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🏆 European Club Cup (2021)

  PARTICIPANTS (sorted by highest achieved rating; click on name to see player's games)
Magnus Carlsen, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Alexander Grischuk, Dommaraju Gukesh, Peter Svidler, Pentala Harikrishna, Alexey Shirov, David Navara, Radoslaw Wojtaszek, Vladimir Fedoseev, Maxim Matlakov, Ernesto Inarkiev, Vladimir Malakhov, Sam Shankland, Evgeny Alekseev, Anton Korobov, Krishnan Sasikiran, Kirill Alekseenko, Yuriy Kryvoruchko, Aleksey Dreev, Maxim Rodshtein, Rauf Mamedov, Daniil Dubov, Sergei Rublevsky, Ferenc Berkes, Andrey Esipenko, Markus Ragger, David Anton Guijarro, Tamir Nabaty, Vadim Zvjaginsev, Alexandr Predke, Michael Roiz, Nijat Abasov, Anton Demchenko, Mateusz Bartel, Kirill Shevchenko, Evgeny Postny, Konstantin Sakaev, Aleksander Delchev, Ivan Ivanisevic, Daniel Dardha, Johan-Sebastian Christiansen, Aleksandar Indjic, Eduardas Rozentalis, Alexander Donchenko, Aryan Tari, Milos Perunovic, Tamas Banusz, Alexey Goganov, Aydin Suleymanli, Andreas Heimann, Jaime Santos Latasa, Victor Mikhalevski, Pavel Ponkratov, Igor Miladinovic, Mikhail Antipov, Imre Hera Jr, Matthieu Cornette, Gabor Papp, Boris Chatalbashev, Alexander Huzman, Vladislav Nevednichy, Vitaly Kunin, Jesper Sondergaard Thybo, Ognjen Cvitan, Alexei Kornev, Anatoly Vaisser, Klementy Sychev, Gleb Dudin, Frode Urkedal, Vugar Asadli, Nitzan Steinberg, Alvar Alonso Rosell, Ahmad Ahmadzada, Adrian Mikhalchishin, Semyon Lomasov, Jonathan Westerberg, Margeir Petursson, Manuel Bosboom, Jan Subelj, Henrik Danielsen, Gudmundur Kjartansson, Georg Mohr, Christopher Noe, Lance Henderson de La Fuente, Filip Pancevski, Axel Smith, Oleksandr Sulypa, Andreas Diermair, Miroslav D Miljkovic, Frode Elsness, Jung Min Seo, Valery Atlas, Ulvi Sadikhov, Ravi Haria, Tapani Sammalvuo, Dennis Breder, Peter Schreiner, Nicolas Brunner, Martin Lokander plus 162 more players.

Chessgames.com Chess Event Description
European Club Cup (2021)

The 36th European Club Cup was held from 18-24 September 2021 at Hotel Izgrev in Struga, North Macedonia. It was a 7-round Swiss team event, with the time control of 90 minutes for the first 40 moves followed by 30 more minutes till the end of the game, with 30 seconds added per move from move 1. Standings were determined by match points (2-1-0). Each match was played on six boards, and each team could have two reserve players. There were 38 teams and 262 players (15 reserve players did not play). Tournament director: Petr Pisk. Chief organizer: Zoran Stojcevski. Chief arbiter: Tomasz Delega. Number of games played: 797 (out of 798 possible).

Mednyi Vsadnik from Russia (Svidler, Esipenko, Fedoseev, Alekseenko, Matlakov, Ponkratov, Sakaev, Goganov) won with 13/14, ahead of AVE Novy Bor with 12/14 and Vugar Gashimov with 11/14.

Official site: http://europeanchessclubcup2021.com...
Regulations: http://europeanchessclubcup2021.com...
Chess-Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr579298....
Chess.com: https://www.chess.com/news/view/202...
Chess24: https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-t...
TWIC: https://theweekinchess.com/chessnew...
ECU: https://www.europechess.org/mednyi-...
FIDE: https://ratings.fide.com/tournament...

