| European Club Cup (2015) |
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The 31st European Club Cup was a 7-round Swiss team tournament played at Aleksandar Palace Hotel in Skopje, Macedonia, 18-24 October 2015. Fifty clubs and 364 players were taking part, with defending champions SOCAR of Azerbaijan (Topalov, Giri, Caruana, Adams, Radjabov, Mamedyarov, Mamedov, Safarli) the top seed. Each match was played over six boards, with 2 points for a team win and 1 point for a draw. Time control: 90 minutes for 40 moves then 30 more minutes to the end of the game, with a 30-second increment from move one. Organizers: Karpos municipality and the Gambit Asseko SEE chess club, under the auspices of the European Chess Union. First prize: 12,000 euros. Tournament director: Petr Pisk. Chief arbiter: Ashot Vardapetyan. Siberia of Russia (Kramnik, Aronian, Grischuk, Li Chao, Wang Yue, Korobov, Kokarev and Bocharov) won with 13/14 match points, ahead of SOCAR, Mednyi Vsadnik and Obiettivo Risarcimento, all three with 11/14. Chess-Results: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr188...
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ECU: https://www.europechess.org/siberia... Previous: European Club Cup (2014). Next: European Club Cup (2016). Women's section: European Club Cup (Women) (2015)
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| Result | Moves |
Year | Event/Locale | Opening |
| 1. M Karttunen vs Topalov |
 | 0-1 | 74 | 2015 | European Club Cup | E00 Queen's Pawn Game |
| 2. Giri vs H Pohjala |
| 1-0 | 96 | 2015 | European Club Cup | A06 Reti Opening |
| 3. V Maki vs Adams |
| 0-1 | 49 | 2015 | European Club Cup | C77 Ruy Lopez |
| 4. Mamedyarov vs P Koykka |
| 1-0 | 25 | 2015 | European Club Cup | A85 Dutch, with c4 & Nc3 |
| 5. J Ahvenjarvi vs R Mamedov |
| ½-½ | 119 | 2015 | European Club Cup | B32 Sicilian |
| 6. E Safarli vs H Torkkola |
| 1-0 | 32 | 2015 | European Club Cup | C04 French, Tarrasch, Guimard Main line |
| 7. Grischuk vs S Geirnaert |
| ½-½ | 36 | 2015 | European Club Cup | C77 Ruy Lopez |
| 8. T Maenhout vs C Li |
| ½-½ | 68 | 2015 | European Club Cup | A10 English |
| 9. Y Wang vs F Decoster |
| 1-0 | 41 | 2015 | European Club Cup | B27 Sicilian |
| 10. T Piceu vs A Korobov |
| 0-1 | 32 | 2015 | European Club Cup | A46 Queen's Pawn Game |
| 11. D Kokarev vs W Gryson |
| 1-0 | 23 | 2015 | European Club Cup | B06 Robatsch |
| 12. L Donovan vs D Bocharov |
| 0-1 | 21 | 2015 | European Club Cup | B43 Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3 |
| 13. A Hunt vs Ivanchuk |
| ½-½ | 26 | 2015 | European Club Cup | E54 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Gligoric System |
| 14. Jakovenko vs A Ledger |
| 1-0 | 33 | 2015 | European Club Cup | D17 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav |
| 15. R Bates vs D Andreikin |
 | 0-1 | 45 | 2015 | European Club Cup | A40 Queen's Pawn Game |
| 16. Kryvoruchko vs L Webb |
| 1-0 | 51 | 2015 | European Club Cup | B12 Caro-Kann Defense |
| 17. D J Ledger vs Y Yu |
| 0-1 | 42 | 2015 | European Club Cup | B44 Sicilian |
| 18. T Nedev vs S Ledger |
| 1-0 | 37 | 2015 | European Club Cup | B31 Sicilian, Rossolimo Variation |
| 19. Leko vs J Ferreira |
| ½-½ | 43 | 2015 | European Club Cup | B12 Caro-Kann Defense |
| 20. L S Martinez Duany vs Vachier-Lagrave |
| ½-½ | 42 | 2015 | European Club Cup | B96 Sicilian, Najdorf |
| 21. Bacrot vs J Aguera Naredo |
| ½-½ | 44 | 2015 | European Club Cup | C80 Ruy Lopez, Open |
| 22. F Iglesias Leon vs M Godena |
| ½-½ | 38 | 2015 | European Club Cup | A01 Nimzovich-Larsen Attack |
| 23. Vocaturo vs R G Iagar |
| 1-0 | 33 | 2015 | European Club Cup | C14 French, Classical |
| 24. I Fernandez Torre vs D Dvirnyy |
| 0-1 | 36 | 2015 | European Club Cup | C41 Philidor Defense |
| 25. M Wiedenkeller vs Dominguez Perez |
| ½-½ | 34 | 2015 | European Club Cup | D85 Grunfeld |
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| Oct-24-15 | | BOSTER: <MOLLOYCHESS:The opening is not everything>. Agree.
