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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, Semyon Lomasov, Jonathan Westerberg, Margeir Petursson, Manuel Bosboom, Henrik Danielsen, Adrian Mikhalchishin, Gudmundur Kjartansson, Georg Mohr, Jan Subelj, 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 2 of 11; games 26-50 of 266  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
26. Svidler vs A Donchenko  ½-½352021European Club CupB90 Sicilian, Najdorf
27. S Lomasov vs P Ponkratov  ½-½302021European Club CupC01 French, Exchange
28. R Hardarson vs A Goganov  ½-½302021European Club CupB51 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack
29. A Heimann vs Harikrishna  ½-½392021European Club CupD45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
30. Navara vs O Cvitan  ½-½482021European Club CupB99 Sicilian, Najdorf, 7...Be7 Main line
31. D Breder vs M Ragger  ½-½302021European Club CupB40 Sicilian
32. J M Seo vs Dreev  ½-½332021European Club CupD37 Queen's Gambit Declined
33. E Thorn vs A Kornev  ½-½782021European Club CupE92 King's Indian
34. D Dardha vs A Korobov  ½-½522021European Club CupD37 Queen's Gambit Declined
35. M Roeder vs N Abasov  ½-½322021European Club CupA05 Reti Opening
36. G Papp vs A Mikhalchishin  ½-½602021European Club CupC92 Ruy Lopez, Closed
37. E Risteski vs M Rodshtein  ½-½302021European Club CupC07 French, Tarrasch
38. S Tadic vs L Ranaldi  ½-½592021European Club CupC49 Four Knights
39. V Atlas vs K Shevchenko ½-½402021European Club CupB58 Sicilian
40. D Dragicevic vs A Vaisser  ½-½322021European Club CupA10 English
41. P Olivier vs M Jogstad  ½-½902021European Club CupA13 English
42. J Moingt vs A Nord  ½-½832021European Club CupB51 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack
43. H Sorensen vs E Llobell Cortell  ½-½262021European Club CupE46 Nimzo-Indian
44. A Wengholm vs J Torres Sanchez  ½-½342021European Club CupA04 Reti Opening
45. R Gimeno Higueras vs E Johansson  ½-½442021European Club CupB00 Uncommon King's Pawn Opening
46. M Winkels vs S A Walker  ½-½502021European Club CupB33 Sicilian
47. G Minovski vs S Bahtiri  ½-½362021European Club CupB20 Sicilian
48. Peter Vestergaard Andersen vs Brendan Cooney  ½-½202021European Club CupC01 French, Exchange
49. Mamedyarov vs A Korobov  ½-½272021European Club CupD17 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
50. Shirov vs Shankland  ½-½302021European Club CupB12 Caro-Kann Defense
 page 2 of 11; games 26-50 of 266  PGN Download
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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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