Europchess played the 2nd round of Belgian Francophone league in Marche, in a quite warm atmosphere. As leaders of the 3rd division, we had to face our direct challengers, ie. Georgi at board 1 and Vladymyr at board 4 against CRELEL Liege, and Jeno at board 2 and Luis on board 3 against CCC from Ciney, both teams were following us at only 1/2 point. Georgi with Blacks finished first. His opponent, Mohammed Messaoudi...
2011/2012 Inter-Professional R3 and Final Thursday 19/04/2012 TEAM RANKING 1 .EUROPCHESS 85 PTS 2. NATIONAL BANK 84 PTS 3. BELGACOM 60 PTS 4. KBC 41 PTS Round 1 (21/11/2011) KBC – NATIONAL BANK : 13-33 (5-18 8-15) VAN LOO – MICHIELS 1-3 AND 1-3 BOSSCHEM – THEYS 1-3 AND 1-3 DE SMEDT –...
Europchess participated with one team for the first time to the Belgian Francophone league championship. Although the opposition was this time quite weak, the team returned back with the whole score 4-0, which constitutes a good start for this first competition. In total, 160 players from different chessclubs were represented. First of all, Mattias defeated quite quickly Lise Decellier (1270) from Leuze 2. Mattias as black won a pawn in the opening against and...
Classement Final N Nom Cat Cote Fide Club Pts P Perf 1 Wiley Tom 1 2292 2292 Europchess 14.0 5 2481 2 Michiels Dirk 1 2271 0 National bank 10.0 5 2080 3 Ghysels Marc 1 2168 2085 National bank 10.0 4 2259 4 Hawia Xavier 1 1800 0 National bank 9.0 5 1779 5 Denys Frank 1 1977 1867 Belgacom 8.0 5 1951...
Round 11: Decent closure of a successful season for all three teams In the final round of 25 March 2012, both Europchess 1 and 3 won, whereas Europchess 2 lost its only match of the season. Since it was already qualified for promotion, this did not matter much, though. Europchess 1 hosted another local rival, namely CREB 1. On board 7, Eduardo Semanat Planas played a double fianchetto with White against Christian Thierens (1947)....
Round 10: Europchess 2 wins Division 4 D! In round 10 of 18 March 2012, Europchess 2 crowned its excellent performance this saison with a 3,5-0,5 win against Excelsior 1, thus winning Division 4 D before the final round. Europchess 1 took two matchpoints from Boitsfort 1 with a nice 5-3 win, but Europchess 3 had to give in with 0,5-3,5 against Boitsfort 4. In Division 2 B, Boitsfort put together the strongest team...