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European Individual Chess Championship

Chess tournament

View of the tournament hall from the Open (Zegrze) 2005 event

The European Individual Chess Championship is a chess tournament organised by the European Chess Union. It was established in 2000 and has since then taken place on a yearly basis. Apart from determining the European champions (open and women's), another objective of this tournament is to determine a number of players who qualify for the FIDE World Cup and the FIDE Women's World Cup (formerly the knockout Women's World Championship).

Mode of play

The European Individual Championship consists of two separate tournaments, an open event and a women's event, held at different times of the year and hosted in different cities. Both are Swiss system tournaments, with a varying number of rounds. Historically, the only exception to this was the first Women's Championship tournament in 2000, which was held as a knockout tournament.

Apart from the first edition in 2000, where in case of a tie the Buchholz rating was used as a tie-breaker, rapid play playoff matches are used to determine the medal winners as well as the world championship qualifiers.

Controversy

There have been a number of controversies associated with the tournament:

At most venues, participants and accompanying persons have been obliged to stay at the "official hotel", appointed by the local organizers. The room rates for participants, however, have been significantly higher than for other hotel guests. This in large part contributed to the founding of the ACP in 2003. Also the standard of the hotels as well as of the food has been a focus of complaints by players and journalists.
As the European Championships are part of the FIDE World Championship cycle, starting with the 2001 edition, the new, faster FIDE time control was used. This led to many complaints by the participants about increased stress, incessant time trouble and a steep deterioration of the quality of the games.

Results (open)

Year	Venue	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Players/rounds
2000	ITA Saint-Vincent, Italy	Pavel Tregubov	Aleksej Aleksandrov	Tomasz Markowski	120 / 11
2001	NMK Ohrid, Macedonia	Emil Sutovsky	Ruslan Ponomariov	Zurab Azmaiparashvili	203 / 13
2002	GEO Batumi, Georgia	Bartłomiej Macieja	Mikhail Gurevich	Sergey Volkov	101 / 13
2003	TUR Silivri, Turkey	Zurab Azmaiparashvili	Vladimir Malakhov	Alexander Graf	207 / 13
2004	TUR Antalya, Turkey	Vassily Ivanchuk	Predrag Nikolić	Levon Aronian	74 / 13
2005	POL Zegrze, Poland	Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu	Teimour Radjabov	Levon Aronian	229 / 13
2006	TUR Kuşadası, Turkey	Zdenko Kožul	Vassily Ivanchuk	Kiril Georgiev	138 / 11
2007	GER Dresden, Germany	Vladislav Tkachiev	Emil Sutovsky	Dmitry Jakovenko	403 / 11
2008	BUL Plovdiv, Bulgaria	Sergei Tiviakov	Sergei Movsesian	Sergey Volkov	323 / 11
2009	MNE Budva, Montenegro	Evgeny Tomashevsky	Vladimir Malakhov	Baadur Jobava	306 / 11
2010	CRO Rijeka, Croatia	Ian Nepomniachtchi	Baadur Jobava	Artyom Timofeev	408 / 11
2011	FRA Aix-les-Bains, France	Vladimir Potkin	Radosław Wojtaszek	Judit Polgár	393 / 11
2012	BUL Plovdiv, Bulgaria	Dmitry Jakovenko	Laurent Fressinet	Vladimir Malakhov	348 / 11
2013	POL Legnica, Poland	Alexander Moiseenko	Evgeny Alekseev	Evgeny Romanov	286 / 11
2014	ARM Yerevan, Armenia	Alexander Motylev	David Antón Guijarro	Vladimir Fedoseev	257 / 11
2015	ISR Jerusalem, Israel	Evgeniy Najer	David Navara	Mateusz Bartel	250 / 11
2016	KOS Gjakova, Kosovo	Ernesto Inarkiev	Igor Kovalenko	Baadur Jobava	245 / 11
2017	BLR Minsk, Belarus	Maxim Matlakov	Baadur Jobava	Vladimir Fedoseev	397 / 11
2018	GEO Batumi, Georgia	Ivan Šarić	Radosław Wojtaszek	Sanan Sjugirov	302 / 11
2019	NMK Skopje, North Macedonia	Vladislav Artemiev	Nils Grandelius	Kacper Piorun	361 / 11
2021	ISL Reykjavík, Iceland	Anton Demchenko	Vincent Keymer	Alexey Sarana	180 / 11
2022	SLO Brežice, Slovenia	Matthias Blübaum	Gabriel Sargissian	Ivan Šarić	317 / 11
2023	SRB Vrnjačka Banja, Serbia	Alexey Sarana	Kirill Shevchenko	Daniel Dardha	484 / 11
2024	MNE Petrovac, Montenegro	Aleksandar Inđić	Daniel Dardha	Frederik Svane	388 / 11
2025	ROU Eforie, Romania	Matthias Blübaum (2)	Frederik Svane	Maxim Rodshtein	375 / 11
2026	POL Katowice, Poland

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 European Championship in Podčetrtek, Slovenia was postponed to 2022.

