From 12 to 16 August 2018, another strong open in Belgium attracted several Europchess players. 220 players gathered in Bruges for the “Brugse Meesters”, among them many strong players from abroad, for example larger groups of Chinese and Indian players. Europchess was represented by FM Georgi Tomov, Martin Müller, Paula-Alexandra Gitu, and Mark Ouaki. Their results were mixed and partly conditioned if not distorted by the accelerated pairing system applied at this tournament. Georgi...
Frank Hoffmeister beats grandmaster / strong performance by youngsters Paula Gitu and Carlo Russian At the international tournament of Charleroi (Tournoi International du Pays de Charleroi, TIPC), which constituted also the Belgian Individual Championships, Europchess members achieved some impressive results. While the Champion was crowned in a closed 10-player round robin tournament (winner: IM Mher Hovhannisyan, with a GM norm), Frank Hoffmeister, Tom Wiley, Paula Gitu, Carlo Russian and Martin Müller started among the...
The 2018 FEFB Intercercles ended with a big success for Europchess! For the second time in its history Europchess won the Championship! The first team was slightly lagging behind Amay 1 and needed a clear win to maintain chances for the title. On board 3, Frank Hoffmeister played with Black against Tagumpay Gravidez (1793) from CREB 1. White played a symmetric opening line and got an equal middle game position. However, Frank could create...
On the Pentecost weekend, the 12th edition of the Netherlands’ biggest weekend tournament, the Limburg Open in Maastricht, took place. Roughly 460 players participated in three separate tournaments, among them Martin Müller, Johannes Bertram and Thomas Jayes. Martin took up a difficult task: with his rating of 2057, he had the choice of registering either for the A-tournament (>2050) or the B-tournament (1800-2100) where he would have been among the Elo favourites. Instead, he...
As every year, the long Ascension weekend held a nice opportunity to play a chess tournament: the FEFB Individual Championship, which was held in Namur this year. Members of Europchess’s first team have been regular participants in the 12-player elite tournament, and this year it was Georgi Tomov who defended our colours.And he did so in fantastic style, winning the tournament with 5.5/7, a full point clear of the runners-up. Georgi set the tone...
