Club news
Jenő Czuczai won the spring rapid tournament!
Congratulations to Jenő who scored an impressive 6 points out of 7 and won the spring rapid tournament half a point ahead of Frank Hoffmeister and Timothy Binham. This time we had a record number of 42 participants with 12 players over ELO 2000! The first price was distributed today after the blitz tournament. . . . . . . . . . Pos. Name ELO Points Performance 1 Jeno Czuczai 2131 6.0/7 2339 2 Frank... »
Interclubs 6th round results
The new year has started with another successful round for our club. Europchess 1 and 3 won their matches (3-1 and 4-0 respectively) while Europchess 2 made a 2-2 draw. Europchess 1 travelled to play Waregem 2. Despite heavy snow the previous day, the journey presented no problems. The first hour's play produced a worrying moment... »
Europchess players seize 1st and 3rd price in the Damnés tournament
Frank has won the strong Damnés tournament ahead of higher rated players like Alain Minnebo, Tom Wiley and Yves Duhayon. Frank has scored 7.5 points out of 9 games, an amazing result. Congratulations! Hoffmeister 2192 Caufriez 1925 1-0 Guisset 1943 Hoffmeister 2192 0-1 Hoffmeister 2192 Atanasiu 2060 1-0 Hoffmeister 2192 Duhayon 2259 1/2-1/2 Ackaert 2114 Hoffmeister 2192 0-1 Hoffmeister 2192 Wiley 2287 1/2-1/2 Minnebo 2255 Hoffmeister 2192 1/2-1/2 Hoffmeister 2192 Giadrosic 1937 1-0 Hennico 1718 Hoffmeister 2192 0-1 Total : 7.5/9 Tom also had a good tournament and clinched the 3rd place with 6.5 points out of 9! Congratulations! ... »
Frank Hoffmeister is the new champion!
Congratulations to Frank, who won the 8th Europchess rapid tournament in the final playoff against József Barta and Christophe Keller! The players used a unique format to decide the winner which can be described as a 6 boards parallel clock-simultaneous game. Each player played on four boards (two blacks and two whites) against two opponents all at... »
Interclubs 3rd Round Results
Europchess 1: Tom played the black side of a Sicilian Defence. Both sides castled king-side, and White threw forward his f and g pawns. After playing f4, g4 and g5, however, he refrained from pursuing his attack further with f5 and f6. Instead he tried simply to hold the position (he offered a draw after his 19th... »
8th Europchess rapid championship
The play-off match (see our report on that) ended with a win of Frank Hoffmeister with the score : 1.Frank Hoffmeister 3 2.Christophe Keller 2,5 3.Jozsef Barta 0,5 Classement final Nom Cote Pts Perf... »
Silver medal in the “Interprofessional Tournament 2008-2009″
Every year the Belgian National Bank organises the Interprofessional tournament with the participation of Belgian companies and institutions. It's normally a team competition where they are summing the best individual scores of each team. The National Bank's team is always the big favourite of the event as all their players are around 2000+ ELO. The team... »
Europchess 1 and 2 won in division 5! Final round report…
In the final round 11, Europchess 1 played at home against Wachtebeke 3. As we were leading Division 5 E with a single point in front of Geraardsbergen 2, everything depended on a good performance on this day. On Board 1, Frank had White against Cor Provoost (1743). After 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d6 3. c4... »
Huge success in the last round!
Europchess 1 - Wachtebeke 3 : 3.5 - 0.5 After Frank, József and Thomas won their games Jenő has offered draw with Black in an equal looking position to secure the victory with 3.5 points. If Geraardsbergen wins 4-0 then there will be a tie for the first place... They are playing against the strong Dworp... »
Members of the club
The list of our club members is not yet complete... 1 BINHAM, Timothy 2313 2 KELLER, Christophe 2192 3 HOFFMEISTER, Frank 2186 4 BARTA, Jozsef 2155 5 CZUCZAI, Jeno 2139 6 Semanat Planas, Eduardo 2127 7 RAMOS FLORIDO, José-Maria 2037 8 FREDERIKSEN, Kristian Pade 1780 9 GARZOTTI, Paolo 1668 10 ... »