Category Archives: Non Greek Players

Yilmaz Mustafa

Yilmaz Mustafa 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

Michael Adams took the golden medal

Michael Adams with England over the board 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.

Gustafsson Jan vs Sargissian Gabriel

Gustafsson Jan vs Sargissian Gabriel for the 1st place 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

Germany won the golden medal

Germany European chess champions © 2011 karpidis. All rights reserved.

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

Smiles for the cup in the Russian Team

Yuri Dokhian (Captain), Nadezhda Kosintseva, Tatjana Kosintseva, Alexandra Kosteniuk & Valentina Gunina © 2011 karpidis. All rights reserved.

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

Teimour Radjabov on first board

Teimour Radjabov over the board © 2011 karpidis. All rights reserved.

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.

Nadezhda Kosintseva over the board

Nadezdha Kosintseva over the board © 2011 karpidis. All rights reserved.

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.