European team championship in chess

Oberhausen 1961: World champion Michail Tal (sitting left) and the future world champion Tigran Petrosian (standing right) watch a game by Vlastimil Hort (white shirt)

László Szabó - Michail Botwinnik European team championship Oberhausen 1961

Scene from Gothenburg 2005, left standing Viktor Kortschnoi

The European team championship in chess is a chess competition for national teams of the countries of Europe .

Event

The men's European championship ("open" European championship, as women can also be used in the teams) initially took place in a competition system made up of decentralized preliminary rounds and a central final round. Four teams each qualified for the final round in 1957, six in 1961 and six in 1965, each playing against each other twice (double round system). Since 1970, the final tournaments have been held with eight teams in a simple round system. With the European Championship in 1989, a nine-round Swiss system was used. The number of participating teams has remained constant at around 40 in the last few decades. The team strength per competition gradually decreased from ten boards (until 1970) to eight and six to the four boards that have been common since 1992.

The women's tournament has been played as a nine-round tournament in the Swiss system since the beginning of 1992. The team strength was only two boards until 2003, since then four boards have been played. Since this enlargement of the teams, the field of participants comprises around 30 teams.

Overview

Men's tournament or open tournament

year	Venue	winner	Second	Third
1957	to bathe	Soviet Union	Yugoslavia	Czechoslovakia
1961	Oberhausen	Soviet Union	Yugoslavia	Hungary
1965	Hamburg	Soviet Union	Yugoslavia	Hungary
1970	Kapfenberg	Soviet Union	Hungary	GDR
1973	Bath	Soviet Union	Yugoslavia	Hungary
1977	Moscow	Soviet Union	Hungary	Yugoslavia
1980	Skara	Soviet Union	Yugoslavia	England
1983	Plovdiv	Soviet Union	Yugoslavia	Hungary
1989	Haifa	Soviet Union	Yugoslavia	BR Germany
1992	Debrecen	Russia	Ukraine	England
1997	Pula	England	Russia	Armenia
1999	Batumi	Armenia	Hungary	Germany
2001	Leon	Netherlands	France	Germany
2003	Plovdiv	Russia	Israel	Georgia
2005	Gothenburg	Netherlands	Israel	France
2007	Heraklion	Russia	Armenia	Azerbaijan
2009	Novi Sad	Azerbaijan	Russia	Ukraine
2011	Porto Carras	Germany	Azerbaijan	Hungary
2013	Warsaw	Azerbaijan	France	Russia
2015	Reykjavík	Russia	Armenia	Hungary
2017	Limenas Chersonisou	Azerbaijan	Russia	Ukraine
2019	Batumi	Russia	Ukraine	England

List of German teams with places for medals

1970 (GDR)

In the final round, the GDR team played with Wolfgang Uhlmann , Burkhard Malich , Reinhart Fuchs , Artur Hennings , Heinz Liebert , Lothar Zinn , Fritz Baumbach , Lutz Espig , Werner Golz , Lothar Vogt , Manfred Schöneberg and Detlef Neukirch . In the preliminary round, Wolfgang Pietzsch and Günther Möhring were also involved.

1989

The team consisted of Robert Hübner , Vlastimil Hort , Eric Lobron , Stefan Kindermann , Matthias Wahls , Jörg Hickl , Klaus Bischoff and Stefan Mohr .

1999

The team consisted of Artur Jussupow , Robert Huebner , Rustem Dautov , Christopher Lutz and Christian Gabriel .

2001

The team consisted of Christopher Lutz , Robert Huebner , Gerald Hertneck , Klaus Bischoff and Rainer Buhmann .

2011

The winning team consisted of Arkadij Naiditsch , Georg Meier , Daniel Fridman , Jan Gustafsson and Rainer Buhmann .

Women's tournament

year	Venue	winner	Second	Third
1992	Debrecen	Ukraine	Georgia	Azerbaijan
1997	Pula	Georgia	Romania	England
1999	Batumi	Slovakia	Yugoslavia	Romania
2001	Leon	France	Moldova	England
2003	Plovdiv	Armenia	Hungary	Russia
2005	Gothenburg	Poland	Georgia	Russia
2007	Heraklion	Russia	Poland	Armenia
2009	Novi Sad	Russia	Georgia	Ukraine
2011	Porto Carras	Russia	Poland	Georgia
2013	Warsaw	Ukraine	Russia	Poland
2015	Reykjavík	Russia	Ukraine	Georgia
2017	Limenas Chersonisou	Russia	Georgia	Ukraine
2019	Batumi	Russia	Georgia	Azerbaijan

Web links

Commons : European Team Championship in Chess  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• European Chess Union (ECU) website
• Overview of results at olimpbase.org (English)

swell

• List of title holders from Manual 2007 of the European Chess Union

Individual evidence

1. ↑ European Team Chess Championship 2019