European team championship in chess 2011

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The 18th European Team Chess Championship 2011 was a Team - chess tournament , which from November 3 to November 11 2011 at the Greek Porto Carras was held. In the open tournament, the German team won ahead of Azerbaijan and Hungary, while in the women's tournament the Russian team won ahead of Poland and Georgia.

Playing conditions

In the open and women’s tournament, there were nine team fights of four games each, with the team pairing being drawn according to the Swiss system . Up to five players, including a reserve player, were allowed to be registered in each team. All member states of the European Chess Union were eligible to participate ; at the time of the tournament, they were all European chess federations, including Russia and Turkey, which are geographically mainly in Asia, as well as Israel and the Caucasus states.

The time to think about each player and game was 90 minutes for the first 40 moves, then another 30 minutes for the rest of the game and 30 seconds of addition per move.

Two team points were awarded for every team win, one point for every draw and zero points for every defeat. Only the number of board points on the team victory counted, secondary ratings were not used. One board point was awarded for each individual victory and half board point for each draw, defeats scored zero points. For the final evaluation after nine rounds, the team points and, in the event of a tie, the board points were used to determine the ranking, with further detailed evaluations being decided if there was another tie . Special rules about the time of the draw agreement did not exist, but had already been decided for future tournaments.

The main judge was Panayotis Nikolopoulos.

Course and results

While in the open tournament the gold medal was played until the end, which was won by the German team by one team point, Russia dominated the women's tournament and also took the lead against Austria early in the last round to take the third gold medal three team points behind Fetch episode.

Open tournament

In the open tournament, in which 38 teams took part, the German team consisting of Arkadij Naiditsch , Georg Meier , Daniel Fridman , Jan Gustafsson and Rainer Buhmann won with 15: 3 team points. Team captain was Uwe Bönsch , while Rustam Kasimjanov acted as coach. The German team was sponsored by the Meissen-based wind energy company UKA Umweltgerechte Kraftanlagen GmbH & Co. KG .

Switzerland came in 23rd, Austria in 32nd place.

Before the last round there was still a chance for medals for many teams, so that the top ranks were only decided with the last two games: After Georg Meier had won with the black stones against Sergej Movsesjan in the previous day , Jan Gustafsson held the score at 2: 1 against the Armenian Gabriel Sarkissjan through a precise combination the final draw and thus secured the gold medal for Germany, after which in the last game the Hungarian Zoltán Gyimesi won a tied-looking rook ending with a score of 3-0 against the Bulgarian Kiril Georgiev and so with a half a board point ahead of Armenia secured the bronze medal.

It was the first German victory in an international team tournament since the 1939 Chess Olympiad ; Before that, several bronze medals at the European team championships and a silver medal at the 2000 Chess Olympiad went to Germany.

space team player total score
1st place Germany Arkadij Naiditsch , Georg Meier , Daniel Fridman , Jan Gustafsson , Rainer Buhmann 15: 3 team points, 22.5 board points
2nd place Azerbaijan Teymur Rəcəbov , Vüqar Həşimov , Şəhriyar Məmmədyarov , Qədir Hüseynov , Eltac Səfərli 14: 4 team points, 23.0 board points
3rd place Hungary Péter Lékó , Zoltán Almási , Ferenc Berkes , Csaba Balogh , Zoltán Gyimesi 13: 5 team points, 23.0 board points

(38 teams)

Ladies

In the women's tournament, in which 28 teams took part, the Russian team from Nadezhda Kossinzewa , Tatjana Kossinzewa , Valentina Gunina , Alexandra Kosteniuk and Natalja Pogonina won .

Germany reached 7th place, Austria 14th place and Switzerland 25th place.

space team player total score
1st place Russia Nadeschda Kossinzewa , Tatjana Kossinzewa , Walentina Gunina , Alexandra Kosteniuk , Natalja Pogonina 17: 1 team points, 25.5 board points
2nd place Poland Monika Soćko , Jolanta Zawadzka , Joanna Majdan-Gajewska , Karina Szczepkowska-Horowska , Katarzyna Toma 14: 4 team points, 23.0 board points
3rd place Georgia Nana Dzagnidze , Lela Javachishvili , Nasi Paikidze , Nino Khurzidze , Salome Melia 14: 4 team points, 22.5 board points

(28 teams)

Individual references and sources

  1. ↑ Tournament rules on the official website. Retrieved January 10, 2012
  2. ↑ List of participants on the official website. Retrieved January 10, 2012
  3. ↑ Final result on the official website. Retrieved January 10, 2012
  4. ↑ a b Raj Tischbierek : Gold !!! . In: Chess 12/2011. Pp. 4-24.
  5. ↑ a b Victor Bologan : Germany upsets favorites . In: New In Chess , 2011 issue 8, pp. 52-71.
  6. ↑ List of participants on the official website. Retrieved January 10, 2012
  7. ↑ Final result on the official website. Retrieved January 10, 2012

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