11/16/2013 – In a wild match France tied with Azerbaijan and keeps the lead. Despite the fact that that was possibly the most important match in terms of standings, certainly many eyes were focused on the Russia-Armenia match. Sargissian took out Tomashevsky while everyone else drew giving Armenia the win. Ukraine relied on Muzychuk's win to take out Poland in the women's and leads comfortably. Round 7.
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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 11 rounds.
Open Section
Tkachiev defeated Guseinov to give France the lead in the important Azerbaijan-France match. However a super bizarre game between Mamedov and Edouard favored the white player and Azerbaijan was able to equalize the score. France retains the lead in the tournament but is still being closely chased. In the second board an incredibly important and attractive match took place: Russia vs. Armenia. Tomashevsky who has been having a great showing in the past few months was stopped by Sargissian who took advantage of a mistake to take the only win of the match and Armenia moves to tied for second place.
With draws in the matches between Ukraine-Belarus and Goergia-England, Greece was able to leap frop over the competition with a convincing victory over Croatia. This puts Greece as the only team with 10/14 points, two away from France and one away from Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Bo.
6
AZERBAIJAN
Rtg
-
3
FRANCE
Rtg
2 : 2
1.1
GM
MAMEDYAROV, Shakhriyar
2757
-
GM
BACROT, Etienne
2749
½ - ½
1.2
GM
RADJABOV, Teimour
2715
-
GM
VACHIER-LAGRAVE, Maxime
2742
½ - ½
1.3
GM
MAMEDOV, Rauf
2647
-
GM
EDOUARD, Romain
2653
1 - 0
1.4
GM
GUSEINOV, Gadir
2607
-
GM
TKACHIEV, Vladislav
2637
0 - 1
Bo.
1
RUSSIA
Rtg
-
2
ARMENIA
Rtg
1½:2½
2.1
GM
GRISCHUK, Alexander
2785
-
GM
ARONIAN, Levon
2801
½ - ½
2.2
GM
SVIDLER, Peter
2752
-
GM
MOVSESIAN, Sergei
2700
½ - ½
2.3
GM
MOROZEVICH, Alexander
2727
-
GM
AKOPIAN, Vladimir
2681
½ - ½
2.4
GM
TOMASHEVSKY, Evgeny
2722
-
GM
SARGISSIAN, Gabriel
2676
0 - 1
Bo.
4
UKRAINE
Rtg
-
17
BELARUS
Rtg
2 : 2
3.1
GM
ARESHCHENKO, Alexander
2720
-
GM
ZHIGALKO, Sergei
2694
0 - 1
3.2
GM
EFIMENKO, Zahar
2657
-
GM
ZHIGALKO, Andrey
2619
½ - ½
3.3
GM
MOISEENKO, Alexander
2709
-
GM
KOVALEV, Vladislav
2583
1 - 0
3.4
GM
FEDORCHUK, Sergey A.
2666
-
GM
TETEREV, Vitaly
2501
½ - ½
Bo.
14
GEORGIA
Rtg
-
5
ENGLAND
Rtg
2 : 2
4.1
GM
JOBAVA, Baadur
2695
-
GM
ADAMS, Michael
2752
½ - ½
4.2
GM
MCHEDLISHVILI, Mikheil
2631
-
GM
MCSHANE, Luke J
2696
1 - 0
4.3
GM
GAGUNASHVILI, Merab
2556
-
GM
SHORT, Nigel D
2680
0 - 1
4.4
GM
PANTSULAIA, Levan
2595
-
GM
JONES, Gawain C B
2648
½ - ½
Bo.
16
CROATIA
Rtg
-
15
GREECE
Rtg
1 : 3
5.1
GM
SARIC, Ivan
2628
-
GM
BANIKAS, Hristos
2633
0 - 1
5.2
GM
STEVIC, Hrvoje
2611
-
GM
PAPAIOANNOU, Ioannis
2639
½ - ½
5.3
GM
PALAC, Mladen
2571
-
GM
HALKIAS, Stelios
2555
½ - ½
5.4
GM
KOZUL, Zdenko
2597
-
GM
KOTRONIAS, Vasilios
2564
0 - 1
Bo.
