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E-MAGAZINE DECEMBER 2020 0101 Women's Club Cup Cercle d'Echecs de Monte- Carlo wins European Online Women's Club Cup! ECU General Assembly ECU Annual Meeting took place on 19.12.2020 GM JONES GAWAIN WINS EUROPEAN ONLINE BLITZ CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP! 2021, new Year, new Challenges... ECU Board & Officers wishing you and yours a safe, healthy, and prosperous new year! The Annual ECU General Assembly took place online on Saturday 19th of December 2020 with the presence of 40 National Federations. European Blitz #Chess Championship and European Womne's Club Cup were organised succefully online. Full reports. European Chess Union has its seat in Switzerland, European Chess Union and ECU Arbiters Council Address: Rainweidstrasse 2, CH-6333, Hunenberg See, Switzerland launche the special courses for Chess Arbiters Online European Chess Union is an independent association founded in 1985 in Graz, Austria; European Chess Union has 54 National Federation 8th London Chess Conference – ChessTech2020 took Members; Every year ECU organizes more than 20 prestigious events and championships. place online this year, on 5th and 6th December 2020. www.europechess.org [email protected] contents ECU Online Blitz Championship ECU General Assembly ECU102 course report 03 GM Jones Gawain wins European 08 Communique of the ECU 16 Online Blitz Chess Championship Annual General Assembly ECU FIDE Arbiters seminar 2020 for female participants Women's Club Cup ECU Federation news Arbiters Corner 05 Cercle d'Echecs de Monte-Carlo 10 100 years anniversaries of 18 Upcoming- Tata Steel wins European Online Women's Belgium and Austrian Chess Chess Club Cup Federation! Awarding ceremonies ChessTech2020 Fun Zone 07 Closing ceremonies of ECU 14 Report on ChessTech 2020 19 Online events conference Newsletter December 2020 JONES GAWAIN WINS EUROPEAN ONLINE BLITZ CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 2020 European Online Blitz Chess Championship 2020 took place from 18th-20th of December, and was played through Tornelo online platform with participation of more than 300 players from 40 different European federations. The event was played within two stages: Qualification and Top 16 knock out phase. Newsletter December 2020 3 British Chess Champion (2012, 2017) Jones C B Gawain (ENG, 2670) won the event after he convincingly defeated Shirov Alexei (ESP, 2662) in the Final match of Top 16 phase, with result 2.5-0.5. The match for the third place was played between Bluebaum Matthias (GER, 2670) and Navara David (CZE, 2697) and concluded after three games in favour for Top German Grandmaster with result 2.5-0.5. Top 16 players won money prizes according to the Top16 Final standings: 1)Jones Gawain (ENG, 2670) 2)Shirov Alexei (ESP, 2662) 3)Bluebaum Matthias (GER, 2670) 4)Navara David (CZE, 2697) 5)Petrosyan Manuel (ARM, 2628) Players ranked on 17th, 18th, 19th 6) Indjic Aleksandar (SRB, 2604) and 20th place were awarded with 7) Meier Georg (GER, 2628) invitation for European Blitz and 8)Yilmaz Mustafa (TUR, 2630) Rapid Chess Championship in 9)Hovhannisyan Robert (ARM,2642) Katowice, December 2021 (free of 10) Safarli Eltaj (AZE, 2598) charge for 4* B&B and entry fee): 11)Pantsulaia Levan (GEO, 2553) Steinberg Nitzan (ISR, 2553), 12)Demidov Mikhail (RUS, 2523) Theodorou Nikolas (GRE, 2554), 13)Wojtaszek Radoslaw (POL,2705) Hakobyan Aram (ARM, 2598) and 14)Deac Bogdan-Daniel (ROU, Sanal Vahap (TUR, 2563). 