2012 European Chess Club Cup
The 28th European Chess Club Cup is underway in Eilat, Israel. The competition will run from 11-17 October and features the top European clubs with very strong players representing them.
Top seeds SOCAR Azerbaijan will face still competition from SHSM-64, Economist-SGSEU Saratov and Saint-Petersburg.
The championship is played as a 7-round Swiss, and the time control is 90 minutes for 40 moves, then 30 minutes to a finish with an increment of 30 seconds per move from the start.
Draw offers are not allowed until after the time control at move 40.
Games start at 15:00 (13:00 UTC) local time except the final round which starts at 10:30.
The official website is here, and the live games page is here.
The top 20 rated players taking part are:
| Name | Fed | Elo | Team |
| Radjabov Teimour | AZE | 2792 | SOCAR Azerbaijan |
| Nakamura Hikaru | USA | 2786 | Obiettive Risarcimento |
| Ivanchuk Vassily | UKR | 2771 | Ashdod |
| Morozevich Alexander | RUS | 2758 | Economist-SGSEU Saratov |
| Kamsky Gata | USA | 2755 | SOCAR Azerbaijan |
| Grischuk Alexander | RUS | 2752 | SOCAR Azerbaijan |
| Topalov Veselin | BUL | 2751 | SOCAR Azerbaijan |
| Mamedyarov Shakhriyar | AZE | 2748 | SOCAR Azerbaijan |
| Wang Hao | CHN | 2748 | SHSM-64 |
| Svidler Peter | RUS | 2747 | Saint-Petersburg |
| Gelfand Boris | ISR | 2736 | SHSM-64 |
| Ponomariov Ruslan | UKR | 2735 | Tomsk-400 |
| Dominguez Perez Leinier | CUB | 2734 | Saint-Petersburg |
| Leko Peter | HUN | 2734 | SHSM-64 |
| Wojtaszek Radoslaw | POL | 2733 | G-Team Novy Bor |
| Jakovenko Dmitry | RUS | 2732 | Ugra |
| Giri Anish | NED | 2730 | SHSM-64 |
| Volokitin Andrei | UKR | 2724 | Ashdod |
| Navara David | CZE | 2722 | G-Team Novy Bor |
| Adams Michael | ENG | 2720 | OSG Baden-Baden e.V. |
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The 17th Women's European Chess Club Cup also takes place alongside the main event.
