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European Team Chess Championships

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Submitted by SonofPearl on Mon, 10/26/2009 at 1:49pm.

If you want to play through lots of recent high quality chess games, look no further than the The European Team Chess Championships website.

The 2009 championships are taking place in Novi Sad in Serbia, and feature an Open and a Women's section.

The Russian team have the top average rating in the Open section, but face stiff competition from Azerbaijan, Armenia and well over 30 other teams.

Many of the top players are representing their countries, although Magnus Carlsen was a last minute withdrawal from the Norwegian team on the advice of Garry Kasparov, in order to prepare for the powerful upcoming Tal Memorial in Moscow.

Michael Adams and Teimour Radjabov clash in the England v Azerbaijan match (pic from official site)

After five rounds, the open standings are:

Rk. SNo   Team   +    =    -   TB1   TB2   TB3 
1 2 AZE Azerbaijan 5 0 0 10 13,0 52,5
2 1 RUS Russia 3 2 0 8 13,5 48,0
3 11 GEO Georgia 4 0 1 8 12,0 59,5
4 10 HUN Hungary 3 1 1 7 13,5 50,5
5 9 FRA France 3 1 1 7 12,5 52,5
6 8 ESP Spain 3 1 1 7 12,5 51,5
7 15 NED Netherlands 2 3 0 7 12,5 50,0
8 5 UKR Ukraine 3 1 1 7 12,5 46,5
9 3 ARM Armenia 3 1 1 7 12,0 55,0
10 17 SRB Serbia 1 3 1 1 7 12,0 52,0
11 12 POL Poland 2 2 1 6 11,5 49,5
12 7 GER Germany 2 2 1 6 11,5 49,5
13 4 BUL Bulgaria 3 0 2 6 11,5 42,0
14 23 DEN Denmark 3 0 2 6 10,5 55,5
15 6 ISR Israel 3 0 2 6 10,0 61,0
16 13 CZE Czech Republic 2 2 1 6 10,0 58,0
17 14 ROU Romania 2 1 2 5 10,5 49,5
18 25 SUI Switzerland 2 1 2 5 10,0 55,0
19 18 ENG England 2 1 2 5 10,0 51,0
20 19 GRE Greece 2 1 2 5 9,5 56,0
21 30 TUR Turkey 2 1 2 5 9,5 52,0
22 21 AUT Austria 2 1 2 5 9,0 52,5
23 29 NOR Norway 2 1 2 5 8,5 54,0
24 16 SLO Slovenia 2 0 3 4 12,0 44,0
25 22 SRB Serbia 2 2 0 3 4 9,5 45,0
26 24 ITA Italy 1 2 2 4 9,0 55,5
27 20 CRO Croatia 1 2 2 4 9,0 54,0
28 28 LTU Lithuania 1 2 2 4 9,0 48,5
29 34 BEL Belgium 1 2 2 4 9,0 43,5
30 26 MNE Montenegro 1 1 3 3 10,0 44,5
31 31 FIN Finland 1 1 3 3 8,5 48,5
32 32 BIH Bosnia & Herzegovina 1 1 3 3 8,0 48,0
33 36 LUX Luxembourg 1 1 3 3 7,5 39,0
34 35 WLS Wales 1 1 3 3 6,0 49,5
35 27 MKD FYR of Macedonia 1 0 4 2 7,5 49,0
36 33 ISL Iceland 1 0 4 2 7,5 40,5
37 37 SCO Scotland 0 1 4 1 6,0 45,0
38 38 MNC Monaco 0 0 5 0 3,5 42,0


and the women's standings are:

