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European Championship (2002) The 3rd European Championship was a 101-player 13-round Swiss tournament held in Batumi, Georgia, 12-27 June 2002, with rest days on 19 and 25 June and a day for playoffs on 27 June. The players could choose between six different hotels to stay in. Organizers: European Chess Union (ECU), Georgian Chess Federation and Black Sea Chess Association. Of the 101 participants there were 41 GMs, 2 WGMs and 23 IMs. The first five players would qualify for the 2003/2004 World Chess Championship. Time control: 90 minutes for the whole game with 30 seconds added per move from move 1. DGT chess clocks would be used. Prize fund: $50,000 (minus 15% for FIDE and ECU taxes), a considerable reduction from 2001. First prize $10,000, 2nd prize $7,000, 3rd prize $5,000. Chief arbiter: Dirk de Ridder. Chairman of appeals committee: Boris Kutin. Play began each day at 4 pm. N games played: 649 Classical + 8 Rapid = 657. Bartlomiej Macieja won the event with 9.5/13. He and the four players with 9/13 qualified for the FIDE World Championship Knockout Tournament (2004). Four playoff matches (15 min + 10 sec) for 2nd-5th place were held on 27 June: Volkov beat Sargissian 1½-½ and Gurevich beat Gagunashvili 1½-½, after which Gurevich took 2nd place by beating Volkov 1½-½. Gagunashvili took 4th place by beating Sargissian 1½-½. See 3rd EU-ch playoff (2002). Sources Official site: https://web.archive.org/web/2002080... Regulations: https://web.archive.org/web/2002072... Chess-Results: https://chess-results.com/tnr1145.a... Mark Weeks: https://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/zo... ChessBase: https://en.chessbase.com/post/batum... Olimpbase: http://www.olimpbase.org/ind-eicc/e... TWIC: https://theweekinchess.com/html/twi... Previous: European Championship (2001). Next: European Championship (2003). See also European Championship (Women) (2002)  page 1 of 25; games 1-25 of 603  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. M Sulashvili vs Chiburdanidze   0-1 39 2002 European Championship E54 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Gligoric System 2. Jobava vs A Hasanov   1-0 33 2002 European Championship A21 English 3. K Haznedaroglu vs A Yegiazarian   0-1 63 2002 European Championship B54 Sicilian 4. G Sargissian vs D Urushadze   1-0 35 2002 European Championship E15 Queen's Indian 5. Kharlov vs N Mamedov   1-0 41 2002 European Championship B56 Sicilian 6. V Malakhatko vs M Kantaria   1-0 33 2002 European Championship E12 Queen's Indian 7. Aronian vs A Matnadze   1-0 46 2002 European Championship E14 Queen's Indian 8. M Gagunashvili vs A Aleksandrov   ½-½ 67 2002 European Championship D38 Queen's Gambit Declined, Ragozin Variation 9. M Gurevich vs V Gashimov 1-0 55 2002 European Championship D38 Queen's Gambit Declined, Ragozin Variation 10. M Petrov vs Krasenkow   ½-½ 32 2002 European Championship B33 Sicilian 11. I Cheparinov vs A Graf   0-1 44 2002 European Championship C14 French, Classical 12. S Volkov vs M Jirovsky   1-0 96 2002 European Championship D35 Queen's Gambit Declined 13. P Velicka vs Milov   0-1 39 2002 European Championship B40 Sicilian 14. Fedorov vs G Bagaturov   ½-½ 57 2002 European Championship A07 King's Indian Attack 15. R Babaev vs A Anastasian 0-1 36 2002 European Championship B84 Sicilian, Scheveningen 16. K Asrian vs D Arutinian   1-0 48 2002 European Championship B67 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack, 7...a6 Defense, 8...Bd7 17. N Zhukova vs Ehlvest   1-0 35 2002 European Championship D10 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 18. G Kacheishvili vs V Priehoda   1-0 25 2002 European Championship A40 Queen's Pawn Game 19. Shengelia vs Macieja   1-0 71 2002 European Championship E14 Queen's Indian 20. Kotronias vs G Danner   1-0 35 2002 European Championship B94 Sicilian, Najdorf 21. K Shanava vs S Sulskis   0-1 33 2002 European Championship B01 Scandinavian 22. V Popov vs R Asylguzhin   1-0 32 2002 European Championship D21 Queen's Gambit Accepted 23. A Chibukhchian vs Minasian   ½-½ 30 2002 European Championship A46 Queen's Pawn Game 24. U Atakisi vs R Kempinski   ½-½ 11 2002 European Championship B94 Sicilian, Najdorf 25. A Galkin vs L Aroshidze   1-0 46 2002 European Championship B47 Sicilian, Taimanov (Bastrikov) Variation  page 1 of 25; games 1-25 of 603    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)   Mar-14-21    Tabanus: Chess-Results has wrong tie-break scores (TB1) for places 2nd-9th. 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