Results (women)

Year	Venue	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Players/rounds
2000	GEO Batumi, Georgia	Natalia Zhukova	Ekaterina Kovalevskaya	Maia Chiburdanidze
Tatiana Stepovaya-Dianchenko	32 / K.O.
2001	POL Warsaw, Poland	Almira Skripchenko	Ekaterina Kovalevskaya	Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant	157 / 11
2002	BUL Varna, Bulgaria	Antoaneta Stefanova	Lilit Mkrtchian	Alisa Galliamova	114 / 11
2003	TUR Silivri, Turkey	Pia Cramling	Viktorija Čmilytė	Tatiana Kosintseva	113 / 11
2004	GER Dresden, Germany	Alexandra Kosteniuk	Peng Zhaoqin	Antoaneta Stefanova	108 / 12
2005	MLD Chișinău, Moldova	Kateryna Lahno	Nadezhda Kosintseva	Yelena Dembo	164 / 12
2006	TUR Kuşadası, Turkey	Ekaterina Atalik	Tea Bosboom-Lanchava	Lilit Mkrtchian	96 / 11
2007	GER Dresden, Germany	Tatiana Kosintseva	Antoaneta Stefanova	Nadezhda Kosintseva	150 / 11
2008	BUL Plovdiv, Bulgaria	Kateryna Lahno (2)	Viktorija Čmilytė	Anna Ushenina	157 / 11
2009	RUS Saint Petersburg, Russia	Tatiana Kosintseva (2)	Lilit Mkrtchian	Natalia Pogonina	168 / 11
2010	CRO Rijeka, Croatia	Pia Cramling (2)	Viktorija Čmilytė	Monika Soćko	158 / 11
2011	GEO Tbilisi, Georgia	Viktorija Čmilytė	Antoaneta Stefanova	Elina Danielian	158 / 11
2012	TUR Gaziantep, Turkey	Valentina Gunina	Tatiana Kosintseva	Anna Muzychuk	103 / 11
2013	SER Belgrade, Serbia	Hoang Thanh Trang	Salome Melia	Lilit Mkrtchian	169 / 11
2014	BUL Plovdiv, Bulgaria	Valentina Gunina	Tatiana Kosintseva	Salome Melia	116 / 11
2015	GEO Chakvi, Georgia	Natalia Zhukova (2)	Nino Batsiashvili	Alina Kashlinskaya	98 / 11
2016	ROU Mamaia, Romania	Anna Ushenina	Sabrina Vega	Antoaneta Stefanova	112 / 11
2017	LVA Riga, Latvia	Nana Dzagnidze	Aleksandra Goryachkina	Alisa Galliamova	144 / 11
2018	SVK Vysoké Tatry, Slovakia	Valentina Gunina (3)	Nana Dzagnidze	Anna Ushenina	144 / 11
2019	TUR Antalya, Turkey	Alina Kashlinskaya	Marie Sebag	Elisabeth Pähtz	130 / 11
2021	ROU Iași, Romania	Elina Danielian	Yuliia Osmak	Oliwia Kiołbasa	117 / 11
2022	CZE Prague, Czech Republic	Monika Soćko	Gunay Mammadzada	Ulviyya Fataliyeva	123 / 11
2023	MNE Petrovac, Montenegro	Meri Arabidze	Oliwia Kiołbasa	Aleksandra Maltsevskaya	136 / 11
2024	GRE Rhodes, Greece	Ulviyya Fataliyeva	Nataliya Buksa	Lela Javakhishvili	182 / 10
2025	GRE Rhodes, Greece	Teodora Injac	Irina Bulmaga	Mai Narva	136 / 11

European Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship

https://chess-results.com/tnr1079386.aspx?lan=1 - European Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship 2024 - Fischer

https://chess-results.com/tnr1076295.aspx?lan=1 - European Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship 2024 - Rapid

https://chess-results.com/tnr1076303.aspx?lan=1 - European Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship 2024 - Blitz

Notes

References

Krasenkow, Michal. "Youth on top in Batumi".
Geuzendam, Ten. ""Azmai" fourth European Champion".
Tischbierek, Raj. "Himmelhoch jauchzend, zu Tode betrübt".
Van Wely, Loek. "Sometimes the King Wore no Clothes".
"EICC 2020 – European Individual Chess Championship 2020".

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