18th European Team Chess Championship 2011 Board list after round 9 (exclusive forfeit points), sorted according to Performance, Rtg-O Board 1Rank Name Rtg Team Rp Rtg-O Pts G % 1 GM Adams, Michael 2734 ENG 2841 2675 6,5 9...
ETCC Closing Ceremony
European Team Championship Closing Ceremony 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...
The problem with women’s chess
Women’s National Team Earn Meager 3,000 Euro for 6th Place at European Chess Finals The best female chess players in Bulgaria finished sixth at the European Chess Team Finals in Greece and will share some six thousand levs (about...
Adams earns gold in Greece
Michael Adams takes gold as England struggle at European ChampionshipLeonard Barden guardian.co.uk,Friday 11 November 2011 12.20 EST Michael Adams’s individual gold medal was the standout of an uneven and sub-par England performance at the European team championship which ended...
Interview with GM Christian Bauer
GM Christian Bauer speaks about his fantastic result at the European Team Chess Championships. Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Record breaking numbers at the ETCC 2011
Record breaking numbers at the ETCC 2011 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...
Amazing final round at the European Team Championship
Germany – Armenia 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...
Germany gold, Azerbaijan silver, Hungary bronze
Final standings Rk. SNo Team Team Games + = – TB1 TB2 TB3 TB4 TB5 1 10 Germany GER 9 7 1 1 15 22.5 183.0 154.50 142.0 2 3 Azerbaijan AZE 9 6 2 1 14 23.0 181.5...
Meier and Germany win Gold at ETCC 2011
Texas Tech/SPICE Knight Raider GM Georg Meier defeated Armenian super GM Movsesian in the final round to give Germany a 2.5 – 1.5 win and the Gold medal at the 2011 European Team Championship! With this win, his rating...