2017 World Draughts Championship


The 2017 World Draughts Championship at the international draughts held in Tallinn, Estonia. 79 players, who qualified through the championships of Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America competed in the tournament, which started on October 1, 2017 and will end on October 16, 2017. Among them was women's grandmaster Matrena Nogovitsyna from Russia. Three round played in hotel Europe, other in Paul Keres Chess House. The winning prize for the tournament is 30,000 euros. The tournament will be supervised by main referee Andriy Shcherbatyuk. At the same time the 2017 Women's World Draughts Championship was held.

Rules and Regulations

In the first stage 79 participants played in three groups Swiss-system tournament with 9 rounds. To define the places with equal points used of Solkoff truncated coefficient. The first four from each group participated in the final, total twelve players.
The final is in the form of a round-robin tournament, with 11 rounds in total. The games played in the official FMJD time rate with 1 hour and 20 minutes for the game plus 1 minute per move.
The final classification is based on the total points obtained. If two or more players will have same total points to define the places:
1. the largest number of victories
2. the best results between this players
3. the best results obtained in order of the classification.

Schedule

Results

Semifinal

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

Group A

Group B

Group C

Final

Results by round

1 round