Along with athletes, referees from Turkmenistan are also represented at the XIX Summer Asian Games, which are held from September 23 to October 8 in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province in eastern China. Vladimir Annaev, International Judge, works at the chess tournament in the Asian Games program, and the judo competitions were judged by Rovshan Amandurdyev, IJF International referee of the highest A category.
Rovshan Amandurdyev, who will turn 40 on October 17, has been judging judo tournaments since 2002. He received the international category "B" in 2011 following the results of the seminar-exam for judges in Bangkok, and the category "A" – in 2022 in Almaty. He has judged Asian Championships among cadets and juniors and open Cups of Europe and Asia many times. Of the major competitions, Rovshan Amandurdyev was entrusted to judge the World Championship among veterans in Krakow (Poland) in 2022 and the Asian Games in Hangzhou.
Vladimir Annaev, International Judge, is also not a novice in this matter. At the Asian Games in China, he was entrusted to personally judge the first board in the women’s individual competition, which was held with the rapid time control regulations.
The role of a chess referee attached to a particular game includes fixing the players' moves in order to avoid disagreements, as well as monitoring the legality of the executed moves and the time on the clock. This role of the referee is important in such regulations as "rapid" or "blitz".
It is noteworthy that in the 5th round of the women's tournament, two famous Chinese chess players met with each other - four–time world champion Hou Yifan from China, who has the title of grandmaster among men (FIDE rapid rating – 2547) and the current world champion Zhu Jiner (2414). Zhu Jiner won this game and eventually became the champion of the XIX Summer Asian Games. Silver in this discipline went to Umida Omonova (2183) from Uzbekistan, and bronze to Hou Yifan from China.
Chinese grandmaster Wei Yi (2735) took the lead in the men's tournament. Uzbek grandmasters Nodirbek Abdusattorov (2731) and Javokhir Sindarov (2607) became silver medalists respectively.
The team chess tournament with classic time control regulation will begin today at the Asian Games in Hangzhou.
