Interviews with Arkadij Naiditsch, Andjelija Stojanovic, Matthieu Cornette, Loek Van Wely and Tomi Nyback

The European Team Chess Championships Round 8 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 1-7 are available for download. Round [...]

Interviews with GM Georg Meier from Germany, GM Viktor Laznicka from the Czech Republic, GM Nils Grandelius from Sweden, GM Emre Can from Turkey and GM Arthur Kogan, captain of the Italian men’s team.

Azerbaijan made a huge step towards defending the title of European Champion after walking over Bulgaria in the 7th round of the tournament. Bulgaria’s top performer of the event, Ivan Cheparinov, was the first to go down against the better-prepared Vugar Gashimov. Veselin Topalov drew Teimour Radjabov, but Azerbaijan won in the remaining two games [...]

Russia is back on the winning paths in the Women Section of the European Team Chess Championship after drawing Poland yesterday. Despite the strong resistance from the Armenian team, Russia took a narrow victory thanks to Natalija Pogonina’s triumph against the former Russian, and now married in Armenia, WGM Maria Kursova. Poland made yet another [...]

European Team Chess Championship round 8 pairings for both sections are posted bellow.

The European Team Chess Championships Round 7 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 1-6 are available for download. Round [...]

Interviews with GM Hans Tikkanen from Sweden, GM Markus Ragger from Austria and IM Fred Berend from Luxembourg.

In the 6th round of the European Team Chess Championship – Open Section, Bulgaria and France were engaged in a tense struggle. Ivan Cheparinov’s third consecutive victory put Bulgaria into an early lead. Two more games were drawn and it was Andrei Istratescu who evened the score by defeating Kiril Georgiev. Russia and Azerbaijan opened [...]

Russia was slowed down in their victorious march by the tough team of Poland who snatched one match point. Poland was actually leading thanks to WGM Joanna Majdan Gajewska, but in the last game of the match Nadezhda Kosintseva outplayed Monika Socko to even up the score, 2:2. Ukraine was paired against Georgia in the other [...]