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Eighth
European Chess Championship in DresdenThe 8th Individual European Chess Championships (EURO 2007) is taking place from April 2nd to 16th, 2007 in Dresden, Germany in the International Congress Center. The event is an 11 round Swiss, with time controls set at 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the rest of the game, with an increment of 30 seconds per move, starting from move one.
Full results of the first nine rounds are available on the EURO 2007 home page, where live coverage is also provided. In the tables belos you will find the top scorers, together with zipped PGN files of all the games that have become available so far.
Most of the games on the top boards were drawn in round nine, which meant that 20-year-old Andrei Volokitin of Ukraine at 7/9 retained his half-point lead over a field of 21 players who are at his heels. Behind them we find 48 players with 6.0/9 points. There are almost 190 grandmasters participating, and this it the first event we have seen with a GM on place 369 (there are some even lower down, but they have abandoned the tournament).
| Rnk | Title | Name | FED | Elo | Pts | Perf |
| 1 | GM | Volokitin Andrei | UKR | 2654 | 7.0 | 2818 |
| 2 | GM | Tomashevsky Evgeny | RUS | 2641 | 6.5 | 2749 |
| 3 | GM | Almasi Zoltan | HUN | 2675 | 6.5 | 2743 |
| 4 | GM | Avrukh Boris | ISR | 2644 | 6.5 | 2732 |
| 5 | GM | Jakovenko Dmitry | RUS | 2708 | 6.5 | 2745 |
| 6 | GM | Eljanov Pavel | UKR | 2686 | 6.5 | 2729 |
| 7 | GM | Sutovsky Emil | ISR | 2637 | 6.5 | 2720 |
| 8 | GM | Malakhov Vladimir | RUS | 2679 | 6.5 | 2741 |
| 9 | GM | Volkov Sergey | RUS | 2640 | 6.5 | 2739 |
| 10 | GM | Laznicka Viktor | CZE | 2608 | 6.5 | 2709 |
| 11 | GM | Khalifman Alexander | RUS | 2624 | 6.5 | 2699 |
| 12 | GM | Gustafsson Jan | GER | 2588 | 6.5 | 2707 |
| 13 | GM | Tkachiev Vladislav | FRA | 2652 | 6.5 | 2707 |
| 14 | GM | Landa Konstantin | RUS | 2608 | 6.5 | 2721 |
| 15 | GM | Pavasovic Dusko | SLO | 2567 | 6.5 | 2751 |
| 16 | GM | Ftacnik Lubomir | SVK | 2573 | 6.5 | 2727 |
| 17 | GM | Guseinov Gadir | AZE | 2586 | 6.5 | 2677 |
| 18 | IM | Rodshtein Maxim | ISR | 2530 | 6.5 | 2705 |
| 19 | GM | Gajewski Grzegorz | POL | 2540 | 6.5 | 2666 |
| 20 | GM | Nevednichy Vladislav | ROM | 2528 | 6.5 | 2712 |
| 21 | GM | Iordachescu Viorel | MDA | 2587 | 6.5 | 2666 |
| 22 | GM | Roiz Michael | ISR | 2605 | 6.5 | 2688 |
In the lead: 20-year-old Ukrainian GM Andrei Volokitin
Top German player Jan Gustafsson, half a point behind
The women's section is being dominated by Tatiana Kosintseva, the younger sister of Nadezhda, who is in a group of three players following Tatiana at a respectful distance of one point. Two of these are called Ekaterina, and one is the wife of top Turkish GM Suat Atalik. Germany's darling player, former Junior World champion Elisabeth Pähtz, is playing well below par and is only on place 32.
| Rnk | Title | Name | FED | Elo | Pts | Perf |
| 1 | IM | Kosintseva Tatiana | RUS | 2459 | 8.0 | 2742 |
| 2 | IM | Atalik Ekaterina | TUR | 2374 | 7.0 | 2625 |
| 3 | IM | Kosintseva Nadezhda | RUS | 2475 | 7.0 | 2592 |
| 4 | WGM | Korbut Ekaterina | RUS | 2429 | 7.0 | 2573 |
| 5 | GM | Stefanova Antoaneta | BUL | 2496 | 6.5 | 2552 |
| 6 | IM | Danielian Elina | ARM | 2424 | 6.5 | 2509 |
| 7 | GM | Hoang Thanh Trang | HUN | 2472 | 6.5 | 2546 |
| 8 | IM | Khurtsidze Nino | GEO | 2469 | 6.5 | 2523 |
| 9 | IM | Moser Eva | AUT | 2405 | 6.5 | 2473 |
| 10 | WGM | Bojkovic Natasa | SRB | 2408 | 6.5 | 2514 |
| 11 | IM | Lomineishvili Maia | GEO | 2399 | 6.5 | 2427 |
| 12 | IM | Lahno Kateryna | UKR | 2467 | 6.0 | 2493 |
| 13 | WGM | Khukhashvili Sopiko | GEO | 2334 | 6.0 | 2468 |
| 14 | WGM | Zakurdjaeva Irina | RUS | 2286 | 6.0 | 2457 |
| 15 | IM | Javakhishvili Lela | GEO | 2425 | 6.0 | 2482 |
| 16 | IM | Socko Monika | POL | 2481 | 6.0 | 2453 |
| 17 | IM | Kovalevskaya Ekaterina | RUS | 2432 | 6.0 | 2449 |
| 18 | IM | Foisor Cristina Adela | ROM | 2384 | 6.0 | 2442 |
| 19 | IM | Vasilevich Irina | RUS | 2380 | 6.0 | 2454 |
| 20 | IM | Cmilyte Viktorija | LTU | 2462 | 6.0 | 2422 |
| 21 | IM | Kachiani-Gersinska Ketino | GER | 2375 | 6.0 | 2401 |
| 22 | IM | Ovod Evgenija | RUS | 2384 | 6.0 | 2484 |
| 23 | WGM | Pogonina Natalija | RUS | 2419 | 6.0 | 2432 |
| 24 | IM | Bosboom-Lanchava Tea | NED | 2383 | 6.0 | 2399 |
| 25 | IM | Vasilevich Tatjana | UKR | 2383 | 6.0 | 2458 |
| 26 | WIM | Foisor Sabina-Francesca | ROM | 2333 | 6.0 | 2407 |
IM Tatiana Kosintseva of Russia, with a 2742 performance so far
Sister Nadezhda Kosintseva, a point behind Tatiana
ChessyThe mascot of the European Chess Championship – and of the German Chess Federation in its youth activities – is Chessy, a man-sized figure with a giant orange nose, roaming around the playing site.It is supposed to remind you of Albert Einstein, the great thinker. The man inside the mascot is 47-year-old Orland Krug from Dresden, who has to wear giant shoes and can only climb stairs sideways. Apart from that the temperature inside the mask and suit, we are told, is borderline bearable in the summer months. Still, the organisers say that Chessy is very popular with the public, who want to touch or even hug him. Especially the childred are fascinated by the figure. None of them, as far as we know, has run away screaming. |
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Chessy watching some of the games of EURO 2007
