The European Amateur Chess Championships 2025 will be held from 25 November (arrivals) to 5 December (departures) in the Conference Hall of the 4-star “Riviera Spa Resort” Hotel in Mellieha, Malta.
The event will be played in three rating categories: U2300, U2000, and U1700, and it’s open to all players registered or approved by their national federations listed as the ECU members.
In order to be eligible to participate in the tournament, the players must fulfill the following conditions:
- All players must not hold any title above CM (or WCM for women) in the sections Under-1700 and Under-2000.
- All players must not hold any title above FM (or WFM for women) in the section Under-2300.
- A player must not have a published FIDE rating of 2300 or greater for at least one year prior to the registration deadline of the event.
- For the Under-2000 section, a player must not have a published FIDE rating of 2000 or greater for at least one year prior to the start of the championship.
- For the Under-1700 section, a player must not have a published FIDE rating of 1700 or greater for at least one year prior to the start of the championship.
- In case a player exceeds the rating of 1700 or 2000 after the registration deadline, he/she will play in the upper rating category.
Each tournament will be played in 9 rounds, swiss system, and separate Women’s competitions will be organized if there are at least 10 women players registered in the category. Otherwise, the Women’s sections will be merged with the Open competition, with separate rankings.
The rate of play will be 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the rest of the game, with an increment of 30 seconds per move, starting from move one.
The official hotel and the playing venue of the event is ****RIVIERA SPA RESORT.
The total prize fund of the events is 4.600 euros and the distribution of prizes is shown below. The winners of women categories receive the relevant title: “European Women Amateur Chess Champion under 1700 under 2000 and 2300.”
All players, accompanying persons and delegation members have to register (without any objection from their national federation) before the deadline of 10 October 2025.
During the event, the participants can join variety of parallel events, including: excursion to Malta’s capital Valletta, visit to Gozo island, visit to Coral Lagoon, excursion to Blue Lagoon, visit to Medina – old capital of Malta.
Contact information:
IO Giannis Kalesis
Email: info@malta2025.org
Official website: https://malta2025.org