2625) 15)Onischuk Vladimir (UKR, 2662) The event was LIVE broadcasted 16)Ozen Deniz (TUR, 2397) from ECU studio, with LIVE commentaries by: WGM Keti Final lists and list of prizes can be Tsatsalashvili, GM Marcin Tazbir and found on the ECU Website. WFM Maria Leks. Special prizes Top Women players European Online Blitz The best ranked Senior players are Garayev Kanan (AZE, 2331) was the Chess Championship awarded with an invitation for best ranked U18 player with 8 European Blitz and Rapid Chess points, and Kacharava Nikolozi Top three Women players of the Championship in Katowice 2021: (GEO, 2443) was the best ranked event were: Bykhovsky Avigdor (RUS, 2400) U16 player. Stefanova Antoaneta (BUL, with 5.5 points, Efimov Igor (MNC, 2466) with a score of 7/11 points 2416) and Mazi Leon (SLO, 2340), All of them will be awarded an in the Swiss stage, each with 5 points. invitation for European Blitz and Sargsyan Anna M. (ARM, 2402) Rapid Chess Championship 2021 with 6.5/11 points and Sarana Alexey (RUS, 2640) was the which will take place in Katowice, Socko Monika (POL, 2421) with 6 points. best-ranked U20 player with 7.5 Poland. points, while Mammadzada Gunay (AZE, 2443) was the best ranked Girl U20 with 6.5 points. Newsletter December 2020 4 Cercle d’Echecs de Monte-Carlo wins European Women's Online Club Cup 2020 European Online Women’s Club Cup took place from 19th-22nd December 2020 and was played through Tornelo online platform with the participation of 42 teams. The event was played within Qualification stage played within 5 groups and final stage which consisted of 10 teams- the best two of each group. Newsletter December 2020 5 Cercle d’Echecs de Monte-Carlo (Monaco) convincingly won the event and the prestigious European Cup with a round to spare, and despite the draw in the last round, scored 14 match points. The last round decided the medalists: UGRA (Russia) with a score of 11 match points but better board points than GAMBIT Volgograd (Russia) who took the bronze medal. Cercle d’Echecs de Monte-Carlo (Monaco) will receive the “Coupe Princesse Charlène” during the opening ceremony of the 2021 European Women’s Club Cup. The second and third team win the silver and bronze e-medals – Final Group. Top-ranked four teams will be awarded also with money prizes: 1st Winner Team- Cercle d’Echecs de European Online Women's Club Cup Monte-Carlo (Monaco) 2500 euros, was played within two stages: 2nd Winner Team-UGRA (Russia) 2000 Qualification and Final. euros, 3rd Winner Team– GAMBIT Volgograd Qualifications Groups were played on (Russia) 1500 euros and 19th and 20th of December, as Round 4th Winner Team– Poland Hussars Robin events and the first two teams of (Poland) 1000 euros. each qualification group qualified for Final Group which consisted of 10 European Online Women’s Club Cup teams. was LIVE broadcasted from ECU live studio, together with live commentaries The time control was: 15min + 5 sec per by GM Marcin Tazbir and WGM Keti player. The event was organised by Tsatsalashvili. European Chess Union and Monte Carlo Chess Club, under the high patronage of Final results can be found here. his serene highness Prince Albert II of Monaco. Participants The best individual players per boards: European Online Women's Individual e- Medals are won by 1st, The best players of the 3rd board: Club Cup 2nd, and 3rd place of each board of final 1st place- Papp Petra 4/7 Group. The first winner of each Board 2nd place- Dauletova Gulmir 5/9 Top European female chess players will receive 200 euros (5 x 200). 3rd place- Badelka Olga 4/7 will participate the event, such as: Aleksandra Goryachkina (RUS, The best players of the 1st board: Players with the best score of the 4th 2593) playing for team Cercle 1st place- Gunina Valentrina 7/9 board: d’Echecs de Monte-Carlo, Muzychuk 2nd place- Zawadzka Jolanta 6.5/9 1st place- Dordzhieva Dinara 7/9 Maria (UKR, 2544) and Muzychuk 3rd place Mammadzada Gunay 5.5/9 2nd place- Antolak Julia 4.5/7 Anna (UKR, 2535) representing Kyiv 3rd place- Paehtz Elisabeth 4.5/7 Chess Federation – Greco, Dzagnidze Nana (GEO, 2524) The best players of the 2nd board: Cercle d’Echecs de