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The 23rd European Club Cup for Men and the 12th European Club Cup for Women are taking place from October 2nd to 10th in Kemer, Antalya, Turkey. There are 56 teams participating in the men's section and 18 teams in the women's. Amongst the players are Anand, Ivanchuk, Svidler, Carlsen, Karjakin, Kamsky, Radjabov, Shirov, Girschuk, Kasimdzhanov, Bologan, Short, Atalik, Adams, Ponomariov, Mamedyarov, Morozevich, van Wely, Sasikiran; and in the women's section Humpy, Cramling, Zhu Chen, Stefanova, Skripchenko, Chiburdanidze, Lahno, Hou Yifan; and many others.
The team of Alkaloid, with Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Kiril Georgiev, Sergey Volkov, Zdenko Kozul and others (rating average 2611) is in the lead, having won all four matches so far and scoring a total of 18.5 board points. In second place is Ural Sverdlovskaya, with Teimour Radjabov, Alexei Shirov, Alexander Grischuk, Vladimir Akopian, Vladimir Malakhov, Alexey Dreev, Alexander Motylev and Nukhim Rashkovsky (all GMs, rating average 2707), with three won matches and one draw, and 19.5 board points. Note that match wins count most, the board points break the match point ties.
Similarly three further teams have won three matches and drawn one, i.e. scored seven match points: Tomsk-400 (Morozevich, Jakovenko, Karjakin, Kasimdzhanov, Inarkiev, Tkachiev, Bologan, Smirnov, average 2697), Linex Magic Merida (Kamsky, Adams, Rublevsky, Sargissian, Cheparinov and others, average 2666) and Ashdod City Club (Eljanov, Smirin, Sutovsky, Avrukh, Moiseenko, Kogan, Kovalev, Kantsler, average 2641).
| Rank | Team | Gms | + | = | – | MP | Pts. |
| 1 | Alkaloid | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 18½ |
| 2 | Ural Sverdlovskaya | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 19½ |
| 3 | Tomsk-400 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 17 |
| 4 | Linex Magic - Merida | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 16½ |
| 5 | Ashdod City Club | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 16½ |
| 6 | Keystone | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 17½ |
| 7 | Economist SGSEU-1 Saratov | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 17½ |
| 8 | OSC Baden-Baden e.V. | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 17 |
| 9 | Chess Club Zeljeznicar Sarajevo | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 17 |
| 10 | Clichy Echecs 92 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 16½ |
| 11 | Aquaprofit Chess Club Nagykanisza | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 16 |
| 12 | Bosna Sarajevo | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 15½ |
| 13 | 1. Novoborsky SK | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 15 |
| 14 | Cannes Echecs | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 14 |
| 15 | Vilnius Chess-Bridge ''NSEL30'' | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 14 |
| 16 | Vesnianka Gran | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 12½ |
| 17 | Bank King Yerevan | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 15½ |
| 18 | Hamburger SK | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 14 |
| 19 | Gros Xake Taldea | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 13½ |
| 20 | Sollentuna Chessclub | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 12 |
In the women's section the team of Monte Carlo is in the lead, with Koneru Humpy, Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant, Pia Cramling, Sopio Gvetadze, Zhu Chen, Nana Dzagnidze and Monika Socko (rating average 2535) with three match wins and one draw, and 12.5 board points. The same match results were achieved by Interplast Tbilisi, with Lela Javakhishvili, Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant, Sopio Gvetadze, Nana Dzagnidze and Maia Lomineishvili (average 2433), but with 11.0 board points.
