Creative commons-share alike Andreas Kontokanis
Last years Turkey in chess made in great progress. With Ali Nihat Yazici as president of Turkish chess federation, to make and some difficult decisions for the trainers of national teams finally in this European Team Championship had a good performance … Continue reading
Creative commons-share alike Andreas Kontokanis
Michael Adams won the Golden medal in the first board in European Team Chess Championship. Maybe England didn’t succeed alot but he managed to have the second greater performance of all the tournament and the best score in the 1st board.
Creative commons-share alike Andreas Kontokanis
In the last round Gustafsson Jan and Sargissian Gabriel played until the end to draw their game. When all other games had finished their position was a draw. But Sargissian Gabriel couldn’t agree to a draw. If he drew, Armenia … Continue reading
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Germany won the trophy of European Team chess championship, and it was a big surprise for most of us. Germany was an outsider as was and Greece in Euro 2004 (soccer). Arkadij Naiditsch, Georg Meier, Daniel Fridman, Jan Gustafsson, and Rainer Buhmann took … Continue reading
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In women section, european cup took it Russian team. Nadezhda Kosintseva, Tatiana Kosintseva, Valentina Gunina, Alexandra Kosteniuk, Natalia Pogonina and Yuri Dokhian as captain. On the photo is one of the rare times that the former trainer of Kasparov Yuri … Continue reading
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Teimour Radjabov on the first board of Azerbaijan in European Team Chess club maybe didn’t made a great tournament but he gave a great victory to his team by winning Peter Svidler and this way the finally took silver medal.
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In the last game of European team club cup women section Russia easily had won Austria but Nadezhda Kosintseva played until the end to draw. She was fighting until the end but no different result.