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E-MAGAZINEMARCH 2021
European Hybrid QualificationTournament for the FIDE World Cup willtake place from 22nd-30th May and willbe played Online as a hybrid event,through Tornelo online platform.
FIDE Candidates Tournamentcontinues this month, after it wasstopped due to Covid19pandemic.
The event continues inYekaterinburg, Russia,from 19th-28th April.
Candidates Tournament
European Hybrid Qulification
SF Deizisau e.V. wins EuropeanOnline Club Cup 2021
Briefly..
European Online Chess Club Cup 2021, after a spectacular final
stage the German team SF Deizisau e.V wins the event. 91 teams
participated and 18 teams continued to Play-offs. The best 10 teams
qualified for the finals which took place on 30th-31st March.
European Online Amateur Chess Championship, 10th-28th April
The event will be played on Tornelo Online platform in 4 rating
categories (A, B, C and D). More than 600 players coming from 48
European Chess federations have already registered for the event.
European Small Nations Chess Championship 2021 taking place
from 17th-25th April 2021 in a hybrid format, following a unanimous
decision by the ten ESNA member countries. (FIDE Zone 1.10).
European Online Hybrid Qualification event for the FIDE World
Cup, 22nd-3oth May 2021. The official regulations published.
contents
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European Chess Union has its seat in Switzerland,
Address: Rainweidstrasse 2, CH-6333, Hunenberg
See, Switzerland .
European Chess Union is an independent
association founded in 1985 in Graz, Austria;
European Chess Union has 54 National Federation
Members;
Every year ECU organizes more than 20 prestigious
events and championships;
www.europechess.org
ECU Online Club Cup
The Winner of European OnlineClub Cup became the Germanteam SF Deizisau e.V!
Hybrid Tournament
European Hybrid QualifactionTournament for FIDE World Cup
ESNA Hybrid Event
European Small Nations
Hybrid Championship preview
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French Chess Fed. 100 years
International Conference for theoccasion of 100 years anniversaryof France Chess Federation
#MagnusInvitational
Anish Giri wins Magnus
Invitational Tournament
Montenegro Chess Festival
Brief report on Montenegro
Chess Festival 2021
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Candidates Tournament
FIDE Candidates Tournament
continues this month!
Arbiters Corner
Legands Questions
Fun Zone
Newsletter March 2021
SF Deizisau e.V. winsEuropean Online Club Cup 2021
After an intense final stage of European Online ClubCup 2021 the German team SF Deizisau e.V wins theevent!
91 teams took part in the event and 18 teams advanced toPlay-offs. The best 10 teams of Play-offs qualified for thefinal phase which took place on 30th-31st March anddecided the Winners of the event!
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The Awarding ceremony of the eventtook place on Friday 2nd of April, withparticipation of the Medalists, ECUPresident Mr. Zurab Azmaiparashvili,President of Chess Club Cercled'Echecs de Monte-Carlo, Mr. JeanMichelle Repeire.
European OnlineChess Club Cup
European Online Chess ClubCup took place from 27th-31stMarch 2021 through Torneloonline platform.
The event was played withinthree stages: Qualification,play-off and Finals, with a totalprize fund of 14.000 EUR.
Details about the event can befound on the ECU Website.
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Team of SF Deizisau e.V. scored 14
match points to be the sole Winner of
the event, while second place came to
Clichy Echecs 92 from France with 13
match points. Two teams tied for the
bronze medal with a score of 11 match
points, each: Mednyi Vsadnik (Russia)
and Poland Hussars (Poland), but
according to board points, Mednyi
Vsadnik took third place.
Special prize “Vasily Smyslov” is
awarded to a winner of the best game of
the tournament! The Winner of the prize
is Artemiev Vladislav who won Bartel
Mateusz!
The best individual players per board,
will be awarded special prizes according
to their performance: the top three
individual board players will receive e-
medals, while the best players per board
will be awarded a money prize of 400
EUR.
1st Board best player is GM Duda Jan-
Krzysztof (POL, 2729, Poland Hussars),
Performance: 2890
GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi (IND, 2726,
Novy Bor), with performance 2786 was
the best individual player of board 2.
The best player of Board 3 is GM Socko
Bartosz (POL, 2618, Poland Hussars),
Performance: 2674.
Thee best individual player of board 3 is
GM Esipenko (RUS, 2701, Mednyi
Vsadnik), Performance: 2767.
The best reserve player of the event
is GM Keymer Vincent (GER, 2591, SF
Deizisau e.V.), with Performance: 2812.
