The closing ceremony of the top event of the year, the European Team Chess Championships, focused on prize giving to the winners of the competition. Germany with Arkadij Naiditsch, Georg Meier, Daniel Fridman, Jan Gustafsson, and Rainer Buhmann received the winner’s trophy in the Open section. Azerbaijan walked out with silver and Hungary with bronze. [...]
In the final round of the ETCC Open Section Armenia exercised the well known strategy of neutralising opponent’s white pieces in the decisive match against the co-leading Germany. On boards one and three Levon Aronian and Vladimir Akopian quickly drew with Arkadij Naiditsch and Daniel Fridman, respectively. On the 2nd board German rising star Georg [...]
18th European Team Chess Championship 2011 Board list after round 9 (exclusive forfeit points), sorted according to Performance, Rtg-O Board 1 Rank Name Rtg Team Rp Rtg-O Pts G % 1 GM Adams, Michael 2734 ENG 2841 2675 6,5 9 72.2 2 GM Aronian, Levon 2802 ARM 2833 2692 5,5 8 68.8 3 GM Naiditsch, [...]
Open Section: IM A.Neiksans (LAT) – GM Norm IM D.Zagorskis (LTU) – GM Norm FM H.S.Gretarsson (ISL) – GM Norm FM G.Morrison (SCO) – IM Norm (in 8 games) FM A.Tate (SCO) – IM Norm Women Section: IM A.Muzychuk (SLO) – GM Norm WGM K.Szczepkowska-Horowska (POL) – IM Norm WGM J.Zawadzka (POL) – IM Norm [...]
The European Team Chess Championship is proving to be the top team event of the year. It has created an unprecedented interest in the chess world and more than 1 million absolute unique visitors* have visited the official website of the competition in the first 7 rounds. These numbers represent by far the largest audience [...]
The final round of the European Team Chess Championships is underway in Porto Carras, Greece. Team and board pairings of today are listed here. Photo gallery is being constantly updated with new photographs: Open section / Women section Follow the live games in Open and Women section. PGN files of rounds 1-8 are available for [...]
Board list after round 8 (exclusive forfeit points), sorted according to Performance, Rtg-O Board 1 Rank Name Rtg Team Rp Rtg-O Pts G % 1 GM Aronian, Levon 2802 ARM 2847 2689 5 7 71.4 2 GM Topalov, Veselin 2768 BUL 2837 2696 5,5 8 68.8 3 GM Adams, Michael [...]
Board list after round 8 (exclusive forfeit points), sorted according to Performance, Rtg-O Board 1 Rank Name Rtg Team Rp Rtg-O Pts G % 1 IM Muzychuk, Anna 2557 SLO 2775 2331 7,5 8 93.8 2 GM Lahno, Kateryna 2549 UKR 2632 2474 5 7 71.4 3 GM Dzagnidze, [...]
Thanks to Arkadij Naiditsch’s victory against Teimour Radjabov, Germany shocked Azerbaijan and caused a huge turmoil in the Open section of the European Team Championship. Meanwhile, Armenia signed a creditable victory against the Netherlands, with full points from Levon Aronian and Vladimir Akopian. Now Armenia is sharing the lead with Germany and the two teams [...]
Russia is an inch away from securing their third consecutive European Champion title in the Women Section. In the 8th round Russia defeated France 3-1 and kept the advantage ahead of Poland. With only one round left, Russia has 15 match points and 23 individual points, while Poland has 13 and 21, respectively. In a [...]
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