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E-MAGAZINE MAY 2020 0101 #EOCC2020 Simultanerous exhibitions with Top Grandmasters for Prize Winners! #EOCC Women's Title GM Batsiashvili Nino (GEO) is the European Women Online Chess Champion GM Alexey Sarana (RUS) wins #EOCC2020 among 4500 participants! #EOCC European Online Chess Championship 2020, was the largest European chess Championship ever held with participation of almost 4500 players coming from all 55 European federations, concluded on chess.com. 20 years old Russian Grandmaster, Alexey Sarana (RUS, 2618 rapid rtg) became the European Online Chess Champion after defeating Navara David (CZE, 2707) with score 2:0 in the Superfinals of Top16 Knockout Finals. Second place in the Knockout stage came to David Navara (CZE, 2707 rapid rtg) and third place came to Sargissian Gabriel (ARM, 2693 rapid rtg). Based on combined results of group 2300+, Batsiashvili Nino (GEO) took the title of European Women Online Chess Champion, scoring European Chess Union has its seat in Switzerland, 10 points from both events. Second place went to Shuvalova Polina Address: Rainweidstrasse 2, CH-6333, Hunenberg See, Switzerland (RUS) with 9.5 points, who had better ties than Daria Voit (RUS) with European Chess Union is an independent the same score of 9.5 points. association founded in 1985 in Graz, Austria; European Chess Union has 54 National Federation Members; Every year ECU organizes more than 20 The online activities continue and in June, while ECU published and prestigious events and championships. distributed guidelines on restarting the over the board activities in www.europechess.org Europe. [email protected] contents EOCC2020 Online Chess Camps Arbiters corner 03 Alexey Sarana wins 12 ECU and ECU EDU 16 74th Internet based FIDE European Online Chess Commission organize Online Arbiters seminar organized by Championship 2020 Chess Camps ECU Arbiters' Council EOCC2020 Upcoming events 08 Winners of special 14 How to restart OTB 18 -ECU Online Academy categories Chess Activities? -Workshop for Arbiters -"Women in Leadership role" Simul exhibitions FIDE Nations Cup Fun zone 10 Prize winners of EOCC2020 15 China wins FIDE Chess.com 19 participated in simuls Online Nations Cup Newsletter May 2020 ALEXEY SARANA WINS EUROPEAN ONLINE CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 2020 European Online Chess Championship 2020, the largest European chess Championship ever held, with participation of almost 4500 players coming from all European federations, concluded on chess.com. Newsletter May 2020 3 GM Alexey Sarana in the ZOOM call during the European Online Chess Championship Top16 Finals 20 years old Russian Grandmaster, Alexey Sarana First interview of European (RUS, 2618 rapid rtg) became Online Chess Champion 2020 the European Online Chess Champion after defeating Navara After the finish of the super-final match against David (CZE, 2707) with score 2:0 Navara David, Sarana was interviewed in Chess.com in the Superfinals of Top16 TV Studio with commentators of European Online Knockout Finals. Chess Championship WGM Keti Tsatsalashvili and GM Sarana Alexey was the GM Roeland Pruijssers, and emphasized: Winner of the 1st Grand Prix “I am very happy that this tournament was event for E group with score of organised, because we, 2600 players, don’t have 7.5 points, and placed 4th in the many chances to play and win some prizes.”. 2nd Grand Prix event for E group with 6.5 points. EOCC2020 Knockout Top16 The best ranked 14 players from two Grand Prix events of the group E, for players rated 2300+, qualified for the final Knockout phase, together with two ECU invitees: Anish Giri (NED, 2731) and Navara David (CZE, 2707 rapid rtg). Newsletter May 2020 4 GM David Navara- Winner of silver GM Gabriel Sargissian- Winner of medal of #EOCC2020 bronze medel of #EOCC2020 Knockout Top16 Final Stage of group E Grand Prix events of E group were played on 29th and 30th of May, and the combined standings of both events can be found on ECU Website. According to Combined standings of two GrandPrix events, top ranked 14 players qualified for the Knockout Final stage, together with two ECU invitees: GM David Navara and GM Anish Giri. Knockout Top16 were played on 30th of May, and all 16 participants were obliged to participate in ZOOM meeting and during the games to share their screens. They have played two games per match, with time control 10 minutes + 2 seconds of an increment, and if the result was in a tie after two played games, the Armageddon was played. After four played matches, second place in the Knockout stage came to David Navara (CZE, 2707 rapid rtg) and third place came to Sargissian Gabriel (ARM, 2693 rapid rtg). Report of Chess.com on European Online Chess Championship, altogether with all games from the Final Top16 Knockout Stage is available here. PGN file of 1st Grand Prix event for group E played on 29th of May can be downloaded here. Newsletter May 2020 5 Both GrandPrix events of Group E, as well as the knockout Top16 LIVE BROADCAST OF were LIVE broadcasted in EOCC2020 IN CHESS.COM-TV chesscomTV. The Special guest of LIVE Broadcast of Knockout Top16 broadcast European Chess Union chesscomTV Studio was also ECU Vice-President, WGM Dana President, Mr.Zurab Reizniece-Ozola. WGM Dana Reizniece-Ozola was one of the participants of the event in group D and scored 4/8 in Finals of D Azmaiparashvili, was a special group. guest of LIVE Broadcast of Knockout Top16. He announced Fair Play Specialist, Mr. Kenneth Regan, joined WGM Keti European Youth Online Chess Tsatsalashvili and GM Roeland Pruijssers in chesscomTV LIVE Studio Championship as the future and explained anti-cheating measures taken during European Online Chess Championship. project of ECU, together with European