The 2014-2015 club championship, played again as a 9-round rapid tournament under the organisation of tournament director Jesper Abrahamsen, was again a great success, attracting 35 players. It ended with a convincing victory of Tom Wiley. Having lost the title in 2014 just in a play-off against Georgi Tomov, Tom won back the trophy with a fabulous score of 8/9, being the only player to stay unbeaten in the championship. One full point behind...
35 players, including some late entries, are competing in the 2013-2014 edition of the Europchess Rapid Championship. After 5 of the 9 rounds, only defending champion Tom and Georgi are still unbeaten and lead the tournament with 4.5/5. The first half of the championship has already seen several surprises, such as José María’s win against Ronny, Ventsislav’s wins against Georges and Johannes, Luis Carlos’ win against Mattias, or Iñaki’s victory over Frank! With four...
Ronde 6 (05-12-2010)(Appariements) 1 0 Timothy Binham ( 1) ( 4.5) - Jozsef Barta ( 6) ( 4.0) 2 0 Jeno Czuczai ( 8) ( 4.0) - Christophe Keller ( 3) ( 4.0) 3 0 Frank Hoffmeister ( 4) ( 4.0) - George Vassilakis (15) ( 4.0) 4 0 Dominique Dupuis (13) ( 4.0) - Thomas Wiley ( 2) ( 3.5) 5 0 Johannes Bertram (12) ( 3.5) - Pere Moles Palleja ( 5)...
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.
Top rankings after 5 rounds: 1. Pere Moles Palleja 4.5 2-5. Frank Hoffmeister, Marc Vallett, Christophe Keller, Timothy Binham 4.0 Ronde 7 (9-06-2010)(Appariements) 1 0 Marc Vallet ( 3) ( 5.0) - Timothy Binham ( 1) ( 4.5) 2 0 Jeno Czuczai ( 8) ( 5.0) - Pere Moles Palleja ( 7) ( 4.5)P 3 0 Frank Hoffmeister ( 6) ( 4.5) - Georgi Tomov ( 2) ( 4.5) 4 0 Johannes Bertram (11)...
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.
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 Rés Cum Buch B M S B 1 Jozsef Barta (2155) 5.5/7 2249 --- 25.5 30.0 21.5 21.75 2 Frank Hoffmeister (2192) 5.5/7 2249 --- 23.0 32.5 23.0 24.50 3 Christophe Keller (2209) 5.5/7 2253 --- 19.5 30.0 22.5...
Spring 2009 final standings