11th European Team Chess Championship: Pula 1997

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Basic data

11th European Team Chess Championship
(see all-time tournament summary)
Date: 5th - 15th May 1997
City: Pula, Croatia
Venue: N/A
Tournament Director: N/A
Chief Arbiter: N/A
Teams participating: 34 (incl. Croatia "B")
Players participating: 169 (incl. 95 GMs, 52 IMs and 8 FMs)
Games played: 612
Competition format: Four board nine round Swiss.
Final order decided by: 1. Game points; 2. Buchholz; 3. Match points
Time control: probably 40 moves in 2 hours, then each next 20 moves in one hour
Official logo: Pula 1997
Website: http://jagor.srce.hr/~dmedak/etcc/main.html (cached)
Downloadable game file: 97etch.zip

Tournament review

To be added soon.

Individual medals

Best Rating Performance
no. name code ELOp
1. GM Alterman, Boris ISR 2814
2. GM Krasenkow, Michał POL 2773
3. GM Bareev, Evgeny RUS 2769

1st Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. GM Atalik, Suat TUR 5½ 7 78.6
2. GM Alterman, Boris ISR 6 8 75.0
3. GM Krasenkow, Michał POL 6½ 9 72.2

2nd Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. GM Vaganian, Rafael ARM 5 7 71.4
2. GM Efimov, Igor ITA 5½ 8 68.8
3. GM Svidler, Peter RUS 6 9 66.7

3rd Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. GM Palac, Mladen CRO 6½ 9 72.2
2. GM Zviagintsev, Vadim RUS 5½ 8 68.8
3. GM Timoščenko, Gennadij SVK 6 9 66.7

4th Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. IM Hellsten, Johan SWE 6½ 8 81.3
2. GM Sadler, Matthew ENG 7 9 77.8
3. GM Gabriel, Christian GER 5½ 8 68.8

Reserve Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. GM Anastasian, Ashot ARM 6½ 8 81.3
2. IM Kacheishvili, Giorgi GEO 6 9 66.7
3. IM Hába, Petr CZE 6 9 66.7

Interesting games


To be added soon.