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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, Gleb Dudin, Alexei Kornev, Anatoly Vaisser, Klementy Sychev, 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 2 of 11; games 26-50 of 264  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
26. D Arngrimsson vs A Wengholm  1-0262021European Club CupA41 Queen's Pawn Game (with ...d6)
27. M Lokander vs A Budima  1-0452021European Club CupE70 King's Indian
28. I Hera vs S Mihajlov  1-0422021European Club CupA05 Reti Opening
29. A Dardha vs Gisle Bjugn  1-0312021European Club CupD02 Queen's Pawn Game
30. B Markoja vs R Cumming  1-0322021European Club CupD85 Grunfeld
31. J Skuhala vs G Bucher  1-0222021European Club CupC78 Ruy Lopez
32. S Bratkovic vs J Morgan Blake  1-0302021European Club CupD31 Queen's Gambit Declined
33. S A Walker vs Andrei Kalin  1-0392021European Club CupA13 English
34. N Nikolovski vs F Nordstrom  1-0472021European Club CupC00 French Defense
35. B Podlesnik vs J Andric  1-0382021European Club CupB73 Sicilian, Dragon, Classical
36. L Andonovski vs G Minovski  1-0412021European Club CupE06 Catalan, Closed, 5.Nf3
37. D Gukesh vs P Schreiner  1-0352021European Club CupD86 Grunfeld, Exchange
38. A Diermair vs G Dudin  1-0402021European Club CupD17 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
39. Y Korsunsky vs Laurents van Twillert  1-0302021European Club CupD13 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Exchange Variation
40. R Reichardt vs M Gluhovsky  1-0282021European Club CupE94 King's Indian, Orthodox
41. G Slavin vs Jasper Reichardt  1-0452021European Club CupB30 Sicilian
42. Thomas Reichardt vs V Kurochkin  1-0462021European Club CupB90 Sicilian, Najdorf
43. Valeriu Mindru vs C de Graaf  1-0312021European Club CupE94 King's Indian, Orthodox
44. M Cornette vs C Vogel  1-0292021European Club CupB03 Alekhine's Defense
45. A Vaisser vs L Putar  1-0332021European Club CupD87 Grunfeld, Exchange
46. Kryvoruchko vs M Perunovic  1-0402021European Club CupB40 Sicilian
47. A Predke vs M Stankovic  1-0392021European Club CupE06 Catalan, Closed, 5.Nf3
48. K Alekseenko vs M Antipov  1-0382021European Club CupE60 King's Indian Defense
49. Sakaev vs D Arngrimsson  1-0482021European Club CupA11 English, Caro-Kann Defensive System
50. D Anton Guijarro vs N Brunner  1-0322021European Club CupB51 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack
 page 2 of 11; games 26-50 of 264  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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