Europchess 1 – Leuven 1 : 5 – 3 +++ Europchess 2 – Woluwe 1 : 5 – 1 +++ Europchess 3 – Geraardsbergen 1 : 3 – 1 +++ Europchess 4 – Pantin 6 : 1.5 – 2.5 +++ Europchess 5 – Leuven 5 : 2.5 – 1.5 +++ Round 2: Full House In our first home match, all teams except the fourth one provided for a full house with good wins. Europchess...
Wavre 1 – Europchess 1 : 4 – 4 +++ Tournai 1 – Europchess 2 : 2 – 4 +++ Boitsfort 4 – Europchess 3 : 3 – 1 +++ Woluwe 2 – Europchess 4 : 2 – 2 +++ Wavre 5 – Europchess 5 : 2 – 2 +++ Round 1: Fifty-Fifty The start into the new season was not bad, but could have been better. E 2 won, E 3 lost, while...
Meeting the Austrian Presidency: Grandmaster Markus Ragger gives thrilling exhibition at Europchess In the second half of 2018, Austria assumed the Presidency of the European Union’s Council of Ministers. In line with established custom, Europchess invited the best player of the Presidency country to give an exhibition in Brussels in cooperation with the Austrian Permanent Representation. We were very glad that GM Markus Ragger flew in from Graz. The head of the legal department,...
In August and September 2018, Brussels Chess Club organised a nice Rapid Tournament on six Mondays which three rounds each week. Luis Parreira (10.5/18, perf 1849) and Luis Busquets (10/15, perf 1917) performed well and finished in 4th and 5th place respectively. Further Europchess participants were Johannes Bertram, Marcello Ranucci, Jesper Abrahamsen and Roberto Teichner who had medium results, but also didn’t participate in all rounds. The tournament was comfortably won by Clément Rihouay...
Mark Ouaki wins <1900 category +++ Luis Parreira and Johannes Bertram with low performances +++ SK Dworp organised on Saturday, 22 September 2018, its 5th Memorial Debast, which counted as in the previous year as Belgian Blitz Championship. IM Stéphane Hautot defended his title with 11/13. Among the three Europchess participants, Mark Ouaki played best: with 8 points, he finished 26th and won the <1900 category. Not so well in that category did Johannes...
Seven Europchess members used the car-free Sunday of 16 September 2018 to travel to Eupen to compete in the Belgian Rapid Championship – with very mixed results: Georgi Tomov could not quite continue his series of top tournament results, without disappointing though. His chances received a blow in rounds 5 and 6 when he lost to fellow Europchessian Paula Gitu and Philippe Uhoda. He recovered with three consecutive wins to finish in shared 6th...