Bestselling grandmaster gives an advanced chess class and successful exhibition Upon invitation from Europchess, Grandmaster Mihail Marin from Bucarest visited Brussels to hold a chess event in the official cultural programme of the Romanian Presidency of the Council of the European Union on Friday 17 May 2019. As a side event, our club members Benjamin Alberola Mulet and Cristian Ardeleanu also showed the European Parliament and the Council to Marin and his wife and...
Two Europchess players defended our colours at the 2019 FEFB Individual Championship, held from 29 May to 2 June in Leuze. As there were slightly less participants than in previous years, both Martin Müller and Luis Miguel Parreira found themselves in the 12-player “Elite” group, playing directly for the title. Martin had an excellent start, drawing with top-seed Thibault Real (Boitsfort, 2279), who went on to win the tournament, and beating The Belgian’s Nimrod...
Europchess 1 scores 1.5/4 against CREB and Marche-en-Famenne +++ Europchess 2 scores 2/4 against Namur 3 and 4
Europchess 1 draws with Brussels 1 and Wavre 1 Facing Brussels 1 the one half of Europchess 1 went through a very tough afternoon. On the first board Georgi Tomov resisted the kingside attack from Oleg Iolis (2213) and entered into an unbalanced ending with a bishop against two connected passed pawns on the kingside and three pawns each on the queenside. Georgi allowed White to queen the h-pawn in order to conquer Black’s...
Europchess’s successful Interclubs season did not go unnoticed: in POLITICO’s “Playbook” article of 2 May 2019, Florian Eder reported on the first team’s promotion: “THE WONDERS OF ENLARGEMENT IN PRACTICE: It has taken Europchess, a team made up of EU officials from all over the Continent, a little more than a decade to clamber through the leagues of Belgian chess. Now, after securing a victory against Eisden — the very East Flanders club that stood...
Europchess 1 – Eisden/Dilsen 1 : 5.5 – 2.5 +++ Europchess 2 – Dworp 1 : 4 – 2 +++ Europchess 3 – Leuze 2 : 4 – 0 +++ Europchess 4 – Boitsfort 5 : 3 – 1 +++ Europchess 5 – DZD Halle 2 : 1.5 – 2.5 +++ Round 11: Europchess moves to First Division! The year 2019 will be a very special year for the history of our club: For the...