11/14/2023 – Poland and Germany scored 2½-1½ victories on Monday to go into round 4 of the European Team Championship as co-leaders. Both teams had to compensate for an individual loss with two victories to keep their perfect scores. Meanwhile, Norway suffered a second upset loss in a row, this time against Iceland — despite Magnus Carlsen winning on the top board. In the women’s championship, France and Azerbaijan are tied for first place with 6/6 match points. | Photo: Paul Meyer-Dunker
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Norway struggling
All top-10 teams in the open section of the European Team Championship have scored 4 or more match points after three rounds in Budva — except for Norway, who have drawn once and lost twice for an overall 1/6 score.
Soon after Offerspill, the Norwegian club led by Magnus Carlsen, won the European Club Cup, the former world champion’s chances to collect a second consecutive triumph in a team competition have all but vanished. Despite having escaped a loss in round 2, Carlsen is now on a 2½/3 score after beating Iceland’s Hjorvar SteinnGretarsson on Monday. The world number one has a 35-point lead over Fabiano Caruana in the live ratings list after this win.
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Magnus Carlsen beat Hjorvar Steinn Gretarsson | Photo: Mark Livshitz
As for the teams doing well, Germany (3rd seeds) and Poland (11th seeds) are now sharing the lead with 6/6 match points each. Alexander Donchenko and Mateusz Bartel have been the heroes for their teams so far, as they both grabbed two wins and a draw so far in Montenegro.
In round 3, Germany beat Serbia, with wins by Donchenko and Matthias Bluebaum compensating for Vincent Keymer’s loss against Alexandr Predke on the top board. Meanwhile, Radoslaw Wojtaszek and Bartosz Socko scored for Poland in a hard-fought match against France, which saw Maxime Lagarde beating Szymon Gumularz on board 4. Lagarde, by the way, is one of two players with a perfect 3/3 score in the tournament, together with Belgium’s 18-year-old grandmaster Daniel Dardha.
Standing a match point behind the leaders are four teams: Romania, Armenia, the Netherlands and Israel. Three players from the squads in the chasing pack have excelled in the first three rounds of the event: Jorden van Foreest and Max Warmerdam (Netherlands) and Tamir Nabaty (Israel) have all collected 2½ points since the tournament kicked off on Saturday.
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Similarly to the open section, two teams still have a perfect score in the women’s championship. France and Azerbaijan grabbed clear wins in round 3, over Poland and Spain respectively, to enter round 4 sharing the lead with 6/6 match points.
While Azerbaijan won thanks to victories by Ulviyya Fataliyeva and Khanim Balajayeva, the French squad defeated Spain with wins by Deimante Daulyte-Cornette, Mitra Hejazipour (the reigning French champion has a 3/3 score in Budva) and Pauline Guichard. As noted by Yosha Iglesias on X, France kicked off the event with three consecutive 3½-½ wins!
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The Azerbaijani team | Photo: Mark Livshitz
France versus Spain | Photo: Mark Livshitz
Two teams make up the chasing pack with 5/6 match points in the women’s section: Germany and Hungary. While Hungarians Hoang Thanh Trang and Szidonia Lazarne Vajda both have 2/2 scores, Josefine Heinemann has been the strongest German representative with 2½/3 points to her name.
The lowest-rated squad in the 9-team pack with 4/6 match points is North Macedonia. In fact, the Macedonians have the lowest rating average in the tournament (1919), but that did not prevent them from beating Sweden and Montenegro in rounds 2 and 3.
Josefine Heinemann, Yuri Yakovich (captain) and Hanna Marie Klek | Photo: Paul Meyer-Dunker
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In this course, you’ll learn how to take the initiative against the London and prevent White from comfortably playing their usual system by playing 1.d4 Nf6 2.Bf4 Nh5.
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The London System Powerbook 2026 is based on more than 410 000 games or game fragments from different opening moves and ECO codes; what they all have in common is that White plays d4 and Bf4 but does not play c4.
In this course, Grandmaster Elisabeth Pähtz presents the London System, a structured and ambitious approach based on the immediate Bf4, leading to rich and dynamic positions.
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The Queen’s Gambit Declined Exchange Variation with 5.Bf4 has a great balance between positional play and sharp pawn pushes; and will be a surprise for your opponents while being easy to learn for you, as the key patterns are familiar.
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