7
HUNGARY
Rtg
-
31
SWITZERLAND
Rtg
3 : 1
6.1
GM
BALOGH, Csaba
2630
-
GM
PELLETIER, Yannick
2575
1 - 0
6.2
GM
ALMASI, Zoltan
2710
-
GM
GALLAGHER, Joseph G.
2504
½ - ½
6.3
GM
POLGAR, Judit
2689
-
FM
GEORGIADIS, Nico
2423
½ - ½
6.4
GM
BANUSZ, Tamas
2593
-
IM
FORSTER, Richard
2452
1 - 0
Bo.
22
SLOVENIA
Rtg
-
8
NETHERLANDS
Rtg
½ :3½
7.1
GM
LENIC, Luka
2637
-
GM
GIRI, Anish
2732
½ - ½
7.2
GM
SKOBERNE, Jure
2573
-
GM
SOKOLOV, Ivan
2625
0 - 1
7.3
GM
BORISEK, Jure
2555
-
GM
L'AMI, Erwin
2648
0 - 1
7.4
GM
TRATAR, Marko
2494
-
GM
SMEETS, Jan
2620
0 - 1
Bo.
19
ROMANIA
Rtg
-
9
CZECH REPUBLIC
Rtg
1½:2½
8.1
GM
LUPULESCU, Constantin
2630
-
GM
NAVARA, David
2705
½ - ½
8.2
GM
JIANU, Vlad-Cristian
2565
-
GM
LAZNICKA, Viktor
2677
0 - 1
8.3
GM
PARLIGRAS, Mircea-Emilian
2576
-
GM
HRACEK, Zbynek
2638
½ - ½
8.4
GM
NEVEDNICHY, Vladislav
2590
-
GM
BABULA, Vlastimil
2574
½ - ½
Bo.
20
SERBIA
Rtg
-
13
ITALY
Rtg
2 : 2
9.1
GM
IVANISEVIC, Ivan
2619
-
GM
CARUANA, Fabiano
2782
0 - 1
9.2
GM
DAMLJANOVIC, Branko
2569
-
GM
VOCATURO, Daniele
2577
1 - 0
9.3
GM
BOGOSAVLJEVIC, Boban
2549
-
GM
GODENA, Michele
2501
0 - 1
9.4
GM
INDJIC, Aleksandar
2534
-
GM
ROMBALDONI, Axel
2530
1 - 0
Bo.
18
TURKEY
Rtg
-
10
GERMANY
Rtg
3½: ½
10.1
GM
SOLAK, Dragan
2618
-
GM
NAIDITSCH, Arkadij
2727
½ - ½
10.2
GM
IPATOV, Alexander
2630
-
GM
MEIER, Georg
2623
1 - 0
10.3
GM
ESEN, Baris
2565
-
GM
BARAMIDZE, David
2614
1 - 0
10.4
GM
YILMAZ, Mustafa
2577
-
GM
FRIDMAN, Daniel
2600
1 - 0
Bo.
12
POLAND
Rtg
-
11
SPAIN
Rtg
2½:1½
11.1
GM
SOCKO, Bartosz
2661
-
GM
VALLEJO PONS, Francisco
2705
0 - 1
11.2
GM
SWIERCZ, Dariusz
2627
-
GM
SALGADO LOPEZ, Ivan
2610
1 - 0
11.3
GM
GAJEWSKI, Grzegorz
2634
-
GM
KORNEEV, Oleg
2637
½ - ½
11.4
GM
BARTEL, Mateusz
2626
-
GM
VAZQUEZ IGARZA, Renier
2588
1 - 0
Bo.
25
SWEDEN
Rtg
-
23
POLAND FUTURES
Rtg
3 : 1
12.1
GM
GRANDELIUS, Nils
2557
-
GM
DUDA, Jan-Krzysztof
2542
1 - 0
12.2
GM
TIKKANEN, Hans
2544
-
GM
DRAGUN, Kamil
2543
0 - 1
12.3
GM
BERG, Emanuel
2547
-
GM
TOMCZAK, Jacek
2581
1 - 0
12.4
GM
BLOMQVIST, Erik
2508
-
GM
PIORUN, Kacper
2555
1 - 0
Bo.
