From February 25th to March 3th, The IMSA Elite Mind Games will be held in China, Huai-an, which is the city with great long history and significant cultural influence.
This event is hosted by IMSA organization and the Sports management center of Chinese Sports General Administration, orgnized by Jiangsu Sports Bureau and Huai’an government. Jiang Su Sports Industry Group Co., Ltd., cooperate with Sports management center of Jiangsu Province Sports Bureau, Huai’an Sports Bureau.Jiangsu Sports Co., Ltd. are working hard for the promotion operation.
By then, there will be 143 players and 77 technical officers from 43 countries, participate in varieties of board games including Bridge, GO, Chess, Chinese Chess and Draughts. Scroll down for the full participants list in the chess competition.
Games will be daily live with analysis on Chessdom.com. The rapid games start February 26th at 07:00 am CET.
Official website/ Standings and statistics
IMSA Elite Women’s Rapid/ IMSA Elite Blitz/ IMSA Elite Basque Chess/ IMSA Women’s Elite Basque Chess
| Name | Fed. | Rating |
| Ding, Liren | CHN | 2766 |
| Harikrishna, P. | IND | 2753 |
| Li, Chao b | CHN | 2751 |
| Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | AZE | 2747 |
| Navara, David | CZE | 2734 |
| Dominguez Perez, Leinier | CUB | 2732 |
| Tomashevsky, Evgeny | RUS | 2728 |
| Wojtaszek, Radoslaw | POL | 2727 |
| Wang, Yue | CHN | 2718 |
| Wang, Hao | CHN | 2717 |
| Ponomariov, Ruslan | UKR | 2712 |
| Ivanchuk, Vassily | UKR | 2710 |
| Sargissian, Gabriel | ARM | 2702 |
| Fressinet, Laurent | FRA | 2700 |
| Movsesian, Sergei | ARM | 2653 |
| Mamedov, Rauf | AZE | 2650 |
