11/12/2013 – Today is Poland's Independence Day. The celebrations in the streets were plentiful and because of this the round started a two hours later. The Women's Polish Team gave the locals something to celebrate as they were able to beat Armenia and are now leading the tournament with Ukraine. In the Open, France is dominant with a victory today against Czech Republic. Report of round 4.
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You might remember that there was a similar sounding event that happened only recently, the European Club Championship, but the events are certainly different as the Club Championship allows players from outside Europe to compete while the European Team Championship is a battle between different nations. The ETCC will be held in Warsaw, Poland from November 7th - November 18th. The event is a team swiss played in nine rounds.
Independence day in Poland
Today was Poland's Independence day, as they commemorate the anniversary of Poland's resumption of independent statehood in 1918 after 123 years of partition by Russia, Prussia and Austria.
Warsaw was a giant party today as patriotism was shown left and right. Alina l'Ami shows us her impressions of the festivities from her view in the hotel:
And a night time shot, because why not
Open Section
France continues with impressive results. With three draws and a key win by Romain Edouard the French team has taken the lead of the European Team Chess Championship. France is a full two points (a match victory) ahead of its suitors, which are plentiful. Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Greece and Georgia all have six points, while no one has seven.
Russia annihilated Austria but they still seem to be rather far away from a medal position.
Bo.
3
FRANCE
Rtg
-
9
CZECH REPUBLIC
Rtg
2½:1½
1.1
GM
BACROT, Etienne
2749
-
GM
NAVARA, David
2705
½ - ½
1.2
GM
VACHIER-LAGRAVE, Maxime
2742
-
GM
LAZNICKA, Viktor
2677
½ - ½
1.3
GM
EDOUARD, Romain
2653
-
GM
HRACEK, Zbynek
2638
1 - 0
1.4
GM
HAMDOUCHI, Hicham
2627
-
GM
BABULA, Vlastimil
2574
½ - ½
Bo.
6
AZERBAIJAN
Rtg
-
7
HUNGARY
Rtg
2 : 2
2.1
GM
MAMEDYAROV, Shakhriyar
2757
-
GM
ERDOS, Viktor
2658
½ - ½
2.2
GM
RADJABOV, Teimour
2715
-
GM
BALOGH, Csaba
2630
½ - ½
2.3
GM
SAFARLI, Eltaj
2653
-
GM
ALMASI, Zoltan
2710
½ - ½
2.4
GM
MAMEDOV, Rauf
2647
-
GM
BANUSZ, Tamas
2593
½ - ½
Bo.
15
GREECE
Rtg
-
14
GEORGIA
Rtg
2 : 2
3.1
GM
BANIKAS, Hristos
2633
-
GM
JOBAVA, Baadur
2695
0 - 1
3.2
GM
PAPAIOANNOU, Ioannis
2639
-
GM
MCHEDLISHVILI, Mikheil
2631
½ - ½
3.3
GM
MASTROVASILIS, Dimitrios
2589
-
GM
GAGUNASHVILI, Merab
2556
1 - 0
3.4
GM
KOTRONIAS, Vasilios
2564
-
GM
PANTSULAIA, Levan
2595
½ - ½
Bo.
4
UKRAINE
Rtg
-
2
ARMENIA
Rtg
3 : 1
4.1
GM
ARESHCHENKO, Alexander
2720
-
GM
ARONIAN, Levon
2801
½ - ½
4.2
GM
VOLOKITIN, Andrei
2682
-
GM
MOVSESIAN, Sergei
2700
1 - 0
4.3
GM
MOISEENKO, Alexander
2709
-
GM
SARGISSIAN, Gabriel
2676
½ - ½
4.4
GM
FEDORCHUK, Sergey A.
2666
-
GM
PETROSIAN, Tigran L.
2660
1 - 0
Bo.
16
CROATIA
Rtg
-
29
ISRAEL
Rtg
2 : 2
5.1
GM
SARIC, Ivan
2628
-
GM
NABATY, Tamir
2580
1 - 0
5.2
GM
STEVIC, Hrvoje
2611
-
GM
POPILSKI, Gil
2483
½ - ½
5.3
GM
PALAC, Mladen
2571
-
IM
RAZNIKOV, Danny
2481
½ - ½
5.4
GM
BRKIC, Ante
2580
-
IM
BORUCHOVSKY, Avital
2472
0 - 1
Bo.
