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Basic data

24th European Chess Club Cup (see all-time tournament summary)
Dates:	16th - 23rd October 2008
City:	Halkidiki (Greece)
Venue:	Theophano Imperial Palace
Head of Organizing Committee:	Mr. Theodoros Tsorbatzoglou (GRE)
Tournament Director:	Mr. Werner Stubevoll (AUT)
Chief Arbiter:	IA Dirk de Ridder (BEL)
Teams participating:	64 (from 34 countries)
Players participating:	463 (incl. 140 GMs, 94 IMs, 1 WGM, 64 FMs, 1 CM and 2 WFMs)
Games played:	1344 (5 games were forfeited)
Competition format:	Seven round Swiss
Final order decided by:	1. Match points; 2. Game points; 3. Buchholz
Time control:	40/90m + all/30m + 30s incr.(1)
Official logo:
Website:	http://ecc2008.chessdom.com (cached)
Other websites:	chess-results.com
PGN game file:	08ecc.pgn

Best board results

1th Board

no.	name	flag	team	pts	gms	%	Elop
1.	IM Gharamian, Tigran		CHRL	5½	6	91.7	2784
2.	GM Movsesian, Sergei		BOSN	5½	7	78.6	2828
3.	GM Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar		ALKS	4½	6	75.0	2680

2th Board

no.	name	flag	team	pts	gms	%	Elop
1.	GM Bacrot, Étienne		OSBB	5½	7	78.6	2839
2.	GM Zhang Pengxiang		GXTA	5½	7	78.6	2713
3.	GM Balogh, Csaba		BADN	5½	7	78.6	2702

3th Board

no.	name	flag	team	pts	gms	%	Elop
1.	GM Inarkiev, Ernesto		ALKS	5½	6	91.7	2718
2.	Blomqvist, Erik		ROCK	6	7	85.7	2586
3.	GM Areschenko, Alexander		PVKK	4	5	80.0	2806

4th Board

no.	name	flag	team	pts	gms	%	Elop
1.	GM Akopian, Vladimir		MMER	6	7	85.7	2816
2.	GM Naiditsch, Arkadij		OSBB	5½	7	78.6	2805
3.	GM Grischuk, Alexander		USVD	5½	7	78.6	2768

5th Board

no.	name	flag	team	pts	gms	%	Elop
1.	GM Malakhov, Vladimir		USVD	7	7	100.0	3310
2.	GM Miroshnichenko, Yevhen		PVKK	4½	5	90.0	2835
3.	GM Andreikin, Dmitry		EKSA	4½	5	90.0	2742

6th Board

no.	name	flag	team	pts	gms	%	Elop
1.	GM Minasian, Artashes		BKYE	6	6	100.0	3125
2.	GM Pashikian, Arman		MKYE	5	6	83.3	2718
3.	GM Dreev, Alexei		USVD	5	6	83.3	2695