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European Club Cup (2013) The 29th European Club Cup was played in Rodos Palace Hotel, Rhodes, Greece 20-26 October 2013. Chief arbiter: Sotirios Logothetis. Czech side G-Team Novy Bor (Navara, Wojtaszek, Laznicka, Sasikiran, Hracek, Bartel, Cvek) took the title with 13 match points (+6 -0 =1) ahead of Malachite (Grischuk, Karjakin, Morozevich, Shirov, etc.) and top seeds SOCAR (Caruana, Radjabov, Topalov, Kamsky, Mamedyarov, Wang Hao, Giri, Safarli). (1, 2) Report by Peter Doggers (with photos): https://www.chess.com/news/view/nov... Crosstable: http://chess-results.com/tnr110527.... Previous edition: European Club Cup (2012). Next: European Club Cup (2014). See also European Club Cup (Women) (2013). (1) TWIC (http://theweekinchess.com/chessnews...), (2) Report by Lubomir Kavalek at https://www.huffingtonpost.com/lubo...  page 2 of 44; games 26-50 of 1,080  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 26. T Paakkonen vs Sasikiran   0-1 40 2013 European Club Cup B90 Sicilian, Najdorf 27. M Bartel vs P Hokkanen 0-1 55 2013 European Club Cup E12 Queen's Indian 28. S Kosmo vs R Cvek   ½-½ 43 2013 European Club Cup B48 Sicilian, Taimanov Variation 29. R Pruijssers vs Jobava 0-1 41 2013 European Club Cup B75 Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack 30. S Zhigalko vs M van Delft   1-0 41 2013 European Club Cup B40 Sicilian 31. S Kuipers vs S Azarov   0-1 21 2013 European Club Cup C55 Two Knights Defense 32. S Sjugirov vs M Boel   1-0 60 2013 European Club Cup E06 Catalan, Closed, 5.Nf3 33. F van der Elburg vs Ivan Popov 0-1 36 2013 European Club Cup A20 English 34. D Kryakvin vs M Van Dommelen   1-0 61 2013 European Club Cup D43 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 35. Harikrishna vs J Wegerle   1-0 37 2013 European Club Cup C10 French 36. M Schaefer vs Kiril D Georgiev   ½-½ 47 2013 European Club Cup C54 Giuoco Piano 37. M Godena vs T Michalczak   ½-½ 41 2013 European Club Cup C53 Giuoco Piano 38. O Kniest vs D Vocaturo   0-1 39 2013 European Club Cup E76 King's Indian, Four Pawns Attack 39. D Dvirnyy vs M Gupta   0-1 63 2013 European Club Cup A15 English 40. A Peschel vs A Valsecchi   0-1 36 2013 European Club Cup D02 Queen's Pawn Game 41. R Lubczynski vs Sutovsky   0-1 30 2013 European Club Cup A04 Reti Opening 42. G Guseinov vs N Tripoteau   1-0 29 2013 European Club Cup B43 Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3 43. A Delorme vs V Durarbayli   0-1 39 2013 European Club Cup A46 Queen's Pawn Game 44. V Rasulov vs Y Aubry   1-0 29 2013 European Club Cup C00 French Defense 45. B Sorin vs N Abasov   0-1 71 2013 European Club Cup B15 Caro-Kann 46. Z Mammadov vs A Gallant   1-0 49 2013 European Club Cup B22 Sicilian, Alapin 47. R Rapport vs D Shengelia   1-0 41 2013 European Club Cup E30 Nimzo-Indian, Leningrad 48. R Lendwai vs P Tregubov   0-1 22 2013 European Club Cup D30 Queen's Gambit Declined 49. M Lagarde vs H Ganaus   ½-½ 50 2013 European Club Cup C00 French Defense 50. S Dzierzenga vs A Delorme   0-1 40 2013 European Club Cup C60 Ruy Lopez  page 2 of 44; games 26-50 of 1,080    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)   < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 4 OF 4 ·  Later Kibitzing> Oct-25-13    SirRuthless: <spysfi> Nakamura barely escaped Papaioannou's grip today. He was more than happy to take the draw by repetition. In other news SOCAR was brutalized by Novy Bor today. Navara's endgame technique vs Caruana was something to see. Kamsky and Topalov also lost to Laznicka and Wojtaszek respectively in bloody fighting games. Czech will be celebrating tonight. Oct-25-13    notyetagm: <SirRuthless: ... <<<In other news SOCAR was brutalized by Novy Bor today.>>> Navara's endgame technique vs Caruana was something to see. Kamsky and Topalov also lost to Laznicka and Wojtaszek respectively in bloody fighting games. Czech will be celebrating tonight.> Unbelievable: SOCAR'S top 3 boards (Caruana, Kamsky, Topalov) all lost(!!!) on the same day! Oct-25-13    csmath: Navara's win is an opening and ending jewel. Topalov's loss was shooting himself in the foot with a loaded gun. Kamsky's game is also far from exceptional in any way. Nakumara did some of his bizzare "early queen" opening experiments but his opponent was happy to get a draw. Oct-25-13    PhilFeeley: It's certainly not a walkover for SOCAR. Some wild games should keep the commentators busy for months. I expect Daniel King, Mato, and the folks over at Chessbase magazine to have fun with these games. Oct-25-13    iamsheaf: Radoslaw is playing superb chess, if you look at this games.. he beat topalov and he had a very good position against Carlsen. He also scored a full point against Topalov's second..Seems like his association with Anand has really improved his play. Oct-26-13    offramp: In East London the Kray twins used to sellotape coffee tables to people's heads. Oct-26-13    SimonWebbsTiger: more notorious than the Krays were the Piranha Brothers. Volkmar Dinstuhl was frightened though of a 20 foot hedgehog called Spiny Norman. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLz0... Oct-26-13    csmath: Domingues-Topalov game today is a fine ending save by Topalov. Grischuk has beaten Jobava in a highly complex and original "Dragon/Closed" Sicilian hybrid littered with errors by both. Very unusual game, Jobava played in Morozevich style but not good at all. Karjakin played yet another very disciplined Rossolimo and killed Cheparinov in superior ending with outside passer. Caruana just barely saved the game with Svidler, I think he was lost earlier but they have now theoretical draw. Oct-26-13    csmath: Caruana-Svidler game is worth analyzing, it is one very interesting ending, Peter probably missed something but the bishop ending was a draw all the way. Caruana saved the game with a lot of effort. Oct-26-13    Calar: Novy Bor (Navara, Wojtaszek, Laznicka, Sasikiran, Hracek, Bartel, Cvek) won the event. Congrats Oct-26-13    SirRuthless: G-Team Novy Bor Congratulations. I like to see a team of mostly homegrown players win. I enjoyed Navara's games the most. In other news Grishuk claws way back to world number 5 on the live list Nakamura to number 4 Caruana to number 6. This will carry over to the November FIDE list. The 3 wild card candidates are literally on top of each other. I think this will help Grischuk's case. Caruana did not have a great event finishing at -1 but it could have been much worse if not for his endgame skills. He needs to take a break. He can recharge and then play well in the ETC in November. Nakamura had a lackluster event but at least he got Svidler and finished +2. Oct-26-13    Vincenze: What's going on with Topalov and Caruana? Oct-26-13    Vincenze: Radoslaw Wojtaszek is a 2700+ player. Don't be too surprised this happens occasionally. Caruana v 2700+ Navara and Moro v once 2700+ Laznicka. There is such a wedge of heavyweight talent just under the icing. Oct-26-13    badest: <csmath: Navara's win is an opening and ending jewel. Topalov's loss was shooting himself in the foot with a loaded gun. Kamsky's game is also far from exceptional in any way. Nakumara did some of his bizzare "early queen" opening experiments but his opponent was happy to get a draw.> I don't think Topa will lose sleep over that loss. I have a feeling it was a must win game for him, in order for SOCAR not to lose the match (Kamsky was already in a very unpleasant position and so was Caruana). PS I am not saying this to belittle Radoslaw's achievement. He played a solid game. Oct-26-13    waustad: It looks like the Norwegians may have a decision to make between Agdestein and Hammer for second board in the next Olympics. +3 here after some other good results this summer make him a viable choice. Oct-26-13    SirRuthless: Adgestein impressed me in this event from the first game. He found some very nice moves to save the draw vs Caruana in round 1. His performance rating must have been deep in the 2700s. Why is he so underrated? Oct-26-13    SimonWebbsTiger: the problem is Agdestein is more or less retired. His tourney/match play is similar to Luke McShane. Oct-26-13    spysfi: Some nice pics from Rhodes ecc 2013: http://photo.chessdom.com/displayim... http://photo.chessdom.com/displayim... http://photo.chessdom.com/displayim... http://photo.chessdom.com/displayim... Oct-26-13    HeMateMe: ^^Nice photos, dude. Oct-27-13    PhilFeeley: Only 7 rounds? Ended too early! The results above don't match the board prizes: http://euro2013.chessdom.com/indivi... Check out the women, too. All the board prizes went to Monte Carlo. Oct-27-13    waustad: <the problem is Agdestein is more or less retired> He mentioned that he was going to be playing more to prepare for the Olympiad and so far it has worked out quite well. Jon Ludwig Hammer has been a part timer too since he is in college and mostly plays during breaks. Oct-27-13    waustad: In a couple of weeks many of these teammates will be opponents and vice versa in Poland. Oct-27-13    Jason Frost: Deserving win by Novy Bor. Malachite and SOCAR lost only 3 games total, but in both cases they were in costly situations, with SOCAR losing all 3 vs Novy Bor. Oct-29-13    Starkraven: Oct-25-13 <> csmath: Nakumara did some of his bizzare "early queen" opening experiments <> One "z" two "r's" thks, /csmath/... you're velcome.. . Nov-20-13    WTHarvey: Here is a collection of 71 critical positions from the men's and women's sections: http://www.scribd.com/doc/185681914... Jump to page #    (enter # from 1 to 4) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 4 OF 4 ·  Later Kibitzing> NOTE: You need to pick a username and password to post a reply. Getting your account takes less than a minute, is totally anonymous, and 100% free—plus, it entitles you to features otherwise unavailable. Pick your username now and join the chessgames community! If you already have an account, you should login now. Please observe our posting guidelines: No obscene, racist, sexist, profane, raunchy, or disgusting language. 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