Rk. SNo Team   +    =    -   TB1   TB2   TB3 
1 2 Georgia 4 1 0 9 13,5 59,5
2 20 Azerbaijan 3 2 0 8 13,5 55,0
3 1 Russia 4 0 1 8 13,5 53,5
4 3 Ukraine 3 2 0 8 12,5 59,5
5 13 Romania 3 1 1 7 12,5 54,5
6 6 France 3 1 1 7 12,5 51,0
7 5 Armenia 3 1 1 7 12,0 63,0
8 4 Poland 3 0 2 6 13,5 50,5
9 14 Greece 2 2 1 6 12,0 48,0
10 10 Hungary 3 0 2 6 11,5 52,0
11 16 Czech Republic 2 2 1 6 11,0 55,5
12 15 Spain 3 0 2 6 10,0 51,5
13 12 Slovenia 2 1 2 5 12,0 44,5
14 11 Netherlands 2 1 2 5 11,0 42,0
15 7 Germany 2 1 2 5 10,5 55,5
16 17 Israel 2 1 2 5 9,0 51,0
17 19 Italy 2 0 3 4 10,5 43,0
18 22 England 1 2 2 4 10,0 37,5
19 18 Croatia 2 0 3 4 9,0 44,5
20 9 Serbia 2 0 3 4 8,0 56,5
21 8 Bulgaria 2 0 3 4 8,0 53,0
22 23 Montenegro 1 2 2 4 7,5 40,5
23 25 FYR of Macedonia 1 1 3 3 7,0 40,0
24 21 Austria 1 1 3 3 6,5 43,5
25 24 Bosnia & Herzegovina 1 0 4 2 7,0 38,0
26 28 Turkey 1 0 4 2 4,0 51,0
27 26 Finland 0 1 4 1 5,0 49,0
28 27 Norway 0 1 4 1 5,0 47,0

 

Just a few games from the event:

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Comments:

by Vesa_66 - 58 days ago
Pancevo Serbia
Member Since: May 2009
Member Points: 5

Final results!

Open

http://www.chess-results.com/tnr24908.aspx?art=0&lan=1&turdet=YES&flag=30&m=-1&wi=1000

 

and a bit more ...

 

 

 

 

 

by gxtmf1 - 58 days ago
Mundelein United States
Member Since: Sep 2008
Member Points: 1306

Bacrot is such a beast!

by gambit156 - 58 days ago
mumbai India
Member Since: Jun 2009
Member Points: 267

Bacrot has played vvvgud wid Aranion

by CJDM - 2 months ago
East Lansing, MI United States
Member Since: Sep 2009
Member Points: 14

cool game, I like it when the game ends due to checkmate in a few moves

by FM VPA - 2 months ago
Valsad-Gujarat India
Member Since: Jul 2007
Member Points: 189

Good games!

by WGM Natalia_Pogonina - 2 months ago
Saratov Russia
Member Since: Jul 2009
Member Points: 246

Tomashevsky-Mamedyarov, what a ridiculous miss by Zhenya... Cry

by SonofPearl - 2 months ago
Wales
Member Since: May 2007
Member Points: 6287

@kynas - thanks! Embarassed There are so many Sergei's, but Radjabov isn't one of them! Laughing I must have been thinking of Karjakin for some reason...

by StakeOut - 2 months ago
Auroville India
Member Since: Sep 2008
Member Points: 23

Smeets game fireworks, and McShane rocks

by Vesa_66 - 2 months ago
Pancevo Serbia
Member Since: May 2009
Member Points: 5

Great mach will be held today Azerbaijan - Russia (15:00 live on official Chanpionship's site). Winners could be chanpions with significant probability!

by kynas - 2 months ago
Vilnius Lithuania
Member Since: May 2009
Member Points: 62

 SonofPearl:

Radjabov is Teimour, not Sergei

by zindani - 2 months ago
Houston United States
Member Since: Sep 2009
Member Points: 25

@ love_romance13

I guess you didnt read the heading - European team chess championship. Unless india wants to trade places with monaco or malta or something.

On the other hand sonofpearl thanks for sharing the games and the news.

by Theempiremaker - 2 months ago
United States
Member Since: Nov 2008
Member Points: 715

Good Chess news !

by love_romance13 - 2 months ago
India India
Member Since: Aug 2007
Member Points: 169

why there is no indian team :( anyway i like last game n 5th game cuz of its attack annd check this out http://blog.chess.com/love_romance13/is-garry-kasparov-cheater

by strani - 2 months ago
St. Louis United States
Member Since: Aug 2008
Member Points: 334

Great post. I like Kosteniuk v Calzetta, nice attack. 

by SerbianChessStar - 2 months ago
Belgrade Serbia
Member Since: May 2009
Member Points: 2614

Thanks for the blog!

It will be nice to see who wins,

and it is nice to see the Championships being held in Serbia.

 
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