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European Championship (2004) The 5th European Championship was a 13-round Swiss tournament held in Antalya Province, Turkey, 15-30 May 2004, with rest days on 19 and 26 May and a day for playoffs on 30 May. The venue was supposed to be Nautilus Hotel in Beldibi (Kemer district), but after a power supply incident on the night before play began it was moved to Justiniano Hotel in Belek (Serik district) on the other side of Antalya City. Only 74 players (36 GMs & 17 IMs) took part, as for some time it had not been clear whether the event would collide with other events such as the World Championship tournament in Libya. The top 12 players (apparently excl. Ivanchuk) would qualify for the 2005/06 World Championship cycle. Time control: 90 minutes for the whole game, with 30 seconds added per move from move 1. Prize fund: 45,000 euros. First prize 8,000, 2nd prize 5,000, 3rd prize 4,000 euros. Chief arbiter: Werner Stubenvoll. Play began each day at 3 pm. N games played: 480 Classical + 25 Rapid = 505. Vassily Ivanchuk won the event after beating Nikolic in two Rapid (15 min + 10 sec) playoff games (Ivanchuk vs P Nikolic, 2004 and P Nikolic vs Ivanchuk, 2004). Aronian won the playoff for 3rd place, and Naiditsch, Agrest, Milov and Asrian won their matches for WC qualification - in which Kempinski did not take part - see 5th EU-ch playoff (2004). Sources Official site: https://web.archive.org/web/2004060... Regulations: https://web.archive.org/web/2020102... Chess-Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr1704.as... Playoff results: https://web.archive.org/web/2004062... Mark Weeks: https://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/zo... ChessBase 1: https://en.chessbase.com/post/explo... ChessBase 2: https://en.chessbase.com/post/ivanc... Olimpbase: http://www.olimpbase.org/ind-eicc/e... TWIC: https://theweekinchess.com/html/twi... Tidskrift för Schack, 2004/6, pp. 388-390: https://tfsarkiv.schack.se/pdf/2004... Previous: European Championship (2003). 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See also European Championship (Women) (2004)  page 1 of 7; games 1-25 of 171  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. M Gurevich vs R Akesson   ½-½ 14 2004 European Championship A15 English 2. Aronian vs M Klinova   ½-½ 22 2004 European Championship A41 Queen's Pawn Game (with ...d6) 3. M Grunberg vs K Asrian   ½-½ 16 2004 European Championship A14 English 4. U Atakisi vs Miroshnichenko   ½-½ 61 2004 European Championship B60 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer 5. A Anastasian vs Z Mamedjarova   ½-½ 27 2004 European Championship A07 King's Indian Attack 6. H Erdogan vs I Cheparinov   ½-½ 42 2004 European Championship E92 King's Indian 7. H Stefansson vs Mamedyarov   ½-½ 35 2004 European Championship B33 Sicilian 8. P Nikolic vs G Guseinov   ½-½ 16 2004 European Championship A49 King's Indian, Fianchetto without c4 9. Macieja vs B Chatalbashev   ½-½ 30 2004 European Championship B30 Sicilian 10. Nyback vs Krasenkow ½-½ 52 2004 European Championship D86 Grunfeld, Exchange 11. A Iljushin vs R Kempinski   ½-½ 18 2004 European Championship E70 King's Indian 12. J Radulski vs Z Izoria   ½-½ 20 2004 European Championship B18 Caro-Kann, Classical 13. R Akesson vs A Anastasian   ½-½ 22 2004 European Championship E38 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, 4...c5 14. B Esen vs A Pashikian   ½-½ 79 2004 European Championship D32 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 15. P Makoli vs H Jonkman   ½-½ 54 2004 European Championship C67 Ruy Lopez 16. M Neubauer vs B Bente   ½-½ 73 2004 European Championship C18 French, Winawer 17. B C Yildiz Kadioglu vs M Erdogdu   ½-½ 20 2004 European Championship A07 King's Indian Attack 18. E Agrest vs Milov   ½-½ 38 2004 European Championship E56 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Main line with 7...Nc6 19. G Guseinov vs Macieja   ½-½ 38 2004 European Championship B47 Sicilian, Taimanov (Bastrikov) Variation 20. R Kempinski vs J Radulski   ½-½ 59 2004 European Championship D62 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack 21. T Nedev vs G Sargissian   ½-½ 31 2004 European Championship C45 Scotch Game 22. A Mastrovasilis vs A Istratescu   ½-½ 23 2004 European Championship E21 Nimzo-Indian, Three Knights 23. B Bente vs M Klinova   ½-½ 29 2004 European Championship A55 Old Indian, Main line 24. T Demirel vs E Karadeniz   ½-½ 53 2004 European Championship A40 Queen's Pawn Game 25. Andersson vs Radjabov   ½-½ 11 2004 European Championship D14 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Exchange Variation  page 1 of 7; games 1-25 of 171    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)   Jun-11-04    chessgames.com: We now have the games from the 5th IECC. Nice showing by Ivanchuck; you can see his games here 5th Individual European Chess Championship (2004)/Vassily Ivanchuk. Jun-15-04    siggemannen: Good job chessgames... I wish you hadn't changed the opening explorer though... Apr-06-09    notyetagm: <chessgames.com: We now have the games from the 5th IECC. Nice showing by Ivanchuck; you can see his games here 5th Individual European Chess Championship (2004)/Vassily Ivanchuk.> Also a great showing by Aronian, =2nd (5th Individual European Chess Championship (2004)/Levon Aronian). Checkout 29 ♖g2-g5!! in Aronian vs Stefansson, 2004. 29 ♖g2-g5!! click for larger view Dec-01-19    Chesgambit: haznedaroglu kıvanc vs Iotov 9....b5 varition is more better NOTE: Create an account today to post replies and access other powerful features which are available only to registered users. Becoming a member is free, anonymous, and takes less than 1 minute! 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