This is the pos. white to play 24.
click for larger view White pieces have more freedom, but black pawn structure is better. Here white Ivanchuk could "sacr." the queen playing 24.Nxd5. if 24...Rxe4 25.Nf6+ gxf6 26.Rxd8+ Qxd8 27. Rxd8+ Kg7, and white can get the majority on the queen side. If other <take> , black will lose a pawn. |
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| Oct-24-15 | | sonia91: Congratulations to Siberia team!
Final standings:
1. Siberia 13
2. SOCAR 11
3. St. Petersburg 11
4. Padova 11 |
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| Oct-24-15 | | jphamlore: If the next Candidates cycle is similar to this one, the players are right in the middle of the time period, approximately from May 2015 through April 2016, for ratings qualification to the next Grand Prix cycle. This time all four of Svidler, Karjakin, Giri, and Eljanov from World Cup may accept, leaving I believe 7 invites by rating. (4 potentially from World Cup, 4 sponsor invites, 1 FIDE President's nominee). Then one has the World Champion and challenger who won't play, and likely Topalov and Kramnik declining the invite as well. This is going to be quite an exciting horse race with I think a goal of finishing in the top 14 in ratings over that time period. It's not the money that matters, it's the seasoning playing many of the very best players in an endless grind over 33 games. So for example MVL won a couple of games but then really struggled in the Grand Prix. And he struggled other events. But I think he's finally on the verge of being at his absolute prime. The problem is the competition is so fierce it is incredibly difficult even for a player of his talent in his prime just to stay in the top 9 or 10 in ratings. The Chinese players have barely even started on this process. It appears Ding Liren will get his shot in the Grand Prix and perhaps even the Grand Chess Tour, assuming he can sort out whatever visa problems kept him from playing for Siberia last May at Sochi. Li Chao may make the Grand Prix by rating as well. He could really use it. I am hoping the FIDE President's nominee this cycle for Grand Prix is Wei Yi. Sadly I can also see scenarios where it all falls apart and none of the Chinese players make any of the top events next cycle. Something seems broken in how players get invites. |
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| Oct-24-15 | | BOSTER: < iphamlore>.
I guess that your < an exciting horse race > can be sharply changed.
There are a lot reasons for it. |
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| Oct-24-15 | | waustad: I just read that Andreas Diermair got a GM norm, his second, at the event. I didn't realize that this was one of the special events where a norm for less than 9 rounds was possible. |
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| Oct-24-15 | | PhilFeeley: <Karposian> No, I don't have a problem with it. I was just wondering why Armenia doesn't have a team there. They usually have a pretty strong one in the Olympiad. |
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| Oct-25-15 | | PhilFeeley: Korobov should have won. I'm surprised Mamedyarov lost. |
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| Oct-25-15 | | Tiggler: <BOSTER>:< Here white Ivanchuk could "sacr." the queen playing 24.Nxd5. if 24...Rxe4 25.Nf6+ gxf6 26.Rxd8+ Qxd8 27. Rxd8+ Kg7, and white can get the majority on the queen side. If other <take> , black will lose a pawn.> 24...Rxd5 25. Rxd5 Rxe4 26. Rd8+ Qxd8+ 27. Rxd8 Kh7 = |
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| Oct-25-15 | | jphamlore: The point of the fecklessness of Ivanchuk's opening against Kramnik is that having obtained nothing from the opening, Ivanchuk then proceeded from moves 20 through 30 to run his clock down to 3 minutes left versus Kramnik's 14, upon which he naturally played sub-optimally to make the time control, leaving Kramnik in a position where Kramnik could grind in a rook ending with ease. It's not like recent results are very promising for White against top competition in this opening: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... What is the best recent result, this?