| Rank | Team | Gms. | + | = | – | MP | Pts. |
| 1 | Cercle d'Echecs de Monte-Carlo | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 12½ |
| 2 | Interplast Tbilisi | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 11 |
| 3 | MIKA Yerevan | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 11½ |
| 4 | Southern Ural Cheliabinsk | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 11 |
| 5 | Finec St.Petersburg | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 10½ |
| 6 | Ladya Kazan | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 9½ |
| 7 | AVS Krasnoturinsk | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 10 |
| 8 | SK T-Com Podgorica | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 10 |
| 9 | Economist Saratov | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 10 |
| 10 | Utrecht | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 8½ |
| 11 | SK Bihac - Capital Brokers | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| 12 | BGU Minsk | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6½ |
| 13 | USV Volksbank Halle | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5½ |
| 14 | Antalya Deniz Genclik | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 15 | Turk Hava Yollari | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| 16 | Vandoeuvre | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4½ |
| 17 | Besiktas Jimnastik Kulubu | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 18 | Tarsus Zeka Satranc SK | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
At the bottom of this report you will find the performances of individual players on each of the boards. The highest performances so far are by Ruslan Ponomariov (2860) and Vassily Ivanchuk (2832), in the women's section by Xu Yuhua (2705 and Koneru Humpy (2665).
The European Club Cup being held in Kemer-Antalya, Turkey
From right to left: Teimour Radjabov, Alexei Shirov, Alexander Grischuk,
Vladimir Akopian and Alexei Dreev playing for the team of Ural Sverdlovskaya,
currently in second place
Vladislav Tkachiev, Rustam Kasimdzhanov and Sergey Krajakin playing for
Tomsk-400
Sergei Rublevsky and Michael Adams playing for Linex Magic - Merida
Bank King Yerevan with Karen Asiran, Smbat Lputian, Rafael Vaganian and Tigran
Petrosian facing Bosna Sarajevo with Vassily Ivanchuk, Zolgan Almasi, Sergei
Movsesian and Ivan Sokolov
The world's second highest ranked player: Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine
The new world champion Vishy Anand has arrived in Kemer and will do battle
for his team OSC Baden-Baden (with Svidler, Carlsen, Bacrot, Nisipeanu, Harikrishna,
Nielsen and Schlosser)
The women's section at the European Club Cup in Kemer-Antalya
A women's team match under way, with the local team from Antalya led by
Emine Yanik and the team from Minsk led by Olga Gerasimovitch
Kateryna Lahno and Hou Yifan playing for Southern Ural Cheliabinsk
Koneru Humpy, the only female player over 2600, leads the Monte-Carlo team
Zhu Chen and Pia Cramling also playing for Cercle d'Echecs de Monte-Carlo
Viktorija Cmilyte playing for Finec St.Petersburg