All the rounds and games of the event
were broadcasted live from the ECU
LIVE studio, together with commentaries
by WGM Keti Tsatsalashvili and her
special guests: ECU President Zurab
Azmaiparashvili, ECU Vice Presidents:
Adrian Mikhalchishin, Dana Reizniece-
Ozola and Eva Repkova.
EUROPEAN HYBRIDQUALIFICATION TOURNAMENT
FOR THE FIDE WORLD CUP
European Hybrid Qualification Tournament for the FIDEWorld Cup will take place from 22nd-30th May and will beplayed in several venues, through Tornelo onlineplatform.
36 players will qualify for the FIDE World Cup 2021.
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> 1st Round – Preliminary round
(Random pairings)
>2nd Round – 288 players
>3rd Round – 144 players
>4th Round – 72 players
>Tiebreaks for Prizes
Rounds 2,3 and 4 will be paired
according to regulations of the event
which are published on the ECU
Website, while the Final phase will
be played as a Swiss tournament of
36 players, 9 rounds with a time
control of 10 minutes + 3 seconds of
an increment.
Time control of the standard games
will be 120 minutes for the whole
game with an increment of 30
seconds per move, starting from
move one. Tiebreak matches will
consist of 2 games with reverse
colour, with a time control of 10
minutes + 3 seconds of an
increment per move. If the score is
still level after tiebreaks, the winner
of the match will be decided in an
Armageddon game.
The tournament will not be
calculated for the FIDE rating.
The event will be played ina Knock out system withmatches of 2 standardgames + tiebreak if needed.
The total prize fund for the event will
be 32.000 euros. Money prizes can not
be shared, but will be distributed
according to tiebreak criteria which is
defined within the regulations of the
event.
Prizes are:
1st place- 3000 EUR
2nd place- 2500 EUR
3rd place- 2000 EUR
4th-6th place- 1500 EUR
7th-10th place- 1250 EUR
11th-20th place- 1000 EUR
21st-30th place- 500 EUR
Prizes
European National Federation havethe right to nominate:A. European Players rated 2550and over (according to FIDEStandard rating list from 1st of April2021)B. 8 additional players if a nationalqualification event will take placeC. 5 additional players if a nationalqualification event will not take place
Registrations are made by theNational Federation filling the specialregistration form and sending it [email protected].
Registration deadline isMonday 10th May 2021.
REGISTRATIONS
Hybrid event
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All the players compete from the
approved tournament halls per
country. Tournament halls shall be
selected and installed by federations
and local organisers. Each National
federation may select up to 2
venues that will be approved by
European Chess Union. In
exceptional cases, ECU may decide
on more venues in one country.
In each playing venue, Zoom calls
with screen sharing are mandatory.
The event’s Chief Arbiter shall be
provided with all Zoom recordings.
A detailed guide for the venues set
up will be sent to National
federations.
All details about the event,
altogether with Official
regulations and registration
form can be found on the
ECU Website.
European Small Nations HybridChampionship 2021
European Small Nations Championship 2021 takes place from17th-25th April 2021 in a hybrid format, following a unanimousdecision by the ten ESNA member countries of Zone 1.10.The winner of the event will be granted one of the ECU spots in theforthcoming FIDE World Cup 2021.
ach ESNA member Federation
nominated one of its players and the
event will be held with 10
participants, as a 9 rounds round-
robin tournament, with time control
120 minutes for the game for each
player, with 30 seconds increment
per move from move 1. Starting rank
list can be found on the following
link.
Every player will play from a
designated venue, decided by his
Chess Federation, which cannot
change during the Tournament
unless major events bind the player
or the Federation to do so.
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The Championship will be played on
the platform Tornelo.com. Every
venue will be supervised by one
local arbiter who will connect a
second camera to grant a full sight
of the venue itself. All the venue
cameras will be connected to a
specific videoconference that will be
set up and circulated by the Chief
Arbiter Marco Biagoli.
Official Regulations of the event can
be found on the ECU Website.
UPCOMING IN APRIL
European Online Amateur Chess
Championship will take place from
10th-28th April 2021, on the Tornelo
playing platform.
The event will be played in 4 rating
categories:
A – For players rated 1000-1400
B – For players rated 1401-1700
C – For players rated 1701-2000
D – For players rated 2001-2300
FIDE Standard ratings from April 2021
rating list will be considered.
The event will be played according to
the Swiss System for all rating groups
with time Control: 10 min + 2 sec bonus
increment
Day – 1 All groups: Qualification Stage,
8 rounds, minimum 250 qualifiers to the
final stage.
