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...