Monte-Carlo, 1st place- Kashlinskaya Alina 6.5/9 The best reserve players (board 5): Kashlinskaya Alina (RUS, 2494) 2nd place- Girya Olga 5/8 1st place- Buksa Nataliya 5.5/8 playing for Clichy-Echecs-92, 3rd place- Dzagnidze Nana 5/8 2nd place- Ambartsumova Karina 5/7 Kosteniuk Alexandra (RUS, 2471) 3rd place- Fataliyeva Ulviyya 2.5/5 with team Clichy-Echecs-92 ... Newsletter December 2020 6 The Winners of European The Winners of European Women's Club Cup- Cercle ECU Secretary General, Online Blitz Championship d'Echecs de Monte Carlo Mr. Theodoros Tsorbatzoglou ONLINE AWARDING CEREMONIES The Closing ceremony for The Closing ceremony has started with The attendees of the Closing ceremony were European Online Blitz and the welcome speach of ECU President, also: ECU Secretary General Mr. Theodoros Online Women's Club Cup Mr. Zurab Azmaiparashvili, who Tsorbatzoglou, FIDE Vice President Mr. took place on 23rd addressed all the participants and Lukasz Turlej and other distinguished guests, December 2020, online. congratulated to all the Winners. The Closing ceremony was hosted by WGM Keti Tsatsalashvili. FIDE Vice ECU President President Mr. Mr.Zurab Lukasz Turlej Azmaiparashvili at the Closing Ceremony of ECU Online events ECU Women's Commission Chairman, Mr. Jean Michel Rapaire Newsletter December 2020 7 COMMUNIQUE OF THE ECU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2020 The annual ECU General Assembly 2020 took place online on 19th of December with representatives and officials from 40 European Chess Federations. The meeting was interactive with video presentations and productive discussion. FIDE President, Mr. Arkady Dvorkovich joined the ECU General Assembly and congratulated ECU for the good work organizing online activities and for the fruitful cooperation in the common FIDE-ECU projects. Newsletter December 2020 8 ECU GENERAL ASSEMBLY A detailed video-report of activities >The Arbiters’ Council presented an of the past year was presented by overview of the activities of the year the ECU Board. Delegates and 2020 and future plans. participants had the opportunity to >The achievements of the ECU comment on the report and make Women’s Commission were suggestions for future activities.
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    TCEC Cup 2 Article Accepted Version The TCEC Cup 2 report Haworth, G. and Hernandez, N. (2019) TCEC Cup 2. ICGA Journal, 41 (2). pp. 100-107. ISSN 1389-6911 doi: https://doi.org/10.3233/ICG-190104 Available at http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/81390/ It is advisable to refer to the publisher’s version if you intend to cite from the work. See Guidance on citing . Published version at: https://content.iospress.com/articles/icga-journal/icg190104 To link to this article DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/ICG-190104 Publisher: The International Computer Games Association All outputs in CentAUR are protected by Intellectual Property Rights law, including copyright law. Copyright and IPR is retained by the creators or other copyright holders. Terms and conditions for use of this material are defined in the End User Agreement . www.reading.ac.uk/centaur CentAUR Central Archive at the University of Reading Reading’s research outputs online TCEC Cup 2 Guy Haworth and Nelson Hernandez1 Reading, UK and Maryland, USA The knockout format of TCEC Cup 1 (Haworth and Hernandez, 2019a/b) was well received by its audience and was adopted as a regular interlude between the TCEC Seasons’ Division P and Superfinal. TCEC Cup 2 was nested within TCEC14 (Haworth and Hernandez, 2019c/d) and began on January 17th 2019 with 32 chess engines and only a few minor changes from the inaugural Cup event. The ‘standard pairing’ was again used, with seed s playing seed 26-r-s+1 in round r if the wins all go to the higher seed.