European Chess Club Cup 2022

The 37th European Chess Club Cup and the 26th European Women’s Club Cup were from 2nd to 10th October in Mayrhofen, Austria. For the seven-round tournament, the teams in the open needed six players + two reserves, all of whom had to be members of the club or if not, the team had to pay a high license fee for him. The women’s team comprised four players plus one reserve player.

In the end, 87 teams took part (70 in the open section and only 17 women’s section) and the event broke the participation record.

The prize list had consisted in total of 40 000 euros – 25 000 for the open section and 15 000 for the women’s section. As the expenses for a team in the woman’s section are higher than the first place and the national federations don’t fund the women’s section team, the lack of participation is understandable. The ECCC should be the top club event of the year, but it needs a new format or a serious increase of prizes if they want a sustainable prestigious tournament.

The winner of the open section became Novy Bor Chess club from Czech Republic (GM Harikrishna Pentala, GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi, GM Wojtaszek Radoslaw, GM Navara David, GM Nguyen Thai Dai Van, GM Grandelius Nils, GM Anton Guijarro David, GM Ragger Markus) with 14 points. On the second place was Clichy-Echecs-92 from France with 12 points and the third place took German Schachclub Viernheim 1934e.V. with 11 points.

The women’s section won ASVOe Pamhagen from Austria (GM Danielian Elina, GM Ushenina Anna, IM Osmak Yuliia, IM Maltsevskaya Aleksandra) with 12 points. The second place took CSU ASE Superbet from Romania with 11 points. The same amount of points had Monaco team Cercle d´Echecs de Monte-Carlo and the rank was decided by second tie break.

The winners of the board prizes in the open section:

Board 1: Magnus Carlsen (Offerspill Chess Club), Rp: 2889

Board 2: Esipenko Andrey (Asnieres Le Grand Echiquier), Rp: 2897

Board 3:Amin Bassem (Clichy-Echecs-92), Rp:2832

Board 4:Volokitin Andrei (TAJFUN—SK Ljubljana), Rp: 2931

Board 5:Van Wely Loek (Clichy-Echecs-92), Rp: 2703

Board 6-8:Sebenik Matej (TAJFUN SK Ljubljana) Rp: 3018

The winners of the board prizes in the women’s section:

Board 1: Kashlinskaya Alina (BGK KS Gwiazda Bydgoszcz), Rp: 2538

Board 2: Ushenina Anna (ASVOe Pamhagen), Rp: 2539

Board 3: Wagner Dinara (SK Erste Bank Baden), Rp: 2518

Board 4: Efroimski Marsel (CSU ASE Superbet), Rp: 2564

Author

LUCIA ŠEVČÍKOVÁ