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🏆 European Team Championship (1997)

  PARTICIPANTS (sorted by highest achieved rating; click on name to see player's games)
Peter Svidler, Michael Adams, Sergei Movsesian, Evgeny Bareev, Zoltan Almasi, Loek van Wely, Vladimir Akopian, Nigel Short, Alexander Beliavsky, Ivan Sokolov, Emil Sutovsky, Ilia Smirin, Viktor Korchnoi, Matthew Sadler, Anar Allahverdiyev, Vadim Zvjaginsev, Jan Timman, Artur Yusupov, Zurab Azmaiparashvili, Aleksej Aleksandrov, Michal Krasenkow, Predrag Nikolic, Zoltan Gyimesi, Daniel Fridman, Igor Glek, Rafael Vaganian, Alexei Fedorov, Julian Hodgson, Eduardas Rozentalis, Zbynek Hracek, Yury Shulman, Robert Kempinski, Lembit Oll, Leonid Yudasin, Jonathan Speelman, Friso Nijboer, Jaan Ehlvest, Zdenko Kozul, Smbat Lputian, Robert Huebner, Ulf Andersson, Hrvoje Stevic, Suat Atalik, Rustem Dautov, Igor Miladinovic, Vasilios Kotronias, Yannick Pelletier, Alexander Chernin, Artashes Minasian, Lubomir Ftacnik, Mladen Palac, Christopher Lutz, Boris Alterman, Dusko Pavasovic, Giorgi Kacheishvili, Giorgi Giorgadze, Gyula Sax, Yuri Yakovich, Pavel Blatny, Alexander Huzman, Ashot Anastasian, Jean-Marc Degraeve, Davor Rogic, Bogdan Lalic, Zurab Sturua, Sarunas Sulskis, Normunds Miezis, Jozsef Pinter, Drazen Sermek, Gennadi Sosonko, Jordi Magem Badals, Robert Zelcic, Johan Hellsten, Edvins Kengis, John van der Wiel, Viacheslav Dydyshko, Bojan Kurajica, Ognjen Cvitan, Anatoly Vaisser, Nikola Mitkov, Igor Stohl, Zigurds Lanka, Christian Gabriel, Petr Haba, Pablo San Segundo Carrillo, Nikolaus Stanec, Ioannis Nikolaidis, Krunoslav Hulak, Mikhail Rychagov, Goran Dizdar, Michele Godena, Gennadij Timoscenko, Emir Dizdarevic, Arnaud Hauchard, Pia Cramling, Joseph G Gallagher, Antonio Antunes, Sarhan Guliev, Trajce Nedev, Georg Mohr plus 65 more players.

Chessgames.com Chess Event Description
European Team Championship (1997)

The 11th European Team Championship was contested between 34 national teams in the Histria hotel in Punta Verudela, Pula, Croatia from 6-14 May 1997. It was a 9-round Swiss system tournament organized by the Croatian Chess Federation and the European Chess Union. It was also the first European Team Championship where the participating countries had to pay the cost of accommodation for their teams. Time control: 120 minutes for the first 40 moves followed by 60 additional minutes for the next 20 moves, and no more extra time except 30 seconds added per move from move 61. Tournament director: Damir Medak. Chief arbiter: Geurt Gijssen. Number of games played: 612.

England (Short, Adams, Speelman, Sadler, Hodgson) won with 22.5/36 game points, ahead of Russia (2nd on Buchholz tiebreak, 22.5/36) and Armenia (22/36). The event was followed by Pula Open (1997) which started on 16 May.

Official site: http://web.archive.org/web/20030212...
Olimpbase: http://www.olimpbase.org/1997e/1997...
TWIC 1: https://theweekinchess.com/html/twi...
TWIC 2: https://theweekinchess.com/html/twi...
FIDE: https://web.archive.org/web/1997061...
TeleSchach: http://web.archive.org/web/20030320...
Jaque 452, pp. 44-51: https://www.olimpbase.org/leagueES/...
Tidskrift för Schack, 1997/5, pp. 279-292: https://tfsarkiv.schack.se/pdf/1997...

Previous: European Team Championship (1992). Next: European Team Championship (1999). Women's section: European Team Championship (Women) (1997)

 page 1 of 12; games 1-25 of 280  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. Ehlvest vs Adams  ½-½181997European Team ChampionshipE12 Queen's Indian
2. Smirin vs F Izeta Txabarri  ½-½461997European Team ChampionshipC78 Ruy Lopez
3. Speelman vs Oll  ½-½401997European Team ChampionshipA20 English
4. Hodgson vs R Sergejev  ½-½691997European Team ChampionshipD00 Queen's Pawn Game
5. S Sulskis vs Svidler  ½-½241997European Team ChampionshipB31 Sicilian, Rossolimo Variation
6. Vaganian vs J Gallagher  ½-½251997European Team ChampionshipA15 English
7. W Hug vs Minasian  ½-½171997European Team ChampionshipA41 Queen's Pawn Game (with ...d6)
8. Huebner vs J Degraeve  ½-½311997European Team ChampionshipA49 King's Indian, Fianchetto without c4
9. O Renet vs C Lutz  ½-½311997European Team ChampionshipB92 Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation
10. K Urban vs Nijboer  ½-½231997European Team ChampionshipE80 King's Indian, Samisch Variation
11. Van der Wiel vs M Grabarczyk  ½-½231997European Team ChampionshipC45 Scotch Game
12. D Garcia Ilundain vs Yudasin  ½-½331997European Team ChampionshipE15 Queen's Indian
13. S Estremera Panos vs Sutovsky  ½-½251997European Team ChampionshipA42 Modern Defense, Averbakh System
14. I Efimov vs P Nikolic ½-½321997European Team ChampionshipD35 Queen's Gambit Declined
15. Chernin vs V Bogdanovski  ½-½251997European Team ChampionshipA17 English
16. N Mitkov vs Z Almasi  ½-½491997European Team ChampionshipC28 Vienna Game
17. D Jacimovic vs Sax  ½-½171997European Team ChampionshipE32 Nimzo-Indian, Classical
18. O Cvitan vs Azmaiparashvili  ½-½311997European Team ChampionshipD76 Neo-Grunfeld, 6.cd Nxd5, 7.O-O Nb6
19. G Giorgadze vs R Zelcic  ½-½351997European Team ChampionshipE42 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 c5, 5.Ne2 (Rubinstein)
20. A Antunes vs Hracek  ½-½241997European Team ChampionshipA61 Benoni
21. V Dydyshko vs M Manninen  ½-½251997European Team ChampionshipD02 Queen's Pawn Game
22. R Gadjily vs Fridman  ½-½261997European Team ChampionshipB07 Pirc
23. C Daly vs P Cramling  ½-½331997European Team ChampionshipE70 King's Indian
24. L Degerman vs M O'Cinneide  ½-½761997European Team ChampionshipB01 Scandinavian
25. A Spice vs I Miladinovic  ½-½541997European Team ChampionshipA00 Uncommon Opening
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Kibitzer's Corner
Dec-17-21
Premium Chessgames Member		  Tabanus: Sweden's team captain Bjorn Ansner wrote in Tidskrift för Schack 1997 no. 5 page 279 that the championship was 9 rounds without any rest day. TWIC 5 May https://theweekinchess.com/html/twi... says that the event will start on 6 May. Consequently, the dates here are 6-14 May.

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