European Championship in Antalya

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4/22/2004 – Last year we had a pictorial feast with the European Individual Championship. This year the event is once again being held on the "Turkish Riviera", the Mediterranean playground for West European tourists. Hopefully we will end up with a similar collection of interesting pictures of chess players at work and at play. Here's a preview...

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European Chess Union president Boris Kutin writes: "As you remember that we had already informed federations for European Individual Chess Championships. European Chess Union is glad to invite you to Antalya Kemer-Beldibi from 14 to 31 May 2004 for 5th European Individual Chess Championship. The tournament will be played in the Nautilus Hotel Beldibi Kemer. As you remember we announced the official regulations in our website www.eurochess.org . Now we clarified the hotel and venue. Please check information and send the necessary application files to Organisers as soon as possible.

In the hotel the number of rooms are limited to organisation. Organisers have made reservation for 100 beds in 30 single and 35 double rooms. this rooms will be given according to application time. And if there is more request than 100 beds, the second hotel building which is 250 metres behind will be in use. Till today organisers have got 55 applications. Therefore, we ask all federations they want to send players to make their application as soon as possible."

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The Nautilus Hotel Beldibi Kemer


The rooms in the Nautilus


The food at the Turkish buffet


The obligatory pool


The beach in Kemer


The famous Turkish steam baths


Actually they are western saunas, but with a Turkish touch


Evening entertainment

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  • Last year's European Championships

Welcome to Istanbul!
01.06.2003 The 4th European Championship has started in Istanbul and lasts from May 30 until June 14. The men's section has 164 GMs, 31 IMs – and one 13-year-old girl (guess who!). The prize sum is $192,000, in the women's section $44,000. We bring you information, links and lots of pictures of the participants at work and at play.

Action and pictures from Turkey
06.06.2003 What is this lovely young lady doing, standing in the water in front of a racy speedboat? Participating in the 4th European Individual Championships in Silivri, Turkey, that's what. We bring you results (Aleksandrov leads in the men's section, Galliamova and Skripchenko among the women), games, links and lots of new pictures.

Meet the masters – at the board and at play
08.06.2003 The European Individual Championships is under way in Silivri, Turkey. After eight rounds five players tied for first with six points each, followed by 17 with 5.5 points. We bring you all the games and neccessary links to follow event, plus a set of great new action pictures directly from the tournament site in Turkey. Today we start with the men's section...

The Girls of Silivri
10.06.2003 Meet the masters – yesterday it was the men's section of the European Individual Championships in Silivri, Turkey. Now by popular demand we bring you the women's section with 28 portraits of some of the finest female chess players Europe has to offer. You will admit that we will all have to abandon certain age-old prejudices we have held about chess-playing women.

Problems in Paradise
11.06.2003 The reports and pictures we have been publishing from the 4th European Individual Championships in Istanbul, Turkey, have been quite idyllic. But there is trouble a-brewing. 187 participants have signed a letter of protest to the President of the European Chess Union and threatened to boycott the next event. Nigel Short puts it into perspective...

'Another day for you and me in Paradise'
11.06.2003 This morning we published an open letter sent to us by participants of the European Championships in Silivri, Turkey. A few hours later we received a message from the President of Turkish Chess Federation Ali Nihat Yazici: "I have read the news on the site today. Thank you for covering event. I attach a letter and would be glad if you publish this as an answer." Here it is...

Great chess players at play
12.06.2003 Two days ago we published a large number of pictures of the best male and female hard at work during the European Championships in Silivri, Turkey. At the time we promised you a new set of pictures, showing the participants at play. Well here they are, 32 new pictures of Europe's finest, chess like you have never seen it before...


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