The 25th men's and 3rd women's Mitropacup took place in Brno, Czech Republic from 7th to 15th September, 2006. There were 10 teams and 74 players (including 8 GMs) in both tournaments competing in a four (men) and two (women) round robin. Hungary won an extremely tight men's competition half of a point ahead of the Czechs and Croatia. In the women's section, Slovenia took their third consecutive trophy edging Germany and Croatia. The line-ups of men's event were decent with a lot of good chess played at top boards while women's tournament was somehow weaker than previous years.

The Mitropa Cup (often spelled as Mitropacup or Mitropa-Cup) is the annual team chess tournament for national teams from Central Europe. The word Mitropa is a derivative of German Mittel Europa (Central Europe). The idea of the Mitropa Cup came from Gertrude Wagner, who wanted to create a chess team tournament after the example of respective football competition. She, together with her husband Karl and the president of the Austrian Chess Federation Kurt Jungwirth were the founders and organizers of the tournament. The series commenced in 1976 in Innsbruck. Read here the complete history of the Mitropa Cup.

The home page of the 2006 cup: http://www.chess.cz/web/mitropacup2006/eng.html
OlimpBase coverage of 2006 Mitropacup: men, women

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