Day – 2 Final Stage, 9 rounds, 250
players. Any player belonging to one
European National Chess Federation
has the right to participate.
Participants without a valid FIDE ID can
issue one through their National Chess
Federation (is a fast procedure).
The tournament(s) is not valid for FIDE
Rating.
#EOACC2021Prize list
The prize list of EuropeanOnline Amateur ChessChampionship 2021 includesmoney prizes for the bestranked players and Womenplayers, as well as specialprizes for the best ranked Youthplayers of categories for boysand girls U12, U14, U16 andU18, and special prizes for thebest ranked players ratedU1200, U1550, U1800 andU2150.
Europan OnlineAmateur ChessChampionshipschedule
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Registrations and entry fee payments
are available online per category:
Group: 1000 – 1400:
https://tornelo.com/chess/orgs/
europechess/events/
eaocc-2021-1000-1400
Registration deadline for group A is
7th of April.
Group: 1401 – 1700: https://tornelo.com/
chess/orgs/europechess/events/
eaocc-2021-1401-1700 Group: 1701 –
2000: https://tornelo.com/chess/orgs/
europechess/events/
eaocc-2021-1701-2000 Group: 2001 –
2300: https://tornelo.com/chess/orgs/
europechess/events/
eaocc-2021-2001-2300
More than 600 players coming from
48 European federations registered
for the event, and the current starting
list of players can be found here.
Official regulations of the event,
schedule and full prize list are available
on the ECU Website.
International Chess Conference for the occasion of100 years anniversary of France Chess Federation
For the occasion of 100years anniversary ofFrench Chess Federation,the InternationalConference took place on20th March 2021,emphasizing thesignificance of France as achess nation for thedevelopment of chess inother European countries.
enown chess historians from
France, Germany, England,
Spain, Poland and the Czech
Republic were invited to
Conference to present their
research on the topic.
Among the participants of the
Conference were also: FIDE
President Mr. Arkady Dvorkovich
and ECU President Mr. Zurab
Azmaiparashvili
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In ten lectures (5 were in French,
4 in English, 1 in Spanish), the
speakers spoke about almost
500 years of French chess
history.
The Conference started with
speech about first manuscripts
from the 15th century and the
18th century, and continued to
the great Philidor and his
reception in England and Russia.
Speakers also gave new insights
into the legendary Deschapelles
as well as the foreign chess
professionals in the Café de la
Régence of the 19th century.
Anish Giri (NED) took a
victory against Ian
Nepomniachtchi in the final
match to become the Winner
of Magnus Invitational event.
The Finals were played within
two days, and after equal
score after 8 played games,
the match proceeded to
tiebreak blitz match, where
Anish Giri convincingly
defeated Nepomniachtchi Ian
with 2-0
score.
Reigning World Chess
Champion Magnus Carlsen
played a play-off match
against Wesley So for the
third place of the event, and
after two days of fights
Carlsen won both matches to
claim the 3rd place and prize
of 25.000$.
Anish Giri wins #MagnusInvitationalMagnuc Carlsen Invitationaltournament as part of theMeltwater Chapions ChessTour took place from13th-21st March 2021.
Finals betweenAnish Giri andIanNepomniachtchi
Meltwater ChampionsChess Tour
Meltwater Champions ChessTour contains 10tournaments, whichconclude with Final event,taking place from 25thSeptember - 3rd October2021.The next event on theschedule is Regular#3 from24th April-2nd May 2021.
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With a 1st place of Magnus
Invitational, Anish Giri won a
ticket for the Finals of
Meltwater Champions Chess
Tour which will be held from
25th September- 3rd October,
with a total prize fund of
300.000 $.
Details can be found on the
Official Website of the event.
Upcoming events:
Two IM tournaments were held in Nikšić,
while the host of GM and Mix
tournaments was Podgorica. IM and GM
tournaments were 10 players round-
robin with ten participants each. The Mix
tournament was played with 16
participants.
