| European Team Chess Championships |
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| Monday, 31 October 2011 19:42 |
 The European Team Chess Championshipwill take place 2nd to 11th of November in Porto Carras, Greece. 38 countries participate in the open section, with 135 GMs and 175 titled players. The countries participating in the women section are 28, with 11 GMs, 40 WGMs, 27 IMs and a total of 123 players.
Official website / Live games / Reports Participants open / Participants women / Results / Standings / Photos / Videos The European Team Championship will be held on the Swiss system in 9 rounds, with one open section and one section for the women’s teams, considered as separate competitions. According to ECU and FIDE rules, the time control will be 90 min for 40 moves + 30 min for the rest of the game + 30 sec increment for every move played starting from the first move. Schedule 2 November: Arrival of Delegations Live games at the official website Venue The games of the European Team Chess Championships 2011 will take place in the Olympic Hall Congress Center (1500 sq. m.), within the 5-star Porto Carras Grand Resort. It is the same venue that hosted the record breaking World Youth Chess Championship. The luxury Porto Carras Grand Resort is situated in an enchantingly verdant landscape in Halkidiki, Greece. Set like a gem in 1763 hectares (17 million sq. m.) of incredibly beautiful grounds, it is a paradise of green, fringed by seemingly endless sandy beaches, in fact nine kilometers of them! |