European Club Cup - Live!

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10/25/2025 – The European Club Cup is taking place on 19-25 October in Rhodes, Greece, bringing together no fewer than 122 teams and around 800 players from around the world. The seven-round event features a number of elite players, including Arjun Erigaisi, Anish Giri, Gukesh Dommaraju, Aleksandra Goryachkina and Zhu Jiner. | Follow the action live with expert commentary starting at 14.00 CEST (8.00 ET, 17.30 IST)
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Round 7

The 40th European Chess Club Cup and the 29th European Women's Chess Club Cup open this weekend on the Greek island of Rhodes, bringing together a record 122 teams from across the continent. The event features 102 clubs in the open section and 20 in the women's, totalling around 800 players competing over seven rounds.

Both tournaments follow a 7-round Swiss system with a time control of 90 minutes for 30 moves, followed by 30 additional minutes to finish the game, plus a 30-second increment per move from the start of the game.

Rounds are played daily from Sunday, 19 October until Saturday, 25 October, starting at 15.00 local time (except for the final round, which starts one hour earlier).

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This entry into the 60 minutes series concentrates on the Modern variation of the Italian game where White opens the centre early : 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bc4 Nf6 4 d4 exd4 5 e5!. This line can be reached by various move orders, most frequently from the Scotch 3 d4 exd4 4 Bc4. It's a sharp variation and Grandmasters such as Evgeny Sveshnikov have used it frequently,with very good results. It's a perfect line for club players to adopt which is relatively easy to learn and which contains many traps. All the main responses are covered here, including 5...d5, 5...Ng4 and 5...Ne4 and the conclusion is that is is difficult for Black to equalize in a straightforward way. Problems are being posed, which over the board might prove tough to solve.