European Corporate Chess Championship 2024

The European Corporate Chess Championship 2024 is organised by the Asnières Le Grand Échiquier club under the patronage of the European Chess Union. The event will take place in Asnières-sur-Seine on 22 and 23 November 2024.

France is at the origin of the European Corporate Chess Championship: this competition was created in 2016, at the 87th FIDE congress. The following year in 2017, the project came to life in the Salons d’Honneurs of the Asnières-sur-Seine City Hall. Among the companies that participated in this first edition are Microsoft, Banque de France, Engie (formerly GDF Suez), Dassault Système, Sodern (ArianeGroup), Deutsche Bank, and the winner of the competition, the Russian Railways.

This competition brings together the world of chess and business, which share many common points, especially regarding decision making and strategy development.

This year participants include Banque de France, Kozlodui Nuclear Power Plant, Edvance, the European Patent Office, Microsoft, Volkswagen and more. Scroll down for the participants list.

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The tournament is open to teams from corporate entities based in Europe. Each team shall be composed of 4 players and possibly one substitute. A company can register as many teams as it wishes. The event will be played in 9 rounds with time control of 15 minutes for the whole game, plus 5 seconds of an increment starting from move one.

European Corporate Chess Championship 2024 participants