12th European Team Chess Championship: Batumi 1999

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Basic data

12th European Team Chess Championship
(see all-time tournament summary)
Date: 27th November - 8th December 1999
City: Batumi, Georgia
Venue: N/A
Tournament Director: N/A
Chief Arbiter: N/A
Teams participating: 36 (incl. Georgia "B")
Players participating: 175 (incl. 100 GMs, 50 IMs and 8 FMs)
Games played: 648
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: Batumi 1999
Downloadable game file: 99etch.zip

Tournament review

To be added soon.

Individual medals

Best Rating Performance
no. name code ELOp
1. GM Topalov, Veselin BUL 2778
2. GM Lékó, Péter HUN 2774
3. GM Krasenkow, Michał POL 2773

1st Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. GM Shirov, Alexei ESP 6 8 75.0
2. GM Krasenkow, Michał POL 6½ 9 72.2
3. GM Atalik, Suat TUR 5½ 8 68.8

2nd Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. GM Georgiev, Kiril BUL 6½ 9 72.2
2. GM Polgár, Judit HUN 6½ 9 72.2
3. GM Palac, Mladen CRO 6½ 9 72.2

3rd Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. GM Anastasian, Ashot ARM 6½ 9 72.2
2. GM Miezis, Normunds LAT 6½ 9 72.2
3. GM Yrjölä, Jouni FIN 5 7 71.4

4th Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. GM Psakhis, Lev ISR 5½ 7 78.6
2. GM Kempiński, Robert POL 5 7 71.4
3. IM Oral, Tomáš CZE 5 7 71.4

Reserve Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. GM Reinderman, Dimitri NED 6 8 75.0
2. Erdoğan, Hakan TUR 4½ 6 75.0
3. GM Chandler, Murray Graham ENG 5 7 71.4

Interesting games


To be added soon.