The Winners of Montenegro Chess
Festival IM tournament 2021/01,
February 26th – March 4th (10
participants, 9 round):
1. Alivodic Dario MNE 2189 6,5
2. IM Nikac Predrag MNE 2320 5,5
3. GM Nikcevic Nebojsa MNE 2412 5,5
The Winners of Montenegro Chess
Festival IM tournament 2021/02, March
5-11th (10 participants, 9 round):
1. FM Pecurica Milos MNE 2320 7
2. GM Nikcevic Nebojsa MNE 2412 6,5
3. IM Nikac Predrag MNE 2320 5
Montenegro Chess Festival GM 2021/01
tournament took place from 12-18 March
(10 participants, 9 round) and the
Winners are:
1. GM Djukic Nikola MNE 2521 7
2.GM Delchev Aleksander BUL 2526 5,5
3. IM Suleymanli Aydin AZE 2512 5,5
Montenegro Chess Festival 2021Montenegro Chess Federation, incooperation with the chess club„Elektroprivreda“ from Nikšić,organized Montenegro ChessFestival from 26th of February to25th of March.
GM NikolaDjukic won theGrandmastersevent
Montenegro ChessFestival 2021
The organizers are callingeveryone who is interested infuture participation to contactthem, emphasizing that thesetournaments are going tobecome traditional. The datesof the forthcoming tournamentsare 16-22 April and 23-29 April.The organizers provided IM andtournaments for players with arating below 2300, while GMtournaments will be heldaccording to the possibleinterest.
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The Mix event took place from 19th-25th
of March in Podgorica, and after 9
played rounds the Winners are:
1. GM Sanal Vahap TUR 2571 8,5
2. IM Suleymanli Aydin AZE 2512 6,5
3. GM Thybo Jesper Sondergaard DEN
2572 5,5
All the results of the events can be found
on the following link.
UPCOMING
Candidates Tournament
The event that decides who will
be the Challenger for the World
Chess Championship title, will
resume on the 19th of April in
Yekaterinburg, Russia.
Results of the first 7 rounds
which were played last year are
valid and the event continues
with a lead of Nepomniachtchi
Ian (RUS) and Maxime Vachier-
Lagrave (FRA), who tie for the
top scoring 4.5 points each.
Fabiano Caruana (USA), Anish
Giri (NED), Wang Hao (CHN)
and Alexander Grischuk (RUS)
tie for the third place with 3.5
points, each, while Ding Liren
and Kirill Alekseenko have a
score of 2.5 points, each.
FIDE CANDIDATES TOURNAMENTFIDE CandidatesTournament continues thismonth, after it was stoppeddue to Covid19 pandemic.
Schedule
19th April 2021, Round 820th April 2021, Round 921st April 2021, Round 10(22nd April 2021, rest day)23rd April 2021, Round 1124th April 2021, Round 12(25th April 2021, rest day)26th April 2021, Round 1327th April 2021, Round 1428th April 2021, tie-breaks (ifrequired)
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The event will take place from
19th-28th April 2021 and the
Winner will play for the title of the
World Chess Champion against
Magnus Carlsen!
Total prize fund of the event is
500.000 EUR.
All details and regulations can be
found on the Official Website of
the event.
13Newsletter March 2021
For almost one year, ECU and FIDE
have turned to online chess as a means
to continue chess activity. Many minor
and major tournaments were organised,
various formats were tested and a lot of
experience gathered. In the beginning of
2021, several commissions put all of this
experience together and published the
FIDE Online Chess Regulations.
ECU soon followed and published the
ECU Annex for Online Competitions.
However, publishing regulations is
usually not enough. In the past months,
the ECU Arbiters' Council has organised
3 successful seminars for International
or FIDE Arbiters who wished to be
trained as Online Arbiters and work in
ECU events. The seminars consisted of
both theory (explanation of regulations)
and practice (familiarising with playing
zones) and concluded in an exam on the
final day.
After certifying 60 arbiters from 27
European federations and 5 arbiters
from other continents (the full list can be
found here: https://docs.google.com/
spreadsheets/d/
1Pn5JLJxobvZp004BGycNsE2qqcfbND
vNP2t5NQ6A8fY/edit#gid=0)
it is time to launch the National Online
Arbiter Certification Course.
The Course addresses all arbiters who
are licensed as NAs or higher and wish
to be informed about
• the FIDE Laws of Chess (overview)
• the FIDE and ECU Regulations for
online events
• Fair Play regulations
• the various Hosting Internet Platforms
• handling Video Conference Calls
through Zoom
• using Slack as means of
communication among arbiters
• Hybrid events
For a Course to be organised aminimum of 20 participants isneeded and maximum numbercan be 30.
The application deadline is onApril 8th and there are stillavailable places, so make sure toregister in time.