D Naroditsky vs Jakovenko, 2015 |
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| Oct-25-15 | | AzingaBonzer: <jphamlore> The "Chinese players lack experience" argument seems to me an extremely weak one. Wang Yue was once top 10, as was Wang Hao, and Ding Liren is currently top 10. Wei Yi and Yu Yangyi have gotten quite a bit of exposure as well, and Ni Hua and Bu Xiangzhi are well-known veterans. Hou Yifan--well, it's hard to argue that the Women's World Champion doesn't get enough exposure to top players--what about Biel, for example? Or Dortmund? Of all the Chinese players, Li Chao is the only one who doesn't play top-flight opposition very often. He's very much an open tournament specialist (for lack of invitations, possibly?). |
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| Oct-26-15 | | latvalatvian: It doesn't surprise me that Siberia won. They don't have chess computers there and have to use their brains. Most players now just sit in a room full of chess computers smashing out billions of positions. |
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| Oct-26-15 | | AzingaBonzer: <latvalatvian> Dude, Siberia is the team's name, not the country they're from. |
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| Oct-26-15 | | Conrad93: <It doesn't surprise me that Siberia won. They don't have chess computers there and have to use their brains. Most players now just sit in a room full of chess computers smashing out billions of positions.> They're not caveman. |
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| Oct-27-15 | | thegoodanarchist: congrats to whoever won this thing. |
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| Oct-27-15 | | sonia91: <thegoodanarchist: ...whoever won this thing> just read my previous comment above to find out the winners. |
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| Oct-27-15 | | thegoodanarchist: <sonia91: Congratulations to Siberia team! Final standings:
1. Siberia 13 >
Uh, thanks?
OK, so Siberia 13 won. Clears that up. Congrats to whoever they are. |
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| Oct-27-15 | | sonia91: Siberia is the name of the team (Kramnik, Aronian, Grischuk, Li Chao, Wang Yue, Korobov and other two Russian GMs), 13 are the match-points http://chess-results.com/tnr188529.... |
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| Oct-27-15 | | thegoodanarchist: thanks, <sonia91> |
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| Oct-30-15 | | Overgod: Awesome performance from Kramnik. If he keeps that up, it's Kramnik vs. Carlsen next year! What a match that would be! |
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| Oct-31-15 | | Everett: < jphamlore: The point of the fecklessness of Ivanchuk's opening against Kramnik is that having obtained nothing from the opening> 20 years ago you would have likely called the Berlin Ruy "feckless." Why read your posts? |
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| Oct-31-15 | | Everett: atvalatvian: <It doesn't surprise me that Siberia won. They don't have chess computers there and have to use their brains. Most players now just sit in a room full of chess computers smashing out billions of positions.> Their computers are made of ice and snow, running on seal fat and the blood of former gulag prisoners. |
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Oct-31-15
 | | perfidious: <Everett: < jphamlore: The point of the fecklessness of Ivanchuk's opening against Kramnik is that having obtained nothing from the opening> 20 years ago you would have likely called the Berlin Ruy "feckless." Why read your posts?> Never mind that, as noted by <MOLLOYCHESS>, White was not worse in that middlegame. As noted, why read <hamhock>'s repetitive dross preaching the gospel that games between top GMs are decided in the opening, when there is a rather large body of evidence which points to the axiomatic conclusion that there is still scope for play <after> the opening phase? |
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| Nov-02-15 | | celsochini: Thank You PhilFeeley !
PhilFeeley: An official page, for those interested:
http://europeanchessclubcup2015.com/ |
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| Nov-10-15 | | scholes: Its shame after such a performance, Kramnik would fail to make candidates. |
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Nov-11-15
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who have consistently excelled not the player who is "hot". |
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