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🏆 European Club Cup (2004)

  PARTICIPANTS (sorted by highest achieved rating; click on name to see player's games)
Garry Kasparov, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Alexander Grischuk, Teimour Radjabov, Vasyl Ivanchuk, Boris Gelfand, Michael Adams, Dmitry Jakovenko, Alexey Shirov, Sergei Movsesian, Etienne Bacrot, Arkadij Naiditsch, Victor Bologan, Ernesto Inarkiev, Francisco Vallejo Pons, Laurent Fressinet, Nigel Short, Sergei Zhigalko, Alexander Motylev, Alexander Beliavsky, Ivan Sokolov, Sergei Rublevsky, Alexander Khalifman, Kiril Georgiev, Joel Lautier, Artyom Timofeev, Michael Roiz, Aleksej Aleksandrov, Michal Krasenkow, Konstantin Sakaev, Csaba Balogh, Igor Glek, Boris Avrukh, Sergei Azarov, Bartosz Socko, Rafael Vaganian, Andrei Kharlov, Borki Predojevic, Bartlomiej Macieja, Robert Kempinski, Dmitry Bocharov, Pavel Smirnov, Zdenko Kozul, Valerij Filippov, Suat Atalik, Tomasz Markowski, Andrey Zhigalko, Alexander Rustemov, David Baramidze, Tornike Sanikidze, Semen I Dvoirys, Alon Greenfeld, Gyula Sax, Iossif Dorfman, Alexander Huzman, Vitali Golod, Emre Can, Igor-Alexandre Nataf, Jozsef Pinter, Andrey Shariyazdanov, Baris Esen, Konstantine Shanava, Alexander Goloshchapov, Bojan Kurajica, Levan Aroshidze, Giorgi Margvelashvili, Julen Luis Arizmendi Martinez, Igor Stohl, Artem Iljin, Mikhail Golubev, Michael Feygin, Jozsef Horvath, Csaba Horvath, Attila Groszpeter, Daniel Hugo Campora, Leif Erlend Johannessen, Adam Horvath, Emir Dizdarevic, Arkadij Rotstein, Andrei Belozerov, Anthony Kosten, Jurij Tihonov, Trajce Nedev, Olivier Renet, Gerhard Schebler, Giorgi Bagaturov, Zvonko Stanojoski, Valeri Yandemirov, Igor Efimov, David Marciano, Milan Vukic, Aleksandar Colovic, Ramil Hasangatin, Anthony Wirig, Alexandre Qashashvili, Mert Erdogdu, Ernesto Fernandez Romero, Jouni Yrjola, Kivanc Haznedaroglu, Shojaat Ghane plus 137 more players.

Chessgames.com Chess Event Description
European Club Cup (2004)

The 20th European Club Cup was a 7-round Swiss team tournament held at the Altin Yunus Hotel in Cesme, Izmir Province, Turkey, 3-9 October 2004, with the participation of 36 clubs from 22 countries, including defending champions NAO Chess Club of Paris, which mustered Adams, Grischuk, Bacrot, Pons, Lautier, Radjabov, Fressinet, and Nataf. Of the 264 players, 86 were GMs. The matches were played over six boards, with 2 points for a team win and 1 point for a draw. Time control: 90 minutes for the whole game, with 30 seconds added per move from move one. Chief organizer: European Chess Union. Chief arbiter: Dirk de Ridder.

NAO Chess Club won again with 12/14, ahead of Bosna Sarajevo (Shirov, Short, Sokolov, Bologan, Movsesian, Kozul, Atalik, Predojevic), Ladya Kazan (Rublevsky, Yandemirov, Timofeev, Filippov, et al.) and Max Ven Ekaterinburg (Kasparov, Vaganian, et al.), all three with 11/14.

Official site: http://web.archive.org/web/20041013...
OlimpBase: http://www.olimpbase.org/2004c/2004...
Chess-Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr1924.as...
ChessBase: https://en.chessbase.com/post/nao-d...
TWIC: https://theweekinchess.com/html/twi...
FIDE: https://ratings.fide.com/tournament...