ARBITERS CORNER
National Online Arbiter (NOA)Certification Course, April 12th - 13th
Text by: IA Tania Karali
It will be organised in two days, April
12th and 13th, for 2.5 hours on each
day, and will consist of lectures and
various examples from practical
experience. Regarding Hybrid events,
the ECU Online Youth Championship
will be presented as a model, where
more than 700 players from 40
federations participated and were
spread in 60 venues.
After the Course, a certification from
ECU will be given to attendants who fulfil
the following criteria:
• Sufficient knowledge of English
(conversational level)
• Sufficient skills to work on a personal
computer (advanced user level)
• Sufficient knowledge of at least one
platform for online chess
• Deep understanding of Fair Play
principles for online chess
The language of the Course will be
English, but there is a chance to
organise it in the future in other
languages (for example, Russian,
Spanish, German and French), provided
that a sufficient number of participants
express their interest in advance. To
register for the Course in English, you
may click here.
If you wish to preregister for a future
course in a different language, you may
click here.
Detailed regulations for the seminar can
be found here.
By attending the seminar you will be
taught all you need to know about
working in online events and will get a
thorough view of the duties of an online
arbiter. You will get acquainted with the
different platforms and gain a good
understanding of the Fair Play
regulations.
*Links related to the Article can be found
within the Online version of Magazine.
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1) What are You doing in life in the
current moment?
I am still actively interested in chess.
I watch and analize games from top
tournaments. However, most of the
time I study openings and especially
the analysis of very complicated
variations from very different
openings.
2) Your recollections with
meetings with the World
Champions?
In 1968-1986 I played ten games
with five world champions. Most of
them with V. Smyslov (+1=1-2), B.
Spassky (+0=1-2) and I lost with T.
Petrosian, A. Karpov and G.
Kasparov.
The games were difficult, however
my opponents also made some
mistakes.
3) Your best game?
Bent Larsen – Włodzimierz Schmidt,
0-1, Aarhus DEN, 1971-09-08.
4) Which Your achievement You
consider to be the most
important?
The first places in few strong
international tournaments, such as
Memorial of Akiba Rubinstein
Polanica Zdrój 1973 and 1981,
Budapest (Vasas) 1986.
5) Best and most important chess
books?
D. Bronstein – Zuerich 1953,
M. Dvoretsky – Handbook of
endings.
6) How did You start Your career?
The biggest success at the
beginning of my career was the first/
second place in Polish Junior
Championships up to twenty years.
I was fourteen years old!
7) Your favourite openings?
Sicilian, French, Kings Indian and
Gruenfeld defense - all black.
MEET CHESS LEGEND GM Włodzimierz SchmidtThe Winner of 35 different Medals in Polish Championships
10) Favourite city, food anddrink.I don't have a favorite citybecause I felt goodeverywhere.The food is: dumplings andpizza.Drinks are coffee and variousteas.
LEGENDS QUESTIONS
MEET CHESS LEGEND GMWłodzimierz Schmidt
10 questions by GM AdrianMikhalchishin
8) Who was the most difficult and
the easiest opponent in Your
career?
Specifically, I didn't have the hardest
and easiest opponent. I treated
everyone seriously. My successes
were largely the result of very good
opening preparation. Especially
blacks which are always harder to
play.
9) Non chess best book, film and
singer for You.
It's hard for me to name one book.
These are books on economics, new
technologies, consumer electronics,
computers and the Internet.
Movie: Pretty Woman with Julia
Roberts and Richard Gere.
Anna German's songs.
FUN ZONE
For this edition of theECU E-Magazine weprepared for you 4positions where Whitemates in 3 moves!
Solutions fromFebruary Magazine
#Puzzle 1:1.Qxg7!+ Kxg7 2.Nf5+ Kg83.Nh6##Puzzle 2:1.Na7+! Bxa7 2.Qxc6+ bxc63.Ba6##Puzzle 3:1.Rh8+! Kxh8 2.Qh1+ Kg83.Qh7#Puzzle 4:1.Qf7+! Nxf7 2.Nf6!+ gxf63.Bxf7#
15Newsletter March 2021
Paul Keres
has said
about
chess:
>However hopeless the situation
appears to be there yet always
exists the possibility of putting up
a stubborn resistance.
>Even the best grandmasters in
the world have had to work hard
to acquire the technique of rook
endings.
>A player can sometimes afford
the luxury of an inaccurate move,
or even a definite error, in the
opening or middlegame without
necessarily obtaining a lost
position. In the endgame ... an
error can be decisive, and we are
rarely presented with a second
chance.
>Chess is a test of wills.
>An innovation need not be
especially ingenious, but it must
be well worked out.