The 15th European Senior Chess Championship for Men and Women will be held in Eretria, Greece, from 28th April to 8th May, 2015.
The tournament venue is the conference center of the 4-star “Eretria Village” Hotel, near the legendary ancient city of Eretria.
The Championship is open to all players representing ECU Chess Federations who have been born in the year 1965 or earlier. There is also no limit in the number of participants per federation.
At the present there are registrations from 23 countries with 9 Grandmasters in the field.
The Championship will be played in two categories: category SENIOR 50+ and category SENIOR 65+, Men and Women separately.
Eretria Village
The European Senior Chess Championship will be played according to the Swiss System in 9 rounds, with the time control 40 moves in 90 minutes, followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game+ 30 seconds increment per move, starting from move one.
Total prize fund of the Championship is 8.000 Euros, and the first 3 places will be awarded with cups and medals. Prizes will be equally shared among the players with the same score.
The top 3 players from each category of the European Senior Championship 2015 are qualified with personal rights (free board and lodging in single rooms) to the World Senior Championship 2016.
Contact the Tournament Director: FIDE IO Nikos Kalesis
tel.: (+30) 6938326161, fax: (+30) 2641500112
e-mail: euroseniors2015@gmail.com
Regulations for download (PDF)
Participants:
1. GM Nunn John D M ENG 2601 O50
2. GM Sturua Zurab GEO 2536 O50
3. GM Arkell Keith C ENG 2509 O50
4. IM Kalegin Evgenij RUS 2457 O50
5. GM Vasiukov Evgeni RUS 2414 O65
6. GM Kupreichik Viktor D BLR 2373 O65
7. IM Berkovich Mark A ISR 2363 O50
8. IM Barle Janez SLO 2347 O50
9. IM Shvedchikov Anatoli I. RUS 2326 O65
10. GM Gaprindashvili Nona GEO 2302 w W65
11. GM Pushkov Nikolai RUS 2302 O65
12. IM Smolin Sergey UKR 2272 O50
13. FM Chapman Terry P D ENG 2268 O50
14. FM Furman Boris RUS 2217 O50
15. Christensen Jan DEN 2214 O50
16. Pedersen Jan Rode DEN 2208 O65
17. IM Schouten Nico NED 2197 O65
18. FM Nikolaidis Konstantinos GRE 2190 O50
19. WGM Saunina Ludmila RUS 2183 w W50
20. WIM Kasoshvili Tsiala GEO 2179 w W50
21. WIM Jicman Ligia-Letitia ROU 2172 w W50
22. Molchanov Nikolay UKR 2153 O50
23. Neumann Joachim GER 2148 O65
24. FM Hohler Peter SUI 2141 O65
25. Stokes Michael ENG 2135 O65
26. CM Ashby Anthony C ENG 2129 O65
27. FM Zhelesny Stanislav RUS 2118 O65
28. Papadimitriou Loukas GRE 2114 O50
29. IM Archangelsky Mikhail RUS 2108 O65
30. Kaminik Aleksandar ISR 2106 O65
31. Hewson Brian Wr ENG 2099 O50
32. Yasin Hur TUR 2096 O50
33. Batakovs Olegs LAT 2095 O65
34. Morriss Pete IRL 2092 O65
35. Anguera Maestro Jaime ESP 2090 O65
36. CM Gamback Bjorn SWE 2088 O50
37. Gregg Alan M ENG 2083 O65
38. White Alastair F SCO 2070 O65
39. Eckhardt Lars NOR 2069 O50
40. CM Reuben Stewart ENG 2066 O65
41. Gromark Per-Olof SWE 2066 O65
42. Fletcher John WLS 2063 O50
43. Danielsson Robert SWE 2054 O65
44. Mas Recorda Pere ESP 2052 O65
45. WGM Khmiadashvili Tamar GEO 2043 w W65
46. Mayer Schwartz Rene ESP 2041 O65
47. FM Kulago Alexander RUS 2038 O65
48. Melderis Uldis LAT 2000 O50
49. Adams Mark WLS 1988 O50
50. Basas Gamazo Josep ESP 1987 O65
51. Shaw Meyrick ENG 1980 O50
52. Mckerracher Douglas SCO 1968 O65
53. Muratoglu Salih TUR 1960 O65
54. Canonne Antoine FRA 1944 O50
55. Kabanova Irina RUS 1941 w W65
56. Waisberg Arnold ISR 1933 O65
57. Sevenyuk Alexey BLR 1915 O65
58. Staunsbjerg Valdemar A NOR 1894 O50
59. Rotelli Pietro ITA 1885 O50
60. Degtiarev Viktor RUS 1867 O65
61. Ozmen Halil Nejat TUR 1864 O50
62. Abolina Arija-Solveiga LAT 1849 O65
63. Zilbershtein Victor ISR 1811 O50
64. Zurel Maxim ISR 1725 O65
65. Webster Jim J SCO 0 O65