Previous: European Club Cup (2003). Next: European Club Cup (2005)

 page 3 of 9; games 51-75 of 213  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
51. A Idrizaj vs A Granero Roca  1-0322004European Club CupB12 Caro-Kann Defense
52. A Fejzullahu vs J Arizmendi Martinez 1-0362004European Club CupB90 Sicilian, Najdorf
53. E Llobell Cortell vs K Jashar  1-0242004European Club CupB00 Uncommon King's Pawn Opening
54. Grischuk vs K Jashar 1-0252004European Club CupB07 Pirc
55. F Vallejo Pons vs N Avdiu 1-0322004European Club CupC99 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin, 12...cd
56. Motylev vs Kharlov 1-0232004European Club CupC48 Four Knights
57. Rublevsky vs Kasparov 1-0572004European Club CupB30 Sicilian
58. Sakaev vs Filippov  1-0412004European Club CupD43 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
59. A Timofeev vs A Aleksandrov  1-0762004European Club CupC65 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense
60. Vaganian vs V Yandemirov  1-0482004European Club CupD78 Neo-Grunfeld, 6.O-O c6
61. S Atalik vs A Postl 1-0272004European Club CupE77 King's Indian
62. Bologan vs M Freitag  1-0432004European Club CupB90 Sicilian, Najdorf
63. Gelfand vs D H Campora 1-0572004European Club CupA54 Old Indian, Ukrainian Variation, 4.Nf3
64. R Kempinski vs E Rodriguez Guerrero  1-0662004European Club CupD45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
65. T Markowski vs I Teran Alvarez  1-0452004European Club CupA00 Uncommon Opening
66. Naiditsch vs Ivanchuk 1-0482004European Club CupC89 Ruy Lopez, Marshall
67. A Belozerov vs N Coenen  1-0492004European Club CupD80 Grunfeld
68. E Inarkiev vs G Schebler  1-0312004European Club CupE00 Queen's Pawn Game
69. P Smirnov vs M Golubev 1-0502004European Club CupB77 Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack
70. Dvoirys vs K Haznedaroglu  1-0372004European Club CupA25 English
71. V Golod vs S Yeke  1-0372004European Club CupD15 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
72. M Roiz vs Z Mamedjarova 1-0272004European Club CupE07 Catalan, Closed
73. A Zhigalko vs K Shanava  1-0312004European Club CupB90 Sicilian, Najdorf
74. Z Basagic vs T Meric  1-0622004European Club CupC47 Four Knights
75. B Kurajica vs S Ghane 1-0212004European Club CupA07 King's Indian Attack
 page 3 of 9; games 51-75 of 213  PGN Download
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Kibitzer's Corner
Oct-12-04
Premium Chessgames Member
  chessgames.com: We now have some of the games from the Euro Club Cup.
Oct-12-04  Knight13: Wow! That's a lot of people playing in this Euro Club Cup!

<chessgames.com> I have a question. Who won in this championship?

Oct-12-04  acirce: <Knight13> It was a team event. NAO Chess Club was the team that won. They had Michael Adams on their top board.
Oct-12-04  Knight13: <acirce> Oh, okay. Team battles. Thanks for the answer.
Oct-12-04  admiralnemo: Thanks, chessgames.com, hopefully more will be on the way. Some great games here.
Oct-12-04  Knight13: Wich team was Garry Kasparov on?
Oct-12-04  Knight13: <admirolnemo: Some great games here.> True. I've found lots of great games and added them to my game collection.
Oct-12-04  iron maiden: What's incredible is that NAO Chess Club won without dropping a single game.
Oct-13-04  apple head: First of all Kasparov got served by Rublevsky, but beisdes that he was on the duffoses team :-)
Oct-13-04  apple head: I think that Kasparov will lose lots of points.
Oct-13-04  ruylopez900: Does chessgames.com have the standings for all of the clubs? They might but right now all I see is the rather long list of players who participated.
Oct-13-04
Premium Chessgames Member
  offramp: I found them all here: http://www.ajedrezenmadrid.com/torn... along with all the games. A great great site!
Oct-13-04  Knight13: These games are Great! I am really enjoying it! Thanks, chessgames.com for posting these great games.
Oct-14-04  percyblakeney: Chessbase report on the event: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail...
Oct-18-04
Premium Chessgames Member
  Eggman: Does anyone know what the time control was for this event? Can someone at least tell me if this was classical chess?
Nov-28-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: <Eggman> "90 Minuten + 30 Sekunden pro Zug" according to Chess-Results.

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