21
BULGARIA
Rtg
-
28
ICELAND
Rtg
2½:1½
13.1
GM
TOPALOV, Veselin
2774
-
GM
STEINGRIMSSON, Hedinn
2543
1 - 0
13.2
GM
RUSEV, Krasimir
2539
-
GM
STEFANSSON, Hannes
2539
0 - 1
13.3
GM
PETKOV, Vladimir
2570
-
IM
GRETARSSON, Hjorvar Steinn
2511
1 - 0
13.4
IM
DIMITROV, Radoslav
2445
-
GM
DANIELSEN, Henrik
2502
½ - ½
Bo.
27
AUSTRIA
Rtg
-
29
ISRAEL
Rtg
½ :3½
14.1
GM
RAGGER, Markus
2672
-
GM
NABATY, Tamir
2580
0 - 1
14.2
IM
KREISL, Robert
2410
-
GM
POPILSKI, Gil
2483
0 - 1
14.3
IM
SCHREINER, Peter
2452
-
IM
RAZNIKOV, Danny
2481
½ - ½
14.4
IM
DIERMAIR, Andreas
2459
-
GM
BARON, Tal
2487
0 - 1
Bo.
24
POLAND GOLDIES
Rtg
-
30
MONTENEGRO
Rtg
1½:2½
15.1
GM
TAZBIR, Marcin
2555
-
GM
DJUKIC, Nikola
2543
0 - 1
15.2
GM
HEBERLA, Bartlomiej
2556
-
GM
BLAGOJEVIC, Dragisa
2524
1 - 0
15.3
GM
BULSKI, Krzysztof
2538
-
GM
DRASKO, Milan
2447
½ - ½
15.4
GM
GDANSKI, Jacek
2518
-
GM
NIKCEVIC, Nebojsa
2428
0 - 1
Bo.
34
LITHUANIA
Rtg
-
26
DENMARK
Rtg
2 : 2
16.1
GM
ZAGORSKIS, Darius
2480
-
GM
HANSEN, Sune Berg
2563
½ - ½
16.2
IM
BEINORAS, Mindaugas
2389
-
IM
GLUD, Jakob Vang
2526
0 - 1
16.3
LAURUSAS, Tomas
2409
-
GM
PALO, Davor
2553
1 - 0
16.4
FM
VEDRICKAS, Tautvydas
2305
-
GM
RASMUSSEN, Allan Stig
2486
½ - ½
Bo.
37
SCOTLAND
Rtg
-
33
BELGIUM
Rtg
2 : 2
17.1
FM
MORRISON, Graham
2351
-
IM
MICHIELS, Bart
2506
½ - ½
17.2
IM
MUIR, Andrew J
2312
-
IM
RINGOIR, Tanguy
2514
½ - ½
17.3
FM
TATE, Alan
2299
-
IM
DOCX, Stefan
2488
1 - 0
17.4
MINNICAN, Alan
2135
-
IM
SOORS, Stef
2404
0 - 1
Bo.
32
FINLAND
Rtg
-
38
WALES
Rtg
4 : 0
18.1
GM
NYBACK, Tomi
2586
-
IM
JONES, Richard S.
2435
1 - 0
18.2
IM
SIPILA, Vilka
2463
-
FM
VARLEY, Peter
2251
1 - 0
18.3
IM
AGOPOV, Mikael
2435
-
JAMESON, David
2147
1 - 0
18.4
FM
EBELING, Daniel
2365
-
PLEASANTS, Allan J
2027
1 - 0
Bo.
36
NORWAY
Rtg
-
35
FYR MACEDONIA
Rtg
2½:1½
19.1
IM
TARI, Aryan
2420
-
IM
PANCEVSKI, Filip
2478
½ - ½
19.2
HAUGE, Lars Oskar
2301
-
GM
BOGDANOVSKI, Vlatko
2459
½ - ½
19.3
FM
HOLM, Kristian Stuvik
2281
-
IM
KIZOV, Atanas
2413
½ - ½
19.4
SALOMON, Johan
2246
-
GM
STANOJOSKI, Zvonko
2417
1 - 0
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