Trademark hat: former women's world champion Maia Chiburdanidze playing for
MIKA Yerevan
Anna Muzychuk playing for AVS Krasnoturinsk
The ever popular Anna Sharevich on board one of the USV Volksbank Halle team
| No | Ti | Name | Rtg | Name | Pts. | Gms | Perf |
| Board 1 | |||||||
| 1 | GM | Ponomariov Ruslan | 2705 | Keystone | 3 | 3 | 2860 |
| 2 | GM | Ivanchuk Vassily | 2787 | Bosna Sarajevo | 2½ | 3 | 2832 |
| 3 | GM | Alekseev Evgeny | 2716 | Economist Saratov | 2½ | 3 | 2801 |
| 4 | GM | Radjabov Teimour | 2742 | Ural Sverdlovskaya | 2½ | 3 | 2746 |
| 5 | GM | Haba Petr | 2525 | 1. Novoborsky SK | 2½ | 3 | 2719 |
| 6 | GM | Sasikiran Krishnan | 2661 | Chess Club Zagreb | 2½ | 3 | 2702 |
| 7 | GM | Glek Igor V | 2543 | SK Rochade Eupen | 2½ | 3 | 2363 |
| 8 | IM | Haimovich Tal | 2447 | Herzliya Chess Club | 2½ | 3 | 2361 |
| 9 | GM | Eljanov Pavel | 2681 | Ashdod City Club | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 10 | GM | Mamedyarov Shakhriyar | 2752 | Alkaloid | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Board 2 | |||||||
| 1 | GM | Shirov Alexei | 2739 | Ural Sverdlovskaya | 3 | 3 | 2755 |
| 2 | GM | Jobava Baadur | 2644 | Chess Club Zagreb | 3 | 3 | 2748 |
| 3 | IM | Feygin Michael | 2531 | SK Rochade Eupen | 3 | 3 | 2408 |
| 4 | GM | Adams Michael | 2729 | Linex Magic - Merida | 2½ | 3 | 2828 |
| 5 | GM | Almasi Zoltan | 2691 | Bosna Sarajevo | 2½ | 3 | 2813 |
| 6 | GM | Georgiev Kiril | 2649 | Alkaloid | 2½ | 3 | 2810 |
| 7 | GM | Doettling Fabian | 2541 | Cercle d'Echecs de Strasbourg | 2½ | 3 | 2569 |
| 8 | GM | Milov Vadim | 2680 | Gros Xake Taldea | 2 | 3 | 2661 |
| 9 | IM | Zagorskis Darius | 2472 | Vilnius Chess-Bridge ''NSEL30'' | 2 | 3 | 2626 |
| 10 | GM | Tomashevsky Evgeny | 2646 | Economist Saratov | 2 | 3 | 2625 |
| Board 3 | |||||||
| 1 | IM | Berkvens Joost | 2452 | Utrecht | 3 | 3 | 2531 |
| 2 | GM | Vaganian Rafael A | 2600 | Bank King Yerevan | 2½ | 3 | 2780 |
| 3 | GM | Volkov Sergey | 2648 | Alkaloid | 2½ | 3 | 2775 |
| 4 | GM | Tiviakov Sergei | 2643 | Economist Saratov | 2½ | 3 | 2763 |
| 5 | IM | Hammer Jon Ludvig | 2402 | Oslo Schkakselskap | 2½ | 3 | 2754 |
| 6 | GM | Areshchenko Alexander | 2638 | Keystone | 2½ | 3 | 2715 |
| 7 | GM | Grischuk Alexander | 2715 | Ural Sverdlovskaya | 2½ | 3 | 2675 |
| 8 | IM | Cornette Matthieu | 2494 | Cannes Echecs | 2½ | 3 | 2630 |
| 9 | GM | Lev Ronen | 2414 | Herzliya Chess Club | 2½ | 3 | 2517 |
| 10 | GM | Sutovsky Emil | 2656 | Ashdod City Club | 2 | 3 | 2670 |
| Board 4 | |||||||
| 1 | IM | Kristjansson Stefan | 2458 | Reykjavik Chess Club | 3 | 3 | 2610 |
| 2 | IM | Kuehn Peter | 2426 | Schachfreunde Reichenstein | 3 | 3 | 2431 |
| 3 | GM | Bacrot Etienne | 2695 | OSC Baden-Baden e.V. | 2½ | 3 | 2796 |
| 4 | GM | Zhigalko Andrey | 2554 | Vesnianka Gran | 2½ | 3 | 2727 |
| 5 | GM | Tregubov Pavel V | 2609 | Clichy Echecs 92 | 2½ | 3 | 2720 |
| 6 | GM | Kozul Zdenko | 2609 | Alkaloid | 2½ | 3 | 2713 |
| 7 | GM | Sargissian Gabriel | 2673 | Linex Magic - Merida | 2½ | 3 | 2698 |
| 8 | GM | Akopian Vladimir | 2713 | Ural Sverdlovskaya | 2½ | 3 | 2676 |
| 9 | Secer Ata | 2282 | Doruk Koleji SK | 2½ | 3 | 2649 | |
