of Technology, the First Nanjing Middle school and Pukou District Experimental Primary School become the Chess School. Fan Guang Sheng, Azmaiparashvili and Wang Yonghong gave speeches .In the end Wang Yonghong announced the closing of the tournament.
The average rating of the masters who took part in this tournament is up to 2764, which is on the top of this year’s tournament. The tournament had gained wide acclaim. FIDE president Ilyumzhinov said: “I am very pleased to see that Chinese people make friends with the best chess masters. Nanjing is becoming a city of chess.” President of Grand Slam Chess Association, Mayor of Linares, and President of Linares Chess Tournament Committee, Mr. Juan Fernandez said: “I think Nanjing had a excellent preparation and the opening ceremony was very impressive.” the President of European Chess Union, Mr. Boris Kutin thought: “The Nanjing Tournament is quite important for the development of China, Asia and even the world.”
The new star of chess Carlsen got the champion with 5 winnings and 3 draws on the top that became the focus of the world. It showed the charm of Nanjing. Australian journalist Rogers Ian considered that the organization of Nanjing Tournament was very mature and provided help for the players and Medias. York, the journalist of New in chess, said: “The news from the tournament organizers is quite opportune.” Spanish journalist Garcia said: “the preparation of organization was impressive and the opening ceremony was luxury, the venue was pretty good. We can learn many things from that.”
The characteristic of the Tournament is clear. During the competition, Chess grand slam opened the meeting in Nanjing. The meeting’s point is about scale of competition, reform of mechanism and management of organization. The experiences of Nanjing Tournament reach an agreement with executive of meeting. Competition realized standardized management all around. In the basic of studying the other grand slam’s experience, layed down strict operating standards, the level of market operating is at ahead of five big country’s Chess grand slam. Then opened North-South Students Chess Tournament and Chess innovative activities such as youth summer camps. At the same time, the Tournament first made the gold to build the place of communication of east and west’s culture.
Chess Culture building go across the competition. By the pattern of “government promoting, Market-driven, Mass participation”, making the Chess popular and showing Nanjing around world. This Tournament created many first: Firstly opening the North-South Students Chess Tournament. Promote the Chess to be popular in the Chinese students. Carlson Outperforming broke the world record. He was named wonder in the field of World Chess. Try to plan and publish, then print the first Chess magazine in China! First to do research on the Chess, selecting the best theoretical innovation and best game to promote the development of Chess！
