European Small Nations Championship 2021 will be played from 17th-25th April 2021 in a hybrid format, following a unanimous decision by the ten ESNA member countries of Zone 1.10. The winner of the event will be granted one of the ECU spots in the forthcoming FIDE World Cup 2021. Each ESNA member Federation nominated one of its players… Read More »

European Online Chess Club Cup 2021 concluded yesterday after an intense final stage and the Winner of the event became the German team SF Deizisau e.V! 91 teams participated in the event and 18 teams proceeded to Play-offs. The best 10 teams of Play-offs qualified for the Final phase which took place from 30th-31st March and decided the… Read More »

The play-off phase of the European Online Chess Club Cup concluded and 9 teams are announced as Finalists of the most prestigious European Clubs event. 18 teams participated in the play-offs, separated into 3 groups, and the top three teams of each group qualified for the Finals which will be played on the 30th and 31st of March,… Read More »

The first phase of the European Online Club Cup concluded after two days of play through Tornelo online platform. 90 teams separated into 9 groups played a Round-robin system tournament of 9 rounds, and top two teams of each group qualified for the play-offs which will be played on 29th of March 2021. The team of Ladya Kazan… Read More »

European Hybrid Qualification Tournament for the FIDE World Cup will take place from 22nd-30th May and will be played Online as a hybrid event, through Tornelo online platform. 36 players will qualify for the FIDE World Cup 2021. The event will be played in a Knock out system with matches of 2 standard games + tiebreak if needed.… Read More »

European Online Chess Club Cup will be played from 27th-31st of March 2021, through Tornelo online platform. 91 teams (!) (90 for the qualification stage) have been registered for the European Online Club Cup 2021! More than 500 players will participate in the event, among whom are 404 titled players and more than 80 players rated 2600+, such… Read More »

Montenegro Chess Federation, in cooperation with the chess club „Elektroprivreda“ from Nikšić, organized Montenegro Chess Festival from 26th of February to 25th of March. Two IM tournaments were held in Nikšić, while the host of GM and Mix tournaments was Podgorica. IM and GM tournaments were 10 players round-robin with ten participants each. The Mix tournament has 16… Read More »

European Chess Union congratulates to its President, Mr. Zurab Azmaiparashvili on his 61st anniversary. We wish him a day filled with joy, years full of success and all his dreams to come true! Mr. Zurab Azmaiprashvili was born in Tbilisi, Georgia in 1960, and started a rising chess career by winning the Championship of Georgia among students (schoolboys)… Read More »

European Online Chess Club Cup will be played from 27th-31st of March 2021, through Tornelo online platform. Already 33 teams registered for the event, and a very strong line up is lead by teams: Novy Bor (Rating average: 2715), 4NCL Gruildford (Rating average: 2682), Clichy Echecs 92 (Rating average: 2666), Poland Hussars (Rating average: 2647), Ladya Kazan (Rating… Read More »

ECU E-Magazine February 2021 is out! In this edition of the ECU E-Magazine you may read about: Communique of the 2nd ECU Board meeting Opera Euro Rapid European Online Amateur Chess Championship European Parliamentary Online Chess Tournament European Online Club Cup French Chess Federation celebrates 100 years anniversary Arbiters corner Legends Questions – Meet GM Alexander Khalifman Fun… Read More »