Online Team Chess Championship. LIVE BROADCAST #EOCC2020 All the games of European Online Chess Championship were available to be followed live through chess.com. Final events of each category: A,B,C, D and E were broadcasted LIVE through European Chess Union twitch account, with commentaries of WGM Keti Tsatsalashvili, while the E event was broadcasted through chesscom TV together with Keti and commentaries of GM Roeland Pruijssers. Newsletter May 2020 6 ECU Secretary General, Representative of ECU Diamond Mr. Theodoros Tsorbatzoglou speaking Sposnor, AiGroup, Mr. Georgi Khurodze about Europan Online Chess joined LIVE studio of EOCC2020 Championship 2020 During the LIVE Broadcast of European Online Chess Championship 2020, through Chess.com TV, ECU Secretary General, Mr. Theodoros Tsorbatzoglou, joined the LIVE studio and spoke about European Online Chess Championship prizes, further Online activities and ECU events planned for this year, and about anti-cheating measures taken during the event. Representative of ECU Diamond Sponsor and Partner, and Sponsor of European Golden Pawn Ceremony, in the Chess.com TV LIVE broadcast of the event spoke about Parthership of ECU and AiGroup and importance of supporting intelectual activities. Before the start of the event, ECU President, Mr. Zurab Azmaiparashvili, sent a Welcome message to all the participants. ECU President, Mr. Zurab Azmaiparashvili, welcomed all the participants before the start of the event. Newsletter May 2020 7 Berdnyk Mariia- GM Vincent Keymer- The best ranked U18 player The best ranked Senior player: The best ranked GU18 Photo credits: @Georgios Souleidis GM Kiril Georgiev Best players in Special Categories Based on combined results of Batsiashvili Nino (GEO) took a title of The best ranked U18 player in E group of group E, the Best players of European Women Online Chess Champion, #EOCC2020 was Vincent Keymer (GER), . Special Categories are scoring 10 points from both events. Vincent Keymer was also a quarter-finalist of announced: Top three Women Second place went to Shuvalova Polina Top16 Knockout Stage The best ranked players, Top ranked U18 players (RUS) with 9.5 points, who had better ties GU18 became Berdnyk Mariia (UKR) with (open and female) and top than Daria Voit (RUS) with the same score of overall GP score of 7 points. The best Senior ranked Senior player. 9.5 points. player is Kiril Georgiev (MKD) with overall GP score of 11 points! Nino Batsiashvili European Women Online Champion Polina Photo:@Yoav Shuvalova- Nis Winner of silver medal of Women Category, Voit Daria- #EOCC2020 Winner of bronze medal of Women Photo credits: Category, @Eteri #EOCC2020 Kublashvili Photo: @ruchess.ru Newsletter May 2020 8 European Online Chess Championship 2020 European Online Chess Championship 2020 was played in 5 rating categories from 16th-31st May 2020, through Chess.com platform. Rating categories were made according to FIDE rapid rating: A (for players rated 1000-1400), B (for players rated 1400-1700), C (for players rated 1700-2000), D (for players rated 2000-2300) and E (for players rated 2300+). A, B, C and D event were played through 2 stages: qualification stage, where top 250 players qualified for the 2nd day Finals, and 100 top ranked finalists qualified for the next rating category. The Winners of A category were: 1. Sezgin Mustafa (TUR, 1201 rapid rtg) All the prizes have been sent on 2.Aghayeva Gulsana (AZE,1329rpd rtg) participants emails. Top three ranked 3. Popov Roman (CZE, 1379 rapid rtg) players of each group, open and women category recieved ECU Medal The Winners of B group are: Certificates. 1.Stalmach Richard (CZE, 1667 rpd rtg) 2.Domovic Ognjen (CRO, 1544 rpd rtg) Top ranked players of Open and Women 3. Donmez Ahmet (TUR, 1483 rpd rtg) section of A, B, C and D category qualified for European Amateur Chess The Winners of C group are: Championship 2020. In case the event 1.Pavel Sebastian-Ion (ROU,1996rpdrtg) will not be held this year, due to health 2.Mehtiyev Elnur (AZE, 1968 rpd rtg) conditions, qulification will be valid for 3.Davtyan Artur (ARM, 1854 rpd rtg) 2021.
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    Shirley MacLaine Negotiating Armenia to Scrap JUNE 5, 2014, THE CALIFORNIA COURIER, PAGE 5 To Star in Film on Immigrants Visas for US Citizens NCAA Certifies Navasartian Games LOS ANGELES - Already the innate ability to put together a By Anita Busch against the Armenian people). YEREVAN (Azatutyun.am) - largest amateur athletic tourna- tournament like the Navasartian Deadline.com William Hurt has also expressed The Armenian government plans ment in the state of California, the Games, is something that was Oscar-winning actress Shirley interest in playing the high school to unilaterally lift visa require- Navasartian Games just received always bound happen, and for it MacLaine is negotiating to star coach suffering a string of losses ments for citizens of the United a massive boost from non-other to scale new heights and be rec- in “Men of Granite.” The project, and resigned that his team will States travelling to Armenia, than the National Collegiate Ath- ognized in a way it was always based on the book of the same never win a game ... until this Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey letic Association. destined to." name, is the true story of how band of Armenian-speaking kids Manasarian announced on Thurs- Known as the nation's college "This raises the bar!" said the a group of poor, Armenian im- take to the court. Only then does day. sports authority, the NCAA is- 33rd. Honorary President of the migrant high school boys rose his passion for the game reig- “It is expected that we will es- sued Homenetmen certification games and Navasartian Organiz- above bigotry in a small town in nites.