15th European Chess Team Championship: Gothenburg 2005

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Basic data

15th European Chess Team Championship
Date: 30th July - 7th August 2005
City: Gothenburg, Sweden
Venue: The Göteborg Convention Centre
Chairman of Organizing Committee: Mr. Göran Terninger (SWE)
Tournament Director: Mr. Niklas Sidmar (SWE)
Chief Arbiter: IA Iohan Sigeman (SWE)
Men's section Arbiter: IA Dirk de Ridder (BEL)
Teams participating: 40 (including Sweden "B" and "C")
Players participating: 196 (including 119 GMs, 1 WGM, 49 IMs and 11 FMs)
Games played: 720
Game system: Four board nine round Swiss.
Tie-breaks: 1. Match points; 2. Game points; 3. Buchholz
Clock routine: 40 moves in 90 minutes, then 15 minutes for the rest of the game, 30 sec. increment after each move
Official logo: Gothenburg 2005
WWW home page: http://www.goteborgchess2005.se
Downloadable game file: 05etch.zip

Tournament review

To be added soon.

Individual medals

Best Rating Performance
no. name code ELOp
1. GM Graf, Alexander GER 2801
2. GM Avrukh, Boris ISR 2767
3. GM Fressinet, Laurent FRA 2762

1st Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. GM Nielsen, Peter Heine DEN 6½ 9 72.2
2. GM Svidler, Peter RUS 5½ 8 68.8
3. GM Nybäck, Tomi FIN 5½ 8 68.8

2nd Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. GM Palac, Mladen CRO 6½ 9 72.2
2. GM Sutovsky, Emil ISR 5½ 8 68.8
3. GM Hellsten, Johan SWE 5½ 8 68.8

3rd Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. GM Graf, Alexander GER 6½ 8 81.3
2. GM Banikas, Hristos GRE 6 8 75.0
3. GM Moiseenko, Olexandr UKR 6 8 75.0

4th Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. GM Jenni, Florian SUI 6½ 8 81.3
2. GM Avrukh, Boris ISR 5½ 7 78.6
3. IM Pérez Candelario, Manuel ESP 6 8 75.0

Reserve Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. GM Markowski, Tomasz POL 6½ 8 81.3
2. GM Balogh, Csaba HUN 4½ 6 75.0
3. GM Anastasian, Ashot ARM 5 7 71.4

Interesting games


To be added soon.