| 10 | GM | Kallai Gabor | 2464 | Cercle d'Echecs de Strasbourg | 2½ | 3 | 2244 |
| Board 5 | |||||||
| 1 | GM | Malakhov Vladimir | 2690 | Ural Sverdlovskaya | 3 | 3 | 2377 |
| 2 | WIM | Sahl Sheila Barth | 2186 | Asker SK | 3 | 3 | 2342 |
| 3 | GM | Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter | 2668 | OSC Baden-Baden e.V. | 2½ | 3 | 2780 |
| 4 | GM | Moiseenko Alexander | 2646 | Ashdod City Club | 2½ | 3 | 2758 |
| 5 | GM | Minasian Artashes | 2571 | Bank King Yerevan | 2½ | 3 | 2726 |
| 6 | GM | Cheparinov Ivan | 2670 | Linex Magic - Merida | 2½ | 3 | 2710 |
| 7 | GM | David Alberto | 2536 | Clichy Echecs 92 | 2½ | 3 | 2695 |
| 8 | IM | Horvath Tamas | 2419 | Csuti - Hydrocomp | 2½ | 3 | 2579 |
| 9 | IM | Grinshpun Eduard | 2418 | Herzliya Chess Club | 2½ | 3 | 2468 |
| 10 | GM | Inarkiev Ernesto | 2674 | Tomsk-400 | 2 | 3 | 2593 |
| Board 6 | |||||||
| 1 | GM | Anastasian Ashot | 2571 | Bank King Yerevan | 3 | 3 | 2761 |
| 2 | GM | Hamdouchi Hichem | 2576 | Gros Xake Taldea | 3 | 3 | 2713 |
| 3 | GM | Dreev Alexey | 2607 | Ural Sverdlovskaya | 3 | 3 | 2335 |
| 4 | FM | Ben-Menachem Itzhak | 2311 | Herzliya Chess Club | 3 | 3 | 2273 |
| 5 | Sherifaj Pasho | 0 | "Apollonia" Chess Club Fier | 3 | 3 | 2205 | |
| 6 | GM | Harikrishna P | 2668 | OSC Baden-Baden e.V. | 2½ | 3 | 2744 |
| 7 | GM | Kogan Artur | 2569 | Ashdod City Club | 2½ | 3 | 2689 |
| 8 | IM | Perez Candelario Manuel | 2525 | Linex Magic - Merida | 2½ | 3 | 2607 |
| 9 | Heimann Andreas | 2350 | Schachfreunde Reichenstein | 2½ | 3 | 2417 | |
| 10 | GM | Baklan Vladimir | 2639 | Keystone | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Board 7 | |||||||
| 1 | GM | Bologan Viktor | 2657 | Tomsk-400 | 3 | 3 | 2757 |
| 2 | IM | Berczes David | 2430 | Aquaprofit Nagykanisza | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 3 | IM | Colovic Aleksandar | 2477 | Alkaloid | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 4 | GM | Vysochin Spartak | 2524 | Keystone | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 5 | GM | Nielsen Peter Heine | 2626 | OSC Baden-Baden e.V. | 2 | 3 | 2576 |
| 6 | Gomez Gomez Francisco | 2083 | Cuna de Dragones Ajoblanco | 2 | 3 | 2335 | |
| 7 | IM | Meszaros Tamas | 2442 | Csuti - Hydrocomp | 1½ | 2 | 0 |
| 8 | Silva Sebastain | 2378 | Clichy Echecs 92 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| 9 | GM | Zaja Ivan | 2467 | Chess Club Zagreb | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 10 | Bakker Sven | 2244 | Hamburger SK | 1 | 2 | 0 | |
| Board 8 | |||||||
| 1 | GM | Smirnov Pavel | 2636 | Tomsk-400 | 2½ | 3 | 2677 |
| 2 | GM | Schlosser Philipp | 2579 | OSC Baden-Baden e.V. | 1½ | 2 | 0 |
| 3 | Sisatto Olli | 2264 | Opus Capita Tampere | 1½ | 3 | 2438 | |
| 4 | IM | Argandona Rivero Inigo | 2397 | Gros Xake Taldea | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | GM | Iljushin Alexei | 2528 | Economist Saratov | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 6 | GM | Jacimovic Dragoljub | 2412 | Alkaloid | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 7 | GM | Kantsler Boris | 2509 | Ashdod City Club | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 8 | Rocius Marijonas | 2192 | Vilnius Chess-Bridge ''NSEL30'' | 1 | 2 | 0 | |
