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2014 European Club CupThis mega swiss tournament brings together the top teams from the top leagues in Europe to compete for the European Club Champion title. Most teams have reinforcementes specifically for this event, while others send their local players that have served them throughout the seasons. Many 2700+ players are participating in the event. The tournament is a seven round swiss system that coincides with the Bilbao Grand Slam Finals, for which we will have separate reports. Tha matches in the Open section will be six-on-six, while on the Women's section will be four-on-four. |
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| 1 | |
SOCAR Azerbaijan (1) | 3.5 | 2.5 | SPB (4) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.1 | 2784 | Topalov, Veselin | 1 | 0 | Svidler, Peter | 2732 |
| 1.2 | 2758 | Giri, Anish | ½ | ½ | Dominguez Perez, Leinier | 2755 |
| 1.3 | 2717 | Radjabov, Teimour | ½ | ½ | Vitiugov, Nikita | 2742 |
| 1.4 | 2730 | Wang, Hao | ½ | ½ | Movsesian, Sergei | 2663 |
| 1.5 | 2673 | Korobov, Anton | ½ | ½ | Matlakov, Maxim | 2694 |
| 1.6 | 2655 | Safarli, Eltaj | ½ | ½ | Efimenko, Zahar | 2641 |
| 2 | |
G-Team Novy Bor (5) | 4.5 | 1.5 | SHSM Nashe Nasledie (6) | |
| 2.1 | 2736 | Wojtaszek, Radoslaw | ½ | ½ | Nepomniachtchi, Ian | 2710 |
| 2.2 | 2722 | Navara, David | 1 | 0 | Morozevich, Alexander | 2731 |
| 2.3 | 2725 | Harikrishna, P. | 1 | 0 | Dreev, Aleksey | 2662 |
| 2.4 | 2675 | Laznicka, Viktor | ½ | ½ | Grachev, Boris | 2673 |
| 2.5 | 2680 | Sasikiran, Krishnan | 1 | 0 | Najer, Evgeniy | 2646 |
| 2.6 | 2638 | Hracek, Zbynek | ½ | ½ | Dubov, Daniil | 2614 |
| 3 | |
Obiettivo Risarcimento (2) | 1.5 | 4.5 | Malakhite (3) | |
| 3.1 | 2801 | Caruana, Fabiano | ½ | ½ | Karjakin, Sergey | 2777 |
| 3.2 | 2782 | Nakamura, Hikaru | ½ | ½ | Grischuk, Alexander | 2789 |
| 3.3 | 2768 | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | 0 | 1 | Leko, Peter | 2734 |
| 3.4 | 2729 | Bacrot, Etienne | 0 | 1 | Shirov, Alexei | 2701 |
| 3.5 | 2712 | Fressinet, Laurent | ½ | ½ | Motylev, Alexander | 2686 |
| 3.6 | 2626 | Georgiev, Kiril | 0 | 1 | Lysyj, Igor | 2684 |
| 4 | |
En Passant (29) | 0.5 | 5.5 | Odlar Yourdu (7) | |
| 4.1 | 2528 | Nijboer, Friso | 0 | 1 | Durarbayli, Vasif | 2614 |
| 4.2 | 2424 | Bosboom, Manuel | ½ | ½ | Mamedov, Rauf | 2660 |
| 4.3 | 2382 | Vedder, Henk | 0 | 1 | Bajarani, Ulvi | 2483 |
| 4.4 | 2392 | Peng, Zhaoqin | 0 | 1 | Guseinov, Gadir | 2615 |
| 4.5 | 2286 | Vedder, Richard | 0 | 1 | Abasov, Nijat | 2527 |
| 4.6 | 2205 | De Graaf, Dick | 0 | 1 | Mamedov, Nidjat | 2624 |
| 5 | |
SG Solingen (9) | 4.5 | 1.5 | Haladas VSE (13) | |
| 5.1 | 2657 | Ragger, Markus | 1 | 0 | Ruck, Robert | 2572 |
| 5.2 | 2630 | L'Ami, Erwin | ½ | ½ | Nemeth, Miklos | 2494 |
| 5.3 | 2619 | Sandipan, Chanda | ½ | ½ | Kovacs, Gabor | 2463 |
| 5.4 | 2470 | Andersen, Mads | 1 | 0 | Nagy, Gabor | 2414 |
| 5.5 | 2435 | Wegerle, Joerg | ½ | ½ | Csonka, Attila Istvan | 2339 |
| 5.6 | 2401 | Schaefer, Markus | 1 | 0 | Pergel, Laszlo | 2241 |
Only the top 5 matches are shown
A lone win by Topalov, who has his third great result in a tournament in a row, gave the win to SOCAR over SPB. The game could have ended in a draw but Svidler completely miscalculated the opposite colored bishop endgame. The move 43...Kg7 would probably have held the game, simply going toward the center, but instead he chose to solidify his h-pawn with h4 and that lost a crucial tempo. The rest of the games were hard fought draws.
Radjabov-Vitiugov was one of the five draws in SOCAR-SPB
Novy Bor beat SHSM by quite a margin, 4.5-1.5. Morozevich lost a position in which he was simply clearly better against Navara and the same happened to Dreev against Harikrishna. A series of mistakes of Najer against Sasikirian put the nail in the coffin for SHSM.
Giri gained four places in the live rating list and is now seventh in the world!
Malakhite took full advantage of these results as they had a great match against Obiettivo Risarcimento. With draws on the first two boards between Caruana-Karjakin and Grischuk-Nakamura, Malakhite struck a win in both MVL-Leko and Shirov-Bacrot with very good display of technique. Lysyj made it look easy against Georgiev and that gave the Russian team a great 4.5-1.5 victory, allowing them to clinch third.
