European Championship: Aleksandar Indjic takes sole lead

by Johannes Fischer
11/14/2024 – In round 6 of the European Championship in Petrovac, Montenegro, Serbian Grandmaster Aleksandar Indjic won an impressive endgame against co-leader Maxim Chigaev. As all other top games ended with draws, Indjic is now the sole leader and starts the rest day with 5.5/6. Half a point behind are eight players with 5.0/6 each. | Photo: ECU

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Standings after 6 rounds

Rk. Name Pts  Tb1 
1 Indjic, Aleksandar 5,5 0
2 Hovhannisyan, Robert 5 0
3 Svane, Frederik 5 0
Cheparinov, Ivan 5 0
5 Fedoseev, Vladimir 5 0
Dardha, Daniel 5 0
7 Donchenko, Alexander 5 0
8 Motylev, Alexander 5 0
9 Petrosyan, Manuel 5 0
10 Sedlak, Nikola 4,5 0
11 Deac, Bogdan-Daniel 4,5 0
12 Chigaev, Maksim 4,5 0
13 Romanov, Evgeny 4,5 0
14 Svane, Rasmus 4,5 0
Samunenkov, Ihor 4,5 0
16 Gazik, Viktor 4,5 0
17 Erdogmus, Yagiz Kaan 4,5 0
Gumularz, Szymon 4,5 0
19 Mamedov, Rauf 4,5 0
20 Sokolovsky, Yahli 4,5 0
21 Sargsyan, Shant 4,5 0
22 Maurizzi, Marc`andria 4,5 0
23 Kuru, Atilla 4,5 0
24 Iskandarov, Misratdin 4,5 0
25 Warmerdam, Max 4,5 0

...388 players

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Topics: European Championship 2024
Johannes Fischer was born in 1963 in Hamburg and studied English and German literature in Frankfurt. He now lives as a writer and translator in Nürnberg. He is a FIDE-Master and regularly writes for KARL, a German chess magazine focusing on the links between culture and chess. On his own blog he regularly publishes notes on "Film, Literature and Chess".
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