Previous: European Club Cup (2019). Women's section: European Club Cup (Women) (2021)

 page 10 of 11; games 226-250 of 264  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
226. S Bahtiri vs Adamo Valtiner  1-0762021European Club CupA07 King's Indian Attack
227. G Bucher vs B Wenzel  1-0322021European Club CupB10 Caro-Kann
228. C Noe vs M Bosboom  1-0332021European Club CupA53 Old Indian
229. D de Graaf vs M Hammes  1-0492021European Club CupC12 French, McCutcheon
230. D Gibicar vs Laurents van Twillert  1-0372021European Club CupD10 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
231. Thomas Reichardt vs G Densing  1-0352021European Club CupC02 French, Advance
232. K H Kristensen vs I Andreasson  1-0452021European Club CupE94 King's Indian, Orthodox
233. E Kjems Hove vs A Rasti  1-0392021European Club CupA45 Queen's Pawn Game
234. A Wengholm vs P Jakobsen  1-0312021European Club CupE06 Catalan, Closed, 5.Nf3
235. F Elsness vs C Vogel  1-0252021European Club CupE00 Queen's Pawn Game
236. M Matlakov vs Rozentalis  1-0372021European Club CupB04 Alekhine's Defense, Modern
237. Navara vs N Abasov  1-0582021European Club CupB45 Sicilian, Taimanov
238. U Sadikhov vs E Inarkiev  1-0692021European Club CupA20 English
239. A Predke vs A Ahmadzada 1-0362021European Club CupA70 Benoni, Classical with 7.Nf3
240. Rublevsky vs B Haldorsen  1-0382021European Club CupB30 Sicilian
241. A Kornev vs J Haarr  1-0452021European Club CupA04 Reti Opening
242. A Demchenko vs G Dudin  1-0412021European Club CupB12 Caro-Kann Defense
243. S Lomasov vs S Tadic  1-0332021European Club CupB27 Sicilian
244. T Heinz vs R Gimeno Higueras  1-0922021European Club CupD26 Queen's Gambit Accepted
245. M Lokander vs E Risteski  1-0342021European Club CupE62 King's Indian, Fianchetto
246. D Dragicevic vs Y Boidman  1-0522021European Club CupB10 Caro-Kann
247. I Storme vs A Dardha  1-0512021European Club CupD35 Queen's Gambit Declined
248. J Buzeti vs A O Mai  1-0342021European Club CupB67 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack, 7...a6 Defense, 8...Bd7
249. Delchev vs F Godart  1-0412021European Club CupD30 Queen's Gambit Declined
250. S Dishman vs A Vaisser  1-0522021European Club CupA15 English
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Kibitzer's Corner
Sep-21-21  Messiah: May the boy go wrong today.
Sep-22-21  Messiah: Today we'll have a Fathead-Justin clash. Hopefully both players will lose somehow.
Sep-22-21  fabelhaft: Carlsen plays the KID against Mamedyarov so probably not looking for a draw.
Sep-22-21  fabelhaft: Given that Carlsen’s team isn’t one of the top ranked I guess his job is to try to win such games as this one, but not easy to beat Mamedyarov with black. The only decisive game between the two in classical over the last six years with Mamedyarov as white was won by Mamedyarov.
Sep-22-21  Messiah: <fabelhaft: Carlsen plays the KID against Mamedyarov so probably not looking for a draw.>

I don't watch this particular game.

Sep-22-21  Messiah: May Justin fail to hold the endgame.
Sep-22-21  fabelhaft: Carlsen has probably gone a bit too far trying to unbalance things, even if it would work it wouldn’t help much when the team is going 0-5 on the other boards. As it is 6-0 looks rather likely.
Sep-22-21  fabelhaft: Carlsen blitzed out a few precise moves and things look holdable.

Svidler lost and is down to 2695 and is no longer in the top dozen in Russia. That can’t have happened the last 25 years.

Sep-24-21  fabelhaft: Looks like Carlsen lost interest a bit after the match when all the other players in the team lost their games, and he didn't play the last matches.
Sep-24-21  fisayo123: <fabelhaft>

No, he was supposed to play only a handful of games not the full 7 rounds.

Sep-24-21  fabelhaft: <fisayo123> Ah, ok. I thought it was strange that he played at all, just three days after winning the tournament in Norway.
Sep-24-21  fabelhaft: So I see that this Champions Chess Tour final thing has the opening ceremony today in Norway and Carlsen will be there IRL playing his games. With only a week between Norway Chess and this event also in Norway, he still bothered to sneak off to Macedonia to play some rounds of the European Club Cup :-)
Sep-24-21  nok: <Carlsen will be there IRL playing his games>

Omg omg omg

Sep-26-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: 276 games are missing. Six games from rd. 1, 49 games from rounds 1-5, and all the 227 games from rounds 6-7.

Sigh.

Sep-28-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: Now only 51 games missing, apparently mostly short GM draws.

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