18
TURKEY
Rtg
-
17
BELARUS
Rtg
1½:2½
6.1
GM
SOLAK, Dragan
2618
-
GM
ZHIGALKO, Sergei
2694
1 - 0
6.2
GM
IPATOV, Alexander
2630
-
GM
ZHIGALKO, Andrey
2619
0 - 1
6.3
GM
ESEN, Baris
2565
-
GM
KOVALEV, Vladislav
2583
0 - 1
6.4
GM
YILMAZ, Mustafa
2577
-
GM
TETEREV, Vitaly
2501
½ - ½
Bo.
24
POLAND GOLDIES
Rtg
-
19
ROMANIA
Rtg
1 : 3
7.1
GM
TAZBIR, Marcin
2555
-
GM
LUPULESCU, Constantin
2630
0 - 1
7.2
GM
HEBERLA, Bartlomiej
2556
-
GM
JIANU, Vlad-Cristian
2565
½ - ½
7.3
GM
BULSKI, Krzysztof
2538
-
GM
PARLIGRAS, Mircea-Emilian
2576
½ - ½
7.4
GM
GDANSKI, Jacek
2518
-
GM
NEVEDNICHY, Vladislav
2590
0 - 1
Bo.
27
AUSTRIA
Rtg
-
1
RUSSIA
Rtg
0 : 4
8.1
GM
RAGGER, Markus
2672
-
GM
GRISCHUK, Alexander
2785
0 - 1
8.2
GM
SHENGELIA, David
2543
-
GM
SVIDLER, Peter
2752
0 - 1
8.3
IM
KREISL, Robert
2410
-
GM
ANDREIKIN, Dmitry
2710
0 - 1
8.4
IM
SCHREINER, Peter
2452
-
GM
TOMASHEVSKY, Evgeny
2722
0 - 1
Bo.
5
ENGLAND
Rtg
-
30
MONTENEGRO
Rtg
3½: ½
9.1
GM
ADAMS, Michael
2752
-
GM
DJUKIC, Nikola
2543
1 - 0
9.2
GM
MCSHANE, Luke J
2696
-
GM
DRASKO, Milan
2447
1 - 0
9.3
GM
SHORT, Nigel D
2680
-
GM
KOSIC, Dragan
2504
½ - ½
9.4
GM
JONES, Gawain C B
2648
-
GM
NIKCEVIC, Nebojsa
2428
1 - 0
Bo.
11
SPAIN
Rtg
-
10
GERMANY
Rtg
2 : 2
10.1
GM
VALLEJO PONS, Francisco
2705
-
GM
NAIDITSCH, Arkadij
2727
½ - ½
10.2
GM
ILLESCAS CORDOBA, Miguel
2614
-
GM
MEIER, Georg
2623
0 - 1
10.3
GM
KORNEEV, Oleg
2637
-
GM
KHENKIN, Igor
2612
1 - 0
10.4
GM
VAZQUEZ IGARZA, Renier
2588
-
GM
FRIDMAN, Daniel
2600
½ - ½
Bo.
12
POLAND
Rtg
-
22
SLOVENIA
Rtg
1½:2½
11.1
GM
SWIERCZ, Dariusz
2627
-
GM
PAVASOVIC, Dusko
2563
½ - ½
11.2
GM
GAJEWSKI, Grzegorz
2634
-
GM
LENIC, Luka
2637
½ - ½
11.3
GM
BARTEL, Mateusz
2626
-
GM
SKOBERNE, Jure
2573
½ - ½
11.4
GM
MITON, Kamil
2597
-
GM
BORISEK, Jure
2555
0 - 1
Bo.
21
BULGARIA
Rtg
-
13
ITALY
Rtg
1½:2½
12.1
GM
TOPALOV, Veselin
2774
-
GM
CARUANA, Fabiano
2782
½ - ½
12.2
GM
RUSEV, Krasimir
2539
-
GM
VOCATURO, Daniele
2577
½ - ½
12.3
GM
PETKOV, Vladimir
2570
-
GM
GODENA, Michele
2501
½ - ½
12.4
GM
ARNAUDOV, G. Petar
2448
-
GM
ROMBALDONI, Axel
2530
0 - 1
Bo.
