2012 World Chess Olympiad
OPENING CEREMONY
27 August
WOW HOTEL
PROGRAM
* Entry of The Turkish Flag
* Moment of Silence
* Raising the Flag and Turkish National Anthem
* The Ones Who Passed Away
* Art Show
* Entry of Flags of Countries
* Ceremonial Speeches
Ali Nihat Yazici
(Director of the Organizational Committee)
Dr. Kadir Topbas
(Mayor of Metropolitan Municipality)
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
(FIDE President)
Suat Kilic
(Minister of Youth and Sports)
* FIDE Flag
* Color Drawing for the Pairings
* Sportsmen's Oath
Trainer's Oath
Arbiter's Oath
Symbolic Move by the Minister
Caucasia is a cultural mosaic built by different communities with many common cultural values. Caucasian people, who are also one of the important elements of the Anatolian region, managed to reflect their dances, music, customs and traditions until today.
SANAT GOSTERISI
ART SHOW
Turkey is a cradle of civilizations, a singel nation with all its differences and an area which became the native country of many different etchnical groups.
We have designed a well-disciplined show to reflect our cultural and environmental wealthiness especially about Istanbul, which we have put forward during the candidateship process of the 2020 Olympics.
A visual show involving the whole Turkey was enriched with modernized folk dances and local instrument solos.
Halay Duet
Halay is a kind of folk dance which is performed by people in East, Southeast, Central Anatolia and Curukova regions during ceremonies and fests. It has taken its shape of today with the affect of the Turkish, Kurdish, Arabic, Armenian, Azeri and Assyrian cultures. It is a dance performed hand-to-hand or shoulder-to-shoulder.
Horoni
The dynamic Black Sea Horon reflects the shape of the character of the local people and their cultural basis. Horon will always tell and make us remember the culture and people of the Black Sea, sometimes with its bagpipe sound swelling through bodies as a cry of freedom in foggy uplands, sometimes with its kemancha sound wistful but with an energy growing out of the body, sometimes with its reed pipe sound becoming a lyrical story and sometimes with its sound of shawm and drum turning into an ecstatical ritual.
Zeybek/Seymen
The Zeibek establishment continues to exist with its original cultural values in the Aegean region and in the regions nearby. Besides having the general Aegean character, the Zeibek dances reflect feelings like braver, courage and justice. It has special relationships with the Seymen Character in the Central Anatolian region as well as other dance in the Aegian region.
Balkan Danslari
The Balkan region which is located in the east of Europe and west of Turkey have many common values in both ethnical and cultural aspects with Anatolia. Besides many communities who immigrated from Balkans to Anatolia, manu Turani communities who had to come back live in different regions of Turkey and they continue to live their cultural life and perform their cultural practices.
PALAU CHESS TEAM CAPTAIN JAMIE KENMURE, 2ND FROM LEFT, JOIN THE TOP 3 PLAYERS OF PALAU. HE JUST FINISHED ATTENDING THE TEAM CAPTAINS' MEETING (TECHNICAL MEETING) 30 MINUTES PRIOR TO THE OPENING CEREMONY.
OCEANIA CHESS CONFEDERATION PRESIDENT BRIAN JONES OF AUSTRALIA JOIN THE GROUP WITH ELIZABETH MANUEL, MENANDRO'S WIFE AND PALAU'S TEAM HEAD OF DELEGATION. BRIAN TOOK SOME SHOTS OF PALAU CHESS TEAM MEMBERS FOR HIS AUSTRALASIAN CHESS MAGAZINE FEATURES.
FROM LEFT, MENANDRO MANUEL (FIDE RATING 1924) --BOARD 4; BERNARDO GARCIA (1663) -- BOARD 3; ROBERTO HERNANDEZ (1875)--BOARD 1; AND JAMIE KENMURE -- TEAM CAPTAIN.
A RARE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE USA NO. 1 AND WORLD'S NO. 7 HIKARU NAKAMURA TO HAVE A PHOTO LIKE THIS BEFORE THE START OF THE OPENING CEREMONY OF 2012 WORLD CHESS OLYMPIAD IN ISTANBUL, TURKEY.
ANOTHER DANCE NUMBER BY LADY DANCERS JOINED LATER BY MALE DANCERS.
3RD NUMBER WITH DIFFERENT BACKGROUND.
WITH A MUSLIM MOSQUE BACKGROUND THIS TIME.
PARADE OF FLAGS --- ALPHABETICALLY.
HALF OF THE FLAG PARADE IS AT THE RIGHT SIDE.
THE PALAU FLAG. AT LAST, PALAU CAN PARTICIPATE NOW! IT HAS 4 PLAYERS ON THE OPEN DIVISION, A TEAM CAPTAIN (AUSTRALIAN) AND A SWEDISH DELEGATE.
PALAU'S BOARD 1 PLAYER ROBERTO HERNANDEZ AND TEAM CAPTAIN JAMIE KENMURE OF AUSTRALIA.
MORE CLOSE-UP SHOT OF PALAU FLAG.
RIGHT TO LEFT -- MENANDRO MANUEL AND BERNARDO GARCIA.
HALF OF THE FLAG CARRIERS TO THE LEFT.
HALF OF THE FLAG CARRIERS TO THE RIGHT.
161 FLAGS, 161 COUNTRIES.
PALAU IS RATED 145TH.
Speech - 1
Speech 3--
Speech --2 by FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumshinov.
Key people of 40th World Chess Olympiad.
Gens una sumus -- We are one family.
Speech - 4 Prime Minister of Turkey and Mayor of Istanbul.
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