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Novy Bor gained the 2022 European Club Cup on Sunday after beating Asnieres Le Grand Echiquier within the last spherical. The Czech crew gained the event 9 years after their first European gold in 2013. Third-seeded ASVOe Pamhagen turned the shock winners of the ladies’s event as the one crew to complete the competitors undefeated.

GM Magnus Carlsen scored a wonderful 5/6 on board one in all Offerspill, the seventh seeded crew that additionally completed in seventh place. GM Viswanathan Anand ended on a good 3.5/6 however his crew CSU ASE Superbet, the highest seed within the event, missed out on the medals.

Open event

As we’re masking the ultimate three rounds of the occasion on this report, we decide up the motion after spherical 4. At that time, Novy Bor was the one crew to have began with 4 victories.

The key match was performed in spherical 5, when the Czech crew confronted the powerhouse from Romania sponsored by the sports activities betting and playing firm Superbet. Playing with Anand and GM Richard Rapport on prime boards, the favorites could not rating a single win on this match, which resulted in a powerful victory for Novy Bor: 4.5-1.5.

GM Pentala Harikrishna gained a fantastic recreation in opposition to his legendary compatriot:

The different wins for Novy Bor had been scored by GM Vidit Gujrathi vs. Rapport and GM Nils Grandelius vs. GM Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu. All in all, fairly a disappointing look for Superbet.

In this spherical, Carlsen improved his rating to three.5/4 due to a powerful win with the black items in opposition to GM Anton Korobov. Remarkably, the sport already left principle on transfer 5.

The recreation was a part of Offerspill’s 3.5-2.5 victory in opposition to Silla (Valencia), which meant that the Norwegians might nonetheless hope for a medal—particularly after their 4.5-1.5 win vs. Schach ohne Grenzen (“chess with out borders,” from Switzerland) within the subsequent spherical.

Perhaps impressed by Korobov, it was Carlsen’s flip to check out a Colle System with the white items—a setup with d4, Nf3, b3, and Bb2 named after the Belgian grasp Edgar Colle. The world champion gained one other recreation the place he made it look really easy:

Novy Bor defeated the Viernheim Chess Club (Germany) and with one spherical to go, the Czech crew was already two match factors forward of Offerspill (Norway) Vugar Gashimov (Azerbaijan),  Clichy-Echecs-92, and Asnieres Le Grand Echiquier (each France).

Needing solely a 3-3 for the gold medals, Novy Bor completed in fashion with a 3.5-2.5 victory vs. Asnieres Le Grand Echiquier. A key recreation was Harikrishna’s win vs. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, who received tricked late within the endgame after some very deep principle within the Grunfeld.

It was Clichy that gained the silver medals by beating Offerspill. Carlsen could not complain after getting away with a draw GM Parham Maghsoodloo however Clichy determined issues as GM Bassem Amin and Daniele Vocaturo gained their video games vs. GMs Eric Hansen and Johan-Sebastian Christiansen, respectively.

The Superbet crew completed in a disappointing sixth place after failing to beat Ljubljana chess membership (Slovenia) within the last spherical. The match, which resulted in 3-3, noticed Anand enjoying one other compatriot, and profitable this time:

Superbet’s GM Gukesh D., nevertheless, misplaced his recreation to GM Andrei Volokitin, who had a implausible event. The Ukrainian grandmaster scored 6.5/7 or a 2931 efficiency and gained 18 score factors. It’s considerably comforting to know Volokitin might neglect concerning the battle for only a few hours every day, and managed to focus on chess, however now it is again to the unhappy actuality that the Ukrainians must take care of, already for 7.5 months.

While I’m sitting on the Warsaw airport, the terrorist nation is now bombing all Ukrainian cities, together with my native Lviv. All household and pals are in shock. https://t.co/ejw7KcJnYG

— Andriy Volokitin (@AndriyVolokitin) October 10, 2022

Meanwhile, Asnieres’s board two GM Andrey Esipenko (who performs underneath the FIDE flag, like a few of Russia’s grandmasters, who do not wish to characterize their nation because the begin of the battle) had an important week as properly, scoring 6/7, a 2897 efficiency and a 17.8 Elo achieve.

Rapport in all probability anticipated one thing else from his first event underneath the Romanian flag. He scored solely 2.5/6, which price him 14.2 score factors.

2022 European Club Cup | Final Standings (Top 20)

Women’s event

ASVOe Pamhagen victory in spherical three in opposition to prime seed Cercle d’Echecs de Monte-Carlo proved to be the signal on the wall that this was going to be their week. The winners are a neighborhood crew (with worldwide gamers, however that is the case for many prime groups): Pamhagen is an Austrian city about 60 km south-west of Vienna, near the Hungarian border.

After that wonderful third spherical, Pahmagen held the Superbet girls’s crew to 2-2 in spherical 4, earlier than beating SK Erste Bank Baden (additionally Austria) and Odlar Yurdu (Azerbaijan) each with 2.5-1.5. Leading with two match factors, another 2-2 within the last spherical vs. BGK KS Gwiazda Bydgoszcz secured the gold medals for Pamhagen.

An fascinating element was that the identical 4 gamers performed in all seven rounds. GM Elina Danielian‘s event (3/7) was not excellent however the different three gamers did properly: each Ukrainians GM Anna Ushenina and IM Yuliia Osmak scored 5/7, and IM Aleksandra Maltsevskaya of Poland made 5.5/7.

Osmak scored a superb win within the last spherical with the black items:

Although Danielian scored minus one total, her fast win within the penultimate spherical was an necessary one. The gamers adopted 54-year-old principle however once they deviated from a GM Miguel Najdorf recreation, Black was already misplaced:

2022 European Women’s Club Cup | Final Standings

The thirty seventh European Club Cup and the twenty sixth European Women’s Chess Club Cup came about October 3-9, 2022 in Mayrhofen, Austria. Both occasions had been a seven-round Swiss with groups of six gamers within the open part and groups of 4 within the girls’s part. The time management was 90 minutes for 40 strikes plus half-hour for the remainder of the sport with an increment of 30 seconds per transfer, ranging from transfer one.

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