33
BELGIUM
Rtg
-
20
SERBIA
Rtg
½ :3½
13.1
IM
MICHIELS, Bart
2506
-
GM
IVANISEVIC, Ivan
2619
½ - ½
13.2
IM
RINGOIR, Tanguy
2514
-
GM
PERUNOVIC, Milos
2613
0 - 1
13.3
IM
DOCX, Stefan
2488
-
GM
DAMLJANOVIC, Branko
2569
0 - 1
13.4
IM
SOORS, Stef
2404
-
GM
INDJIC, Aleksandar
2534
0 - 1
Bo.
8
NETHERLANDS
Rtg
-
26
DENMARK
Rtg
3 : 1
14.1
GM
GIRI, Anish
2732
-
GM
HANSEN, Sune Berg
2563
½ - ½
14.2
GM
SOKOLOV, Ivan
2625
-
IM
GLUD, Jakob Vang
2526
1 - 0
14.3
GM
L'AMI, Erwin
2648
-
GM
RASMUSSEN, Allan Stig
2486
1 - 0
14.4
GM
VAN KAMPEN, Robin
2618
-
IM
ANDERSEN, Mads
2499
½ - ½
Bo.
23
POLAND FUTURES
Rtg
-
34
LITHUANIA
Rtg
3 : 1
15.1
GM
DUDA, Jan-Krzysztof
2542
-
GM
ZAGORSKIS, Darius
2480
1 - 0
15.2
GM
DRAGUN, Kamil
2543
-
IM
BEINORAS, Mindaugas
2389
½ - ½
15.3
GM
TOMCZAK, Jacek
2581
-
LAURUSAS, Tomas
2409
½ - ½
15.4
GM
PIORUN, Kacper
2555
-
FM
VEDRICKAS, Tautvydas
2305
1 - 0
Bo.
25
SWEDEN
Rtg
-
31
SWITZERLAND
Rtg
1 : 3
16.1
GM
GRANDELIUS, Nils
2557
-
GM
PELLETIER, Yannick
2575
½ - ½
16.2
GM
TIKKANEN, Hans
2544
-
GM
GALLAGHER, Joseph G.
2504
½ - ½
16.3
GM
BERG, Emanuel
2547
-
FM
GEORGIADIS, Nico
2423
0 - 1
16.4
GM
CARLSSON, Pontus
2499
-
IM
FORSTER, Richard
2452
0 - 1
Bo.
37
SCOTLAND
Rtg
-
28
ICELAND
Rtg
½ :3½
17.1
IM
MUIR, Andrew J
2312
-
GM
STEINGRIMSSON, Hedinn
2543
½ - ½
17.2
FM
TATE, Alan
2299
-
GM
STEFANSSON, Hannes
2539
0 - 1
17.3
GRANT, Jonathan I M
2257
-
GM
DANIELSEN, Henrik
2502
0 - 1
17.4
MINNICAN, Alan
2135
-
IM
KJARTANSSON, Gudmundur
2455
0 - 1
Bo.
32
FINLAND
Rtg
-
35
FYR MACEDONIA
Rtg
2½:1½
18.1
GM
NYBACK, Tomi
2586
-
IM
PANCEVSKI, Filip
2478
1 - 0
18.2
IM
SIPILA, Vilka
2463
-
GM
BOGDANOVSKI, Vlatko
2459
½ - ½
18.3
IM
AGOPOV, Mikael
2435
-
IM
KIZOV, Atanas
2413
0 - 1
18.4
FM
EBELING, Daniel
2365
-
GM
STANOJOSKI, Zvonko
2417
1 - 0
Bo.
36
NORWAY
Rtg
-
38
WALES
Rtg
3 : 1
19.1
IM
TARI, Aryan
2420
-
IM
JONES, Richard S.
2435
½ - ½
19.2
HAUGE, Lars Oskar
2301
-
FM
VARLEY, Peter
2251
½ - ½
19.3
FM
HOLM, Kristian Stuvik
2281
-
JAMESON, David
2147
1 - 0
19.4
SALOMON, Johan
2246
-
HEWITT, William
2061
1 - 0
Replay open games of round 4
Women's Section
Poland continues impressing as their team one was able to beat the only slightly lower rated Armenia. Ukraine did the same with Israel as Lagno was able to win against Efroimski while all the other boards drew. This means that Poland will face Ukraine tomorrow as the only teams that have a perfect score.
Trailing them by only a point is Georgia who destroyed Serbia. Russia, Armenia and Germany follow with six points while there are many teams on five. Russia keeps taking vengeance on the opponent's as the team won 4-0 for the second time in a row. England, however, also continues the 4-0 streak, just not on the correct side of the board.
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