Most teams had identifying shirts or uniforms
Topalov looking at Caruana-Karjakin from Obiettivo vs. Malakhite
| Rk | ID | Team | Fed | Games | + | = | - | Pts | MatPnt | SB1_MG | GamPnt | |
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| 1 | 1 | SOCAR Azerbaijan | AZE | |
7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 14 | 265.5 | 31 |
| 2 | 5 | G-Team Novy Bor | CZE | |
7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 12 | 233 | 32 |
| 3 | 3 | Malakhite | RUS | |
7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 11 | 197.5 | 25.5 |
| 4 | 7 | Odlar Yourdu | AZE | |
7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 10 | 206.5 | 28 |
| 5 | 9 | SG Solingen | GER | |
7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 10 | 181 | 27 |
| 6 | 6 | SHSM Nashe Nasledie | RUS | |
7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 178 | 27.5 |
| 7 | 15 | Minsk | BLR | |
7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 176.5 | 26 |
| 8 | 11 | Ladya | RUS | |
7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 10 | 164 | 24 |
| 9 | 4 | SPB | RUS | |
7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 203 | 25.5 |
| 10 | 2 | Obiettivo Risarcimento | ITA | |
7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 191 | 26.5 |
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| 1 | |
Batumi Chess Club "Nona" (4) | 2.5 | 1.5 | SHSM Nashe Nasledie (8) | |
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| 1.1 | 2566 | Dzagnidze, Nana | 1 | 0 | Gunina, Valentina | 2540 |
| 1.2 | 2507 | Khotenashvili, Bela | ½ | ½ | Kosteniuk, Alexandra | 2543 |
| 1.3 | 2464 | Melia, Salome | 1 | 0 | Girya, Olga | 2476 |
| 1.4 | 2426 | Batsiashvili, Nino | 0 | 1 | Kashlinskaya, Alina | 2433 |
| 2 | |
Cercle d'Echecs de Monte-Carlo (5) | 3 | 1 | Rishon Letzion (3) | |
| 2.1 | 2663 | Hou, Yifan | 1 | 0 | Efroimski, Marsel | 2331 |
| 2.2 | 2540 | Lagno, Kateryna | 1 | 0 | Madivani, Maka | 0 |
| 2.3 | 2516 | Cramling, Pia | 1 | 0 | Vardi, Shlomit | 1957 |
| 2.4 | 2430 | Skripchenko, Almira | 0 | 1 | Federovski, Adi | 1937 |
| 3 | |
SC Bad Konigshofen (6) | 2.5 | 1.5 | Ladya (2) | |
| 3.1 | 2467 | Paehtz, Elisabeth | 1 | 0 | Galliamova, Alisa | 2472 |
| 3.2 | 2457 | Mkrtchian, Lilit | ½ | ½ | Zatonskih, Anna | 2469 |
| 3.3 | 2373 | Savina, Anastasia | 1 | 0 | Atalik, Ekaterina | 2421 |
| 3.4 | 2261 | Schoene, Maria | 0 | 1 | Zaiatz, Elena | 2401 |
| 4 | |
Herzliya Chess Club (7) | 0 | 4 | Ugra (1) | |
| 4.1 | 2133 | Len, Irina | 0 | 1 | Pogonina, Natalija | 2482 |
| 4.2 | 2047 | Yakovleva, Tatiana | 0 | 1 | Kovanova, Baira | 2399 |
| 4.3 | 1871 | Lian, Marina | 0 | 1 | Guseva, Marina | 2352 |
| 4.4 | 1891 | Haitovich, Avital | 0 | 1 | Shadrina, Tatiana | 2327 |
Cercle d'Echecs de Monte-Carlo won handedly against Rishon Letzion, despite a big upset on board four where Skripchenko lost to Federovski. The German team of SC Bd Kongshofen finished with a nice last round surprise against Ladya while Ugra, as usual, overwhelmed Herzliya Chess Club.
The match of the day was certainly between Nona and SHSM. The Russian team had to win to secure second while a draw would let the second place be decided by tiebreaks. At the end this would be irrelevant as Nona took yet another win and convincingly won the tournament by vanquishing every single one of their opponents. An amazing performance from the Georgian team who very deservedly take the title.
Valentina Gunina strolling by the top Open section boards
Rishon Letzion won one match (against Herzliya) and obtained 4.5 game points
Ugra didn't have quite enough points to debunk SHSM from third
Kateryna Lagno was not in her best shape this tournament. Here she is overlooking Paehtz vs. Galliamova, a game that ended in favor of the German player.
Dzagnidze's amazing 2737 performance was a big reason for Nona's victory. However she was still 12 performance rating poitns behind Hou Yifan, who took best first board.
Melia Salome also had a good event
Winners! Nona Chess Club from Georgia
| Rk | ID | Team | Fed | Games | + | = | - | Pts | MatPnt | SB1_MG | GamPnt | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | Batumi Chess Club "Nona" | GEO | |
7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 14 | 108 | 20.5 |
| 2 | 5 | Cercle d'Echecs de Monte-Carlo | MNC | |
7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 104 | 19 |
| 3 | 8 | SHSM Nashe Nasledie | RUS | |
7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 97 | 18 |
| 4 | 1 | Ugra | RUS | |
7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 83.5 | 17 |
| 5 | 6 | SC Bad Konigshofen | GER | |
7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 84 | 16 |
| 6 | 2 | Ladya | RUS | |
7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 83 | 15.5 |
| 7 | 3 | Rishon Letzion | ISR | |
7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 16.5 | 4.5 |
| 8 | 7 | Herzliya Chess Club | ISR | |
7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.5 |
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Photos by Manu de Alba from Bilbao's Facebook site
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