European Club Cup LIVE
10/18/2018 – Live games and commentary from the 2018 European Chess Club Cup, with GM Ioannis Papaioannou & FM Sotiris Logothetis, October 12th to 19th. All tournament reports and details on teams and players.
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Round 7
Players receive 90 minutes for 40 moves then 30 minutes for the rest with 30 seconds added per move. Draw offers before move 30 are prohibited.
Team rank after Round 6 (top 10)
| Rk. | Team | Games | + | = | - | TB1 | TB2 | |
| 1 |
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Valerenga Sjakklubb | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 168,0 |
| 2 |
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Obiettivo Risarcimento Padova | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 183,5 |
| 3 |
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AVE Novy Bor | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 168,0 |
| 4 |
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Mednyi Vsadnik St.Petersburg | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 158,0 |
| 5 |
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Molodezhka | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 156,0 |
| 6 |
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Odlar Yurdu | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 165,0 |
| 7 |
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Alkaloid | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 163,5 |
| 8 |
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Beer Sheva Chess Club | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 143,5 |
| 9 |
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Eynatten | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 102,5 |
| 10 |
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Itaka | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 118,0 |
Live commentary
Commentary by GM Ioannis Papaioannou & FM Sotiris Logothetis
Featured matches
All matches are available at live.chessbase.com.
Mednyi Vsadnik St.Petersburg - Valerenga Sjakklubb
Obiettivo Risarcimento Padova - Molodezhka
Odlar Yurdu - AVE Novy Bor
Alkaloid - Beer Sheva Chess Club
Women
Final: Cercle d'Echecs de Monte-Carlo - Nona
Blitz playoff for 3rd and 4th place: Ugra-SSHOR
All matches are available at live.chessbase.com.
Women rank after Round 6
| Rk. | Team | Games | + | = | - | |
| 1 |
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Nona | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
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Cercle d'Echecs de Monte-Carlo | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| 3 |
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Ugra | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 |
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SSHOR | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
| 5 |
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Kyiv Chess Federation | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
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Odlar Yurdu | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | |
| 7 |
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Caissa Italia Pentole Agnelli | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
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Beer Sheva Chess Club | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| 9 |
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Mulhouse Philidor | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
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ZSK Maribor | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 11 |
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Caissa Italia Banca Alpi Marittime | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
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AMO Galaxias Thessaloniki | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
Tournament details
The Greek holiday resort of Porto Carras is the venue of the European Club Cup, with Open and Women's competitions for teams from across Europe. In the Open tournament, 61 teams participate with matches played on six boards. In the Women's tournament, 12 teams compete in matches held on four boards. Many strong players participate including World Champion Magnus Carlsen and a further 16 players over 2700 Elo.
Both tournaments are seven rounds with the Open paired according to the Swiss system. Since only twelve teams registered in the women's section, the ECU is using a combined format: two groups of six teams have been formed, each group will play a single round robin tournament (five rounds) and two teams from each group will move forward to a knockout finale.
The total prize fund is 22,000 euros for the Open competition, and 13,000 euros for the women's tournament plus 5,000 euros for board prizes.
Team starting rank (Open - top 20)
| No. | Team | RtgAvg | |
| 1 |
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Alkaloid | 2741 |
| 2 |
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AVE Novy Bor | 2712 |
| 3 |
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Odlar Yurdu | 2702 |
| 4 |
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Mednyi Vsadnik St.Petersburg | 2696 |
| 5 |
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Valerenga Sjakklubb | 2672 |
| 6 |
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Obiettivo Risarcimento Padova | 2657 |
| 7 |
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Molodezhka | 2587 |
| 8 |
|
Beer Sheva Chess Club | 2582 |
| 9 |
|
Itaka | 2532 |
| 10 |
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SV Werder Bremen | 2468 |
| 11 |
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Sloven Ruma | 2461 |
| 12 |
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KGSRL | 2459 |
| 13 |
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Schachfreunde Berlin 1903 | 2446 |
| 14 |
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Schachgesellschaft Solingen | 2437 |
| 15 |
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Dunajska Streda | 2436 |
| 16 |
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DJK Aufwaerts Aachen | 2430 |
| 17 |
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E.S. Thessalonikis | 2429 |
| 18 |
|
Schachgesellschaft Winterthur | 2426 |
| 19 |
|
Reykjavik Chess Club | 2419 |
| 20 |
|
Schachgesellschaft Zurich | 2406 |
...61 teams.
Team starting rank (Women)
| No. | Team | RtgAvg | |
| 1 |
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Nona | 2484 |
| 2 |
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Cercle d'Echecs de Monte-Carlo | 2483 |
| 3 |
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Caissa Italia Pentole Agnelli | 2466 |
| 4 |
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Ugra | 2456 |
| 5 |
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Kyiv Chess Federation | 2438 |
| 6 |
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Odlar Yurdu | 2369 |
| 7 |
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SSHOR | 2345 |
| 8 |
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Mulhouse Philidor | 2189 |
| 9 |
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Beer Sheva Chess Club | 2163 |
| 10 |
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ZSK Maribor | 2116 |
| 11 |
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Caissa Italia Banca Alpi Marittime | 2058 |
| 12 |
|
AMO Galaxias Thessaloniki | 1538 |
Links
- All tournament reports
- Official site
- Official Regulations
- Full results - Open (Chess-Results)
- Full results - Women (Chess-Results)
Discussion and Feedback
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Indeed. Fixed.
The team pairing names are all wrong for rd. 7, after all Carlsen isn't playing for Beer Sheva or Alkaloid.
Carlsen survives :(
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