Europchess 1 scores 1.5/4 against CREB and Marche-en-Famenne +++ Europchess 2 scores 2/4 against Namur 3 and 4
Europchess 1 scores 1.5/4 against CREB and Marche-en-Famenne +++ Europchess 2 scores 2/4 against Namur 3 and 4
Europchess 1 draws with Brussels 1 and Wavre 1 Facing Brussels 1 the one half of Europchess 1 went through a very tough afternoon. On the first board Georgi Tomov resisted the kingside attack from Oleg Iolis (2213) and entered into an unbalanced ending with a bishop against two connected passed pawns on the kingside and three pawns each on the queenside. Georgi allowed White to queen the h-pawn in order to conquer Black’s...
Europchess’s successful Interclubs season did not go unnoticed: in POLITICO’s “Playbook” article of 2 May 2019, Florian Eder reported on the first team’s promotion: “THE WONDERS OF ENLARGEMENT IN PRACTICE: It has taken Europchess, a team made up of EU officials from all over the Continent, a little more than a decade to clamber through the leagues of Belgian chess. Now, after securing a victory against Eisden — the very East Flanders club that stood...
Europchess 1 – Eisden/Dilsen 1 : 5.5 – 2.5 +++ Europchess 2 – Dworp 1 : 4 – 2 +++ Europchess 3 – Leuze 2 : 4 – 0 +++ Europchess 4 – Boitsfort 5 : 3 – 1 +++ Europchess 5 – DZD Halle 2 : 1.5 – 2.5 +++ Round 11: Europchess moves to First Division! The year 2019 will be a very special year for the history of our club: For the...
Westerlo 1 – Europchess 1 : 2 – 6 +++ Brasschaat 4 – Europchess 2 : 3 – 3 +++ The Belgian CC 3 – Europchess 3 : 2 – 2 +++ Halle 1 – Europchess 4 : 1 – 3 +++ Europchess 5 : BYE +++ Round 10: Before the finishing line +++ In round 10, the first team kept its slight edge for promotion with a clean 6-2 win in Westerlo! However,...
Europchess 1 – Geel 1 : 6 – 2 +++ Europchess 2 – Fontaine 3 : 1.5 – 4.5 +++ Europchess 3 – EDC 2 : 3 – 1 +++ Europchess 4 – Dworp 3 : 3.5 – 0.5 +++ Europchess 5 – Excelsior 2 : 3 – 1 +++ Round 9: Spring is in the air +++ In round 9, four out of five teams won – only the second team had to give...
CREB 1 – Europchess 1 : 3 – 5 +++ Mechelen 2 – Europchess 2 : 3 – 3 +++ CREB 2 – Europchess 3 : 1 – 3 +++ CREB 3 – Europchess 4 : 2 – 2 +++ Geraardsbergen 3 – Europchess 5 : 3 – 1 +++ Round 8: What a wonderful chess world +++ In round 8, Europchess celebrated an unexpected come-back: Due to a misstep of TSM 1 the...
Europchess 1 – TSM 1 : 3.5 – 4.5 +++ Europchess 2 – Brussels 1 : 3.5 – 2.5 +++ Europchess 3 – Brussels 3 : 4 – 0 +++ Europchess 4 – Mechelen 9 : 2.5 – 1.5 +++ Europchess 5 – Brussels 7 : 3.5 – 0.5 +++ Greetings from Paul Keres +++ In the seventh round the first team felt like Paul Keres, “the eternal second”. We played very well, but still...
Europchess 1 – Rochade Eupen 2 : 5 – 3 +++ Europchess 2 – Caissa Europe 1 : 5.5 – 0.5 +++ Europchess 3 – Oudenaarde 1 : 3.5 – 0.5 +++ Brussels 6 – Europchess 4 : 1 – 3 +++ Europchess 5 – Kapelle op den Bos 3 : 3 – 1 +++ Round 6: Europchess scores 20 board points! The sixth round could have been hardly better: all five teams won,...
Fighting chess all around The new year 2019 started with the first round of the Francophone championship. Europchess plays with two teams in Division 1 and 3. With 2.5/4 and 2/4 points we started well, albeit not perfectly well. Europchess 1 beats Namur and draws with TAL The one half of Europchess 1 met with Namur 1 one of the strong teams in the division. On board 1, Georgi Tomov faced the enterprising Sébastien...