| 9 | FM | Csiszar Zoltan | 2318 | Csuti - Hydrocomp | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 10 | Moore Robert | 0 | Nidum Liberals | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| No | Ti | Name | Rtg | Name | Pts. | Gms | Perf |
| Board 1 | |||||||
| 1 | GM | Koneru Humpy | 2606 | Monte-Carlo | 3 | 3 | 2665 |
| 2 | GM | Xu Yuhua | 2517 | AVS Krasnoturinsk | 2½ | 3 | 2705 |
| 3 | GM | Lahno Kateryna | 2459 | Southern Ural Cheliabinsk | 2½ | 3 | 2649 |
| 4 | WGM | Zhao Xue | 2530 | Economist Saratov | 2½ | 3 | 2512 |
| 5 | WGM | Zhukova Natalia | 2452 | SK T-Com Podgorica | 2 | 3 | 2420 |
| 6 | IM | Korbut Ekaterina | 2443 | Finec St.Petersburg | 2 | 3 | 2354 |
| 7 | IM | Gaponenko Inna | 2440 | Ladya Kazan | 1½ | 3 | 2334 |
| 8 | IM | Madl Ildiko | 2381 | SK Bihac - Capital Brokers | 1½ | 3 | 2299 |
| 9 | WIM | Bensdorp Marlies | 2263 | Utrecht | 1½ | 3 | 2243 |
| 10 | GM | Chiburdanidze Maia | 2500 | MIKA Yerevan | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Board 2 | |||||||
| 1 | IM | Arakhamia-Grant Ketevan | 2432 | Interplast Tbilisi | 2½ | 3 | 2650 |
| 2 | WGM | Hou Yifan | 2502 | Southern Ural Cheliabinsk | 2½ | 3 | 2610 |
| 3 | GM | Cramling Pia | 2531 | Monte-Carlo | 2½ | 3 | 2603 |
| 4 | IM | Danielian Elina | 2458 | MIKA Yerevan | 2½ | 3 | 2521 |
| 5 | WIM | Yildiz Betul Cemre | 2220 | Turk Hava Yollari | 2 | 3 | 2452 |
| 6 | IM | Cmilyte Viktorija | 2464 | Finec St.Petersburg | 2 | 3 | 2395 |
| 7 | IM | Zaiatz Elena | 2366 | Ladya Kazan | 2 | 3 | 2395 |
| 8 | IM | Maric Alisa | 2408 | SK T-Com Podgorica | 2 | 3 | 2304 |
| 9 | GM | Stefanova Antoaneta | 2463 | AVS Krasnoturinsk | 1½ | 2 | 0 |
| 10 | WIM | Boric Elena | 2279 | SK Bihac - Capital Brokers | 1½ | 3 | 2258 |
| Board 3 | |||||||
| 1 | IM | Kovalevskaya Ekaterina | 2448 | Southern Ural Cheliabinsk | 3 | 3 | 2632 |
| 2 | GM | Zhu Chen | 2531 | Monte-Carlo | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 3 | IM | Khurtsidze Nino | 2450 | MIKA Yerevan | 2 | 3 | 2270 |
| 4 | WFM | Khudaya Iryna | 2111 | BGU Minsk | 2 | 3 | 2255 |
| 5 | IM | Vasilevich Irina | 2383 | Economist Saratov | 2 | 3 | 2156 |
| Board 4 | |||||||
| 1 | IM | Dzagnidze Nana | 2416 | Interplast Tbilisi | 3 | 3 | 2631 |
| 2 | IM | Mkrtchian Lilit | 2402 | MIKA Yerevan | 2½ | 3 | 2367 |
| 3 | WGM | Muzychuk Anna | 2469 | AVS Krasnoturinsk | 2 | 3 | 2416 |
| 4 | WGM | Shaidullina Sandugach | 2296 | Ladya Kazan | 2 | 3 | 2096 |
| 5 | WGM | Benderac Ana | 2328 | SK T-Com Podgorica | 1½ | 2 | 0 |
| Board 5 | |||||||
| 1 | IM | Lomineishvili Maia | 2409 | Interplast Tbilisi | 3 | 3 | 2570 |
| 2 | WGM | Kovanova Baira | 2346 | Economist Saratov | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 3 | IM | Skripchenko Almira | 2438 | Monte-Carlo | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 4 | WGM | Sudakova Irina | 2326 | Finec St.Petersburg | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 5 | WGM | Pogonina Natalija | 2462 | AVS Krasnoturinsk | 2 | 3 | 2377 |
