The 2022 European Corporate Chess Championship takes place over the weekend 18-19 June in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
The tournament is played on a luxury cruise ship of Royal Spido (named James Cook), while sailing in the Rotterdam harbour. 17 teams will participate in the event which will be played in 9 rounds, Swiss system, with time control: 15 minutes for the whole game, plus 5 seconds of an increment starting from the move one.
Among the players representing their corporations are: GM Anish Giri (2761, NED, Optiver 1 team), GM Loek van Wely (2629, NED, Hotels.nl), GM Max Warmerdam (2613, NED, Flow Traders), GM Friso Nijboer (NED, 2466, DSE Automatisering), IM David Simon Pardo (ESP, 2461, Optiver 2), IM Radoslaw Barski (2437, POL, PwC).
Starting rank list of teams:
x
Team
RtgAvg
1
Hotels.nl
2326
2
DSE Automatisering
2315
3
LBV 1
2160
4
Tata Steel
2100
5
Hapoel
2042
6
EPO The Hague 1
1995
7
PwC
1989
8
Trifol
1953
9
Flow Traders
1889
10
ASML
1758
11
LBV 2
1697
12
Optiver 1
1649
13
EPO The Hague 2
1644
14
Optiver 2
1595
15
ABN AMRO
1417
16
ADP
1298
17
EPO Munchen
1237
The total prize fund of the Championship is 6.000 EUR, with 3.000 EUR reserved for the Winner of the event.
Official website of the event: https://www.rotterdamcorporatechess.com/