The fourth team saves the honour of Europchess In a hard away round, the first three teams lost against Eisden, Gent 5 and Brussels 2, respectively. The fourth team however scored a convincing win against Brussels 5 to save our honor. Europchess 1 suffers a bitter loss in Eisden Having travelled to Maasmechelen with a good line-up, Europchess 1 was the nominal favorite in the match against Eisden 1. And it also looked quite...
Reasonable start into 2014 The start into 2014 was successful for Europchess 1 and 3 with clear wins over NLS 1 and 2 Fous Diogène 1. The second and fourth team had to give in against stronger opponents, though. Europchess 1 defeats a weakened NLS 1 E1 & E2 in action The Noordlimburgse chess club (NLS) came to Brussels with a weakened line-up as both their first boards were missing. This gave an early...
Through a convincing victory in Hoboken, Europchess 2 defends rank 2 in Division 3 C! Also Europchess 3 scored two important points in Boitsfort, getting further away from the bottom. Europchess 1 drew in Eynatten while Europchess 4 lost with a narrow margin in Mechelen High level chess in Eynatten: Europchess 1 keeps favourites at arms’ length In a tense match the first team showed teeth against the Eynatten 2. The home team impressed...
The first round, postponed for Europchess teams 3 and 4 was played this Sunday 8 December respectively against Excelsior1 and Aalst3, both visitors having one forfeit in the team. Europchess 3 faced Excelsior 1 with Jose Maria Ramos Florido on 1st board against Carlos Onrubia-Aviles (1934) who did not show up and gave thus the first advantage to our team, with a good hope for the final outcome. Unfortunately Vladymyr Dedobbeleer and Edit Kollo...
The Europchess 1 line-up was strong enough to out-rate our opponents, Amay 2, by an average of more than 140 points per board, but the match result could have been a lot closer than the eventual 5½-2½ victory achieved by Europchess. Europchess got off to the best possible start with wins after about three hours play for Georgi Tomov and Tim Binham. Georgi played White against Jimmy Lafosse (2167). Immediately after the opening, Lafosse...
Round 4 – All four teams on good track In round 4 abroad, the four teams scored together seven match points. Only Europchess 1 conceded a draw. Playing against Boitsfort, Europchess 1 was nominally stronger on all boards except board 1. However, the home team played very well that day, leading to a very tight match. On board 8, Ismo Ulvila had White against G. Fox (1712). Black took a gambit pawn in the...
Round 3: Europchess back in the game! In round 3 of 13 October, both Europchess 1 and 2 scored their first full match points against Fontaine 2 and Humbeek 1, respectively. Europchess 3 narrowly lost to Lessines 1, while Europchess 4 drew against Humbeek 3. Europchess 1 takes a deserved win from Fontaine 2 In Division 2 B, the first team hosted a somewhat weakened Fontaine 2 with an average of under 2100 ELO....
Round 2: Peace in Boitsfort, Surrender in Leuven In the second round, Europchess 2 scored an important match point with a draw in Boitsfort 2, whereas Europchess 1 and 3 saw no land against Leuven 1 and 2. In return, Europchess 4 beat Leuven 5. Europchess 1 in dire straits against Leuven 1 With a respective average of 2136 ELO (Europchess 1) and 2156 ELO (Leuven 1) the match looked on equal on paper,...
Round 1: Mitigated results in the start of the new season In the first round of the new season on 22 September 2013, our first team drew with Namur 1, while the second team had to give in with 1,5-4,5 to Westerlo 1. Europchess 1 holds a draw to strong Namur Europchess 1 fought a tough battle against Namur 1 who came with a line-up of an average of roughly 2200 ELO. On board...
Division 2B 22/09/2013 226 Europchess 1 901 Namur 1 29/09/2013 230 Leuven 1 226 Europchess 1 13/10/2013 226 Europchess 1 514 Fontaine 2 17/11/2013 239 Boitsfort 1 226 Europchess 1 01/12/2013 226 Europchess 1 618 Amay 2 15/12/2013 604 KSK47-Eynatten 2 226 Europchess 1 12/01/2014 226 Europchess 1 708 NLS 1 26/01/2014 703 Eisden/MSK-Dilsen 1 226 Europchess 1 09/02/2014 226 Europchess 1 201 CREB 1 23/02/2014 135 Geel 1 226 Europchess 1 16/03/2014 607...