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Basic data

14th European Team Chess Championship (see all-time tournament summary)
Date:	10th - 20th October 2003
City:	Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Venue:	International Fair Complex
Chairman of Organizing Committee:	Mr. Vasil Ivanov (BUL)
Tournament Director:	Mr. Kamen Toshkov (BUL)
Chief Arbiter:	IA Zdravko Nedev (BUL)
Teams participating:	37 (incl. Bulgaria "B")
Players participating:	182 (incl. 111 GMs, 41 IMs and 12 FMs)
Games played:	648
Competition format:	Four board nine round Swiss.
Final order decided by:	1. Match points; 2. Game points; 3. Buchholz
Time control:	all moves in 90 minutes + 30 sec. increment per move
Official logo:
Website:	http://etcc.chessbg.com (cached)
Downloadable game file:	03etch.zip

Tournament review

Individual medals

Best Rating Performance

no.	name	flag	code	ELOp
1.	GM Sutovsky, Emil		ISR	2765
2.	GM Macieja, Bartłomiej		POL	2762
3.	GM Kacheishvili, Giorgi		GEO	2759

1st Board

no.	name	flag	code	pts	gms	%
1.	GM David, Alberto		LUX	6	8	75.0
2.	GM Ponomariov, Ruslan		UKR	5½	8	68.8
3.	GM Georgiev, Kiril		MKD	5½	8	68.8

2nd Board

no.	name	flag	code	pts	gms	%
1.	GM Vallejo Pons, Francisco		ESP	6	9	66.7
2.	GM Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar		AZE	6	9	66.7
3.	GM Navara, David		CZE	6	9	66.7

3rd Board

no.	name	flag	code	pts	gms	%
1.	GM Babula, Vlastimil		CZE	6	8	75.0
2.	GM Varga, Zoltán		HUN	4½	6	75.0
3.	GM Sutovsky, Emil		ISR	5	7	71.4

4th Board

no.	name	flag	code	pts	gms	%
1.	GM Kacheishvili, Giorgi		GEO	6½	8	81.3
2.	GM Nedev, Trajce		MKD	5½	7	78.6
3.	GM Morozevich, Alexander		RUS	5	7	71.4

1st Reserve Board

no.	name	flag	code	pts	gms	%
1.	GM Degraeve, Jean-Marc		FRA	5½	7	78.6
2.	GM Soćko, Bartosz		POL	5½	8	68.8
2.	GM Gagunashvili, Merab		GEO	5½	8	68.8

Interesting games